Yes it was.
"Larry Varney" wrote in message
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And that was not five minutes.

harv wrote:
I'm sorry, this is ABUSE. If you want ARGUMENTS, it's down the hall.
"Gary Fritz" wrote in message
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nget wrote:

.Better go back to the brol swimming pool where all the waters are
knee deep and no sharks to bite you.

Some people (let's call them "Group #1") enjoy being argumentative,
abrasive, obnoxious, and otherwise confrontive. They think any
discussion that happens without confrontation is boring and not
worth while. Rather than finding a place where like-minded people
can argue with each other, they prefer to take over existing groups
and force them into their mold.

Some people ("Group #2") prefer to engage in conversation and civil
exchange without abuse, name-calling, insults, and other confrontive
behavior. They prefer to discuss the topic they're interested in
rather than engaging in arguments and character assassination.

I believe Group #2 vastly outnumbers Group #1. But Group #1
delights in destroying places where other people had useful
conversations.

A year or two ago, ARBR contained almost exclusively people in Group
#2. We had many fun and productive conversations, and everyone
seemed to enjoy the group.

In the last year or two, a few people in Group #1 have roosted in
ARBR. They have made it their crusade to impose their style onto
many/most posts.

Most people in Group #2 find confrontive posts annoying and
distracting. Many discussions veer off from the intended topic to
an argument about one thing or another. Many of these Group #2
people have decided ARBR is no longer a fun place to talk about
recumbents, so they've moved to places like BROL that exclude
insulting and abusive posters. Since the Group #1 types choose not
to have their confrontive arguments in a place that welcomes
confrontive arguments, but prefer to take over and destroy
nonconfrontive environments, the Group #2 types are forced to go
somewhere that excludes Group #1. It's like people who live in a
nice neighborhood who have to move because a bunch of thugs and
hoods takes over the place, breaking windows and destroying
property. Group #1 is the cyberspace equivalent of those thugs and
hoods.

nget, if you want to call places like BROL "wading pools," you go
right ahead. I imagine gangbangers think of nice neighborhoods as
"wading pools" and themselves as "sharks" too. When actually
they're just cheap crooks.

It's a shame you "sharks" think it's so much fun to **** and **** in
the ARBR pool. You're just fouling something nice and ruining it
for the vast majority of people who prefer not to wallow in their
own filth.





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Larry Varney
Cold Spring, KY
http://home.fuse.net/larryvarney