Frosty ?

I and a few others were wondering what happened to Frosty ? Was he excommunicated or did he quit ?

 

Yeah..me too. Where did he go?

 

Ditto, I miss the entertaining posts

 

I think he took offence to being called a kiddie fiddler by the gun nuts

 

Unfortunately Frosty is no longer a member of the forum.

The forums are supposed to be a place where people help each other and inspire each other to share their best, not a place where people come to instigate fights and provoke each other into venting their worst.

It seems he was more interested in stirring up trouble and provoking other members, and that's not what the forums here should be about. Starting fights with two other members and insulting a third in a short span of time was too much. If someone wants to start fights with people and insult others, there are many other sites on the web.

 

Well, in that you are certainly not blemish free either.

Why on earth do you continue to allow posts that go on and on and endlessly emotive and provocative subjects like Guns, Gun control, US laws, the US constitution etc etc...none of which has anything do to with boats...and has no relevance to those resident outside the US anyway?

Allowing these puerile highly opinionated my dog is bigger than your dog debates to go unchecked and when it is clear any relevance to marine/boats had been extinguished in the first page, you are simply adding fuel to the fire.

To allow such debates, infers you must allow the counter argument. And therein lies the problem. :!:

 

It shouldn't be necessary to insult people and provoke fights with other members to have an intelligent discussion or debate. Frosty had been asked more than three times to please avoid further insults directed towards other members. Personal attacks and instigating fights with other member is just not what the forum should be used for.

Unfortunately it does seem that some topics become so emotionally charged that they create too many problems for the small amount of useful new information that is produced; this is why members have been asked to please take religious debates and politicking elsewhere, and why some threads have been closed.
In this case, the insults were not only in these problematic areas but in boat-related topics as well, some of which it appeared the only reason for posting was to provoke or jab at other members, and that's not what the forum should be used for.

 

His forum, his rules. It isn't appropriate for you to rudely get in his face about the way he runs it.

If you disapprove that much, start your own forum -- where you can be as judgmental, rule-bound, and quick on the trigger as you like. Personally, I'd rather have a moderator who errs on the side of patience than one who tries to rule with an iron fist.

That some of the threads you mention have relevance to people outside the US is proven by the number of non-Americans who post in them -- or even start them.

And never forget that you're not only allowed but encouraged to stay out of any and all threads you disapprove of....

 

The concern that some off-topic threads should have been closed more quickly is understood; the arms on board thread unfortunately like the previous gun control thread did seem to become quite emotive with members polarized on one side or the other. It was hoped that that thread would not go too far with the jabs and so a warning request was posted to please avoid further jabs and insults, and the thread did develop some relevance to boaters, for example some discussion on different requirements when entering other countries with arms on board.

No one is perfect and disagreements will sometimes occur but it shouldn't be necessary to make it personal or jab at other members. It seems of late his intent was simply to jab at others frequently, generating too many complaints and fights, for example entering a thread simply to criticize another member's response while refusing to contribute any on-topic answer himself, or starting a thread under false pretense only to tell other engineers or designers that they don't know what they're talking about (that could have been a great thread if the intent was to share something that works instead of only to setup others by giving sparse and false details and then telling them they don't know what they're talking about when they try to help with the original request for collaboration.)

Stirring up trouble and picking fights with other members isn't what this site should be about.

The bottom line is let's please try to be polite to all other members.

If you want to jab at or insult other members or if your intent is simply to start fights with others, please take it to a different site.