We'll have a couple more moderators to help out a little but the board has become a little too, well - what's a hoiyty toiyty phrase similat to panties in a bunch - you know what I mean. But I don't think it should be over medicated either. It's up to you all to think a little before hitting the enter key. It's also up to you all to remember that this isn't even fishing - it's the freikin' Internet. It's typing, granted typing about fishing, but it's typing. It is not the Rosetta Stone of fishing. It is something we should have some fun with (not necessarily at others expense) and something we can learn a tip or two.
I don't have the free space in the brain to think as clearly as I'd like at the moment but some things ain't the same as they used to be. We don't seem to have quite the sharp wit and rolling on the floor laughing commentary that we used to have (good and bad) and the he said she said has gone thru the roof. The negative banter back and forth is worse than its ever been and the attitude is over the top too.
I'm really at odds on how to fix it (if I even can). I've thought of more than a few ways from status-quo to including ones I don't want to do like go completely private. That's not what we are about. We were once an open fishing board where we had a lot of fun. Now it's not as much fun.
I've been trying to remind myself that we are at the end of particularly nasty cabin fever season. I hope that's all it really is. But we need to clean things up a little, spice it a little, and leave the nastiness offline.
Sorry if I'm just rambling here but I just started typing. There is too much important stuff going on for me to dedicate what few remaining intact brain cells I have to worked out a detailed plan to "fix" things or a how to on fishing board ettiquet. A lot of people over time have said that this was always the best board in quality of people. I hope it still is and can be. But for that to work, everyone has to get on board.
PLEASE, I beg all of you, let's get this place back on track and back towards what it was once capable of being. We don't need to be the premiere authority of striper fishing, we don't need to be the biggest, or have the largest quotient of self-appointed experts. Let's have the fun, commraderie, and cumbaya crap
that made this place such a promising board not too long ago. I can't tell you how many of you I've learned stuff from, how many of you I've met, how many of you I've come to respect.