Well we should never be afraid to express an opinion but there is a time and place and of course it helps not to get abusive and personal. A particular bugbear of mine are people getting all bristly about people who post up pictures of legal catches in fishing reports because in their opinion that person is being greedy.
While that is their opinion, it's much better to state their preference in a new thread instead of climbing all over someone because they've had a good catch. All that achieves is people don't want to post reports any more.
In the last week I've been accused of being a brown_nose, only interested in money (wtf??
), A Nazi, an inconsistent tyrant (true!
), a fudgeman, not understanding the rights to freedom of speech as outlined in the Bill of Rights (dammit you mean anyone can say anything on any public forum even though they have rules???)ummmm ohh and a whole lot more that I can't recall, apart from cronyism, I mustn't forget that.
All from what I suspect is two people. Of course Lethal & Barrie are both fine gents and even if their posts are moved there's no drama from them.
There are one or two groups I belong to where I cringe at the misinformation and abuse so I don't offer advice there.
Fishing knowledge online has a great ring to it eh and it's the strength of fishing.net
Believe me it is only a very small percentage of people that require any intervention and most are fine with it.
Keep posting away good people
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