[Boatanchors] Ebay links

[David Stinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Cromwell" <wrcromwell at gmail.com>

> I'm voting for Robert. In a non radio related group and not even 
> online
> we started making "exceptions" to the rules citing "reasonable" and 
> "get
> with the times". In short order there was chaos and people leaving 
> with
> hurt feelings.

I'm sorry, Bill, but that group is certainly an exception.

I fought this battle against envy and jealousy for years on
a radio group.  I heard it all:  "We'll be overrun!  There'll
be chaos and nothing but Ebay posts!  We'll be seeing
ads for "Hello Kitty!"  THE SKY IS FALLING!
THE SKY IS FALLING! YAAAAA!"
Finally, after EIGHT YEARS of this nonsense, I hit on
the right formula.  I reminded them that we had been
wrangling this for *8 years,* that we were all still there,
we were still talking about radios, and I then went to the
archives for the last year.  Don't remember the exact
number of posts, but there had been hundreds and
hundreds... perhaps over a thousand.  It was a very
active group.  Know how many Ebay links in a year?
18.   That's right EIGHTEEN.  Oh my goodness,
 the world will surely end!  All that childish pique,
jealousy,  hatefullness and screaming over 18 strokes
of the "DELETE" key in a YEAR.
Know what?  The carpers shut the hell up.
At least for then.  I quit the group in disgust
and haven't been back.  I have my own children, thanks.
I don't need grown ones.

If your group can be killed by a few Ebay links,
you don't have much of a group to start with.
Period.

D.S.