"Ward Abbott" > wrote in message
...
> Can anyone explain HOW and WHY a civil forum like rec.food.cooking has
> become vulgar, obscene, repulsive, demented, caustic, trivial, biased,
> nit witty, irrelevant, boring, demented, gutrenching without out any
> contributor's personal validation and approval?
>

Did you miss the recent flamewar?

I think that's where all this started. In general, the less you react to,
comment on, or fight with someone who's behaving like a troll, the quicker
the episode will end. If no one made any comments, the fun would be over,
and the troll would find a better place to play.

But it's hard for some people to resist making comments when the right hot
buttons are pushed. And some people enjoy poking at the trolls that stop by.
Some of them are funny, obviously, and that's probably okay to play along
for a while. But the ones that just want to pick a fight get boring pretty
quickly, IMO. I've got better things to do.

I didn't participate in the flame war, and I've got no intention of joining
in on whatever fallout is coming this time around.

And this is about all I'm going to say on the subject.

Donna