I sure do love it here at SimV, I visit quite a few other boards but rarely post on them, I just remembered why.
I stopped over at one of the fishing forums I keep an eye on this time of year due to the fall salmon runs, there is a rather immature and fairly intense arguement going on about involving snagging fish (which is illegal in Michigan), of course you've got the one guy who is defending the hell out of breaking the law, going as far as calling people names and making personal attacks on everything from their use of grammer to their personal opinions.
Now as most of you know, I always try to post comments that take into account the right of people to have differing opinions, I don't think I have ever directly blasted someone for having a different view of something than I do, I try to explain why I feel a certain way and accept the right of others to do the same.
So I post my view on the snagging fish issue, which I feel is not actually a sporting way to catch a fish, I also said that it is in fact illegal and therefore a true sportsman would abide and return any foul-hooked fish to the water.
The result was not pleasant! I was absolutely blasted by this fellow, basically being called ignorant and pretty much everything I said was attacked as being wrong and he tried to twist things around to make me look like a bad guy, just for voicing my opinion! And this guy is calling people immature because they think snagging is wrong, hell I didn't really even say I was against it, just that I thought it wasn't a very skillful way to catch fish.
Whatever!
The moral to the story is: I sure am glad I found SimV, at least here you can have differing opinions and people can discuss things like adults, most of the time if things start to heat up both parties are mature enough to drop the subject and move on and still be civil to each other.
Now I have been reminded why I spend 95% of my online time here and rarely post anywhere else, well, let's make that 75% SimV, 15% Ebay, and 10% elsewhere.