Nah, no running from certain posts or posters...I just got tired of the dogged "I'm completely right, you're completely wrong" style of argument there...I prefer to see some recognition that there are plusses and minuses to every opinion, and to see people at least acknowledge that when they put their opinions forward.

The lack of that here is why I never really posted on this forum, and is why I don't really post on the other ones anymore, either...I spend more time arguing about politics on the straight up political sites, rather than the "catch all" forums on fishing sites.

In the past week I've seen a few topics here actually get discussed, rather than swung around like blunt hammers by extremists on both ends, so I thought I might give it a shot here for a while. Who knows? Maybe I'll post more on the "other one", too...with the mid-term elections coming up there ought to be some good topics to discuss, ones that will actually have some application to the real world.

I also shy away from "topics" that are just titles with someone else's article copy/pasted into the message, with no attempt to analyze what was in the article...especially because most of the articles used like that are written by some nut job from one far side of the political spectrum or other, and don't do much for actual thought or discussion on their own.

As the extremists get more entrenched in their positions on these boards, it seems they look more to find whackjobs that agree with their positions and post their writing, rather than actually defend and discuss their own ideas.

Fish on...

Todd