The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

I won't totally disagree with you, Slo, because you might have a point (I'm not totally sure about it) but don't ovelook the fact that when the fighting and insulting reached a crescendo, people started to leave and THEN changes were made. CPR was given after the body was cold and it's been on life support ever since, but miracles have happened and people have woken up from comas.

We lost a lot of nice folks during that period. I've met some of them, and they've described our board as having a bunch of cutthroats, and they weren't talking about fish. If you read my recent thread where I posted a photo of a dark steelie, and go to the post by "Sammy", you'll see that some folks just get turned off when the chickens jump on the one that shows a speck of blood and try to peck it to death.

I've just learned to be thick-skinned and not take it (too) personally.

Just my 2 cents.