I'm sure you are correct there. How do I attain your level of jedi ILCA/Laserperformance/vanguard imperviousness? Seriously though, you are right, they don't care. If they did they wouldn't build the way they do and sell the way they sell. I grew up in RI and visited the vanguard factory when I was in the 8th grade. I saw a laser laid up start to finish in the course of a field trip. I just thought we should let that guy share his pain a little bit. My eyes still hurt though.
Come on guys!
Do you guys really believe that the Laser Class doesn't care about the South American (or any) Region? The same Laser Class that prides itself on having the largest participation, in terms of countries in the world, at its world championships? And the largest participation in the Olympics? Among the largest overall participation of any class in the world? Does that sound like a class that would just "throw away" an entire continent?
So, are saying everything Dr. Loser was going on about is not true and a baseless rant?
He's been going on about this for months. Why hasn't anyone addressed it before Merrily decided to shut it down which begged us to ask the question?
The South American builder went out of business, there is currently no builder in South America, that is definitely true. Its a tough situation, also true. That ILCA is doing nothing, not true.
I'm not privileged to correspondence between Dr. Loser and Jeff Marin or Heini Wellmann... but based solely on what we all saw written, and pictured, on TLF about them, if that were you, how motivated would you be to include him in the loop?
Forum etiquette partly involves not insulting yours truly (personal attack). Have I heard of Google? Indeed.
It feels like I have given Dr Loser endless support, in private messages as well as tolerating his sophomoric postings.
In part, he got what he originally wanted, a response from Heini Wellmann in the Laser World Sept 2008. It's his ego that demands a personal response.
He also expects all of us to go to bat for him. If you do so, please don't do it here. Contact the Laser powers and builders. I'm just a writer, sailor, and homemaker in Ohio trying to protect TLF from a copyright lawsuit and other misadventures.
Okay, thanks for the hint. You have good eagle eyesThis thread is really heading down a different road from the first post. ...
I think, it is not the big problem to let locked this or that thread. Users, with the quiet permition of the admins, may easy start a new thread any time and perhaps the topic is written a bit different, but one is able to reply new. But if the replies become to "rude", who is the correct one, that should decide that ? Perhaps a poll about that or better the admins do decide? Nobody is perfect, but Merrily is donig a good work, I say again. At different areas of the world and different cultures, people do realize words in different ways. In the past, during I have been student at the technical university, I made such experiences with people of East Asia. There could be behavior or words that could offend otheres, although at the own cirlce of culture it is not an offend. Difficult to generalize a limit to what is rude and what not for our admins here at TLF......
Is a moderator's view of "rude" a reason for locking a thread ?
Is there a good set of forum ettiquette posted somewhere ?
I'm agreement with the first post, I don't think the thread needed to be locked. The topic is still obviously a hot one based on the posts that follow the first one in this thread.
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...If Dr Loser's original thread remains locked, my suggestion would be to start a new thread over in the Laser Class Politics section to keep that alive and/or to add the comments from above as I don't think that many vistors to this forum bother reading this section, but they do seem to be interested in the LCP section
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