It is for the same reason that I stopped posting for a long time. Some
posters get emotional, arrogant and even abusive when they encouter an
opinion different from theirs. Over the past 8 years or so, I have
seen many long-time contributors driven away by people who were
unappreciative of the free advice they were getting here.
"Harry Gordon" wrote in message ...
I would dare say that there are as many reasons for dropping out of a
newsgroup as there are people who do so. I certainly can't speak for them,
but as for myself...when I was an early student, I would make routine
postings about my flying progress and generally got really great feedback.
However, one day, I posted something, don't remember if it was a question or
made a statement or whatever, but someone replied and raked me over the
coals. Well, I said to myself, if that is what I am to expect, I would
rather spend my time in the books. It took a long time for me to work up the
ability to start posting again. In fact, if memory serves me correctly, it
wasn't until I finally passed my checkride that I began posting again with
regularity; and even now, do so with great caution. But that is why I
dropped out for so long. For other newsgroups that I dropped out of was
because the subjects no longer applied to me for whatever reason.
Harry
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