RIP Y&Ying forum?

Totally agree with all your points and as a person that got ‘ triggered’ more than most by the ‘ normal suspects’ over the years, I wish I had handled  things differently. 

But I don’t suppose it would have made much difference and as you said it’s all history now . 

The difference with FB is peoples identity is clear so that should hopefully stop some of the trolling as you can see who’s doing it. That said some of the problems this forum never addressed were not from an unknown member. Although I don’t think it was pure trolling just someone on a different parallel thought train. But some obvious baiting. 

But don't be fooled into thinking that this is IT.....already some of the social media sites are going into a Closed status...which when you look at it is more like a forum unless you include the anything goes mentality over at SA.  If that's your thing then fine, but from what I see - trying to take that broader look across the piece, so many of the forums and social media sites are populated by yesterday's sailors - the really active ones of today are somewhere else yet again.

Of course, I'm speaking as one who has a dog in this fight! But as long as people keep liking the articles on the boats and people of yesteryear (spoiler alert - Hornets and Enterprise coming sometime soon) I can carry on worrying about the wood botherers for the foreseeable future. I do fear that when I hang up wetsuit, notebook and pencil to sail off into the sunset that the cause of some consideration (at the very least) for the wonderful heritage that underpins our sport will be weakened, but by then we'll all be sailing either roto-moulded lumps at one extreme or super-duper high tech flying machines at the other extreme and so no one will care!

Dougaldog...somewhere on the Solent