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Beginners, don't run away, please!
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Cerebus:

--- Quote from: BrianHG on February 23, 2018, 02:38:09 pm ---There is always a way to positively direct and aid without criticism.

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There's criticism and there's criticising, they aren't necessary the same thing. "That could be improved by ..." is a critical comment, and is helpful criticism. "You idiot, that will be crap because you've got ... wrong" is criticising, and isn't helpful.

On a separate note: One liners pointing out faults or poor choices in a beginner's approach aren't helpful. Either take the time to actually engage helpfully or say nothing. Offering a, quite possibly valid, criticism isn't helpful unless it is accompanied by constructive advice or at least a detailed, reasoned analysis of what's been done wrong so that there's some active learning to be done.

A classic example of how not to do it would be the knee-jerk response that the "AB123 is crap" whenever a component that is on your personal shit-list gets mentioned*. In my experience people who do this mislead more often than inform, and often the "ABC123" is perfectly adequate, sometimes even particularly well-suited, for the task in hand.

*An exception is old RIVA X class capacitors, which are the spawn of the devil, and are always wrong.
paulca:
So I created the thread.  I'm in work, when I get time I'll lookup Dave and send him a PM to make it sticky.

I think the thing to avoid, rather than criticism is "discouragement".  Even posting heavy technical deluges of details can discourage a beginner like myself.  Makes you feel like there is no point trying if you need to know all that detail and do all the calculus when the reality is it will probably work just fine with a bit of guesstimation as long as your aren't making a heart monitor for an intensive care ward.
Monkeh:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on February 23, 2018, 03:02:40 pm ---*An exception is old RIVA X class capacitors, which are the spawn of the devil, and are always wrong.

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But I got this box off them off eBay really cheap so I have to use them
Audioguru:
The first post mentions beginners do not want to spend money on high quality parts that is wrong. When you buy cheap junk then usually you get cheap junk.
High quality name-brand electronic parts are not expensive, but they are not cheap junk.
imidis:
KISS, best not to overwhelm peoplesarting out with info not relevant.   :)
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