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| Lightages:
It is quite ironic that this thread has devolved into the exact kind of off topic mess that always happens. What was the message in the OP? Don't go off the rails and argue points not asked in the original post so as to no scare away beginners. What has happened? The thread has devolved into a pissing contest over the use of a couple of words |O |
| rsjsouza:
I agree with Lightages' OP, profanity and all, which brings the exact amount of repulsion when I see such beginners threads unfold this way (sometimes even with 100% opinion-based threads). After all, the chest thumpers that believe are right and never let go in their attempt to convince others how wrong they are in their opinion or inexperience is absolutely ludicrous in my opinion. You keep doing you, Lightages! |
| DimitriP:
--- Quote ---The thread has devolved into a pissing contest over the use of a couple of words --- End quote --- Your surprize, surprizes me :) Not everyone can ( or wants or even -if I may say that- should - ) hold hands and sing songs by the campfire. |
| rhb:
It seems to me that we are in danger of entering snowflake territory where everyone is supposed to agree with everything anyone else says. That is hardly healthy. It has gotten the USA into endless wars because no one was willing to disagree until it was too late. The fact of the matter is this is one of the best discussion groups since early Usenet. I spent much of my career working in oil company R&D. Most of the people I know well have PhDs from Stanford and similar schools. I can't think of one who can come close to the electronics skills and experience of the people on this forum. From my perspective this thread looks as if it were spawned by my disagreement with rstofer about "hacking" Rigol scopes. Perhaps you have some other dispute I failed to notice in mind. I don't recall any profanity in that thread. While gentleman do not use profanity, the fact of the matter is we have profanity embedded in a standard emoticon in the reply dialog. The members of this forum take considerable time to provide very high quality advice to any and all on a wide range of matters. Probably the best exemplar is the thread on building a mass spectrometer which garnered a reply from someone who had built not one, but two! One was a low budget academic build and the other was a big budget commercial build. I personally question whether someone who finds this forum too uncomfortable to participate would amount to anything. Doubtless there is the odd duck or two, but I think such people are quite rare. |
| T3sl4co1l:
--- Quote from: Lightages on February 24, 2018, 10:15:50 pm ---It is quite ironic that this thread has devolved into the exact kind of off topic mess that always happens. What was the message in the OP? Don't go off the rails and argue points not asked in the original post so as to no scare away beginners. What has happened? The thread has devolved into a pissing contest over the use of a couple of words |O --- End quote --- >Trollbaiter posts bait >Trolls take bait >Trollbaiter complains that trolls took bait Whether or not that was your intention, that is precisely the structure observed here. What were you expecting? That people just wake up and become reasonable? ;) I was raised back in the dark depths of the internet where trolls roamed freely; few, even then, took to heart the correct method of dealing with trolls. It seems like even fewer do so today, though. A better sticky post would be to tell newbies how to deal with trolls; but, newbies being newbies, and even moreso humans being humans, it would not materially affect the SNR of the content here. It might prove a valuable lesson for the few that heed its call, but most would not. Tim |
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