What Do You Do About Posts That Are Mis-Leading or Flat-Out Wrong?

[vk6zgo]

ElectroTech is infamous for this.  I am among several others here who have been banned.  On ElectroTech, a one sentence answer is deemed far better than a link to a reference that will not only answer THIS question but the ones that will arise from an incomplete answer.

My situation was the opposite from that.... The first responder linked to a 5700 word dissertation that was relevant in that explained motor theory, but left the reader without a clear answer to the OP's explicit question. My response (aside from the smart-ass remark) was one sentence & two images (*see below) that I made in photoshop that clearly depicts the operation of the switch in question.

Keep in mind, this was a very non-technical audience... Even those who are into the pimped out golf cart hobby mostly aren't that interested in motor theory. If the paper had actually answered the OP's question, I wouldn't have said anything.

The funny part was the OP returning at the end of the thread to say thanks after I got flamed, called names & banned.    Their heavy handed and unfair moderation practices will catch up with them eventually...
-sj

Yes,I would much prefer an answer from the poster's own knowledge,than a link to some site which is obviously regarded with awe as the fount of all knowledge.
There is a lot of crap on the net,& you need a bit of commonsense+a knowledge of basic theory to filter the crap out.

A while back,I thought it would be a good idea to encourage people to brush up on their theory,so I started a thread in "Suggestions" on this forum called "Learn some basic theory---please!"
I've still got the scars! (but at least they didn't have the power to ban me)

VK6ZGO

[Jon Chandler]

Yes,I would much prefer an answer from the poster's own knowledge,than a link to some site which is obviously regarded with awe as the fount of all knowledge.

Well, in my case on ElectroTech, the links were mostly to articles I had written and posted on another site.  A several page article covering the question in detail is better than a few sentence reply, in which I may not remember to include all the necessary details.

I looked at this as a way to provide the relevant information easily, since it was already written.  ElectroTech took it as "advertizing" another site (which for the record was not mine) and damaging his GoogleAds numbers.