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Are we becoming old, cranky scrooges in these forums.
floobydust:
In the old days, it was about discussing a topic to hash it out, learn and have some fun.
Now, many Internet forums are all about ego, fending off trolls and arguing with people that are contributing nothing but discord or playing the contrarian to gain attention and feel self-important.
It takes a lot of time and energy to argue with people that don't have the same knowledge and are incapable of learning anything because they take it all personally and go hostile- instead of figuring it out, learning, adapting.
As I've said a few times, upvotes or likes are used on some sites to improve quality on posts- but they can be brigaded or corrupted by bots, so they are not much of an answer. Karma or points did not seem to work either.
Internet forums need to evolve and somehow keep the S/N ratio decent. The Arduino forums are hilarious, the old dogs there give shit to arrogant, vague, lazy posters all the time. You don't see that here.
Marco:
--- Quote from: schmitt trigger on May 25, 2020, 02:58:47 pm ---Have you noticed that slowly but surely, un-civilized discourse across most, if not all internet forums has increased?
--- End quote ---
No, not really. You couldn't get away with the level of personal attacks seen on comp.electronics in the bygone ages here.
schmitt trigger:
Lazy posters....exactly!
People who ask basic questions like: what is the RDSon of this particular Mosfet?
And when told to read the datasheet, because RDS0n is a function of several other parameters, and BTW what are your operational parameters? They become belligerent with replies like: Can you give me a value or not?
KL27x:
I'm guilty of a lot of this stuff. I'm sure I'm on a few radars for being an old crank, in general. Not particularly political, but on technical matters (or reality, as I like to see it; though realities are a bit flexible, these days).
One of the worst things about the modern world is YouTube. It's completely evil. 15 years ago, when you wanted to research something on the internet, you got words. People shared information in text. You could collect a lot of info and absorb it. Today, that is on the verge of extinction, because of high speed internet and YouTube. Today, the same info is gone and moved to videos. To get that info from a video, you have to watch the entire fucking thing and in most cases listen to someone else drone on and on... and listen to "and if you like this video, smash the like button and subscribe." And because of of search algorithms and up/downvotes, popularity is more important than the info.
Modern internet is not very useful anymore for sharing information. It's for sharing experience/entertainment. I don't know if it's purposeful move by our puppet masters, but it's a major shift I've seen and lament.
maginnovision:
I 100% agree on YouTube. Almost any technical video is a waste of time(I'm exaggerating, plenty of good on TI, R&S and other channels). Even Dave's videos he has multiple corrections in text which is good, but not as good as clear concise text on the matter. Luckily I have plenty of books I've read but I worry which information people actually remember in those cases. The words or the text? Maybe the only latched on to the tangent and missed all of the technical data.
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