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Designated "Expert" Forum Users?
Ed.Kloonk:
I wonder how many of you have the stones to actually mentor someone?
I have a number in my mind. I'll bet you can't change my mind.
Go into the beginners section, find somebody with only a few posts and recognize that they are now where you once were and help them find the next step.
Cerebus:
--- Quote from: MK14 on February 16, 2022, 03:41:24 am ---I now know, looking back into my early days of electronics. That some/many of the projects in electronics magazines (from a long time ago), were in a number of cases. Not especially hicle well designed. In some cases they wouldn't even work. In others, some parts of the design were, let's say questionable.
But that hasn't stopped many people from progressing through their electronics hobby and/or University/similar and/or electronics career paths, with, in some cases great success.
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When I was first learning electronics I was a kid, and I had several friends who were also kids with a similar interest. I can remember some of the misconceptions that we passed from one to another for lack of any useful mentors or instruction to set us right again. You see the same phenomenon with young 'gentlemen' and motor vehicles, the folk knowledge that gets passed around on vehicle performance and physics is excruciatingly wrong, and I suspect our electronics faux pas were just as painful to observe if you knew what you were talking about.
Ed.Kloonk:
Until both of you can agree on such lofty philosophy, you can at least agree that you know how a transistor works or even a 555. I'm saying put your energy into helping people understand that. Fill the gaps.
:)
Cerebus:
--- Quote from: ogden on February 16, 2022, 11:14:11 am ---How about showing number of unique users who "thanked", in particular topic.
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Speaking as the 4th ranked "most thanked" user on the forum I have to tell you that would be misleading. :) All it tells me is that I'm not too out of step with the milieu here, and I make people laugh occasionally.
If we were to use any kind of "thanked" rating it'd need a different button "Mark as useful technical answer" or somesuch as the current "thank" button serves as many things: "nod of head in agreement", "this made me laugh", "that post agrees with my political views", "that fella isn't as much of an arse as the man he's arguing with" etc. etc.
MK14:
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on February 16, 2022, 01:16:41 pm ---Until both of you can agree on such lofty philosophy, you can at least agree that you know how a transistor works or even a 555. I'm saying put your energy into helping people understand that. Fill the gaps.
:)
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Not everyone, has the patience, inclination and other factors. To help beginners. For example, some people are happy to supply quick 1 or 2 line answers, to help them continue their experiments/learning/projects. But don't necessarily have enough patience, to put the time in, to help them further.
E.g. Your electrolytic capacitor, probably exploded because you put it in the wrong way round. Please carefully check the polarity next time. Which way round they are inserted, does matter.
Rather than a detailed technical explanation as to why electrolytic capacitors have polarities, are often used despite their many weaknesses, and tips on how to reduce the likelihood of such mistakes in future.
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