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| MK14:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on February 16, 2022, 01:27:17 pm --- --- Quote from: ogden on February 16, 2022, 11:14:11 am ---How about showing number of unique users who "thanked", in particular topic. --- End quote --- Speaking as the 4th ranked "most thanked" user on the forum --- End quote --- Which is totally, 100% your extreme dedication to helping people on the beginners forum. And absolutely nothing to do with your participation on any other threads, whatsoever, such as the Tea thread. For those that don't know. They seem to throw huge numbers of 'thanks' in that thread. Example: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/test-equipment-anonymous-(tea)-group-therapy-thread/msg4005397/#msg4005397 --- Quote ---2nd display back among the living. The following users thanked this post: Robert763, Brumby, mnementh, Specmaster, mansaxel, cyclin_al --- End quote --- So, one thank per word. :-DD |
| Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: MK14 on February 16, 2022, 01:29:53 pm --- --- 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. :) --- End quote --- 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. --- End quote --- Yep. I agree. So maybe we do need to elect an individual who is prepared to work the beat, so to speak. Just going by the dick waving in the thread (not you), I'm starting to think that Dave is right. The forum could use a person assigned to the task. But how do we keep the dicks out of a walled garden? |
| Carel:
Wouldn't it be nice to get more feedback from topicstarters? And look how to encourage this? Without results an experts opinion is just an opinion, which it is for starters. considering the handicap of written words in other languages and the physical separation problem. A problem can have many layers and the solutions can vary from hammers to Nobel prize nomination mathematics, Personally I can't solve a problem without having a reasonable deep understanding of it, so I rarely pose a question. The moment I think: let's start a topic, I am near to a solution. I think I am afraid of the rumbling rantings of experts, who give lengthy answers, with only a narrow connection to the question. To put it sarcastically: It always amazes me how much Jumbo-jet pilots are active on the internet. They must have an incredible amount of free time. |
| tautech:
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on February 16, 2022, 01:38:36 pm --- --- Quote from: MK14 on February 16, 2022, 01:29:53 pm --- --- 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. :) --- End quote --- 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. --- End quote --- Yep. I agree. So maybe we do need to elect an individual who is prepared to work the beat, so to speak. Just going by the dick waving in the thread (not you), I'm starting to think that Dave is right. The forum could use a person assigned to the task. But how do we keep the dicks out of a walled garden? --- End quote --- Don't build it in the first instance. :P No place like this is perfect but EEVblog is generally head and shoulders above the rest of the bunch. A few years back I thought I'd better go and see what help I could be at AAC and posted some scope screenshots in a reply to help a member only to have the post vanish as mods thought it was advertising as the scopes brand was plainly visible in the screenshot. ::) I mean how outta touch are these plonkers so I engaged with them and all of a sudden all mods were copied in and we had quite a civil conversation and of course I was open about our allegiance and the wish to primarily provide support. But even funnier was to come as they offered me a mods position which I immediately declined and explained their membership would see that as putting the fox in charge of the hen house. |
| Zero999:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on February 16, 2022, 01:27:17 pm --- --- Quote from: ogden on February 16, 2022, 11:14:11 am ---How about showing number of unique users who "thanked", in particular topic. --- End quote --- 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. --- End quote --- Unfortunately the thanks button gets abused. I wonder how many people in the top 10 thanked users list, only got there because they made loads of replies to treez's/Faringdon's threads? |O |
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