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Discussing the usage of the TEA thread
gnif:
--- Quote from: EPAIII on August 24, 2022, 05:38:28 am ---Oh well, I tried. I did not know that.
I wonder if the authors of the BB software might want to work on that. I have tried to make suggestions to one of those companies before and, since I was not the purchaser of the BB software, they completely ignored my suggestion. So the owner/purchaser of the software used here would have to make the suggestion.
BTW, as a person who greatly appreciates this board, I would like to thank the owner, demonstrator(s), and moderators for their contributions.
--- Quote from: gnif on August 24, 2022, 05:16:59 am ---Unfortunately the forum/thread notify function is indiscriminate and still will "spam" mailboxes with notifications for stuff people are not interested in.
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All good, suggestions are always welcome :)
This forum is open source, there is no real company behind it. It would be possible to modify it with this sort of feature but doing so can break upgrade compatibility which on this forum due to the existing mods and alternations to make the form scale so well in our hosting cluster, it is already a pretty nightmarish task to perform.
BU508A:
--- Quote from: beanflying on August 24, 2022, 03:04:58 am ---This is a thing CAUSED by a few who couldn't pull their heads in not some sort of heavy handed policing issue.
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It really makes me sad when I look at these smoking ruins here.
Let's see, where this will lead. I for myself will try to stay silent for the next time.
Really sad.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: Dundarave on August 24, 2022, 03:37:27 am ---Exactly this. It’s been turned into a Facebook group: pictures of meals, woodworking projects, family discussions, personal employment sagas and everything in between.
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I have sympathy with that, and would add "twitter-like" posts, e.g. where a parcel is this afternoon. But I've learned to rapidly skip stuff that bores me; if you can't manage that essential modern skill, then you are stuffed on any and all internet-based services! (I pity those with dyslexia that can't read fast)
Having said that, I haven't complained to the mods but have made the occasional public comment about the content.
OTOH, I have little sympathy for lurkers expecting the thread to conform to their expectations. The zeitgeist is made by those that turn up and contribute.
--- Quote ---Good job gnif. I think you’ve had a very tough go of it, including all the intimidation, and you certainly don’t deserve the abuse being doled out.
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Agreed, and seconded. Mods will never get it (completely) right; it is part of the job description!
Peter_O:
As a newer member, old in live but kind of newbie in electronics, I've liked to follow the TEA thread for all good reasons already mentioned. Some OT helps the community and a nice level of humour, which is more difficult to live in pure technical content. I liked it most of the time, and it was part of inviting me to post own TE(A) stuff now and then.
I see that the "where is the line"-discussion was needed (weapons, 80% OT, ...) and it is interesting to see on this model scale, that it seems to be a law of human nature that a civilized commuity (and this one certainly is civilized) from a certain point of escalation has to go through kind of a catastrophic crisis to manage that.
At the moment I hold my breath and it seems that some more of the average members are doing the same.
I planned to prepare some on topic posts about e.g. a current probe, maybe to post it in 'beginners' and put a short version in TEA to avertise it to 'the old guys' for comments, but at the moment I'm kind of paralysed, as it would feel more work than fun to take pictures and write up a post.
Just my status report of a 'down in the statistics' guy.
m k:
Yes, really sad, but sort of inevitable.
It is also clear that we the message board people are heterogeneous group only from the surface.
It also seems to be a pretty same route and quite many times.
There, finally, out of the loop moderator fails, totally.
Reasons seem to be also the pretty same.
Group dynamics is more or less unknown to those who can do something.
The problem seems to be that growth will hide the bubbling and so old maintenance team think they can still handle everything.
Since people as a group are not changing something else must.
Regular user reporting is also continuing its route, generally people will mind their own businesses too long, it may change for a moment but it wont last.
I've seen lieutenant moderator of sub-forum approaches but right minded folks are not so easy to find.
Forum informants then has a bit negative tone.
Here TEA thread was quite special in it self, being a community in a community, maybe even a bit deeper and very active.
But what was the core reason for reporting now and not before, must hope there were no hidden agendas, though wouldn't surprise if there were.
I like to think that notification was it, I don't use it so don't know but flooding email is something I don't like, specially since the same address is also receiving something important.
But it doesn't make sense since there are always something new.
High expectations and big drop can also be one but surely 1000+ members know the drill.
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