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Squarewave:

--- Quote from: Zenith on August 24, 2022, 09:33:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: Squarewave on August 24, 2022, 08:31:08 pm ---I still don't really get it, wouldn't we cut out all of the arguing if we just indulge in test gear in TEA and have a general thread for talking about other aspects of life?

Would that not work and be a good middle ground for all?

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No because it wasn't about test gear. Note the first post in the thread. It was about test gear and the compulsion to acquire it and fix it and house it, and the wider problems that might bring.

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That is about test gear.


--- Quote from: Zenith on August 24, 2022, 09:33:43 pm ---These discussions could get blown off course. For instance, someone talking about some swapmeet (a valid discussion for TE addicts wanting to find more) and an aside saying they weren't going because the road bristled with speed traps, became a discussion about the morality of speeding and the merits of digital vs analogue instrumentation and so on. Each contributor had a point to make they thought was valid and they couldn't resist making. Rapidly it was clutter.
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Yes, it's situations like that where we get 10 pages of facebook style conversations...


--- Quote from: Zenith on August 24, 2022, 09:33:43 pm ---You started a thread on UK rallies in the Contests and Events section, which has 86 replies currently. It's mainly of interest to a few TEA contributors, but hardly to anyone outside the UK, who'd see it as boring crap. That's strayed off topic a little bit, but soon corrected itself, probably because it has few followers. For instance, no one was likely to pop up and say Peacehaven was Heaven on earth and they wouldn't have it maligned. Four pages of what most followers would see as noise, hived off for a better discussion for those few interested.
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Yes and quite right, it's for UK rallies. One thread used for everything causes things to get lost.
Zenith:

--- Quote from: Squarewave on August 24, 2022, 09:39:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zenith on August 24, 2022, 09:33:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: Squarewave on August 24, 2022, 08:31:08 pm ---I still don't really get it, wouldn't we cut out all of the arguing if we just indulge in test gear in TEA and have a general thread for talking about other aspects of life?

Would that not work and be a good middle ground for all?

--- End quote ---
No because it wasn't about test gear. Note the first post in the thread. It was about test gear and the compulsion to acquire it and fix it and house it, and the wider problems that might bring.

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That is about test gear.

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But not just about test gear. It was in it from the off to have wider discussion than strictly test gear.

The remit was widened in the eyes of the mods, that posts have some relevance to electronics. The odd off-topic post as a quip was OK. A slippery slope.
Neper:

--- Quote from: Saskia on August 24, 2022, 07:44:13 pm ---I am so reminded of all this political correctness crap. ... Mission accompli, the wokes have it.
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For the life of me I can't see what all the kerfuffle about TEA would have to do with woke or PC or whatever, other than you using every occasion to keep rubbing our noses in your dumb political agenda.
Squarewave:

--- Quote from: Zenith on August 24, 2022, 09:50:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: Squarewave on August 24, 2022, 09:39:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zenith on August 24, 2022, 09:33:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: Squarewave on August 24, 2022, 08:31:08 pm ---I still don't really get it, wouldn't we cut out all of the arguing if we just indulge in test gear in TEA and have a general thread for talking about other aspects of life?

Would that not work and be a good middle ground for all?

--- End quote ---
No because it wasn't about test gear. Note the first post in the thread. It was about test gear and the compulsion to acquire it and fix it and house it, and the wider problems that might bring.

--- End quote ---
That is about test gear.

--- End quote ---
But not just about test gear. It was in it from the off to have wider discussion than strictly test gear.

The remit was widened in the eyes of the mods, that posts have some relevance to electronics. The odd off-topic post as a quip was OK. A slippery slope.

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And that's where it went over the top I think, where it wandered off topic into pages and pages of table polishing, then guns, then bee keeping etc......nothing to do with TE and that's where it muddled everything else.
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: Squarewave on August 24, 2022, 09:55:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zenith on August 24, 2022, 09:50:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: Squarewave on August 24, 2022, 09:39:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zenith on August 24, 2022, 09:33:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: Squarewave on August 24, 2022, 08:31:08 pm ---I still don't really get it, wouldn't we cut out all of the arguing if we just indulge in test gear in TEA and have a general thread for talking about other aspects of life?

Would that not work and be a good middle ground for all?

--- End quote ---
No because it wasn't about test gear. Note the first post in the thread. It was about test gear and the compulsion to acquire it and fix it and house it, and the wider problems that might bring.

--- End quote ---
That is about test gear.

--- End quote ---
But not just about test gear. It was in it from the off to have wider discussion than strictly test gear.

The remit was widened in the eyes of the mods, that posts have some relevance to electronics. The odd off-topic post as a quip was OK. A slippery slope.

--- End quote ---

And that's where it went over the top I think, where it wandered off topic into pages and pages of table polishing, then guns, then bee keeping etc......nothing to do with TE and that's where it muddled everything else.

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Addictions and syndromes do have that kind of associated behaviour. That's TEAddictioms and GESyndromes, of course.

Thats one of the reasons the thread became so large. Too large for its own good, it seems.
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