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gnif:

--- Quote from: tautech on August 26, 2022, 06:37:41 am ---Well yes gnif do be the model moderator and run expressly by the rule book reacting to every report from all anyone else can see as invisible members. OTOH you’ll never know how many active members you have pissed to leave EEVblog and take their content elsewhere.
Being Solomon is HARD !

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Off-topic posts aside, over the last few months the posts that the moderators here (not just myself) have had to remove from the TEA thread included:

* COVID discussions
* Gun discussions
* Political discussions
* Explosive discussions
* Direct insults towards other members (usually as a resolve of one of the political topics)

All attempts to prevent things going this far off topic failed, all warnings and requests by myself and other moderators here were ignored, these topics continued, clearly self-regulation was not working... this is simple and clear cut.

As for offending/upsetting people, after the last few days, I am over caring about those. I was trying as an imperfect human to find a good balance to get things to settle down in that thread for several months.
Did I do it perfect? No... Did I try? Yes... Was it needed... Clearly Yes.

The fact that I cared so much about not upsetting the community there and how much backlash I received for trying to do the right thing was and still is ridiculous. You want to be angry with me... sure go ahead, keep trying to make out that I was malicious or that there was alteriour motives as some have claimed. Those that I thought would have been grown adults and mature enough to see that things had gone too far and step up to help the moderators to bring things back to a acceptable norm did not, instead they got on their soapboxes and started crying, getting abusive and getting angry.

Since all this went down I have been informed that there is a TEA domain that was registered when we had the outage from the fire at the datacenter, and that there is one, perhaps two "backup" copies of atleast the TEA thread someone has been keeping a copy of for this. That incident was 8 Apr 2021, more than a year ago! Well before I felt the need to step in here and try to bring things back on track. I also have seen talk in your own new TEA community forum of trailing out other platforms/software in order to move.

To me it really feels like the few that had the biggest issue with things wanted any excuse to rile things up to the point where this move was forced. If this is the truth, who knows... but I am over caring and as such I am no longer going to perform such duties here... and I am no longer going to try to justify my actions to those that are not humble enough to accept that they might have been wrong or unfair/unjust.

Feel free to keep arguing the point, but why? It's done, you have your own forums now... now it seems you're just trying to stir trouble. This topic was re-opened to discuss the future of the thread HERE, not on what transpired.
pcprogrammer:

--- Quote from: tautech on August 26, 2022, 06:14:00 am ---Which instead if they or anyone else had engaged with the gal you would find she’s a very capable rocketeer and using explosive propellents is everyday hohum for skilled people such as her.
Again people go off half cocked instead or engaging with someone to learn what they might otherwise know jack shit about.

What are explosives anyway, come on define it !
Everything in another context can mean something entirely different.

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For that I refer to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive

I myself did not see anything about explosives, but am guilty in prolonging the gun subject, where it drifted in the regulations about them in the different countries. The other thing was about regulations on burning green waste, which was also off topic. The moment it was brought to the table that it was not allowed, I did engage a bit in what was on and what was off topic in the TEA thread. After that I left and have no idea what tripped the next demand for moderator intervention.

And I'm not suggesting anything about whom ever his/her capabilities in their own profession. That is not an issue here. It is about a polite way to tell someone that you don't agree with something they write without falling back onto name calling.

Which believe me, is something I can do very well, name calling that is. Was raised in the lower class parts of The Hague and learned lots of swear words >:D
Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: gnif on August 26, 2022, 06:39:39 am ---Off-topic posts aside, over the last few months the posts that the moderators here (not just myself) have had to remove from the TEA thread included:

* COVID discussions
* Gun discussions
* Political discussions
* Explosive discussions
* Direct insults towards other members (usually as a resolve of one of the political topics)


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That's happening everywhere at the moment, G.

The next few months are going to be rough for everyone.
gnif:

--- Quote from: gnif on August 26, 2022, 06:39:39 am ---Since all this went down I have been informed that there is a TEA domain that was registered when we had the outage from the fire at the datacenter, and that there is one, perhaps two "backup" copies of atleast the TEA thread someone has been keeping a copy of for this. That incident was 8 Apr 2021, more than a year ago! Well before I felt the need to step in here and try to bring things back on track. I also have seen talk in your own new TEA community forum of trailing out other platforms/software in order to move.

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Also note, with Dave's approval I would have been more then happy to provide a database export and image archive of that thread to assist your community to migrate if you had just asked. While I will still do it if Dave requests it of me, I have zero motivation to do so unless instructed to (I am also not sure about the legal ramifications of this as there may be privacy issues with posts made by now inactive members that don't wish to see their content on another forum/site).
Halcyon:
I don't see a small minority of people leaving for an alternative forum as anything but positive for this forum. The whingers can have their little slice of the internet, while most of us are perfectly happy here.
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