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EEVblog:
Poll:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/tea-moderation-poll/

xrunner:
I didn't want to post about this (because I'm realize my opinion about these types of things mean little to nothing to anyone, and I'm glad I understand that).

But I'm comparing the TEA to the cat pic thread now. The cat pic thread is a legacy thread that has been allowed to go on (thankfully). It has even less to do with this forum than the TEA thread off-topic zig-zags. But the cat thread doesn't seem to get (or require) any moderation. It also never seems to get posts about guns or politics or other things that piss off people reading it. It just seems to stay on-topic somehow.

I really don't know why this is so, but it's just interesting to me that the one gathers all sorts of off-topic posts and the other doesn't. Maybe thinking of cats is so soothing it doesn't garner off-topic posts? I really don't know.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Brumby on August 28, 2022, 11:49:33 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 28, 2022, 11:39:10 am ---Or better yet, why respond at all to as you say "offensive posts by others". Why not just ignore and lead by example by postign on-topic stuff.

--- End quote ---
That is what does work - and it works well ... when people have the self discipline.

--- End quote ---

And this is defacto rule and "operating system" so to speak of this forum, has been since the start.
Occasionally some people just don't get it though and continue to push and push we have to untilmately ban them. Or occasioanlly delete off-topic posts to clean up a thread to get things back on tract.
Most often it's just "hey, settle down please" reminder post.

Brumby:

--- Quote from: PA0PBZ on August 28, 2022, 11:46:19 am ---Maybe off topic but now you mention it: what really takes up a huge amount of space is quoting a meter long post just to add one sentence! IMO that's much worse than posting a video, and a video is much easier to skip than a totally unnecessary multi-screen long quote. Yeah, as you can see it's been annoying me for a long time.

--- End quote ---
That's an annoyance to me as well - which is why I will only quote what is essential to my point.  Other members have done likewise, including changing the size of images to reduce the impact - a practice I have also adopted.

It's not a universal practice yet ... let's call it a work in progress.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Brumby on August 28, 2022, 11:56:20 am ---
--- Quote from: PA0PBZ on August 28, 2022, 11:46:19 am ---Maybe off topic but now you mention it: what really takes up a huge amount of space is quoting a meter long post just to add one sentence! IMO that's much worse than posting a video, and a video is much easier to skip than a totally unnecessary multi-screen long quote. Yeah, as you can see it's been annoying me for a long time.

--- End quote ---
That's an annoyance to me as well - which is why I will only quote what is essential to my point.  Other members have done likewise, including changing the size of images to reduce the impact - a practice I have also adopted.
It's not a universal practice yet ... let's call it a work in progress.
--- End quote ---

A gentle reminder to a full-quoter is sometimes good. They may have never thought about it before. And as always, leding by example is the best way on the forum.

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