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Discussing the usage of the TEA thread
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TERRA Operative:
I think the group who was complaining about the moderation have mostly moved out now? So maybe things will settle down to a point that moderation is once again rarely needed, maybe?
bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 28, 2022, 11:08:41 am ---Honestly I have no frigg'n idea what people actually want?

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The TEA is a therapy thread. There are a bunch of them on the forum: "Post a picture of a cat", "What did you buy today", "Your pet peeve" and many others.

You know, life is tough: wife, kids, taxes, bills, bosses, not to talk about the idiots who run the world.

However, people try not to call the attention of the mods by avoiding polemic subjects (luckily cats are not explosive and can't be used as weapons).

The TEA thread, however, has become like a pub where a bunch of pals gather to drink beer and talk. But, alas, talking about firearms and explosives, although OK for a pub, is not for an electronics forum.

Enter the mods, see all that offtopickery and do what they're "hired" to do. People then get miffed, not because of the mod per se, but because they see, with that, the destruction of the therapeutic value of the thread. However, letting the thread run like a pub destroys the value of the entire forum.

So it's obvious that a compromise solution must be achieved.
Specmaster:
In the past, as far as I can remember, and I have been here for a long time, 6 years or so, we did ask the moderators to take action over the huge numbers of infiltrators who posting spam, porn and also scammers and they did an excellent job and we have not had any repeats since, this was a few years ago now.

This group does go OT from time to time and as in any situation, you get occasional disagreements between 1 or 2 members and often these are members, who in all honesty Dave, you would call reasonable and sensible normally. When such events happen, or when there is politics or gun talk etc, if these go on for to long or get to be too specific, we have always found that other members give gentle nudges and those involved heed their peers and normality returns.

This has in my view become a problem where the moderators have had to step in and take some form of action has really been far more noticeable since the thread grew in size and somebody decided to make it a sticky. Also, since Dave has mentioned the thread a few times in his video blog, we are finding many new posters and I suspect this a direct result of those two actions. I also suspect that many of those being directed here are expecting this thread to be all encompassing authority on all matters relating to Test Equipment and as such are being disillusioned by the OT chat that has always been part if it, and I dare say that are NOT always finding the answers that are seeking.

The thread was set up by bitseeker in the first instance as a place for other who shared a passion for collecting old bits of test equipment and then trying to repair / restore them and finding themselves addicted to it, maybe problems in their real lives as a result of that addiction and the clue to that is contained within the threads title Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread. Could it be that hardly anybody reads beyond the first 2 words and things thats for me? To my mind it is more like "Alcoholics Anonymous" and how many people would want to be a member of that support system, not many I wager, but billions of people love alcohol.

Yes there is a lot of electronics talk in the thread and mostly anything of note has been catalogued by the OP and is listed on page 1 of the thread, and many of these have also dedicated threads setup under other parts of the forum, such as Repairs, Projects etc to steer people looking for  specific repair information to their target. Many people with in this thread are also active within the other threads, such as the Beginners for instance, and actively offer help and support to the young players.

So perhaps the best way to resolve the current turmoil would be to remove the sticky thread and let it return to becoming just another thread under the generic Test Equipment banner were it would become one of the other 482 threads in that section?
m k:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 28, 2022, 11:08:41 am ---Honestly I have no frigg'n idea what people actually want?

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Status quo.
(not the band)

But it can be different tomorrow, so reactions must be dynamic and from inside.
m k:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 28, 2022, 12:00:32 pm ---
--- 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.

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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.
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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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By quoting literally all I have followed your instructions.
The Idea, as I remember it, was that quoting all will generate only a link to the original post.
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