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| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: tautech on August 28, 2022, 09:16:26 pm --- --- Quote from: EEVblog on August 28, 2022, 11:28:38 am ---Often it's some big embedded youtube video that takes up a ton of visual space for absolutely no reason. --- End quote --- So what is that old saying.....a picture says a thousand words yet if we are to expressly follow your lead and not clutter the forum with a tonne of wasted visual space we'd not be linking any of your videos into posts. :-// And a poll, seriously and after the fact. ::) And you think poll results are to be a true and accurate representation of members views ? A week ago it sure would have been a fine idea but now the horse has bolted after excessive use of the whip. --- End quote --- You are consistently one of the most antagonistic members on this forum, especially towards me. I saw what you said in the other TEA forum. And here you having another shot at me again even though I'm trying to sort this out. As a result, your opinion means very little to me, not that there is value at all in what you just posted, it's just slagging me off. |
| beanflying:
--- Quote from: tautech on August 29, 2022, 12:56:42 am --- --- Quote from: Brumby on August 29, 2022, 12:45:33 am ---The fact some members have moved elsewhere is unfortunate - but I fail to see how a poll before the upheaval would have signalled anything. --- End quote --- ::) Really ? Properly done it would have plainly signaled the moderators were properly serious about doing something and those that have gone to greener pastures would have been able to signal their thoughts although as it happens the outcome may not have changed, at least they would've felt consulted and a poll taken then would have be properly representative. --- End quote --- Enough with your select retelling of this. The initial reason for this was completely off topic Bullshit that got modded. You continuing to stir the pot here and elsewhere including disparaging Dave and the mods as some sort of wedge to curry favour with the problem children is out of order so pull your head in! This Forum is not a democracy as I have already stated but You, I and others have raised fair points in the past when aggressive postings by a mod was done in particular where they injected their opinions into the subject to increase the temperature allowing them to hit the ban hammer. This is not the case here and if anything so much rope was given that one or two in particular seemed to feel emboldened to carry on a public fight over a few weeks over what was a 'request' from Dave to get it more on track after the initial content was stripped. This initial re entry into the TEA thread was as a result of a slab of very off topic content no more and no less, there is/was and won't be anything conspiratorial about it other than some of the other member of this forum were pissed off enough to hit the moderation button, this is as this and all forums should be. Got a problem or see one of the RULES being bent out outright and flagrantly being broken hit the button. TEA has had a location for really off topic rambling for a while long before this but the more I think of that the more I see those same ramblers brought that totally off topic content back here. The TEA thread is not a place to discuss your bunions or politics or guns ..... But as it always was a bit of OT was always the 'normal' but until more recently never the 'majority' Leave the 'alternate facts' to places like Faux News and if that is to hard then you know where the door is. If TEA gets 'special status' not under the rules then the entire forum will just point next time another topic goes OT and see you allow it over here but .... Seriously bad idea. |
| gnif:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 29, 2022, 01:22:03 am --- --- Quote from: Specmaster on August 28, 2022, 02:25:59 pm ---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? --- End quote --- Possible. Who thinks that's a good idea? Maybe it's better to have a Sticky "Ask your general test equipment question here" thread? Although the whole idea of a forum is to have different threads for specific questions, so that's kinda counter to that. --- End quote --- I honestly think that the thread should be left sticky for a bit longer, but lock it and post a final post that redirects to a new thread which is to become the new sticky thread, with clearly defined rules and has been created by a mod/admin, ideally Dave as moderators come and go. This way the thread would be "owned" by someone who has the explicit right to (and in turn assigned moderators on behalf of Dave) state things have gone too far off topic. As for maintaining an index of equipment/topics on the first post, not sure about that. If something posted warrants an index, perhaps it should be a new thread in itself which can point to the posts in the thread it's related to. In any case we no longer have anyone maintaining the index that bitseeker created and it will fall into disrepair. |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: beanflying on August 29, 2022, 01:28:47 am ---This initial re entry into the TEA thread was as a result of a slab of very off topic content no more and no less, there is/was and won't be anything conspiratorial about it other than some of the other member of this forum were pissed off enough to hit the moderation button, this is as this and all forums should be. Got a problem or see one of the RULES being bent out outright and flagrantly being broken hit the button. TEA has had a location for really off topic rambling for a while long before this but the more I think of that the more I see those same ramblers brought that totally off topic content back here. The TEA thread is not a place to discuss your bunions or politics or guns ..... But as it always was a bit of OT was always the 'normal' but until more recently never the 'majority' --- End quote --- What I find absolutely remarkable and incredibly confusing is how some people have supposed left over the off-topic moderation, and have gone to another thread where the ruels are literally, and I quote: --- Quote ---"TEA does not permit discussions of contentious topics which include, but are not limited to, politics, religion, race, sensitive current events, etc. In other words, we're all here to enjoy camaraderie based on test equipment and electronics, not to start conflicts. To that end, off-topic discussions are to be expected, but don't derail the main subject of someone's thread." --- End quote --- Seriously, how on earth are we supposed to respond to this in any way that would make people happy? We have practically the exact same rules and policy here! I honestly find this baffling, and no one is able to explain it to me in any way that makes sense. If "the other TEA forum" had a free-for-all anything goes rule set then I can understand, but it doesn't. |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: gnif on August 29, 2022, 01:29:17 am --- --- Quote from: EEVblog on August 29, 2022, 01:22:03 am --- --- Quote from: Specmaster on August 28, 2022, 02:25:59 pm ---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? --- End quote --- Possible. Who thinks that's a good idea? Maybe it's better to have a Sticky "Ask your general test equipment question here" thread? Although the whole idea of a forum is to have different threads for specific questions, so that's kinda counter to that. --- End quote --- I honestly think that the thread should be left sticky for a bit longer, but lock it and post a final post that redirects to a new thread which is to become the new sticky thread, with clearly defined rules and has been created by a mod/admin, ideally Dave as moderators come and go. --- End quote --- I don't want to lock the TEA thread, I think that's a bad idea. Heaps of people still enjoy it. It's just that a handful of people (9 according to the poll) are fed up enough with the moderation of the TEA thread to leave the forum or think about leaving the forum over it. I'm happy to back off somewhat from the TEA thread, and if people want to post video responses to show their mood status, then so be it, that doesn't impact the rest of the forum. But I agree with others that we can't let it become a free-for-all thread with zero rules, as it will be quickly become know as the "No moderation thread" and people with that itching to talk about all the normally banned stuff will just head there and ruin it even more, and that spills over into the forum. People realise this, and it's why the "other TEA forum" has almost the exact same off-topic rules as we have here. |
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