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Discussing the usage of the TEA thread
Brumby:
Sometimes I worry about you....
pcprogrammer:
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--- Quote from: wilfred on August 29, 2022, 02:32:19 am ---It should never have been a sticky though as I think they should be left for threads with info relevant for the entire forum or sub-board.
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The sticky could indeed have been mistake, as it would help newbies come into it thinking it's the place the ask questions, when untimately is seem to be the place a few dozen ver yactive members hang out and shoot the breeze about test equipment (mostly).
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I don't believe it being a sticky has anything to do with anything. Just a strawman argument, IMO.
The TEA thread is defined by it's content, not its location.
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Again, just my opinion. I think that the importance of the TEA thread is overrated.
Yes the thread is defined by its content, and that content is a lot of therapeutic talk accompanying the gathering of test equipment. I have the feeling that, it being used as the best seller of the EEVBlog forum, makes people believe it is the number one place to find the information about their precious equipment.
And there is were they are wrong. It is much more the whole forum, and not the TEA thread that is the place to find the valuable information.
Sure a lot of knowledgeable people are active in that one thread, and some only there, but to my believe one would be better of starting a new thread with a specific question then to enter into the TEA thread to hope for an answer there.
I also had a bit of a feeling that others where not that welcome in the TEA thread, but that could be just me.
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on August 29, 2022, 06:09:15 am ---The difference is the number of members. It is the select group that felt mistreated by the moderators, with a couple of their best mates that are now enjoying their new found place without "pesky moderators" to hinder them. They just were and are looking through pink glasses. The "pesky moderators" are their fellow members and not the actual moderators. The latter are just the tools needed to do the job. And they are also the ones that get the crap poured over them. And that is a shame.
To some extend I get it, because it hurts your feelings when you get "moderated", but that is part of life, and a reasonable and sane person should be able to get over it, accept it was needed and go on with breathing.
When the new place gets bigger membership, it will run into the same problems when active members start to get annoyed with some of the crap floating around. Or maybe even sooner when some of the best mates get fed up with the crap of just a couple. Because how many dragons can you take.
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Yes, they will have the same problems when it grows, it's inevitable.
What is obvious now is that the TEA thread was so huge, and was inhabbited by maybe only a few donens really active "members" that it was always not going to work in the end. I honestly never undersood how that one thread handled all that volume and still stayed together.
What is needed is another section dedicated to the TEA group, with it's own moderator, and ironically put outside the Product/Test equipment section.
I have offered to put it in the Other Hobbies section which sits alone with a small Cooking group. Sections can have their own moderators, SMF allows that. We'll see if "they" are happy with that.
Apparently a thread moderator was discussed the other week, but because I don't read the thread I never saw it.
There is clearly a small group of members who thought of themselves as a min-community, and I'm happy to accomodate them in a seperate section just like Cooking.
Obviously I can't read all sections of the forum, but if there are any other mini-communities like this on the forum please let me know.
Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on August 29, 2022, 06:39:09 am ---
I also had a bit of a feeling that others where not that welcome in the TEA thread, but that could be just me.
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It sure does have a old school IRC feel to it. IRC whizzes past and isn't organized at all. It's one of the reasons why forums took off.
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Just to expand on the above and clean up the quotes, chat rooms participants were very against forums. The idea of leaving a question and bouncing without 'hanging out' was considered very rude.
wilfred:
--- Quote from: Brumby on August 29, 2022, 02:57:35 am ---
--- Quote from: wilfred on August 29, 2022, 02:32:19 am ---It should never have been a sticky though as I think they should be left for threads with info relevant for the entire forum or sub-board.
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I don't believe it being a sticky has anything to do with anything. Just a strawman argument, IMO.
The TEA thread is defined by it's content, not its location.
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--- Quote from: Brumby on August 28, 2022, 01:05:46 pm ---
Sometimes one forgets that expressing opinions via text can be somewhat lacking. It can be like trying to appreciate opera via teletype.
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I don't think it being a sticky was significant either but I still maintain the view. Definitely too minor a point to classify it as a strawman argument.
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