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Discussing the usage of the TEA thread
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on August 29, 2022, 06:39:09 am ---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.
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The TEA is an oddity, a thread of such gargantuan proportions that's it's completely intimidating to anyone that enters.
I use it as an example of how obsessed people are about test equipment.
The forum value of course lies in the entire Test Equipment and other sections of the forum.
--- Quote ---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.
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Sure, that would be my advice. The TEA has way too many tangent and ongoing discussion to be useful as a general newbie question sections. And it would defeat the entire prupose of forums, which is to provide thread for different questions and topics.
BU508A:
--- 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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That is not true. Whenever (mostly) someone new showed up and introduced himself he got a nice welcome there.
I'd never the impression, that somebody wouldn't be welcome to TEA.
Some examples:
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tautech:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 29, 2022, 01:28:10 am ---
--- Quote from: tautech on August 28, 2022, 09:16:26 pm ---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.
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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.
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Please accept my apologies Dave as it's been a very stressful week here on the blog to see such good friends of some years leave and take their knowledge and likely future contributions with them for which I believe the forum is much the poorer.
Still like you I'd rather this episode didn't happen and appreciate your attempts to patch relations with the chaps on the other TEA forum.
With a heavy heart I'll pull my head in.
pcprogrammer:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 29, 2022, 06:43:07 am ---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.
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It might have solved the problem if that was done, but then still the general rules would still apply, and at some point someone would have taken offense about something, and it might still have blown up. It happens within regular families too. Why should this forum be any different. Fortunately most of the members here are level headed, but we are all humans, with human traits, and get into "fights" once in a while. It is how we deal with it afterwards that counts.
Here it has been dealt with by leaving to form a new forum. I wish them well, but won't be joining them. TEA in itself is not my thing. Electronics related programming is. Plenty enough of that here on this forum. With enough of a side dish in "social studies" to keep it interesting.
Halcyon:
--- Quote from: Brumby on August 29, 2022, 02:53:11 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 29, 2022, 02:28:14 am ---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.
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The Moderators will always get the blame - but that is because they are the public face of the rest of the membership when that membership says "enough". .... and that's not even taking into account the attitude of those who's self-righteousness and "entitlement" ignored the historical precepts and requests to ease back.
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I'll just add that in 99% of cases, the moderators here don't respond by removing posts or otherwise, unless someone else reports it first. I don't know about Simon and Geoff, but I don't even look in most of the topics, I stick to the ones that interest me. We don't go looking for things to moderate. And even then, when posts get reported, a significant number of them are ignored. Not because they were false reports, but we typically let people say what they want, even if it's rude or a little insulting.
If the way I moderate seems wrong to you, please, tell me and I'll take your points on-board. But the vast majority of people say "thank you", even via PM from time to time.
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