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Discussing the usage of the TEA thread
Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on August 29, 2022, 09:33:37 am ---
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on August 29, 2022, 09:15:22 am ---I disagree that all the people that decided to leave are "full of shit". I think there have been some overreactions (on both sides), which some people seem to feel unable to step back from, for reasons of embarrassment or pride or whatever, I don't know, I'm not inside their heads.
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I don't recall the emphasis on those of who left being "full of shit", but more on that there was to much off topic being posted. It might have been called crap in the reference to the said posts, but not the posters being full of it. But that is my opinion.
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Me. Prolly could have chosen better words.
magic:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 29, 2022, 05:15:11 am ---You effectively have the same rules here as the EEVBlog, so what's the difference? I honestly don't get it.
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I think the difference is not in what the rules are, but in who does not enforce them ;)
I'm sure they are equally guilty as you are, or soon will become.
In fact, I regret recently making suggestions how to tighten the rules about political content in signatures.
I'm starting to feel like I should start mass reporting violations of forum rule number 4 instead.
I wonder what the mods would do with that?
--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on August 29, 2022, 08:11:07 am ---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.
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So why are you (and a few others) posting repeatedly in this stupid thread and bumping it to the top of the chitchat subforum?
You want to know who doesn't care about TEA and doesn't want to hear about it? I do.
I don't think I have ever read more than a few pages of TEA in total. It obviously started as a joke, it obviously morphed into a silly sandbox where a bunch of guys talked about their boat anchors, pissed off wives and random hobbies I couldn't care less about. I was surprised when it was still going at 10 pages and then at 1000, but what the heck, nobody forced me to click on that thread.
I managed to stay out of this meta thread too for a week while it grew to 10 pages and I will surely regret making this post when it grows to 1000 pages and keeps popping up on my "unread" list.
I don't always agree with tggzzz, but I can't help but agree with tggzzz. It looks like a bunch of guys had a little playground. Maybe they didn't exactly play by the rules of the general forum, but they didn't care and neither did the rest care because they weren't spilling over to other threads and polluting them with boring shit that no one wants to read. Apparently, they were having fun. Then it looks like some kids got envious because perhaps they weren't having as much fun themselves. Complaints have been filed, reports have been made, the rest is history.
It looks like several perpetrators are still here, haunting this forum section now, congratulating themselves on a job well done, getting rid of people who simply refused to make their content more digestible to outsiders and now just took it elsewhere instead :-//
Many of whom I don't care about and don't even recognize, but also several members well known to have posted productively and on topic in many other threads |O
Yeah, job well done. And I agree, the comparison to SJWs that somebody made is very apt. It's the same envy-driven, destructive behavior and the same tactics of behind-the-scenes reporting of incidents taken out of context to clueless authorities to perform the wetwork.
--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on August 29, 2022, 08:11:07 am ---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.
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It wouldn't if people not interested in their content wouldn't go there for the sole purpose of finding something to be offended about.
I have never been to the cooking subforum. For all I known, they may be openly discussing preparation of amphetamine in there. I don't care.
If Dave doesn't want amphetamine on his domain because it's illegal or whatever, he can go there himself and shut it down at his own discretion.
PlainName:
--- Quote from: AVGresponding --- though I agree the off-topic was getting out of hand, I think it could have been handled more diplomatically
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AFAIK gnif was the model of diplomacy. Perhaps that was the problem: with cross children and cats, if you don't stamp your authority they will just push the boundaries more and more.
Also consider that it is a live system with feedback, so there will be some hysteresis (maybe SMF could implement a moderation PID controller).
pcprogrammer:
--- Quote from: magic on August 29, 2022, 09:43:57 am ---
--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on August 29, 2022, 08:11:07 am ---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.
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So why are you (and a few others) posting repeatedly in this stupid thread and bumping it to the top of the chitchat subforum?
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--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on August 29, 2022, 08:11:07 am ---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.
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Because of the thing that does interest me. See the bold emphasis above.
And as mentioned by many including Dave in other threads you don't have to read it, and can add it to your ignore list if you like.
Furthermore by writing what you did, you try to silence me, and that is what the whole turmoil in the TEA was also about. But here it is on topic of what is being discussed, and within the general rules of the forum.
BU508A:
--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on August 29, 2022, 09:16:57 am ---
--- Quote from: BU508A on August 29, 2022, 07:33:32 am ---
--- 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.
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Yeah. But don't you find it strange that a forum member gets welcomed to whatever thread? As long as you follow the forum rules that should be taken for granted, shouldn't it?
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Why? I considered a nice "Welcome" as being polite from the regulars to potentially new TEA members.
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