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sokoloff:
With as many posts as that thread gets, it was always going to live in the top 10 on the first page of Test Equipment, sticky or not-sticky.

Specmaster:
That is true, it was often the first thread beneath the stickies, there are stickies that only have 9 and 10 pages therefore it was a conscious decision to turn a popular thread into a sticky thread, and I'm confident that if examined closely that fact alone is a massive factor in the increase of complaints that prompted the moderators into taking some sort of action. I have personally been on the thready for 6 years, and it was often the very first one, after the stickies, and I've not seen anything like this before in that time.

So like it or not, its pretty clear that decision, for whatever reason it was made, had the effect of shooting oneself in the foot, and a lot of the blame for the current mess has to be shouldered by the admin team.

pcprogrammer:
Why is it so hard to except the blame within the group. I see this on so many levels in live. It is always someone else's fault when things go wrong. Never one's own.

Just keep on blaming the newbies and the moderators. It is not their fault, it is the fault of the group itself. Own up to it.

I did my part, and owned up to posting off topic.

To me it has nothing to do with it being sticky on the number one spot, even though it might have contracted more attention that way. The moderators have expressed here that they don't react like this based on newbie reports unless the mentioned post is really bad. For what I understand from it, they acted mainly on requests from members that were active in the group. But this is something only the moderators can confirm.

Specmaster:

--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on August 29, 2022, 03:54:36 pm ---Why is it so hard to except the blame within the group. I see this on so many levels in live. It is always someone else's fault when things go wrong. Never one's own.

Just keep on blaming the newbies and the moderators. It is not their fault, it is the fault of the group itself. Own up to it.

I did my part, and owned up to posting off topic.

To me it has nothing to do with it being sticky on the number one spot, even though it might have contracted more attention that way. The moderators have expressed here that they don't react like this based on newbie reports unless the mentioned post is really bad. For what I understand from it, they acted mainly on requests from members that were active in the group. But this is something only the moderators can confirm.

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I don't understand why it is that you all are fixated on newbies and accusing us of blaming them, where did I mention newbies??

What I said is this extract "a lot of the complaints were coming from people who might well have been making their first trip to the thread and not liked the OT and raised it to the admin team?"

That means what it says "first visit or visits", I've been here over 6 years and there are hundreds of threads that I have not visited but am I a newbie, of course not. I have never visited those threads because maybe I couldn't be bothered to click my through them, maybe I just didn't have the spare time, or they didn't appeal to me? But I have visited many of the stickies, and I suspect most people have.

Yes I've posted OT items as well, never said I hadn't and have done so since I have been in that thread because it was specifically set up for that to happen, the clue is in the thread title, it's not that hard to read and understand what it means is it?  Hell, one of my OT comments was deleted even though I was just asking a fellow member if he and his family were OK after they had just been involved in a road accident, FFS.

So now, can all of those people who are trying to make this incident into something it is not, please stop doing so.

What is true is that we are acting no different now to what we did before we were made into a sticky, which was a recent event, so all of you Sherlock Holmes out there can deduce from that what you like, but it is a fact that I have not seen anything like this recent event in all my time on this forum, let alone in this thread.

I might well be putting 2 and 2 together and making 22 instead of 4, but in the distinct lack of any other evidence, it is the most logical explanation.

Hopefully you will also notice that I have not pointed fingers at any one person, I referred to the admin team only because its logical, because only members of that team have the authority to do what has been done.

Dave is trying very hard to mend fences and as long as folk keep twisting things, it just makes his job even harder to do.

Squarewave:
One of the mods did say, some pages back, that reports had also come in from regular posters to TEA.

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