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Discussing the usage of the TEA thread
coromonadalix:
Would it be better to close this thread ? To let people cool off ?
A memento of what was good and what became bad.
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on August 30, 2022, 12:42:34 am ---"TEA members". Before we get to that, for the record, I love the TEA thread. Although I post there very occasionally, I read it almost every day. I even developed a technique to cope with all the activity: I read it from the last post back to where I left it the day before, and to filter the OTs, I try mostly to read the posts with pictures of TEs, because I don't have time to read everything.
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When I drop in there occasionally, yeah, I like to look at the photos of test gear. I've even taken some interesting photos and tweeted them with a link.
sokoloff:
--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on August 30, 2022, 12:42:34 am ---"TEA members"…
Having said that, I'm trying to interpret the sentiment of exclusion some feel toward the thread. If you're talking about TEA members, is there some kind of implicit membership?
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Yes, I think there is. If I’ve participated weekly or more over a sustained period of time in a 5500+ page thread, I’m a member of that thread in a soft, squishy, but still real way, same as if I went to the same local pub every Thursday and Friday for years.
--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on August 30, 2022, 12:42:34 am ---Aren't all the forum users members of all threads?
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In a (n overly?) pedantic sense, yes, just as I’m a patron of the local pub the very first time I go buy a pint there.
--- Quote from: bsfeechannel on August 30, 2022, 12:42:34 am ---If it's adequate to welcome "new TEA members", is there a situation when someone, given they abide the forum rules, is not welcome?
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The state transition that happens via these welcome messages is not from “unwelcome” to “welcome”, but rather of “not yet welcomed” to “welcomed”.
It’s a matter of routine social graces and overt inclusion. Part of the evidence of that is that you personally remember that you were welcomed by a particular member. You might feel the same if a pub regular called you over and clinked glasses with you or the first time the bartender greeted you by name and started pulling your pint as you walked in. You were always welcome, but now you’ve been welcomed.
Brumby:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on August 29, 2022, 02:25:53 pm ---Well, it always used to be just another thread under the Test Equipment banner and to my knowledge since the decision was made by someone to make it a sticky and also to make it the number 1 sticky....
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Just a small point, but one I felt needed addressing.
Stickies are just another section of a board and follow the same positioning as threads in the non-sticky section. The TEA thread stays at the top position nearly all the time because it is the most frequently posted to, but nobody set it there.
I did a bump post in another thread to demonstrate:
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Brumby on August 30, 2022, 02:39:55 am ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on August 29, 2022, 02:25:53 pm ---Well, it always used to be just another thread under the Test Equipment banner and to my knowledge since the decision was made by someone to make it a sticky and also to make it the number 1 sticky....
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Stickies are just another section of a board and follow the same positioning as threads in the non-sticky section. The TEA thread stays at the top position nearly all the time because it is the most frequently posted to, but nobody set it there.
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Correct. There is no abilty to set the position.
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