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Specmaster:

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--- Quote ---I'm going to ask again:
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You know he probably doesn't see late responses, particularly when a thread has moved on. Why not just email the guy instead of grandstanding? At least there is a better chance of him reading it and you can talk mano et mano without having to pander to an audience.

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I can't speak for mnementh, BUT off the top of my head I could surmise that considering this thread was opened by admin, I suspect that it fair to assume that admin would be monitoring it? Also by posting the question / proposal publicly like this, it enables anyone keen to understand what is going on to see for themselves. If an agreement was reached mano et mano then there is every chance that might cause resentment here on this forum and Chinese whispers would result and then everything blows up because some members might think that TEA originals were getting special treatment.

When EEV admin come over to the other forum, everything is conducted in the same open fashion, so the original members can see exactly what is being discussed, neither TEA here or tea@groups.io want to derail any plans that might work for the benefit of everybody. One thing is for sure, none of the original TEA members who build the thread up wanted this to happen, so please give the 2 top people some breathing space and lets be friends at least.

PlainName:

--- Quote ---so please give the 2 top people some breathing space and lets be friends at least.
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Who would they be? Dave and bitseeker?

bitseeker:
No worries. Dave offered options, everyone deliberated, posted or emailed to me their feedback, I spent a couple of days analyzing both the quantitative and qualitative aspects, and concluded that TEA should continue as an independent entity. Everyone can of course go where they like. I'm still around, as are others, but TEA has moved.

Since the move, the group has exploded with activity and, with the new capabilities at our disposal, despite there being an even larger volume of posts, it's much easier to find all the threads that are related to follow or ignore as one desires. Whereas before, I couldn't even keep up with conversations, now I can.

Change is hard. Starting something anew is hard, too.

"Try and fail, but don’t fail to try." – Stephen Kaggwa

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: bitseeker on August 31, 2022, 09:39:50 pm ---Since the move, the group has exploded with activity and, with the new capabilities at our disposal, despite there being an even larger volume of posts, it's much easier to find all the threads that are related to follow or ignore as one desires. Whereas before, I couldn't even keep up with conversations, now I can.

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Thanks for the reply.
Hopefully people can see that's why many people who were part of it wanted the moderators to keep the thread on track.
You can't really have one big popular thread like that and allow countless off-topic chatter, it ultimately just doesn't really work.
Break it down into smaller topic based threads and you can allow a decent amount of off-topic chatter and it doesn't really impact things.

It's like having an email based list group, once it gets big enough volume then you can't have it as a single big list any more, you need to move to a thread based forum structure.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: mnementh on August 31, 2022, 07:16:35 pm ---
--- Quote ---*weary*
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I'm going to ask again:

All we ever wanted was to be left alone to play. If you place the TEAnonymous thread in the correct OT section, where it will not be bludgeoning those interested in On-Topic discussions, some of us might begin to peek in and contribute from time to time, once the bruises start to fade and the cuts stop bleeding. If it is made clear to the "complainers" that TEANonymous is an OT thread and complaints purely about OT will be given exactly as much consideration as such frivolous complaints deserve, that would be a great start.

If the complainers want to have a purely ON-TOPIC discussion about TE and their TE projects, let them start such a thread instead of taking it away from the community who started TEAnonymous.

We already did as you asked regarding the usual 3rd rail topics; even when we did touch on such points we made very certain it was only briefly and did not become long conversation. That I feel is a reasonable compromise.

I loved the TEAnonymous thread... it was where my friends were, and it was where we played, and it was where I kept my toys. But as long as we have the threat of wholesale moderation of content simply for being OT hanging over our heads, we will not feel it is safe to just play... particularly when I compare what we posted to current content.  :palm:

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Again, for probably the dozenth time now, this all blew up while I wasn't watching. I literally came in one day to find everyone had taken their bat and ball and gone home.

Because I didn't know it was all happening, there was absolutely nothing I could have done unless someone alterted me to the concerns, and sadly no one did. If they did then I would have offered what I have offered now, your own space with your own moderator, or something. I understand exactly what you are saying, I really do, but that does no good when it's after the fact of people leaving, I can't do anything about it now.

The problem is that it seems that everyone in TEA assumed that I knew what was going on and I was secretely watching and ignoring it all from the sidelines and lettign it all happen.
So please, in the future anyone else who is having issues like this on the forum, email me directly with your concerns. If someone had simply done that then I think all this could have been averted.
I know to you this sounds like I'm just blaming you and the others, but that's not the case, it's simply the facts of the circumstances of how all this went down.

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