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Discussing the usage of the TEA thread

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tggzzz:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 31, 2022, 11:45:05 pm ---I think what happened is that this "TEA community" just got so used to using the one big thread that they didn't want to change anything, they just got used to it.

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For my own part, I felt much of the stuff in the TEA thread should stay there and not "pollute" the rest of the forum with inconsequential chit chat. To that extent, arguably the content did not "sit well" in this forum.

Keeping it separate preserved the value of this overall forum by allowing (most?) people to ignore the chit chat. That was partially negated by marking the thread sticky, and publicising it widely.

For the cases where I thought the content might be useful to a wider audience and/or to a reader in the future, I suggested splitting that out into a separate thread. Sometimes that happened.

Black Phoenix:
I think that what happened with the OrCAD is the ideal. People show their stuff, talk about it.

When then it goes into a more detailed subject as repair or in that case trying to decript the hardware dongle, a post is created in the respective subforum, a reminder is left in the TEA General thread and off we go to another subject.

I imagine like arriving in a Pub, meeting every day everyone and then you listen someone in a group in the corner having a conversation you get interested in detail, you pick up your beer and ask politely if you can join in.

While the rest of the Pub continues their on different subject. How about this idea.

tggzzz:
Gentle observations...

In life in general, reorganisation rarely addresses (let alone solves) an underlying problem. Deckchairs on the Titanic and all that.

Don't try to be all things to all people. Better to do one thing well than several things poorly.

For me the strength of EEVBlog is that the mods involvement has been to stomp on the necessary guns/religion/politics/spam/etc posts. Otherwise they have lead a quiet unobtrusive life. The rest of us have had, and will continue to have, interesting conversations on technical matters.

Summary: don't fiddle, accept some of the TEA contributors have migrated - and that it is probably better for them and for this forum.

Let's get back to normal life.

TERRA Operative:

--- Quote from: Black Phoenix on September 01, 2022, 08:55:40 am ---I think that what happened with the OrCAD is the ideal. People show their stuff, talk about it.

When then it goes into a more detailed subject as repair or in that case trying to decript the hardware dongle, a post is created in the respective subforum, a reminder is left in the TEA General thread and off we go to another subject.

I imagine like arriving in a Pub, meeting every day everyone and then you listen someone in a group in the corner having a conversation you get interested in detail, you pick up your beer and ask politely if you can join in.

While the rest of the Pub continues their on different subject. How about this idea.

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I like this, if people can stick to it, it would solve many of the off-topic issues.

re. the new TEA subforum, if the TEA thread moves to that new subforum, maybe we can keep it a sticky in there, along with a sticky with this new constitution thingo too.
Seeing as Bitseeker has made it clear he is not interested in continuing here, I view that as relinquishing of ownership, so the fate of the TEA thread it should up to all the current members.
So it could work that moving forward, any off-topic discussion that develops in the TEA thread, or discussion that starts to tangent too far can just go to its own thread in the new TEA section if it doesn't fit elsewhere in the existing forum.

Is this similar to what others people are thinking?
I also think those who do not wish to return to using this forum don't need to be considered in these decisions (but are always welcome back and will have a voice if they do so).

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: TERRA Operative on September 01, 2022, 10:44:45 am ---Is this similar to what others people are thinking?

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Stop fiddling.
Don't continually be worried about sterile taxonomies.
Get on with life and let this forum return naturally to its normally happy state.

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