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Discussing the usage of the TEA thread
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Zoli:

--- Quote from: gnif on August 23, 2022, 04:08:39 pm ---In hindsight this thread should not be locked yet, discussion needs to be open for suggestions on how weto proceed with the TEA thread here.

Unlocked :)

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Options which I see:
1. Held in place, try to keep on topic - it will lose a lot of the current spirit.
2. Move to general technical chat, and leave a link in the sticky place - this way I see a better chance to keep the original/current spirit.
3.-x...
Once the choices are clear, maybe put up to vote?
gnif:

--- Quote from: Zoli on August 23, 2022, 04:38:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: gnif on August 23, 2022, 04:08:39 pm ---In hindsight this thread should not be locked yet, discussion needs to be open for suggestions on how weto proceed with the TEA thread here.

Unlocked :)

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Options which I see:
1. Held in place, try to keep on topic - it will lose a lot of the current spirit.
2. Move to general technical chat, and leave a link in the sticky place - this way I see a better chance to keep the original/current spirit.
3.-x...
Once the choices are clear, maybe put up to vote?

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I personally like #2
Zoli:

--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on August 23, 2022, 04:24:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: nctnico on August 23, 2022, 04:17:30 pm ---IMHO a lot of sub-topics in the TEA thread could have been individual topics in the test & measurement section. At least it would be easier to search for an old topic about a specific piece of test equipment.

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That would only be proper for the on topic and test equipment related sub-topics. The point is about the off topic discussions that are felt out of order. I myself did not mind it that much, it just needs skipping if not of interest, but I can understand that when looking for something specific or trying to follow a specific topic it is making things a bit difficult.

But for sure the latest sub topic about replacing floppy drives with gotek emulators would sit very well in its own thread and get much more attention.

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The typical way should be to request to start a new thread on the topic from the OP; it happened  a few times.
Vince:
I posted the following on TEA but Gnif reminded me it belongs here so... cut / paste.

I see there are already 3 pages worth of discussion ! :scared:

Hopefully my message is not a repeat of what others have already said. Sorry  :-[


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Wow, not yet another forum split ! I thought that was '90s era....  :(

I once used to uise Groups.io, for it hosts TekScopes.... but IIRC when I stopped using it 5 years ago it was mostly because the user interface and features were painful, espeically working with images. found it orders of magnitude more convenient on EEVBlog which is why I started posting my TE repairs there, especially once I realized many of the old beard helping me on TekScope... were also subscribed to EEVblog and were helping me there as well !

I don't fancy going back to Groups. io because of that... also, it will make it impossible for newcomers, fresh blood, to find us, or even know of our existence, and soon we will be going circles.

Also, the present thread has a tremendous value to me at least, because it archives allllll the work I did to restore my old junk. Tons of pics, tons of loud thinking and trouble-shooting...

One would need to be able to import all the past TEA messages and pics, into Groups.io.
 Bitseeker did such a fantastic job or building a TEA "contents table" of POI on the first page, it's really extremely valuable. SO we would need to modify alll the links it contains, to point to groups.io messags links instead..... lot of work (I guess the IT wizards here could automate that  maybe ?)

If it's really a matter of life or death, yes I would move to groups.io (I just subscribed there BTW).

HOWEVER, it would be SO MUCH MORE PRACTICAL if we stayed here instead !

SOLUTION : easy.... to me ?  I do'nt know.... to me, seems that the problem is that our content has too much OT stuff. So, why not simply do click-click-click, and move the TEA thread into a " random chat /lounge " section of EEVBlog, hence we could post OT stuff to our hearts contents and never have anybody complain about it ?

Now I don't know if there is a "random chat" section on EEVBlog, but most forums do... if not, maybe it would be an opportunity to create one ?  :-//

Then all the people who silently complain/report about OT stuff here, are free to start a new TEA thread of their own, in the proper section of the foruml (here then...), and that's it.... then we can watch their thread and as soon as we see anything OT we wuld report it !!!  >:D

No just kidding....

I say just move this thread to a random chat section, or simply leave the thread here and edit it's titel / description to make it obvious that it's kinda a " TEA oriented chat room ", and create a "proper" TEA thread alongside it, labeled " TEA SERIOUS ", or something...

I am trying to be reasonable and find a middle ground here, please consider my idea !  :scared:

I would rather not have to give up on this thread and move to another IT infrastructure, to be honest.  :(


EDIT : Also, I am not sure Groups.io has enough formatting options to let AVG and Dragon use colourful text.....
And what about emoticons ?


Cerebus:

--- Quote from: nctnico on August 23, 2022, 04:17:30 pm ---IMHO a lot of sub-topics in the TEA thread could have been individual topics in the test & measurement section. At least it would be easier to search for an old topic about a specific piece of test equipment.

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The whole point of the TEA thread is that the TEA thread is not about specific items of test equipment, but about a bunch of people with a habit of collecting too much of it. To think it was ever about the test equipment itself is to miss the point. If one wants to keep the thread strictly on topic then all posts should be related to test equipment addition and not test equipment itself.
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