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Discussing the usage of the TEA thread
nctnico:
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--- 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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I get that but my point is that if/when the discussion drifts towards a specific instrument, then the forum as a whole is better served with a forum topic rather than useful information becoming hidden is an enormous topic.
Vince:
Oh boy I am getting real desperate now... as I realize this TEA thread might ACTUALLY be shut down for real ?! :scared:
To me the entire point, value of this thread was that it was not specific to anything, but rather a live chat room where I could ask just a quick technical question, or share a quick little TE something, that otherwise would NOT warrant, by any stretch of the imagination, a dedicated thread.
It's just a TE oriented random chat room, which grew a community that I got learn appreciate and like, and that would all go down the drain if this thread was shut down. There is no substitute for what's happening here other than.. doing the same thing.
I say just rename and/or move the thread to wherever is seen fit, so that people EXPECT to find OT stuff... hence won't complain about it.
Please pretty please, let me have my TEA friends.... I got to love them all over the 18 months that I have been here, I would be heart broken if all of a sudden I could not gather with my TEA electronic friends from all over the world !!! :scared: :(
Please let me keep my TEA buddies here, please ! :(
gnif:
I see no reason why the TEA thread here would be shutdown and I am not sure why you think so, see
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/test-equipment-anonymous-(tea)-group-therapy-thread/msg4376359/#msg4376359
Vince:
PHEW !! :)
Looks like I got confused, my bad... you were talking about closing THIS thread, not TEA :palm:
Sorry...
AVGresponding:
--- 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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Good, because I damn well want my say too.
I'm bloody well pissed off with the whole situation, it's ludicrous that grown adults can't debate and discuss and argue without reverting to threats (Mods/Admin) or petty name calling (various TEA participants who should definitely know better).
I refuse to accept that a zero tolerance policy towards off-topic posts is in any way sensible, sustainable, or reasonable. However on the other side, despite protestations to the contrary, the ratio of off-topic to on-topic posts has increased considerably in recent months, and not to the benefit of the thread imo.
Off-topic posts are like seasoning on food; a little makes it special, too much makes it unpalatable.
It should not even need to be stated that certain topics, that are inherently divisive and generate polarised rhetoric, will not/should not be allowed. I'll mention guns as a good example; I do not want to see gun talk in the thread at all. This is despite the fact that I have an interest in firearms, and weapons in general. But this is not the place. The other examples should be very obvious, and if I am required to state them, there would be truly no hope for us going forward.
For those that suggest skipping posts that are off-topic/of no interest: I already do that. I have to do it more and more often, nowadays. Valve gear on the whole does not interest me at all, with a few exceptions (who can fail to be seduced by number tubes?), and I duly skip it for the most part, no big deal. But when you get home from work 10 hours since last checking the thread and there's five new pages of content four of which are off-topic, it's getting beyond a joke.
I'm completely behind the suggestion to have a new thread with a more off-topic bias. I certainly am not interested in joining another forum.
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