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| AVGresponding:
--- Quote from: Squarewave on August 23, 2022, 06:49:26 pm --- --- Quote from: AVGresponding on August 23, 2022, 06:31:43 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 :) --- End quote --- 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. --- End quote --- Zero tolerance isn't the issue here, at least I don't think. From what I read, it's the 10 pages or more, of absolute random stuff which has nothing to do with TE, then the arguing and bickering when a moderator steps in, the warnings given, the the same again, from what appears to be the same people, then moderators step in again and the same arguing again. At least that's how I see it, people have been tolerant, but it's got out of hand. --- End quote --- My point with that statement is that the Mods/Admin appear to be intending a Zero Tolerance policy in reaction to the lack of common sense in regards to the off/on ratio that some members seem to have been evincing. I have a suggestion for the Mods/Admin. How about, for a trial period, instead of deleting off-topic posts, they are instead highlighted, and a count is made at the end of each page, to show people in a visual way what the off/on ratio is. Maybe when people see how bad it can get, they'll self police a bit more happily. --- Quote from: Squarewave on August 23, 2022, 06:42:09 pm ---I don't think the TEA thread would work here (General Area). It's test equipment talk (keep it in the TE area), perhaps we can have a general chat thread here for people who want to talk about their varicose veins and their retirement homes? --- End quote --- An additional off-topic enabled thread was my intended target of support. A TEA related title would be in order. |
| pcprogrammer:
--- Quote from: Saskia on August 23, 2022, 06:51:08 pm ---The more I think about it, the more going fishing is becoming attractive. --- End quote --- Looking at fish can be very soothing, fishing itself only awarding when you hook a big one. Sitting and starring at a float boring. Personally I think it would be a good idea to separate things. Have a new thread in the general technical chat space where all topics can be discussed, with the exception of the forbidden ones like religion, politics and guns. Call it the EEVBlog Cafe. Leave the old one where it is and dedicate that to the test equipment addiction, meaning don't post anything not related to test equipment addiction. What actually is related to test equipment addiction is something to decide, but the first post there might already be clear on that. Have not read it fully. |
| pcprogrammer:
--- Quote from: Neper on August 23, 2022, 07:07:42 pm ---First he blows everything up, then he resigns and now he wants to apologise. All this in less than 24 hours. What a remarkable achievement. How about a jolly leaving do in the garden of No. 10? --- End quote --- Is this really necessary? |
| gnif:
--- Quote from: Neper on August 23, 2022, 07:07:42 pm ---First he blows everything up, then he resigns and now he wants to apologise. All this in less than 24 hours. What a remarkable achievement. How about a jolly leaving do in the garden of No. 10? --- End quote --- 1) There was no intent to "blow everything up", rather to deal with an ongoing issue that is wasting a lot of moderation time. 2) I have of my own volition relegated myself to the admin/management of this forum & servers only after the angst and stress of trying to find a reasonable solution to this problem. 3) The apology was for my lack of tact in the way I handled some aspects of things here, not for the fact that something needed doing. |
| Zenith:
--- 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. --- End quote --- That's happened, but a lot of it is not so clear cut. It's about this thing you found at a swapmeet which you cleaned up and seems to show some signs of life, but someone warns about the capacitors which are known to fail, but you are not really interested because you only bought it for the knobs and feet and tunnel diodes anyway. Then starts a discussion about those tunnel diodes....... Or it might be a discussion about how it was bought and cleaned up and worked. No really a request for repair help or giving much information about the specific item of equipment - except it just might grow into a brilliant restoration story, if you have nothing to do next weekend and decide you are going to fix it. |
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