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Discussing the usage of the TEA thread

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Dundarave:
“That said from when I first dropped in to the TEA thread 4 or 5 years ago there was ALWAYS a percentage of Off Topic when something in one of our lives cropped up that we thought others might find interesting or amusing. TEA or Electronics was always at 80% at a guess. It has descended to likely well under 50% as some have chosen to treat it like a chat group on their daily lives.”

Exactly this.  It’s been turned into a Facebook group: pictures of meals, woodworking projects, family discussions, personal employment sagas and everything in between.

Good job gnif.  I think you’ve had a very tough go of it, including all the intimidation, and you certainly don’t deserve the abuse being doled out.

joeqsmith:

--- Quote from: gnif on August 23, 2022, 03:50:45 pm ---
--- Quote from: PA0PBZ on August 23, 2022, 03:41:18 pm ---Since there's Dogs, Cats and Cooking threads here maybe the TEA thread should be renamed "Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy café" and moved to the general chat section? That should make everyone happy, not? I've not been very active posting in the thread but I've been there from the beginning and read (or skipped) every post in there. It's a community and I would feel sad to see it go, which will happen with the current attitude.

Paul

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This IMO is a good idea and Dave may wish to do so. After this ordeal I have decided to step down as a moderator here and return to server admin/management tasks only. My last act as moderator will be to lock this thread (not the TEA thread) when it's run it's course.

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I thought you have been a mod since I joined.   I've been dinged a few times but don't hold any malice towards the mods or Dave over it.  If I felt there was a major problem, I would just stop posting.   Its a bit late but I felt the whole team was doing a very good job keeping the site in check.   If you decide to step back in to a mod position, I would certainly welcome you back. 

EPAIII:
If you look at the title of this post, you will see that I have edited it. So the title, which appears at the top of every post in a thread can be edited. Actually it can be COMPLETELY REPLACED.

So, how about a rule that requires off topic posts to, at the very least, have the prefix "OT: " added at the beginning of the title whenever a post is about something not within the scope of the original, thread title? That way anyone scrolling through the thread can quickly skip over any posts that are not on topic. This is a convention that is used on many internet bbs.

And any posts that do not follow this rule can be reported to the moderators who, I assume, can add that prefix to the title. And perhaps gently remind the offender of the need for that prefix.

gnif:
Unfortunately the forum/thread notify function is indiscriminate and still will "spam" mailboxes with notifications for stuff people are not interested in.

EPAIII:
Oh well, I tried. I did not know that.

I wonder if the authors of the BB software might want to work on that. I have tried to make suggestions to one of those companies before and, since I was not the purchaser of the BB software, they completely ignored my suggestion. So the owner/purchaser of the software used here would have to make the suggestion.

BTW, as a person who greatly appreciates this board, I would like to thank the owner, demonstrator(s), and moderators for their contributions.




--- Quote from: gnif on August 24, 2022, 05:16:59 am ---Unfortunately the forum/thread notify function is indiscriminate and still will "spam" mailboxes with notifications for stuff people are not interested in.

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