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IMPORTANT POLL: Should there be an off-topic section?

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pcprogrammer:

--- Quote from: beanflying on September 09, 2022, 10:44:47 am ---I wasn't a supporter of adding cooking to the forum much as I contribute there as it is a strong interest of mine.

But do we need a Gardening, Bike, R/C, Car, Travel, Woodworking, Skateboarding, Surfing, Fishing, CAT...... threads or sections on an Electronics forum?

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@Ed.Kloonk, swoop in for the kill, CAT's being dissed :-DD

Well why not. You seem to have cooking as a side interest. I have Fischer Technik and synthesizers as other hobbies. Others might have what you listed. There is more to life then just electronics. Sure it is the electronics that brings us all to this forum and what I have seen is that many dislike the other forums out there that are about the topics you listed. I guess some of us just like a safe space to talk about those other interest without having to deal with folks that are to abusive.

And for most of the time this forum is such a safe space.

To allow for it to stay safe, I do like the suggestion of keeping it behind membership only doors.

PlainName:

--- Quote from: AVGresponding on September 09, 2022, 12:17:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on September 09, 2022, 12:12:33 pm ---People's stated gender when registering no doubt bears as much relation to reality as their username or location.

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Mine is accurate, as is that of everyone I personally know here. Ascribing levels of truthfulness/disclosure to people you don't know is pure and irrelevant speculation.

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You really are Mr AVGResponding? Or is that your first name?

Ranayna:
The only "Personality" Part of my profile thats even filled out is my location. Since that can have a significant impact regarding parts availability and local regulations and customs.
Also it maybe softens the blow if my english comes out garbled and stuffed with german fillerwords :D
Anything else should in all reality be absolutely irrelevant in a professional discussion. And if it is relevant for some reason, you can bring it up when such a situation comes up.

Anyway, on topic ;)

I would like an "curated" Offtopic section. I would agree to keep the "hot topics" out of the EEVBlog, except maybe in the unlikely case that you are able to find enough competent moderators to keep things civil. And even then i would prefer some topics to be off limits. And there is precedence with the cooking section.
I would think sections on wood and metalworking can be quite successful here. Stuff like that might even be useful related to TEA, covering restoration of old equipment, which often enough is as much metalworking as electronics.

I personally would also like to see the discussions in the TEA Thread to be more split up. The TEA Thread is just too huge and somewhat intimidating to be honest. And if the owner of the first post will not continue updating it, it will become even more so. It's also hard to search. But the TEA section is still empty, so i seem to be somewhat alone with that opinion  :-//

Of course a more accessible TEA section might require increased effort by moderation. Stuff can't fly under the radar, so to speak, as easily. I do not even know how many mods the EEVBlog has. I know of Simon and Halcyon?, but two mods seems to be very few for a board this size.

bdunham7:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on September 09, 2022, 12:12:33 pm ---People's stated gender when registering no doubt bears as much relation to reality as their username or location.

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I'm pretty sure EEVBlog is 99.9% grumpy old men.  Of course not all of them realize that...

pcprogrammer:

--- Quote from: bdunham7 on September 09, 2022, 02:42:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on September 09, 2022, 12:12:33 pm ---People's stated gender when registering no doubt bears as much relation to reality as their username or location.

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I'm pretty sure EEVBlog is 99.9% grumpy old men.  Of course not all of them realize that...

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Are you sure you want to stick your head above ground level with something you can't prove with proper evidence.  :-DD

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