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Circlotron:

--- Quote from: bdunham7 on November 17, 2021, 05:05:41 pm ---
--- Quote from: dtmouton on November 17, 2021, 03:35:48 pm ---The "advice" dispensed by the members of this blog is useless. Rather read credible books on engineering or study at an accredited university than reading the junk "advice" on this blog.

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Actually I think EEVBlog has the lowest signal-to-noise ratio of any large internet forum I'm aware of.  I've gotten plenty of helpful advice here, and perhaps given a bit too.

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The lowest signal-to-noise ratio?
I think you need to post a question for helpful advice on S/N ratio. LOL  :-DD
No malice intended BTW.
Cerebus:

--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on November 18, 2021, 12:13:41 am ---All jokes aside, I'm still straddling the idea of leaving behind the comments when the bulk of y/t is being mirrored elsewhere. More annoying is the "I'll leave links in the description". I wish they would put it in the lower third.

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I both agree and disagree with you there. If I've downloaded the video with youtube-dl then, yes, it's incredibly frustrating if I want to actually get the link to have to go back and find it. On the other hand, you can't cut and paste links from the video so having it in the 'text bit' below is useful. The obvious answer is do both.
Psi:
Ah... the old Engineer vs Scientist debate.
I think I can sum up which is the better side to be on using the following scenario.

If you had to fill the earth with only Engineers or only Scientists which would be better?
I think we all know the answer and why.
Practically wins out over theory every time.
(Though I do agree that the male to female ratio would be much worse for Engineers vs Scientists. but that is only a short term issue.)
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Circlotron on November 18, 2021, 01:42:02 am ---
--- Quote from: bdunham7 on November 17, 2021, 05:05:41 pm ---
--- Quote from: dtmouton on November 17, 2021, 03:35:48 pm ---The "advice" dispensed by the members of this blog is useless. Rather read credible books on engineering or study at an accredited university than reading the junk "advice" on this blog.

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Actually I think EEVBlog has the lowest signal-to-noise ratio of any large internet forum I'm aware of.  I've gotten plenty of helpful advice here, and perhaps given a bit too.

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The lowest signal-to-noise ratio?
I think you need to post a question for helpful advice on S/N ratio. LOL  :-DD
No malice intended BTW.

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I was waiting for some to say that, I didn't want to be THAT GUY  ;D
rsjsouza:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on November 17, 2021, 11:40:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: rstofer on November 17, 2021, 05:21:39 pm ---Dave sells video views, simple as that.  If he steps them up to the level of PhDs, the audience shrinks to the point that there is no money in making videos.  The videos need to be of value to beginners.

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True, but it's not as simple as that.
Views are nice, but it's not about the money. Almost none of my videos make it worth the time to actually make them in the first place.

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Ditto. I am pretty sure this is the same scenario for a bunch of bloggers. The folks that have successful channels assembled an entire operation around it - youtube being a promotion channel.


--- Quote from: EEVblog on November 17, 2021, 11:52:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on November 17, 2021, 09:22:46 pm ---OP appears to be typical academic wingnut. How about you show us how to youtube? You know, build an audience not just profess to a captive one.
I'll bet something said on Dave's twitter caused some triggering.

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I think it's simply:


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This is the running joke between me and my wife, whenever I am typing on the internet.


--- Quote from: tggzzz on November 17, 2021, 11:52:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: Trader on November 17, 2021, 11:29:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on November 17, 2021, 11:22:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: Trader on November 17, 2021, 07:28:10 pm ---About the EEVblog forum, it's good, I'll rate it as 3 (from 1 to 5), the main problem is the super-long threads with more than 20, 50, 100 pages that you have to read to try to understand that issue, but this is a problem related to the Blog Format, not Dave.

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That's just the (unfortunate?) fact of every forum, they are discussion forums. The only way to get around that is to currate info Wikipedia style. But they are two entirely different thing with different goals.

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Yes, I also thought about the Wiki format, but actually, there are other options, something like Stackoverflow, still a discussion forum, but the most relevant posts appear first, and rated.

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Stackexchange is useful for "which button do I use to floggle the widgeon in ObscureApp v1.3.2?" type questions. Or where a technician wants to copy and paste code into their application, without understanding it.

Stackexchange fails dismally where subtle points can and should be debated to and fro.

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Indeed. Stackexchange and stackoverflow are poor examples to compare with what is done here.
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