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Dilbert loses newspapers, publishers, distributor, and possibly its website
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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: wilfred on March 14, 2023, 02:08:30 am ---If it pans out that way I don't think the new "paying" Dilbert audience will intersect greatly with the old one because cubicle culture will be greatly diminished.
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Dilbert has always been about all sorts of current business and social issues and events, and just general human traits etc. It's trivial to map almost anything into the context of the cubicle world, the jokes still remain the same, just the setting might be different. So nothing changes.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: vk6zgo on March 14, 2023, 01:57:48 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 13, 2023, 11:00:48 pm ---Ok, Just STOP IT with the covid posts.
I'm deleting any further posts.

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Maybe you should be able to set up a different sort of thread, like some forums have, where you can have a whinge about something "close to your heart" & be able to disable comments.

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That has been repeatedly voted down by the community many times over the years.
wilfred:

--- Quote from: vk6zgo on March 14, 2023, 01:57:48 am ---
As it is, you know that not everyone will agree with you, others won't agree with them, in turn, & both sides will bring up "side issues" to seemingly bolster their case.

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The disadvantage of these topics for me is that they diminish the forum as an electronics forum. I usually just look at the list of recent posts and if it is heavily populated with topics like this one and bank collapses (and yes I know banks use ATM's and they are electronic and therefore on-topic) then I see fewer thread titles that are interesting electronics ones.

Having said that I have posted a handful of time here and I hope they were more topical than this one.

However to try to shoe-horn this one back to Dilbert I will say that if engineers like Dilbert and Dilbert is poking fun at office and cubical life then engineers are dealing with the real world and so spillover discussion here about real world issues that also affect engineers may be justified.

But if the forum is to be seen as predominantly electronics related and non-electronics off topic threads likely to drift in off-topic hot-button areas are tolerated for any length of time then is seems like you cannot have your cake and eat it too.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Black Phoenix on March 14, 2023, 01:48:07 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 13, 2023, 11:00:48 pm ---Ok, Just STOP IT with the covid posts.
I'm deleting any further posts.

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Jesus Dave, just close the thread. It lost is purpose after the first few posts.

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No it hasn't, it's a place to talk about Dilbert and Adams and what's happening, and cancel culture. As I said before, it potentially impacts all of us. Things could always evolve in the Dilbert universe, so best to keep it open.
wilfred:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 14, 2023, 02:25:09 am ---
No it hasn't, it's a place to talk about Dilbert and Adams and what's happening, and cancel culture. As I said before, it potentially impacts all of us. Things could always evolve in the Dilbert universe, so best to keep it open.

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That's exactly right. This forum board wasn't retitled from "General Chat" to "General Technical Chat" for no reason.

Edit: Maybe it's time to set aside a board for such discussion. Cooking scored one and this must be at least as deserving given the nerve it seems to have struck.
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