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Too tired of sh*tposters - How about a user blacklist thread to save our time?
magic:
I'm not sure if User 100 is actually competent enough to maliciously produce some of the nonsense that he is posting.
I think at least part of it may be genuine organic nonsense ;D
hans:
--- Quote from: Simon on October 08, 2023, 12:19:27 pm ---but they can ignore him and he may go away or learn. People reply, why? does no one have any self control at all?
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Yeah well.. some people are perhaps a tunnel of problem-solving and don't always think about it. They may post a complete quantitative analysis pointing out all the flaws, to show that some idea is ridicilious.
Is that a lack of self control? IDK. If you read about neurodivergence (such as ADHD) then some may praise it as "a gift" to be good at math, science and engineering.. (hence an EE career), but abilities to read between the lines or other executive functioning can take a hit.
We can't hear or see who is on the other side of these text boxes. We don't know each other personally. Impossible to say for real.
What I find more remarkable though, is that such topics attract heads-on problem solving (literally): "dropping bombs" just to derail the thread into a flame zone, e.g. openly gossiping, making abusive remarks, etcetera. I still don't have any clue why that is allowed. I don't mean to say that we should "punish" people doing stuff like that. We all have bad days or moments where "our buttons" are pressed. But on the grand scheme of things, I don't give (that much of) a **** about people shitposting. But treating your others fairly should be one the basics IMO.
tggzzz:
One halfway house would be, on noticing a repeat offender starting one of their typical threads, to put a single sentence reply directing people to this thread.
The perps will still sucker unwitting newbies into replying, but at least they will be sensitised the perp's typical behaviour.
AndyBeez:
--- Quote from: Simon on October 08, 2023, 12:19:27 pm ---but they can ignore him and he may go away or learn. People reply, why? does no one have any self control at all?
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Be glad, this EEVBlog Forum is one of the most sensible and self controlled forum spaces online. Maybe that's because Dave built it like an opamp with a negative feedback pin, discuss?
There are plenty of other tech forums with varying degrees of self control. Or non at all. And then there is Reddit. So I think we should be a little forgiving of one or two contributors whose enthusiasm exceeds their basic technical appreciation.
Yes there are some crap posts, but there are also those that challenge ones point of view. There are also posts that just leave one thinking this person should not be allowed within 500 yards of an AA battery, let alone three phase mains.
Anyway... I was going to post this image on stock image fails, but I think the imagery suggests where some of the posters are sat when uploading posts. [ And why you should never share ipads. ] Have a nice day guys.
DavidAlfa:
It actually feels more like this :-DD
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005214102303.html
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