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Unnecessary “LOOK AT ME” tv show titles

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james_s:
Well text doesn't translate tone very well, so I would suggest taking a moment to consider how something you write is going to be perceived by those at the other end who can't see or hear you. When I read posts like that I picture an angry bitter old man fuming and shaking his fist ranting and raving about kids these days and how the world has gone to hell in a handbasket and get off my lawn. That may not be the tone that is intended but that is how it comes across.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: james_s on October 06, 2022, 11:04:33 pm ---Rants have their place. If it's a technical rant, for example Eagle getting ruined by Autodesk, IoT hardware depending on cloud crap that gets shut down, corporate culture in tech/engineering jobs or anything like that, I think that's perfectly acceptable here. Ranting about some cosmetic issue on a TV show that has nothing to do with technology or engineering is not. That just seems like an excuse to vent and sling anger and vitriol around. It serves no purpose and contributes nothing of value to the community.
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If it's just a one-off then that's fine, no big deal, but when someone has a huge track record of starting new off-topic threads then that's when it becomes troublesome. At some point we can't let it slide any more.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: eti on October 07, 2022, 01:25:17 am ---Yeah I can be blunt. I don’t apologise for who I am, but I apologise if you’ve misunderstood my motives.

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I think your motives are irrelevant, can you please just stop starting new topics that are either off-topic, or borderline off-topic. I do have the means to disable your ability to start new threads, don't make me  have to resort to that.

eti:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on October 07, 2022, 03:05:54 am ---
--- Quote from: eti on October 07, 2022, 01:25:17 am ---Yeah I can be blunt. I don’t apologise for who I am, but I apologise if you’ve misunderstood my motives.

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I think your motives are irrelevant, can you please just stop starting new topics that are either off-topic, or borderline off-topic. I do have the means to disable your ability to start new threads, don't make me  have to resort to that.

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Okay. I’ll have to check and double check before knee jerk posting. Sorry to have caused grief. Take care.

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: james_s on October 06, 2022, 11:04:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on October 06, 2022, 10:54:57 pm ---i will agree and disagree.

Sometimes rants are useful, but only where there is a solid justification  for the rant. Thus ranting against C++ can be justified, e.g. C++ is so grotesquely complex that the committee that misdesigned C++ refused to believe there are valid C++ programs that can never finish compiling, until Erwin Unruh rubbed their noses in it.

OTOH rants about personal preferences reveal more about the ranter than about the subject.

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Rants have their place. If it's a technical rant, for example Eagle getting ruined by Autodesk, IoT hardware depending on cloud crap that gets shut down, corporate culture in tech/engineering jobs or anything like that, I think that's perfectly acceptable here. Ranting about some cosmetic issue on a TV show that has nothing to do with technology or engineering is not. That just seems like an excuse to vent and sling anger and vitriol around. It serves no purpose and contributes nothing of value to the community.

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We seem to be in vitriolic agreement :0

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