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What if someone is WRONG on this forum?
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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on December 27, 2023, 01:42:29 am ---All in all it is a difficult subject with no simple answers. A big grey area in the middle. Someone has to exercise judgement and decide the "purpose" of the forum. Without that the conspiracy theorists (and others) will gradually dominate.
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This forum has had the "free and open" policy since day one, and it hasn't ruined the forum. Free energy, flat earthers, crowd funding scammers etc are free to join and disuss, but they usually don't last long because they get ridiculed or ignored.
Signal to noise ratio has always been very high, and time wasting threads usually just die into obscurity.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on December 27, 2023, 01:59:03 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 26, 2023, 09:41:59 pm ---It guess it comes down to "ownership" of a thread. Should the thread owner have the right to continue going in circles or whatever in their own thread? I think it's probably generally agreed on here (and general forum ettiqutte anywhere) that there are some "rights" that come with being the OP of a thread.
We (mods) have actually had many reports over the years from an OP that someone is derailing the thread and can we give them a tap on the shoulder.

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No, I don't think anyone owns a thread, any more than one person owns a conversation in a pub. Conversations drift, full stop. And the drifts often reveal interesting subtle points not imagined early in the thread.
Note that trolling is a very different issue.

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But like I said, if they started the thread then surely they have at least some right to continue going in circles and reassert their position in thier own thread?
If others have started another conversation in that thread then IMO they have no right to ask the OP to be banned from their own thread because thet are "disrupting" the new discussion?
We actually get this all the time with people asking to split a thread off into a new topic, leaving the existing thread to die on it's own or continue with what it was doing.

This forum isn't like a standing room only pub, it effectively has tables that people book to discuss a certain topic. Anyone is welcome to join the table, but if the conversation gets out of hand then I think the person that booked that table has at least some right to ask others who came to the table to stay on topic. Or at the very least not get banned or warned because they want to keep spouting what they booked that table to spout.

As a moderator, I for one will give extra priority to the thread starter. So if you report that an OP is talking crap in their own thread, it's going to need to be something fairly extraordinary for me to step in.
lezginka_kabardinka:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 27, 2023, 12:49:53 am ---
--- Quote from: lezginka_kabardinka on December 27, 2023, 12:48:35 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 27, 2023, 12:41:05 am ---
--- Quote from: lezginka_kabardinka on December 27, 2023, 12:35:27 am ---David, have you been on the Whisky? 😆
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I don't drink.

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You will dehydrate! 😛

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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-2mf1mqZVQ0

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Dave, it was rherotic... one doesn't reply to rhetoric. I can see we shall have to enroll you in the school of Monty Python and sharpen up your wit :palm:
RoGeorge:
I think this is a forum, so a place for open discussions.  Each with own ideas, and with own level of knowledge.  As long as people are staying polite to each other, there is no harm in asking or insisting on a wrong idea.

A forum is not a reference textbook.

 It is not our responsibility if a search engine will pop up something incorrect at a search.  Side note, search engines does not return the truth, they return related words.

Let's not become "The Ministry of Truth".
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: lezginka_kabardinka on December 27, 2023, 03:43:43 am ---Dave, it was rherotic... one doesn't reply to rhetoric. I can see we shall have to enroll you in the school of Monty Python and sharpen up your wit :palm:

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