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| fourfathom:
--- Quote from: EPAIII on December 28, 2023, 04:53:41 am ---Wrong? [...] --- End quote --- Yeah, but that wind-powered vehicle can actually go directly downwind faster than the wind. There is zero ambiguity about this fact. |
| 2N3055:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 27, 2023, 11:15:49 pm --- --- Quote from: tggzzz on December 27, 2023, 12:22:26 pm ---Awkward question: should someone be allowed to continue beligerantly encouraging other people (especially beginners) to do things that are generally acknowledged to be dangerous? --- End quote --- We have a specifc rule about safety for that very reason. It's only been used once or twice, but it's there. Everyone's level of "dangerous" is different. I famously say that anything over 12VDC scares the shit out of me. Then you have Electroboom and Photonic Induction. --- End quote --- I'w seen a guy dropping a wrench on car battery and it made short on terminals. That was scary shit too. So yeah, no hard limit what is dangerous and not. |
| .RC.:
Fanbois and girls are generally not that hard to pick out. I do not think I am smarter then average, maybe less so, but be on forums awhile you can find the people who generally have a slant and may not be a reliable source of information. Some forums are just slanted. I feel these forums are slanted slightly to the more right of centre socially. But not overtly so. Or maybe I am just getting positive bias as I probably have a more individual freedoms bias. Get into some places like Reddit and the bias can be pretty strong and stands out like daves pale buttcheeks when he is skinny dipping in his new pool at night. |
| Brumby:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on December 27, 2023, 01:42:29 am --- --- Quote from: EEVblog on December 26, 2023, 09:30:39 pm ---Is "trolling" on a thread they started actually trolling? ... If you don't think you are getting through to someone who asked a question, then just don't reply any more. --- End quote --- Yes, a first poster can troll. --- End quote --- My opinion as well. To me, trolling has nothing to do with any so-called "ownership" ... it is purely a matter of behaviour. --- Quote from: EEVblog on December 27, 2023, 03:01:14 am --- --- 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. --- End quote --- 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. --- End quote --- "time wasting threads usually just die into obscurity" This is a philosophy I try to encourage. Sometimes it isn't easy, but adding your two cents to a futile argument simply keeps the pot stirred up. Walking away is often the best policy. I will say, however, that sometimes putting yourself into debate on a subject can be very useful in YOU learning more about a subject, especially supporting a point of view that you hadn't studied in detail. My bottom line ... if it's a waste of time, walk away. Banning is, IMHO, only appropriate when deliberate trouble-making affects the forum. Flat-earth discussions and such aren't in this category. |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 27, 2023, 11:15:49 pm --- --- Quote from: tggzzz on December 27, 2023, 12:22:26 pm ---Awkward question: should someone be allowed to continue beligerantly encouraging other people (especially beginners) to do things that are generally acknowledged to be dangerous? --- End quote --- We have a specifc rule about safety for that very reason. It's only been used once or twice, but it's there. Everyone's level of "dangerous" is different. I famously say that anything over 12VDC scares the shit out of me. Then you have Electroboom and Photonic Induction. --- End quote --- A 12V car battery scares me in the wrong circumstances: drop metal across that and see how much disappears as vapour and blobs. Metal bracelets and necklaces are verboten :) EDIT: 2n3055 mentioned another classic: wrenches. OTOH I have secondary school physics equipment where there is 230-400V (controlled by front panel potentiometer) on an exposed terminal. Touching that terminal with a finger causes the dekatron counters to spin :) It has a 5Mohm resistor in series, which is required so that a Geiger-Muller tube discharge generates a pulse, which is counted. The particular problem encountered here is people telling beginners that floating a scope is OK, and that traditional scope probes are OK when connected to the mains. They never add the necessary pre-conditions, and - disgracefully IMHO - often belittle or deny them. |
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