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MK14:

--- Quote from: AVGresponding on February 26, 2021, 08:21:21 am ---I don't believe there's any hypocrisy involved; as I mentioned before I believe it's purely contextual on the company you are keeping.

I work as a sparks for a fair sized northern England local authority, and some of my colleagues use the "F" word every other word in a sentence as a matter of course. Indeed, sometimes when they are hunting in their head for what they are trying to say, you can get 2 effings in a row!
This causes me no surprise, though gets boring rather fast.

On the other hand I have been talking to well educated, besuited people, and am shocked when they drop an F-bomb out of nowhere.

As ever, YMMV...

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I know exactly what you mean. I've experienced and/or seen the same thing, where a person emits multiple F-bombs, in succession, because they are (obviously) going through various solutions and/or concepts about what has just happened or is going on.
I think, some people have the experience/self-control/decency to detect when the company (people) they are with, can tolerate swearing or NOT. So, will moderate their language, as necessary. People who can't/won't do that, may find that the people that like to be with them and/or jobs they can get, are limited, compared to people who can moderate their activities.

My reason for being concerned with the *bleep* word(s), in the video on this multimeter. Are in case other viewers, also don't like such language and/or are with younger viewers. The youtubers (content creators), can say "It is my channel, I will do what I like". But, it could limit their viewership.

Some technical channels, seem to never omit swear words. Which (possibly), have a wider/broader audience base, as a result (speculation). On the other hand, some viewers, may even prefer the odd (real-life) remarks. So, I suppose it is horses for courses.

schwaggins:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on February 26, 2021, 02:08:03 am ---I've now had two BM786's with issues on the ohms range with errant readinings, possibly switch related.
If anyone else has any issue please let me know.
One, meh, it happens (odd BM235 failures happen in 0.0x percent of cases). Two with a similar issue starts to become more than a coincidence.

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Check the range selector screws arent loose on the back of the board

joeqsmith:

--- Quote from: MK14 on February 26, 2021, 08:33:34 am ---
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on February 26, 2021, 08:21:21 am ---I don't believe there's any hypocrisy involved; as I mentioned before I believe it's purely contextual on the company you are keeping.

I work as a sparks for a fair sized northern England local authority, and some of my colleagues use the "F" word every other word in a sentence as a matter of course. Indeed, sometimes when they are hunting in their head for what they are trying to say, you can get 2 effings in a row!
This causes me no surprise, though gets boring rather fast.

On the other hand I have been talking to well educated, besuited people, and am shocked when they drop an F-bomb out of nowhere.

As ever, YMMV...

--- End quote ---

I know exactly what you mean. I've experienced and/or seen the same thing, where a person emits multiple F-bombs, in succession, because they are (obviously) going through various solutions and/or concepts about what has just happened or is going on.
I think, some people have the experience/self-control/decency to detect when the company (people) they are with, can tolerate swearing or NOT. So, will moderate their language, as necessary. People who can't/won't do that, may find that the people that like to be with them and/or jobs they can get, are limited, compared to people who can moderate their activities.

My reason for being concerned with the *bleep* word(s), in the video on this multimeter. Are in case other viewers, also don't like such language and/or are with younger viewers. The youtubers (content creators), can say "It is my channel, I will do what I like". But, it could limit their viewership.

Some technical channels, seem to never omit swear words. Which (possibly), have a wider/broader audience base, as a result (speculation). On the other hand, some viewers, may even prefer the odd (real-life) remarks. So, I suppose it is horses for courses.

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When I started to post on YT, it became quickly apparent that filtering posts for certain key words would remove most of the noise.   This was far more effective than say banning individual accounts.   Based on their command of the English language and apparent lack of education, I assume most were children which my channel certainly doesn't target.   So I just made it clear from the start, keep your language clean and don't use links if you decide to post.   Links were added to the filter as there were people how want to use the channel for their own gains (ads).   I think YT now has it's own filters.   

Anyone who caught my recent clip where the dialog was only a single word repeated several times may consider me being hypocritical by using the filters.  Personally I don't care about a persons choice of colorful words.  I am also against censorship and would have left all the filters off but opted for a higher signal to noise ratio.

I have not considered how adding these filters has effected the viewership, nor do I care.  It's a small channel and the goal was never to use it for monetary purposes so I can afford to do as I like with it.

MK14:

--- Quote from: joeqsmith on February 26, 2021, 01:38:05 pm ---When I started to post on YT, it became quickly apparent that filtering posts for certain key words would remove most of the noise.   This was far more effective than say banning individual accounts.   Based on their command of the English language and apparent lack of education, I assume most were children which my channel certainly doesn't target.   So I just made it clear from the start, keep your language clean and don't use links if you decide to post.   Links were added to the filter as there were people how want to use the channel for their own gains (ads).   I think YT now has it's own filters.   

Anyone who caught my recent clip where the dialog was only a single word repeated several times may consider me being hypocritical by using the filters.  Personally I don't care about a persons choice of colorful words.  I am also against censorship and would have left all the filters off but opted for a higher signal to noise ratio.

I have not considered how adding these filters has effected the viewership, nor do I care.  It's a small channel and the goal was never to use it for monetary purposes so I can afford to do as I like with it.

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Your short, single repeating word, doesn't seem to bother me (but would arguably still be better, in some peoples minds, to leave out such colourful language). There was a rather big/dramatic accident with your stuff, and hopefully rare accident, which could have messed up many hours of work. Damaged expensive equipment, and hurt your foot (depending on where it landed). So, I can understand the colourful word(s).
Anyway, you gain many valuable brownie points, for keeping the word, very quiet (showing respect for your language).
It is the people who overuse, such expletives, that especially bother me. E.g. Every other word, begins with f and you can probably guess the rest of the letters.

If the youtuber was a medical Doctor and/or Professor and/or top expert, I wouldn't expect them to omit any bad words, at all. But there are probably exceptions, even in those cases.

Fungus:

--- Quote from: AVGresponding on February 26, 2021, 08:21:21 am ---I work as a sparks for a fair sized northern England local authority, and some of my colleagues use the "F" word every other word in a sentence as a matter of course. Indeed, sometimes when they are hunting in their head for what they are trying to say, you can get 2 effings in a row!
This causes me no surprise, though gets boring rather fast.

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Yep. I don't mind swearing except when it's the only adjective people have.


--- Quote from: AVGresponding on February 26, 2021, 08:21:21 am ---On the other hand I have been talking to well educated, besuited people, and am shocked when they drop an F-bomb out of nowhere.

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Knowing how and when to swear is a useful skill.

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