Why we should compete for anything else than sharing and learning and having fun by making nice sounding things is beyond me. Its just when so many people of different skills and outlooks blend, tension issues may arise. We should all be patient and well meant. That is all IMHO.
Everyone complaining about the moderation probably means it's balanced. There are invite-only forums out there, the one I know doesn't see a post for months at a time.
Wasn't the intent of the Tweaker's Forum exactly to encourage posts some members find offensive out of the main forums, and it failed in part because those same members couldn't leave it alone?
Wasn't the intent of the Tweaker's Forum exactly to encourage posts some members find offensive out of the main forums, and it failed in part because those same members couldn't leave it alone?
Actually I have a suggestion to moderators
While posting the "quote" function is inactive as long as the "edit" option is active, right
That gave me the idea
Why not inactivate the "quote" function fore certain members that abuse it to batter other members, fore a certain moderating period
If no "quote" function avaiable it would cool a heated debate, and no doubt very effectively
While posting the "quote" function is inactive as long as the "edit" option is active, right
That gave me the idea
Why not inactivate the "quote" function fore certain members that abuse it to batter other members, fore a certain moderating period
If no "quote" function avaiable it would cool a heated debate, and no doubt very effectively
Caldon, please note, I deleted the post you are commenting, within one minute
I didnt like it either
Replaced by obove quote
Didnt help much it seems
Its been quoted, yet not there
Its something we cannot change if not programmers and admins in the first place, its in the software. But if quote also changed automatically during the allowed edit time limit, then the answer to that quote would be irrelevant again. Real time text discussion will never match a real gathering I guess. Has its limits.
Because many different people have many different points of view. Of course, at some point, the dreaded facts as we know them must enter in - thus my wisecrack to Scott above about designing op-amps based on numerology and spirits.
I don't think that was a case. There was simply an expectation that people not interested in applying tweaks would not interfere with discussion.
Not really following that andy_c. The details escape me but my recollection of the only thread in that forum in which I participated is a simple question was immediately followed by pages of abusive and dismissive taunts by the opposite membership viewpoint. Not scientific or technically founded criticisms, just infantile and embarrassing sideswipes.
None are above criticism but if the intent is to clear the regular forums of Tweaker chat for more serious business you have to admit the response was counterproductive. If the intent however is to chase disagreeable viewpoints off the board (and isn't that really the case?) it makes much more sense.
To me the current complaining about moderation is masked complaints about not enforcing the 'correct' point of view.
None are above criticism but if the intent is to clear the regular forums of Tweaker chat for more serious business you have to admit the response was counterproductive. If the intent however is to chase disagreeable viewpoints off the board (and isn't that really the case?) it makes much more sense.
To me the current complaining about moderation is masked complaints about not enforcing the 'correct' point of view.
It's hard to talk about that productively, as the posts in question aren't around anymore to make reference to. So people's recollections will be colored by their own biases, including mine of course. So, read my earlier posts as containing an implied "IMO" etc.
RU Sirious? BIG avatars and lots of swears. Though I have to admit comments like U2 through Bybees and Adam Clayton is still there have their amusment value. I was speaking of another forum, best not to poke sticks in wasps nests..
I was just stirring the pot 😀. Although I was also trying to make a point that an invite-only forum need not be dull or empty of posts.
Exactly. And I did learn a thing or two reading the admittedly bizarre posts there.
Do you mean the tweakers forum? IMHO it was doomed, asking the entirety of the other side to step aside even when the most basic first principles is challenged is too much. It would only work as an adjunct forum a totally unmoderated "asylum". In that case "working" is open for interpretation.
That says it all John, why can't an "engineer" be interested in what makes tweaks tick? No pun intended.
Caldon? Is that a short version of my nickname? Geez, I'd prefer it if you just called me Gordie, my real first name.
Caldon.
Sounds like something you put eye of newt and toe of frog into while chanting double, double, toil and trouble 😀
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