Troll feeding--please desist

[Tim Williams]

"Jeroen Belleman" <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote in message
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Where do sensible people go these days?

EEVBlog is quite popular, and the moderation is permissive. Of note, there
are no non-commercial restrictions; as long as you're helpful and not a dick
about it, advertising is fine.

Tim

--
Seven Transistor Labs, LLC
Electrical Engineering Consultation and Design
Website: https://www.seventransistorlabs.com/

 

[John Robertson]

On 2020/01/08 10:18 a.m., Tim Williams wrote:

"Jeroen Belleman" <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote in message
news:qv4kr4$t7o$1@gioia.aioe.org...


Where do sensible people go these days?

EEVBlog is quite popular, and the moderation is permissive.  Of note,
there are no non-commercial restrictions; as long as you're helpful and
not a dick about it, advertising is fine.

Tim

Sounds like Usenet...but without the moderation.

John ;-#)#

 

[Tom Gardner]

On 08/01/20 18:18, Tim Williams wrote:

"Jeroen Belleman" <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote in message
news:qv4kr4$t7o$1@gioia.aioe.org...


Where do sensible people go these days?

EEVBlog is quite popular, and the moderation is permissive.  Of note, there are
no non-commercial restrictions; as long as you're helpful and not a dick about
it, advertising is fine.

There are limits which are pretty strictly enforced,
principally no religion, no politics, and it has to
bear a passing relationship to engineering.

Interestingly the denizens are the first line of defense:
they sometimes avoid informing the moderators in favour
of warning each other - and it often works.

But, as Tim says, being helpful and not being a dick
are the key points.

Overall the on-topic comments can be good, but not
quite as interesting as here, and a higher proportion
are on topic. There are also more rank beginners.

 

[Rich S]

On Wednesday, January 8, 2020 at 4:25:49 AM UTC, Phil Hobbs wrote:

On 2020-01-07 23:15, George Herold wrote:
On Tuesday, January 7, 2020 at 9:41:57 AM UTC-5, Phil Hobbs wrote:
Just a request to certain parties who apparently can't resist (with
three repeats for emphasis).

Kill files are wonderful things.
big snip
I agree, But it seems the trolls feed each other.
My solution is to skip/ ignore those posts.
or a good filter...


Some of the folks that get sucked into these tedious exchanges have good
things to say otherwise, though. Sometimes it's a self-limiting
phenomenon, e.g. in obviously climate/EV/political/audio/atheism
threads, but not usually.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

--
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

http://electrooptical.net
http://hobbs-eo.com

"audio"? what could possible be controversial about that? ;-)

 

[Bill Sloman]

On Thursday, January 9, 2020 at 2:33:28 AM UTC+11, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 07:27:12 -0600, amdx <nojunk@knology.net> wrote:
On 1/7/2020 6:21 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Wednesday, January 8, 2020 at 3:22:16 AM UTC+11, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 09:41:46 -0500, Phil Hobbs
pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

<snip>

Public forums attract those types, unfortunately. People who do design
electronics are usually helpful and polite, because they are mostly
interested in things, not in themselves.

And aren't disappointed if they don't get flattered frequently.

snipped the rest - John Larkin flattering himself


Bill you are the troll stop deflecting and clean up your behavior.
Mikek

Mikek doesn't have a clear idea of what a troll might be, and he's wrong in claiming that I'm one.

Typing droning, repetitive insults is probably the major interest of
his life.

John Larkin has got that wrong too. What he perceives as droning repetitive insults is just text which fails to say nice things about him frequently enough to keep him happy.

There is content in them, but not content that he finds in the least interesting. How he thinks he can detect the major interest of my life from what I post here escapes me. He isn't remotely interested in science - while I am - and seems to ignore all references to it.

> He doesn't design electronics.

John Larkin in full troll mode.

I've not been paid to design electronics for years. I still design odd circuits from time to time for my own amusement. Some of them have been posted here, and John Larkin has never bothered to look at them - why should he?

He thinks that he is the circuit designer here, since he makes money out of the variations he gets by tinkering with his existing product line.

The experience of getting far enough into a design to realise that it isn't going to work well enough and that it's time to look at a difference approach is not one that he has ever mentioned, though it's central to the process of innovative circuit design.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney