You effectively have the same rules here as the EEVBlog, so what's the difference? I honestly don't get it.
I think the difference is not in what the rules are, but in who does
not enforce them
I'm sure they are equally guilty as you are, or soon will become.
In fact, I regret recently making suggestions how to tighten the rules about political content in signatures.
I'm starting to feel like I should start mass reporting violations of forum rule number 4 instead.
I wonder what the mods would do with that?
Here it has been dealt with by leaving to form a new forum. I wish them well, but won't be joining them. TEA in itself is not my thing. Electronics related programming is. Plenty enough of that here on this forum. With enough of a side dish in "social studies" to keep it interesting.
So why are you (and a few others) posting repeatedly in this stupid thread and bumping it to the top of the chitchat subforum?
You want to know who doesn't care about TEA and doesn't want to hear about it? I do.
I don't think I have ever read more than a few pages of TEA in total. It obviously started as a joke, it obviously morphed into a silly sandbox where a bunch of guys talked about their boat anchors, pissed off wives and random hobbies I couldn't care less about. I was surprised when it was still going at 10 pages and then at 1000, but what the heck, nobody forced me to click on that thread.
I managed to stay out of this meta thread too for a week while it grew to 10 pages and I will surely regret making this post when it grows to 1000 pages and keeps popping up on my "unread" list.
I don't
always agree with tggzzz, but I can't help but agree with tggzzz. It looks like a bunch of guys had a little playground. Maybe they didn't exactly play by the rules of the general forum, but they didn't care and neither did the rest care because they weren't spilling over to other threads and polluting them with boring shit that no one wants to read. Apparently, they were having fun. Then it looks like some kids got envious because perhaps they weren't having as much fun themselves. Complaints have been filed, reports have been made, the rest is history.
It looks like several perpetrators are still here, haunting this forum section now, congratulating themselves on a job well done, getting rid of people who simply refused to make their content more digestible to outsiders and now just took it elsewhere instead
Many of whom I don't care about and don't even recognize, but also several members well known to have posted productively and on topic in many other threads
Yeah, job well done. And I agree, the comparison to SJWs that somebody made is very apt. It's the same envy-driven, destructive behavior and the same tactics of behind-the-scenes reporting of incidents taken out of context to clueless authorities to perform the wetwork.
It might have solved the problem if that was done, but then still the general rules would still apply, and at some point someone would have taken offense about something, and it might still have blown up.
It wouldn't if people not interested in their content wouldn't go there for the sole purpose of finding something to be offended about.
I have never been to the cooking subforum. For all I known, they may be openly discussing preparation of amphetamine in there. I don't care.
If Dave doesn't want amphetamine on his domain because it's illegal or whatever, he can go there himself and shut it down at his own discretion.