Gene Pink said:
JR, I know how much you hate people putting words in your mouth, but I'm gonna take a shot at it anyway, correct me if I am wrong.
Yes I do, and yes I will...
The main ideology of a board like this, is to disseminate information to whoever seeks it, it is a rich reference of everything electronicable. Someone gets on here and wants to know about a '78 Widget-3000 compdelayverb, there will probably be a thread on here from 2006, somewhere, all about it. This board is a vast archive, that is saved in perpetuity for all.
Mostly.... Pretty much everybody who enjoyed success designing electronics, has been mentored by sundry people at different times. I take pride in being a mostly self taught college drop out, but I still had mentors, starting with older brothers, and a handful of different senior engineers. This forum gives us an opportunity to give some back.
Who the hell in the future, is gonna search, let alone find anything useful in any of these political rant threads? Only someone looking for dirt on another member, near as I can figure.
ding ding ding... give that man a cigar.
JR, being a pragmatic fellow, has simply decided that mass deletion of these threads of nothing but nonsense, that would never be searched and shouldn't be searched, should just go away.
I wouldn't mind if brewery posts just disappeared automatically after a few weeks. This sub forum is more of "what's bothering me today" than anything of historic significance. While there are occasional pearls found here.
Plus, it frees up server space for my Brewery anti-politics Easy Cheese posts.
Gene
PS: Did Tands get Mathias'd?
As far as I know Mattias (?) left under his own volition. If his account was deleted, I didn't do it and don't recall hearing about any such action from the other moderators. I recall similar questions being asked when he dropped out, and I even linked to his still valid forum account showing no activity back then. (I can't find his old account now.)
Tands was posting in his own words lately, (for what they were worth) and I find that much less annoying. No comment on the content, as ad-harmonica, ad harmonium, ad harmony, ad hominy grits, whatever, attacks are not allowed here.
I stopped intentionally reading his posts some time ago and the few I saw by accident, even in his own words were not worth reading or responding to despite his troll like attempts to get engagement. My decision was made after receiving multiple moderation reports complaining about him. I wrestled with this decision for months. I bent over backwards to be fair, even defending him publicly on the forum several times in the past and giving him too many warnings to count.
You may recall that I deleted the thread that you started (just to complain about him). Not very nice... bad Pink. :
The stream of personal PMs and moderation complaints did not stop and I worried that he was chasing off more constructive members who contribute the real value around here. Members like that don't always complain, more often they just quietly slip away, like the many great members we have lost over the years. There is only a handful of members around who patiently help and answer every newbie asking inexperienced questions. In an ideal world new members will grow in knowledge and wisdom over time to be able to help other newbies like they once were, to pay it forward.
This delicate ecosystem is worth preserving and if we have to pull one weed every now and then to help the flowers prosper, so be it. This is not a democracy, it is Ethan's show and he chooses to keep the rules finite and simple.
https://groupdiy.com/index.php?topic=6650.0
JR
