An amazing forum! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: rhb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 03, 2018, 12:50:31 am
content: Almost every day I am astonished at the quality and level of comments from forum participants. Naturally there are some bozos, but there are a lot of very smart and very experienced people. The only comparison I know of is Usenet in the late 80's when the comp.sys groups had major figures posting regularly.After a career in major oil company tech services and R&D where almost everyone had a PhD I now live in a small town in rural Arkansas. EEVblog keeps me sane. Well sort of ;-)

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 03, 2018, 01:15:20 am
content: The EEVBlog forum is a rare, yet interesting specimen. Either from pure luck, or more likely the intelligent and friendly admins keeping an eye out, this is one forum you almost never find bullshit spam or scam on. The posts vary in quality based on who you ask, but that is a good thing and shows just how much of a variety we have on this forum.This is definitely a place I check and post every day, and I am glad to interact with this community.There is a strange effect on populations that happens for many reasons. Some parts of the world, even though they have a lot to be happy about, can't help but have a sense and air of mistrust and mutual public displeasure. Some places have strangers that have the most polite attitudes to the point where some people will not only point you to where you need to go on the street, but help walk you to there if they have the time.I think the EEVBlog, in the diversity of the internet, through so many carcinogenous areas, is a place similar to a friendly national public. Everybody here can talk and joke just like anywhere else, and we still maintain a level of chill that you can find on places like 4chan or Reddit, but unlike those places (although Reddit is pretty diverse, so it gets half an exception), we also maintain a level of maturity and respect that rarely gets broken.I may just be blabbing, but I do truly like this forum. It's a good place to hang around.

author: rhb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 03, 2018, 01:37:23 am
content: If it was broken, I probably fixed it.

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 03, 2018, 07:18:07 am
content: Quote from: rhb on March 03, 2018, 01:37:23 amCleaning up after my mess, good guy.

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 03, 2018, 07:29:40 am
content: I think you find for the most part, people in the EE / Specialist Technologies field are intelligent, educated, tolerant and have a bit of common sense about them. Of course you have your odd-balls which don't tend to conform to the norm then you have your trolls on the Internet who just look for trouble.For the most part, a place like this doesn't tend to attract those with a less-than-average intelligence.

author: aargee
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 03, 2018, 01:12:46 pm
content: Quote from: Halcyon on March 03, 2018, 07:29:40 amOh oh, now I’m in trouble

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 03, 2018, 01:15:01 pm
content: Shhh.... No...Just don't say too much and try to look intelligent - like the rest of us.

author: rhb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 03, 2018, 01:37:30 pm
content: A bunch of droll trolls

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 03, 2018, 01:42:32 pm
content: Quote from: Halcyon on March 03, 2018, 07:29:40 amEngineering types are in general quite reasonable people, and it's much easier to bring inevitable arguments back down to a civil level than many other places were the muggles roam free.I think one of the keys to this forum is that we try and keep off-topic stuff to a minimum (whilst still acknowledging and allowing threads to go off into tangents), and don't allow the pet flame topics to start and get carried away (politics, religion etc).It's often a very delicate balance between too heavy a moderation, and a free-for-all freedom of speech orgy.But the users play the biggest part keeping things on track and leading by example, as most don't like good technical threads to get hijacked, so it's almost self-moderating in that respect.There are engineering forum as big and as popular as this one from a post count standpoint, but I hardly ever see them get referenced for their technical contributions compared to the EEVblog forum. But maybe I'm biased

author: rhb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 03, 2018, 02:39:24 pm
content: It's your search engine optimization service. It's well tuned to generate hits with google.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 03, 2018, 03:13:25 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on March 03, 2018, 01:42:32 pmMaybe you are biased. Doesn't mean you are wrong, though.

author: beenosam
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 03, 2018, 03:34:16 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on March 03, 2018, 01:42:32 pmI think the staff here basically manage to keep things troll free enough that good content can be added and users don't see that as a waste of time so they are more willing to contribute.