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author: SgtRock
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 15, 2011, 03:35:44 am
content: Greetings EEVBees:--Have always wanted to be a Troll? Have you always wanted to hold forth for the ignorant inferior masses? Have you always wanted to grab an axe handle and lay about the head and shoulders of hapless newbees, young folks and people with less than perfect English? Well if being a miserable pud knocking Troll with a strong suit in profanity, and a strong second suit in outright gibbering spittle flecked hatred, is your desire, I can help.If you want to be the best, you need to learn from the best. I have assembled some (but not nearly all) of the unreasoning hostile vituperations, diatribes and hissy fits of our own champion curmudgeon of the dark side. I will be adding more as we go along, as well as editorial comment. This man is truly a genius of the first water. You will find his comments listed below between the double brackets.--When you go to bed tonight thank whatever Gods there be that you do not have to work for such a man. I shall not identify the writer of the below comments, for like "Old Scratch" himself, saying his true name might cause him to suddenly appear. All spelling, grammar, punctuation and profanity are as per the original author. At the suggestion of a fellow member I have inserted ** to tame the profanity somewhat, Editor.[[26 06OCT10 "Yet another bulls**t response from our friend from Greek. Gossen is in the business since decades. More precisely since 1919, and always had and still has such prices. Those who need the quality pay without complaining. Those who just buy multimeters so they can pose in online forums probably won't pay."Let me ask you one thing. Do you engage your brain before you write, or are you just pulling your responses out of your a*s?"641 07OCT10 Do you seriously think I care about "hero member" status and advice from a K-GR fanboy? What I do care about is to prevent beginners in the field being mislead by someone speaking out of his arse and constantly trolling without having a clue."549 05DEC10 "No, apparently you didn't even care to read the datasheet of the MC34063. And it looks very much that you in general lack the skills to build one."371 01APR11 "Agilent takes its money to buy goods and services wherever they want and wherever it pleases them in the world. When I, however, want to do the same, buying goods wherever it pleases me, there are f**kwits geting in my way, and idiots like you trying to defend them."250 01JUN11 "You want information, but then give a f**king fart about what you get, because you don't like it? Like the idiot in that other thread who asked if some unknown Chinese oscilloscope probe is good enough for 1.2 kV. When told no, he comes back with something along the line of "I don't care, I just ordered it!" F**king a**hole behavior. Pay a whore if you need someone s**king you the way you like it."235 05JUN11 "You ask for buying advice after you already bought? Thanks for confirming you are an a**hole and your only intention was to waste our time."210 16JUN11 "Why don't you get your lazy a*se up and read the specs?"19AUG11 "Kiriakos is here to stir up s**t at every possible opportunity. He is known to have been banned from other forums for this. He is an attention-seeker who has no clue, but that doesn't prevent him from pulling arguments out of his arse at every opportunity. Once again he managed to derail a thread. While you are arguing he is w*nking himself silly over the attention he once more got. Congratulations for giving him what is so desperately seeking.Dave keeps him around for some reason. That allows him to assemble a small group of equally clueless fanboys here. I guess we have to add SgtRock to that fanboy list."48 23AUG11 "Yes, I deal with a lot of equipment in my day job and have a good bunch of stuff at home. Although, unless others here, I do not usually engage in d*ck-waving who has the largest, most obscure or expensiveequipment."]]"Three weeks in the lab will save you a day in the library every time" Stanley Williams, HP LabsBest RegardsClear Ether

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2011, 05:41:10 am
content: i know you tried to be helpfull, you did. but one thing i figured out is mixing emotion with information in this forum is a pointless act. so i tend to become more and more "neutral" instead of try to become (unconciously) "hot". to this point, i myself feel i "was" like a stupid guy. hope that can calm you a bit

author: KJ6EAD
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2011, 05:56:16 am
content: Bad behavior in a forum on the internet, very novel.I don't appreciate the profanity, name-calling and insults as they're poor communication outside their small entertainment value, but I also don't think much if any good can come from cataloging and repeating the offenses publicly. Isn't this a job best left to the moderators or owners of a forum?Flame wars like all human conflict are sociologically interesting but since I'm mostly here for the electronics, I tend to pay them little heed and judge people by their own actions, not the words of others about them.P.S. SgtRock, I enjoyed the creative prose of your introductory paragraphs.

author: SgtRock
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 15, 2011, 06:52:16 am
content: Dear KJ6EAD:--I toned down some of the original profanity by using **. I apologize for posting the quotes unedited, I did go a bit too far. I might add, though, that all of the postings are already public. But I do admit to cataloging them. If the bullying behavior stops I will be glad to take it down. If administration wants to take it down, I will take it like a man, and not fault them. I am very grateful to DJ for providing me with hours and hours of interesting diversion. Being retired and nearly deaf, this forum provides me with a lot of entertainment and lots of new friends.--On the electronics side of things, I have managed to buy a used truck with the money I made recycling TVs, Monitors, Computers, etc. I was able to rescue or repair some state of the art desktops and a couple or pretty good laptops for just a few dollars. I have peanut butter jars full of recycled components and a mountain of circuit boards. Are they any good for anything? Also, I have been buying lots of very cheap non working lab equipment, some of which I have been able to repair, and some which outwits me. My next purchase will be the Hakko Desoldering Gun, mentioned recently in this forum."Three weeks in the lab will save you a day in the library every time" Stanley Williams, HP LabsBest RegardsClear Ether

author: SgtRock
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 15, 2011, 06:56:24 am
content: Dear Mechatrommer:--Your comments are always welcome, even when they point out my stupid errors. You are always very friendly and respectful, and you never treat people who know less than you with contempt. I am not angry, I just cannot stand bullies. I like to see them hoist by their own petards, matey, arrrg.--This is the General Chat area, so feel free if you wish to tell everyone about yourself, what kind of work you do, and what it is like where you live.--I am retired, and have a strong math and science background, but my electronics knowledge is mostly in the old vacuum tube era. I am just catching up to the modern stuff. I live in Florida and the weather here is glorious, except for when there are Hurricanes.--I will be updating the "Troll House" with new examples from time to time."Three weeks in the lab will save you a day in the library every time" Stanley Williams, HP LabsBest RegardsClear Ether

author: Kiriakos-GR
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2011, 03:02:22 pm
content: Quote from: Mechatrommer on September 15, 2011, 05:41:10 amNo matter of what you have figured out, I think that the ultimate appreciation between people with the same interests,get born because of the sharing of their feelings and the sharing of information it self.A bit of salt & pepper in those relations makes theforum life( provides me with a lot of entertainment and lots of new friend.. By SgtRock ),a bit less boring.But if there is some few that offers to you vinegar, day after day, because it makes them happy acting that way,works like poison, and cause damage.The greatest damage for this technical community, is to loose the valuable technically members,and in simple words, the community to become orphan from expert old farts, and be just a sea of noob's.It is in our hand, to maintain an positive climate, that helps of making friends, or helps on the sharing of the information it self.There is a group of people who they just move away, when they detect a negative climate.What looks interesting on the SgtRock, is his willingness to stay and deal with the injustice, instead of running away.And I do admire this willingness, it is a sign that he starts to care more for the EEV than the usual person does.When ever I would be banned from this forum, I would prefer to happen, because I was really a bad apple,and not due the small conspiracy of 2-3 people who had form a team, and act as executioners on everything that stands in their way.Everything that I wrote above haves nothing to do with comments about the forum moderation.Example : Do not ask what the country can do for you, but what you can do about your country..And we can do lots about helping our own self's, and the EEV ( our common linkage) too.

author: Time
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2011, 04:05:00 pm
content: Maybe thats inherently where the problem lies. For some its a "forum life" and others its just an information outlet. I think I fall in the latter.

author: SgtRock
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 15, 2011, 04:56:55 pm
content: Dear Time:--General Chat "anything goes", just might not be your cup of tea then. I will mark you down as "no sale".Best Regards

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 15, 2011, 05:19:01 pm
content: To be honest I'm not sure what this thread is supposed to do but start arguments. So please don't let it be so, I'll leave it here and let Dave decide ultimately it's destiny

author: DavidDLC
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2011, 05:39:22 pm
content: Common guys, this is just a forum and that's it, you will see things and people you like and you will also see things/people you don't like.Don't make a soap opera out of this.Just enjoy what you like and ignore what you don't.

author: AntiProtonBoy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2011, 05:42:17 pm
content: I'd much prefer an informal environment without having to worry about being nannied around for using a colourful verb, or an adjective. Of course, overuse is indicative of immaturity, so that must be discouraged. Although I think overzealous censorship simply blows. Those who get offended over superficial words, or take profanity a bit too personally should get their priorities sorted. We are talking about words in the end. Like with most things, everything depends on context, how these words are used and how often.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 15, 2011, 05:46:28 pm
content: Language was discussed some time ago and the general idea is that as this is an open forum used by people of any age and culture it would be wise to adopt suitable language. While the odd bit of profanity appropriately used (I have myself at times) is acceptable outright swearing all the time for no good reason is discouraged, would you swear every other word in front of your kids ? well they may well be on here for all you know, certainly other peoples kids are. Some people just don't like swearing. I like a good balance.

author: Kiriakos-GR
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2011, 07:00:43 pm
content: Quote from: DavidDLC on September 15, 2011, 05:39:22 pmShould we start from the Basics ... like what is a forum ? Technically is just unworthy computer code,totally unshielded against deletion , and generally something simple to own and keep it running.Is this specific forum owned by anonymous people ? NOIs this forum organized so to serve an specific purpose ? YESWhat is the essence of this forum ?This is the communication tool that Dave Jones use, so the friends of him to be able to talk with him or with others, for what ever is related about electronic engineering ... The man is an electronics engineer, this is what he seeks, so to have around people with common interests.And if he succeed it, he would be happy.Quote from: DavidDLC on September 15, 2011, 05:39:22 pmI agree with you, if some one is insulting you in your real life in front of your friends,do not do anything about it, do not get mad even if you feel humiliated,just call this incident as soap opera and run away.Quote from: DavidDLC on September 15, 2011, 05:39:22 pmIn my case I seek only the truth, if it is sweet or bitter, I do not care.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 15, 2011, 11:12:36 pm
content: Quote from: Simon on September 15, 2011, 05:19:01 pmI can't see the point either.Lighten up people, really, it ain't worth it. If you think someone is "trolling" then just ignore them. You get all kinds of people on forums who speak different native language, with different attitudes, want to talk about different things etc etc. If you don't like it, simply ignore them, and CONTRIBUTE your own useful content instead of bitching about someone else's content.Life's too short to play troll games on forums, really.Thread locked.Dave.