A pattern has been emerging to me. My guess is that it's always been here, maybe I'm just noticing it. Or maybe it's getting worse.
But someone posts, usually a BS, every so often a WS. As long as they are fairly active in their own thread, things seem to move along fine.
But the second they disappear for a couple days, all hell breaks loose in their threads. Posters start debating back and forth on issues that most often are not very helpful to the poster.
We all have different views. We may thing someone else is giving wrong advice. But hey, that's their advice. As long as they are not repeating it over and over, let it slide. Why quote it and try to refute it? It just provides a forum to continue to repeat it. Then we wind up with pages and pages of chatter that at best is tangentially related to the OPs needs.
It makes it very hard to follow the thread, and in a recent case, may have indirectly contributed to the banning of BS. They saw how the long time posters interacted, and sensing the tension and aggression, may have assumed that is an acceptable way to behave here.
So, if you want to provide someone, or TAM as a whole feedback on a topic. What are some effective ways to do it?
The obvious ones to me are...
For individual feedback:
- Private message
- Report the post if they crossed a line, let a mod decided.
Feedback to TAM as a whole:
- Start a new thread on the topic
I'm sure there are plenty of others. What ideas do you have?
But someone posts, usually a BS, every so often a WS. As long as they are fairly active in their own thread, things seem to move along fine.
But the second they disappear for a couple days, all hell breaks loose in their threads. Posters start debating back and forth on issues that most often are not very helpful to the poster.
We all have different views. We may thing someone else is giving wrong advice. But hey, that's their advice. As long as they are not repeating it over and over, let it slide. Why quote it and try to refute it? It just provides a forum to continue to repeat it. Then we wind up with pages and pages of chatter that at best is tangentially related to the OPs needs.
It makes it very hard to follow the thread, and in a recent case, may have indirectly contributed to the banning of BS. They saw how the long time posters interacted, and sensing the tension and aggression, may have assumed that is an acceptable way to behave here.
So, if you want to provide someone, or TAM as a whole feedback on a topic. What are some effective ways to do it?
The obvious ones to me are...
For individual feedback:
- Private message
- Report the post if they crossed a line, let a mod decided.
Feedback to TAM as a whole:
- Start a new thread on the topic
I'm sure there are plenty of others. What ideas do you have?
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