Or, is there another way to continue the (nice sane conversation) with the people who know how to discuss the issues involved in a nicer way?
This dispute between the two opposing factions is getting nowhere and I strongly belief that no agreement will ever be reached on the Topic.
So I have Closed the Thread.
hi Al,
Closing the Thread was the only method I could use to stop the personal bickering that was finding its way into the posts.
I did previously post that IMO the Thread was going nowhere, but that had no effect, I did hope it would focus the contributors to the Thread to bring it to an amicable conclusion.
From what I could read from the posts, the opposing teams were arguing about two different facets of transistor operation, neither side listening to the other.
What would you suggest.?
Eric
Long overdue, IMHO.
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Did you get anything positive out of the thread?
What bothered me in that thread was MrAl politely asked that people address the main topic of the thread and not go back and forth on the other pointless argument. But the argument continued which resulted in the thread being closed. I think ignoring MrAls request was an impolite thing to do to someone who is so helpful and polite to others.
A link to an alternative forum that I promptly joined.
What bothered me in that thread was MrAl politely asked that people address the main topic of the thread and not go back and forth on the other pointless argument. But the argument continued which resulted in the thread being closed. I think ignoring MrAls request was an impolite thing to do to someone who is so helpful and polite to others.
How difficult would it be to ban members from participating in individual threads, while leaving them free to post in other threads?
this is a good idea, and my first idea as well, i would suggest however to give op control of banning since it is their thread, it should be their discretion to if it is bickering, useful, unrelated, or even if OP just doesn't care about the semantic.
Hello Winterstone,
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Well what you are doing at the end of your post there is characterizing "engineers (who were educated....etc.)" as a group all of the same basic type when they are clearly not all the same. You are lumping them all together and then making a general statement about them all. That's like grabbing a dozen eggs at the super market and then getting home seeing that two are broken and then saying, "It's a bad sign if eggs are broken". Yes it's a bad sign, but they are not all broken, only the ones that cracked.
So what i am saying here is that there were only a few that did not stop arguing, not everyone. But it's those two eggs that got the whole dozen thrown out in the garbage.
MrAl,
OK - I have tried as you have said " lumping them all together and then making a general statement about them all."
My statement (better: my hope) was that "engineers are "educated to think and work as fair/objective/ as possible".
Not so bad, for my opinion. It is quite interesting, that you do NOT agree.
In this case, I should make my position somewhat more clear:
In your post#1 you divide the thread contributors in two parts: "The Good" and "the Bad" - and I assume that you count yourself to the "good" group.
That means, all other guys who are NOT able to share your position/opinion belong to the "bad group", do they not?
This sheds some light on your attitude and the ability to "discuss" technical matters.
(By the way: Some of your contributions in the thread, closed by Eric now, confirm this impression).
Or - did I misunderstand some of your sentences?
W
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