Staying on topic

[thotdoc]

Is there any desire by the collected here to develop a norm of staying on topic and to self govern when people go off topic?

[botrytis]

Why? Going off topic if fun......

 

 

[audiobomber]

There's already an Off-Topic button. I pushed it on your post just to call your attention to this feature. 😁

[mansr]

11 minutes ago, audiobomber said:

There's already an Off-Topic button.

As if that has ever had any effect. Besides, it seems to be used mostly as some form of punishment when people say the "wrong" thing about cables or whatever.

[audiobomber]

27 minutes ago, mansr said:

As if that has ever had any effect. Besides, it seems to be used mostly as some form of punishment when people say the "wrong" thing about cables or whatever.

There's also a "Disagree" button, which is what I use when you post regarding cables. I agree, no effect, but it is therapeutic for me.

[Ralf11]

I have never seen an open internet forum that does not go off-topic.  Often, it happens when the discussion or "discussion" has pretty much run its course.

 

Things were just fine until the public was allowed on the internet...

[StephenJK]

Ooh, that reminds me - I need to get that front lawn mowed and spread some weed & feed.  What kind do you guys like to use?

[Rt66indierock]

4 hours ago, thotdoc said:

Is there any desire by the collected here to develop a norm of staying on topic and to self govern when people go off topic?

 

I haven't found any desire to people to stay on topic. 

[audiobomber]

28 minutes ago, SJK said:

Ooh, that reminds me - I need to get that front lawn mowed and spread some weed & feed.  What kind do you guys like to use?

Check back with me in three years. I'm conducting a double blind test.

[christopher3393]

22 minutes ago, SJK said:

Ooh, that reminds me - I need to get that front lawn mowed and spread some weed & feed.  What kind do you guys like to use?

 

🐑

 

[crenca]

topics, we don't need no stinking topics

[christopher3393]

5 hours ago, thotdoc said:

Is there any desire by the collected here to develop a norm of staying on topic and to self govern when people go off topic?

 

The only forums that I've seen stay on topic have very different moderation than this one. The OP can do this here to a certain extent, but then members might kill and eat him to gain his power.

[christopher3393]

33 minutes ago, Rt66indierock said:

 

I haven't found any desire to people to stay on topic. 

 

because MQA!!

[christopher3393]

8 minutes ago, crenca said:

topics, we don't need no stinking topics

 

that is sooooo radically subjective.

 

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Topics_(Aristotle)/Book_1#Chapter_1

[rando]

2 minutes ago, christopher3393 said:

 

🐑

 

 

Weed. 🐐

 

Feed. 🐔

 

Mow. 🐑

 

Here in the prairie land wild grasses and flowers left untended are an acceptable alternative for streetside expanses. 

 

Land of 10,000 Lakes and 100's of Trillions of gallons of fresh water polluted by fertilizer and pest control.

[RickyV]

WATCH OUT, it’s a trap. 🥺 

[Rt66indierock]

43 minutes ago, christopher3393 said:

 

because MQA!!

 

Sorry but people wander on noncontroversial topics like here are pictures of putters I've had refinished.

[Ralf11]

2 hours ago, SJK said:

Ooh, that reminds me - I need to get that front lawn mowed and spread some weed & feed.  What kind do you guys like to use?

 

I grind up organic Bubinga wood audio equipment cases and then add some ground metal from golf putters for the essential nutrients.

[fas42]

3 hours ago, christopher3393 said:

 

because MQA!!

 

More Quirky Anecdotes?

[marce]

16 hours ago, SJK said:

Ooh, that reminds me - I need to get that front lawn mowed and spread some weed & feed.  What kind do you guys like to use?

Sheep...

[thotdoc]

I get it, 'the group' does not want to stay on topic.

 

Thank you for responding. 

 

I was willing to try because of the experience I have related my other hobby. I race a Porsche in SCCA and the related websites, of SCCA, PCA, and Pelican Parts, provide thousands of threads related to car preparation and maintenance...all self governing related to staying very much on topic. When I need information, I get it from engineers and racers without having to read through everyone's MM. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sandyk]

14 minutes ago, thotdoc said:

I get it, 'the group' does not want to stay on topic.

 

Thank you for responding. 

 

I was willing to try because of the experience I have related my other hobby. I race a Porsche in SCCA and the related websites, of SCCA, PCA, and Pelican Parts, provide thousands of threads related to car preparation and maintenance...all self governing related to staying very much on topic. When I need information, I get it from engineers and racers without having to read through everyone's MM. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The problem was that you posted a very specific query , where very few members would have had direct experience with.

 

I still believe that for the Audio side at least, that you should consider the possibility of using direct battery power without conversion to A.C. if at all possible. You would need to get some custom built gear though.

This would also ensure that in a mains outage that you would still have DC power for at least lighting and a few other areas instead of not being able to use solar power during the length of the outage.

This assumes that you are legally forced to connect to the A.C. mains supply though, in order to inject surplus requirements back into the Grid ?

[fas42]

Also, car engineering is a 'mature' activity - almost zero weirdo stuff infests the thinking of the people actively involved ... audio OTOH, ...

[fas42]

1 minute ago, fas42 said:

Also, car engineering is a 'mature' activity - almost zero weirdo stuff infests the thinking of the people actively involved ... audio OTOH, ...

 

Exhibit A: this thread,

 

[PeterSt]

1 hour ago, sandyk said:

You would need to get some custom built gear though.

This would also ensure that in a mains outage that you would still have DC power for at least lighting and a few other areas instead of not being able to use solar power during the length of the outage.

 

Alex, what could be hot these days (at least it would be my very subject) is that the battery will supply you 240V (48V actually) for 2days, and that when it is cloudy on top of it.

This is not so much about "custom built gear", although I am considering that. These systems just exist but are not common in general circles (in solar power circles there are more common by now).

 

Of course I don't use a roof for a couple of solar panels. It requires "terrain".

 

Peter