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TRAIN WRECK!!!
Below is a post which Bill Meyers submitted to Astromart's "Equipment Talk" forum on 3/2/05. The subject of the post is "How about informative titles for posts?" I hope that the referenced calamity produced no serious injuries. My eyes do appear to be somewhat bruised but I don't seem to suffer any gashes and have no broken bones. snip Come on, guys, shape up! This is a great forum. Let's keep it that way. Look at what happened to sci.astro.amateur, which used to be the premium forum and now is, in the words of one poster, a train wreck. (end of rant). unsnip -- Martin R. Howell "Photographs From the Universe of Amateur Astronomy" http://members.isp.com/universeofama...nomy%40isp.com |
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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:25:49 -0800, "Martin R. Howell"
wrote: Below is a post which Bill Meyers submitted to Astromart's "Equipment Talk" forum on 3/2/05. The subject of the post is "How about informative titles for posts?" I hope that the referenced calamity produced no serious injuries. My eyes do appear to be somewhat bruised but I don't seem to suffer any gashes and have no broken bones. snip Come on, guys, shape up! This is a great forum. Let's keep it that way. Look at what happened to sci.astro.amateur, which used to be the premium forum and now is, in the words of one poster, a train wreck. (end of rant). unsnip He's obviously an idiot who is too lazy or dull to avoid the bad posts. -Rich |
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Martin R. Howell:
Below is a post which Bill Meyers submitted to Astromart's "Equipment Talk" forum on 3/2/05. The subject of the post is "How about informative titles for posts?" I hope that the referenced calamity produced no serious injuries. My eyes do appear to be somewhat bruised but I don't seem to suffer any gashes and have no broken bones. snip Come on, guys, shape up! This is a great forum. Let's keep it that way. Look at what happened to sci.astro.amateur, which used to be the premium forum and now is, in the words of one poster, a train wreck. (end of rant). unsnip I think that rumors of SAA's death are somewhat exaggerated. Looking at the latest posts, I see Trapezium, Sidereal Time, Microfiche Lenses for use in positive astroprojection, Observing Projects, "A weight matter" (telescope balance), Advanced Astromaster problem, Antares Occultation Report, Konus 150 refractor, and other stuff that interests me to varying degrees. I won't read "CNN tanking as Fox News surges" from "Anonymous" because it has Min the Psychopath written all over it. Not only will I not read it, but I won't worry about its presence. What I don't see are any broken locomotives or wrecked tank cars spilling noxious chemicals around my computer :- Davoud |
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For a year or so there, SAA was going toward the silly and inane, but it
seems to have improved significantly lately. "Davoud" wrote in message ... Martin R. Howell: Below is a post which Bill Meyers submitted to Astromart's "Equipment Talk" forum on 3/2/05. The subject of the post is "How about informative titles for posts?" I hope that the referenced calamity produced no serious injuries. My eyes do appear to be somewhat bruised but I don't seem to suffer any gashes and have no broken bones. snip Come on, guys, shape up! This is a great forum. Let's keep it that way. Look at what happened to sci.astro.amateur, which used to be the premium forum and now is, in the words of one poster, a train wreck. (end of rant). unsnip I think that rumors of SAA's death are somewhat exaggerated. Looking at the latest posts, I see Trapezium, Sidereal Time, Microfiche Lenses for use in positive astroprojection, Observing Projects, "A weight matter" (telescope balance), Advanced Astromaster problem, Antares Occultation Report, Konus 150 refractor, and other stuff that interests me to varying degrees. I won't read "CNN tanking as Fox News surges" from "Anonymous" because it has Min the Psychopath written all over it. Not only will I not read it, but I won't worry about its presence. What I don't see are any broken locomotives or wrecked tank cars spilling noxious chemicals around my computer :- Davoud |
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On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:25:49 -0800, "Martin R. Howell"
wrote: Come on, guys, shape up! This is a great forum. Let's keep it that way. Look at what happened to sci.astro.amateur, which used to be the premium forum and now is, in the words of one poster, a train wreck. (end of rant). This from somebody who I guess has never seen a train wreck! Looking over the last week of postings (all of which I have retained), I see that there are 107 threads, of which 88 are absolutely topical and appropriate to s.a.a. Of the remaining 19 threads, 4 are the same but didn't get threaded properly, 3 are rants like this, and a handful are semi-topical humor. Another handful are marginally topical. Only a few of the topical threads appear to have been hijacked or otherwise deviated from topicality in a major way. And IMO, the vast majority of the topic titles do a fine job of defining the thread. So that means at least 82% of the threads are topical, and higher if we give a little latitude. Seems pretty darn good to me. _________________________________________________ Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com |
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So that means at least 82% of the threads are topical, and higher if we
give a little latitude. Seems pretty darn good to me. I look at quality, not quantity. Based on what I've seen/not seen in the past bunch of years, some really "good" contributors left s.a.a due to its increasing inanity. To me, then, what is significant is who we've lost. Howard Lester |
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Yeah, once we squelched the "Dubya" and "Shrub" threads with a bit of
common sense things improved significantly. It's good to see **Most** everyone shaping up a bit. Mark Chris L Peterson wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:25:49 -0800, "Martin R. Howell" wrote: Come on, guys, shape up! This is a great forum. Let's keep it that way. Look at what happened to sci.astro.amateur, which used to be the premium forum and now is, in the words of one poster, a train wreck. (end of rant). This from somebody who I guess has never seen a train wreck! Looking over the last week of postings (all of which I have retained), I see that there are 107 threads, of which 88 are absolutely topical and appropriate to s.a.a. Of the remaining 19 threads, 4 are the same but didn't get threaded properly, 3 are rants like this, and a handful are semi-topical humor. Another handful are marginally topical. Only a few of the topical threads appear to have been hijacked or otherwise deviated from topicality in a major way. And IMO, the vast majority of the topic titles do a fine job of defining the thread. So that means at least 82% of the threads are topical, and higher if we give a little latitude. Seems pretty darn good to me. _________________________________________________ Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com |
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Mark:
Yeah, once we squelched the "Dubya" and "Shrub" threads with a bit of common sense things improved significantly. It's good to see **Most** everyone shaping up a bit. Nobody squelches a thread here, and nobody shapes anyone up. On-topic threads die after the question has been answered to everyone's satisfaction and/or the dissenters, if any, agree to disagree; OT threads die of old age, or because no one replies (Not!) I would just as soon read Min the Psycopath as read posts from self-appointed, smug, self-righteous Usenet cops. Davoud |
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On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:52:38 -0500, Davoud wrote:
Mark: Yeah, once we squelched the "Dubya" and "Shrub" threads with a bit of common sense things improved significantly. It's good to see **Most** everyone shaping up a bit. Nobody squelches a thread here, and nobody shapes anyone up. On-topic threads die after the question has been answered to everyone's satisfaction and/or the dissenters, if any, agree to disagree; OT threads die of old age, or because no one replies (Not!) I would just as soon read Min the Psycopath as read posts from self-appointed, smug, self-righteous Usenet cops. Davoud You weren't around for the endless astrology posts, or the endless Zeta posts? But I agree about the usenet cops thing. -Rich |
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I maintain that the return to on-topic posts was highly apparent (and
refreshing) once the tiny but shrill minority was reminded that the majority of us are fair, balanced, open-minded and in some cases not hesitant to highlight absurdity. Mark |
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