Fair enough. Moderators should not be ignoring any user.

Wow it must be a tough job to be a mod.

 

And on the other end of the scale, I have none and 14 sounds like a lot.

Posting in technically oriented forums, I learnt to answer, amongst other things: compared to what, wayneh?

/EDIT to add

42 in my list - most of them probably unknown to most of you in this forum.

EDIT/

 

I try to keep my ignore list down to about 200 by going in each year and eliminating anyone who hasn't posted for at least a year.

Yebut... The 'active kernel' numbers markedly less than 200!? -- Golly, golly...

With best (and I can but hope un-muted) regards
HP

 

Yebut... The 'active kernel' numbers markedly less than 200!? -- Golly, golly...

With best (and I can but hope un-muted) regards
HP

He'll see it on Sunday when the new Year rolls over and he un-ignores (re-recognizes?) everyone on his list.

 

It's looking like John took his ball and left the forum. At least he didn't delete all of his content this time.

 

It's looking like John took his ball and left the forum.

If so I hope it's merely a (temporary) hiatus! -- Another valued member driven away by needless political discussion is nothing short of tragic!

Sincerely
HP

 

If so I hope it's merely a (temporary) hiatus! -- Another valued member driven away by needless political discussion is nothing short of tragic!

Sincerely
HP

I think it is his way of saying, he would rather leave than listen to members' replies to his political ramblings.

 

I think it is his way of saying, he would rather leave than listen to members' replies to his political ramblings.

In all fairness I too protested (on this forum) the policy change following [my] participation in political debate on OT (worse yet, I returned to politically divisive posting following said protest) -- Point being - I was and remain absolutely sincere in my criticism of said change -- As I'm certain @jpanhalt does!

Very best regards
HP

 

In all fairness I too protested the policy change (on this forum) following [my] participation in political debate on OT (worse yet, I returned to politically divisive posting following said protest) -- Point being - I was and remain absolutely sincere in my criticism of said change -- As I'm certain @jpanhalt does!

Very best regards
HP

I'm just saying that Jpanhalt was often the first to bring politics into an interesting thread and he would become nasty when anyone disagreed with him. Therefore, I dont think he was anti politics, I think he simply didn't like when people disagreed with his political assertions.

 

I'm just saying that Jpanhalt was often the first to bring politics into an interesting thread and he would become nasty when anyone disagreed with him. Therefore, I dont think he was anti politics, I think he simply didn't like when people disagreed with his political assertions.

Owing to our disparity of perception in this matter - I make a motion to agree to disagree...K?

Very best regards
HP

 

Owing to our disparity of perception in this matter - I make a motion to agree to disagree...K?

Very best regards
HP

Yeah, I'd quit arguing too if I had to justify JP's actions.

 

Wow it must be a tough job to be a mod.

That's one reason they are happy when a regular points to a post which is out of place. There just isn't enough time to read every single post and vet them all.

Yebut... The 'active kernel' numbers markedly less than 200!?

Most of what I ignore is people who only do microprocessors, simulators, or RF questions, because I'm incompetent in those subjects. After that comes people who need 35 answers for how to calculate the resistor for an LED. Then there's the Fargin Iceholes who are just annoying with their constant references to sex, booze, and their One And Only, God Blessed, pet Operating System which would cure all computer problems and has no limitations or problems of its own.

At the end of the year, I find mostly One Thread Wonders who quickly dropped out because they don't have a clue about electronics and are way over their depth on this site...and a couple who I can't tell whether they are Trolling or Just Stupid.

On another site, there is a person who seems to think I am there to share my personality with him. Mostly, I'm not. Mostly, I give technical advice as a "bread on the water" offering. The "customers" can take it or leave it. It is only this site where I allow some of my personality to show. Some like it, some don't, and that's the way the cookie crumbles. In any large population, some people won't like me.

Personal experience shows 3% of all customers simply don't like me and there is nothing I can do to their machine that will suit them. That's why I was grateful to have a business partner who was very different from me. He fixed my 3% and I fixed his 3%. On this site, I have a couple of dozen partners who can fix those with whom I can't seem to communicate.

 

Most of what I ignore is people who only do microprocessors

the nerve!!!!! ....

 

the nerve!!!!! ....

I can program in Basic, so I could probably use PICs without much learning, but I don't have any business trying to fix the specialized problems which are peculiar to microprocessor architecture.

 

I can program in Basic, so I could probably use PICs without much learning, but I don't have any business trying to fix the specialized problems which are peculiar to microprocessor architecture.

next Christmas, I'm going to send an Arduino to:
#12
West of Tamps, FL

Then you'll learn how easy it is. I'm sure you'll be buying dozens of additional arduino said to automate every part of your car.

 

... I'm sure you'll be buying dozens of additional arduino said to automate every part of your car.

Yeah.. one arduino for each power lock ...

 

Then you'll learn how easy it is.

I have no argument with using a microprocessor for your own purposes. I object to the microprocessors installed in millions of retail devices which make them un-repairable except for the purchase of a whole circuit board for over $100 to replace a $2 MPU. That completely betrays the lie that microprocessors make appliances cheaper. They don't. They make appliances trash-can-ready so they have to be replaced at a much higher cost than a repair.

 

That completely betrays the lie that microprocessors make appliances cheaper. They don't.

I think what you are missing is... "That microprocessors make appliances cheaper to manufacture". Who ever said that cost reduction has to passed on to the buyer???

 

After that comes people who need 35 answers for how to calculate the resistor for an LED.

...Or host a clinic on the oh so outre art of soldering!

Personal experience shows 3% of all customers simply don't like me

Congratulations! I know my 'favorables' will never attain anything like 97% !

next Christmas, I'm going to send an Arduino to:
#12

Friends don't start friends on Arduino!

I think what you are missing is... "That microprocessors make appliances cheaper to manufacture". Who ever said that cost reduction has to passed on to the buyer???

Then too, ease of user-serviceability is the veritable bane of corporate control culture

Best regards
HP

 

Then too, ease of user-serviceability is the veritable bane of corporate control culture

I think that the goal is for the entire appliance to fail at the same time. Any part that fails early is over designed.