Do you remember when you used to get bullied at school an your teachers told you to just ignore them?
Any teacher that says that probably says it out of fear and a craven desire for a quiet life.
I firmly believe, and always have, that the quickest, most effective and most permanent way to deal with bullying is to fight back and make it crystal clear to the bully that hell will freeze over before he succeeds in turning you into one of his passive victims.
No way, particularly because it's not my personal equilibrium at stake (as I observed in another thread the pathetic anonymous attacks from these stupid and inadequate children do nothing except show that I am right and they are wrong), but because what they are doing undermines the fabric of this forum and destroys its value to people looking for advice.
I'm disappointed that you can't see that.
Person A gives some advice or comment. There is absolutely nothing wrong with what he says, no falsehoods, no misleadings, no mistakes, no errors.
Person B, purely because he has taken a dislike to A, and even though he cannot in any rational way criticise A's post, and cannot in any rational way point to any mistakes in it, gives it a thumbs down.
What B is doing is saying that A's post should not have been written. B can't find anything wrong with what A wrote, he just wants others to
think that it's wrong because of his own personal animosity towards A.
And you really think that's the way this forum should run?
Every time someone gives you a thumbs down whether it is justified or not you go off on a massive copy and paste rant, so people are always going to rate you down just to get a rise out of you. It's human nature.
It's not my nature and it should not be allowed to be the nature of people on this forum.
If people do that just to get a rise out of me then that is even more evidence of their petty and juvenile nature, and more evidence that perhaps they should be denied privileges on this forum until they have grown up a bit.
If you just ignore them like I'm sure everyone else would do, they will get bored and stop doing it. It's not like it matters anyway is it?
There has been at least one past incident where someone, driven by nothing other than personal animosity, has tried to tell a poster wanting to rewire a house that they don't have to know how to design circuits, that they don't have to know how to relate breaker ratings to cable sizes, that they don't have to know about equipotential bonding, that they don't have to carry out any tests etc.
And you think that's a good thing, that they should be allowed to behave like that, and left unchallenged so that the OP, or others reading the advice later, go away with the message that if they're rewiring a house they don't have to worry about design, safe zones for concealed cables, current carrying capacity, fault loop resistance, bonding, testing etc?
If you do, then shame on you.
It isn't the rating system that is wrecking this forum, it is you hijacking every thread with you ad homien whatever it is nonesense. Just stop it.
It's not hijacking, it's asking people who say "that post should not be here" to explain, in a logical, rational, intelligent and mature way what is wrong with the
content of the post.
And I will stop that as soon as people stop giving posts thumbs down for reasons which are nothing to do with what is written in them.
You may care to note that
a) I don't automatically object to any thumbs down I get,
b) I also object to, and report as abuse, instances where other peoples' posts get thumbs down for similarly irrational reasons.
Oh and before you give me the "it's my right to defend my integrity" speech, don't bother because I don't care.
Well I do, and I always will. And I do, and always will, care about misleading advice, lies, cheating and errors in posts here. and giving a thumbs down to a post which is perfectly valid because you don't like the person who wrote it is right up there in the same class as lying etc.
