The nastier side of the internet

dfk41

This is not a name names type of post. It seems that many people feel safe and secure when hiding behind a keyboard and think they can say anything they like about a person. Over on a forum across the water, a particularly onerous scrote in discussion of the Nurri wrote this.

He is referring to our forum and our host.

HOW DARE HE.

What he has said is both inaccurate and down right wrong. I do not think Dave needs to have his pedigree questioned by someone who has nothing to add to the discussion other than the pouring of bile and vitriol. Sorry, I get so incensed when I see this type of bow locks. The forum response is to lock the thread on a cool down basis. ~As a passing thought, I wonder how many grinders and machines he has been involved in the production of?

HarveyMushman

Yeah it’s not nice when people aren’t respectful of others online.

Cuprajake

Some just like to get their digs in, I just tell them to jog on, don’t give them the time of day.

I saw the comment and chose to ignore it.

There’s another in that thread who doesn’t value the nurri being discussed, yet has never used one, or an Evo

These people can’t be reasoned with. I have sooooo many people on my ignore lists it’s untrue.

HarveyMushman

It’s really not worth getting wound up about people’s opinions. Especially on the internet. It’s a direct route to stress and misery.

I’ve got an older family member who’s been laid up with an injury and they spend 90% of their days on the sofa, iPad in hand, arguing with people on Facebook. I’m pretty sure the stress they exhibit from that has done more damage than the injury…

People always want the upper hand, especially men, it’s instinctive. There’s a wonderful serenity in not giving a s**t.

dfk41

HarveyMushman I am not really wound up! I just pretend to be. That said there are a few folks I would love to meet up with in a dark alley…..LOL I hope you realise that this is not a one off comment. He is part of a larger group. I think they must be jealous of staring at a busier forum than their own

Cuprajake

dfk41

Probably trying to start an argument because the London vetars one got shut down.

Pretty easy to get a thread to disappear on hb. Cause an argument and they lock it

DavecUK

I saw the comment and was puzzled, because I do use scales….unless I’ve calibrated and Evo for a particular coffee….then I don’t need them. In fact, as part of testing/designing grinder and machines, it’s an absolute requirement to use scales for coffee input/output and record times. So I assumed he wasn’t referring to me for a change?

The person is a particularly spiteful troll who has no interest in the community, contributed nothing and helped no one…his hobby used to be trolling me. Sadly this is what underachievers seem to have to do to make themselves feel better. He took a lot of cues from David Hyde (coffee chap), who used him as the tool that he is.

Cuprajake

Thread locked for cool down, or at least I’m limited to posting

HarveyMushman

‘Cooldown’… the first time I saw that mentioned in the Philos thread it sounded like a school teacher telling a kid to sit in the corner and think about what he did…

Talk about power trip.

JonWoo187

HarveyMushman Yeah that’s the typical whining the mods do at Home-Tardista. If you say anything they don’t agree with it’s time for a cool down to enjoy coffee for the weekend without babysitting the threads, blah blah blah… Some time ago I made a sarcastic, but truthful post about the garbage grinders coming out of China and of course one of the pansy senior members complained that it was racist in nature and I was banned for a few weeks. That site is full of self-entitled elitists that don’t really know jack ****. No doubt forums can get volatile at times, but we all have varying levels of opinion, experience, expectations and if we all agreed life would be pathetically boring.

DavecUK

JonWoo187 Can we be little more respectful. Express the same opinion sure, but please consider the words we’re using as a forum…thanks.

Cuprajake

I keep getting this

Thought America was the land of free speech 😂

dfk41

Cuprajake There is free, then there is the sort of free which goes against the narrative!

JHCCoffee

I’ve had run ins with that mod as well. He loves controlling his little fiefdom. I suspect that his day job does not require much in the way of people management skills.

I mostly lurk and occasionally post a question. And I’m very careful about anything I post there, as Mr.Soup Nazi will doubtless PM me the edit that he made to my post (he even changes what he views as a typo). And good heavens if he catches you in a “cross post”; ie raise the same topic on more than his fiefdom. I would quit their site, but I do find useful tidbits there from time to time. But it’s definitely not always a friendly place.

JonWoo187

DavecUK Yep why not…. I’m done with all forums at this point anyway.

Cuprajake

i felt that way for a good 3 months,

i now hide anyone i cba with its a useful tool to hide tools