Banned... No good deed goes unpunished

I guess that abishur is taking to heart the well known old saw:

Workers will be flogged until morale improves.

Joking aside, their "moderation" is not actually moderation at all.  It's culling.

i had been lurking for over a year but didn't have anything that I wanted to say so I didn't bother creating an account but all the rah rah about the bloody awards just pushed me over the edge seeing as I still haven't received my raspberry pi.

there seem to be a few mods that are ok and don't seem to ban anybody but some really shouldn't be allowed to moderate until they get a thicker skin and learn some manners

I just got banned by a pissy mod because I posted that I am sick of hearing about all these awards that the raspberry pi keeps winning when a lot of people are still waiting to get theirs from that other company.

Interesting to see that many of the awards are product of begging to the fanbois and cult members to vote for them.

To be sarcastic, how long before we see fanbois and cult members patting themselves on the back for being good fanbois.

Perhaps Cambridge is going to provide a fanbois paper in the next IT course?

Been there once, did not like what I found. Will not go back again.

jamodio wrote:

 

Interesting to see that many of the awards are product of begging to the fanbois and cult members to vote for them.

These awards are often popularity contests and a board that has sold 500K units definitely has an advantage because more people have heard of it.

That said, I thought the T3 award was mostly deserved given its criteria:

The Innovation of the Year Award will go to a product that demonstrates true technological invention, which has the power to improve, disrupt or create a product category of its own.

1.  True technological invention: not really, it's a $35 BeagleBoard.  That's in impressive bit of engineering, but not "true technological invention".

2.  Has the power to improve or disrupt: yes, definitely.  I'll support almost anything that disrupts closed, monopolistic operating systems and encourages people to use computers to create rather than consume.

I looked at what RasPi beat out.  I'm glad to see it beat out Windows 8   Not so happy about MakerBot, but while MakerBot wins on invention and product category, it's probably not going to be that disruptive.  I was amused by PadFone.  Nice idea, but I don't expect it to do any better than the Motorola Atrix Lapdock (supplies are limited, no rain checks).  I love the Twizy, but most people won't buy a car unless it goes vroom vroom.  Lytro is an interesting technology, but try to explain it to your mum... or to undergraduates.  So that leaves RasPi.  Kudos.

ON the other hand, RasPi beating out BeagleBone for Most Hackable Gadget at the Makeys?  Are you kidding me?  Obviously just a popularity contest. 

Oh, and to those people still complaining about not getting their RaspberryPi's why haven't you got one from Element14/whoever? They have them is stock right now. Just drop the order and go someone else. It's called being sensible. That's what I did.  No problems. Those RS bunch coulnd't organize a piss up in a brewery, but the other guys are OK.

Billy Thornton wrote:

 

Those RS bunch coulnd't organize a piss up in a brewery, but the other guys are OK.

I'm sure RS will be delighted to hear from you about how they can fill orders at a rate faster than Broadcom can supply them with BCM2835 devices.

"Behave like a prat, get treated like a prat."

Someone has to say it. Can we please stop calling people names? Over the weekend there were posts with someone calling someone else a jerk. I don't read some other forums because the mods take to name calling. Its a choice I make.  Here, it's just some people, not mods that are doing the name calling. If you don't like something, no need to get emotional and call people prats, because people will respect you, even if you have the opposite opinion.

"It a rule some of you lot need to learn!"

It's not; if you call people names and your peers were of the same frame of mind then you'd get treated exactly the way you're

advocating. At work, if something doesn't suit your world, do you call people names? Maybe you do, I suppose. I don't know. Most keep it professional. Where in life does one call people prats? (unless one is 16 years old).

I want to read some intelligent discussion, but every other post seems to be name-calling.

Sarcasm and humor is understandable, but name calling is not even a form of wit.

However, I hope you don't get blocked or your posts deleted - just so that people can read the whole of your contributions and make their own minds up if they like your contributions or not.

I joined this forum because I (as others) tend to use Farnell regularly. Maybe element14 should restrict

membership to forums unless one has contributed or responded on a technical issue.

@Dinova So, RS fail to order enough stuff, and that's Broadcom's fault? How come Element14 managed to organise themselves and don;t have a problem? Seems to me this is down to RS prediction management and nothing else.

@shabaz. Prat? What word do you suggest I use dude? "This first time posting person behaved in an incorrect manner designed to cause offence, and was treated accordingly." Better? Sometimes, name calling is an effective way of getting across a point. And to be honest, there are plenty of much better terms that apply in this case, I chose to use the most inoffensive. I don't care whether people like my contributions or not, but something has to be said about the people here and their continual bad mouthing of the moderators there, which as far as I can tell is just sour grapes. 'Over there' is a much more succesful forum than over here, with more users, better technical advice and all better information, and no bad mouthing (because the moderators ban people like that, unlike here). That what these alledgedly terrible moderators have produced. Live with it people.

Billy Thornton wrote:

 

Sometimes, name calling is an effective way of getting across a point.

No it is not.  Name calling belongs somewhere else, not here.

This forum expects people to express their opinions in a polite and professional manner, and asserts that participants are entitled to being treated with respect.

Please read this explanatory post by Element 14's Sagar Jethani explaining their Term of Use in a very approachable manner:

http://www.element14.com/community/message/58739#58739/l/about-our-terms-of-use

Morgaine.