Re: Why it is no longer worth taking part in comp.dsp
- From: brent <bulegoge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:37:20 -0800 (PST)
On Jan 25, 4:22 am, Chris Bore <chris.b...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am saddened that the tone of 'debate' here on comp.dsp is now so
often rude and bullying.
This makes it no longer worthwhile to participate. It also probably
inhibits new people from joining in, either because they fear being
ridiculed or because they do not want to join a forum that accepts
bullying and personal rudeness in place of reasoned debate.
comp.dsp used to be interesting, entertaining, and often amusing.
Occassional heated debate tended to focus on argument rather than
attacking the person. 'Flaming' did happen but I thought we dealt with
it in a mature way that made it clear that verbal bullying and
personal attacks were not welcome, so it died out. That has changed.
Novices are regularly attacked in a way that I think is bullying, and
that is a shame because it probably puts such people off joining in.
Debate over technical questions gets turned into attacking people's
supposed lack of competence or qualifications instead of addressing
the argument. All of this makes comp.dsp now an unpleasant place, and
not one I wish to be associated with.
I have taken part in discussions here over many years, and I thank all
those of you who have provided interesting, entertaining, thought-
provoking, and amusing discussions here. Those who I have met in
person, I hope we meet again but it will not be in comp.dsp because I
will not be participating again. I am very sad that what was such a
good forum has fallen so far, but I hope to maintain the many personal
contacts that I first made here.
Chris
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Chris Bore
BORES Signal Processingwww.bores.com
You are in a difficult position because your name and business and
business reputation is attached to your postings here. If this is a
business decision on your part then I certainly understand. If it is
not a business decision then I would ask you to reconsider. You have
clearly convinced the world that you are not some kind of bird
parroting around information. I suspect that you, more than anyone on
this forum has to field questions from all directions from highly
skilled engineers and you have clearly not alienated your customer
base due to your stupidity or inability to explain basic DSP
concepts.
Rune has developed a some kind of sonar detector that got an
incredible 12 dB improvement in what was available at that time, and
yet could not convince anyone to look at his idea. I find this to be
incredible. If a 10 year old kid in a diaper approached me with such
a claim I would have given him some time to explain what he was
talking about (the benefit is so great), and yet Rune could not get
anyone to let him pursue this. This is not necessarily a statement of
how idiotic the people working with Rune were, this might be a proof
that some people he worked with thought he was a bullshitter. Who
knows.
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