I’ve been on here for donkey’s years and got my first flag the other day for stating how unpleasant I found the KOII thread because the majority of people there were moaning about their packaging, late delivery and or hardware faults and other bugs. I called it a shitshow. it was and is.
It’s a shame for all those people but you can also imagine there are a lot of people happy with a new exciting product from TE that don’t have issues and would prefer something more positive rather then bringing it down so low.
Maybe the thread should have been moderated better and renamed ‘TE shitshow’ just for clarity and just to keep the negativity in one place or is that flag worthy?
Wait, I’m confused…
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t flags handed out by users NOT mods?
In which case, people were perhaps just reacting to YOUR attempt to tell them to “can it and stop complaining”? No dog in this fight but your statement above seems to suggest that. My apologies if I’ve misinterpretted what you’ve written…
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User flags auto hide through the board software itself, at least when whatever number of them come in (3? I forget if that was explicitly mentioned when I’ve made an offtopic comment and ended up hidden 
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I think the sequence of events is:
- Thread happens
- People get a bit salty
- Flagging occurs
- Mods: “can you just chill?”
If there was a way to send the mods a few currency units for a tasty beverage, I would.
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I have great respect for our mods. They work hard and do a good job taking care of this place.
That said, I think a lot of what defines the culture and overall vibes here on Elektronauts comes community members and how we self-moderate. We have a critical mass of people here who care about the quality of discussion and how we treat each other — users are able to hold users accountable (whether that’s with flags or comments or DMs or what have you) and that’s a really special thing to achieve.
In past jobs, I’ve been responsible for moderating internet groups, and it’s extremely difficult to do. The only way for a moderator to keep things running smoothly is to partner with influential community members, because those are the people who really keep things under control. It’s the users collectively who determine what’s okay and which rules are respected and all of the invisible cultural laws that govern how people behave in a certain space.
So, shout out to mods, and also shout out to people who do their part to clean up messes or call out transgressions or otherwise keep Elektronauts worth visiting. This is a unique and wonderful corner of the internet, and I hope it stays that way.
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You are right of course. But mods flag inappropriate posts too and I am happy they do. This forum is great - the people and info and banter is mostly entertaining and informative.
I’m ok with being flagged for complaining about complaining. That’s hilarious.
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Here is the link to the thread. Can you access it?
https://www.elektronauts.com/t/weird-transparent-caustic-vapor-eminating-from-electronics/204862/63
If not, you should be able by tracking your own posts, I believe. Maybe not.
But yes, this thread was going nowhere, and even creeping you out it seems.
Nope.
Hmmm lost in translation maybe… meant it was a strange fascination.
Lots of conversations in life go nowhere. Is that a reason to delete them? Like I say, heavy-handed IMO unless there was an explicit reason. Now I’m weirded out. See? : P
Oh. I thought you could. Good to know.
A moderator thought this conversation was not really contributing to the place (as in no evidence of whatever fumes there could be, included in OP’s poor video, and lots of suppositions in every sense, even medical diagnosis).
No moderator judged this action the least heavy-handed, so the conversation is still here, as a ghost, well hidden under layers of more interesting and relevant subjects.
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Says a moderator?! Ok…
I beg to differ.
It’s not. This is a strange looped conversation we’re having.
In fact there are so many extremely off-topic conversations on this forum about all and sundry I just found it strange that you choose to delete this one. Seems pretty partial and random to me about what is deemed acceptable and what isn’t.
I didn’t lock away the thread. But understand why it was.
And yeah, we have our own ways I guess.
I also browse other forums and there sure is a lot of people complaining about this forum for moderators banning users arbitrarily. I don’t see how that could be good for business. Note, I’m not complaining and haven’t had issues, but it’s all over Gearspace, Reddit, etc.
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people who have been banned feel as if it was done unjustly? say it aint so
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The current setup has a “Popular Links” section attached to the first post in a thread. This is a good feature. It displays the tags rather than the raw internet addresses for some links – also nice. Unfortunately it is unable to “decode” youtube addresses, so it just puts up the auto generated youtube tags, which is useless to humans. Is there a way to special case youtube addresses and display something human readable in the “Popular Links” section. It would make finding videos in a thread easier.
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No clue, this is really some Discourse feature that should be discussed on Meta Discourse forum I guess.
But if you hold a link for a couple seconds, you’ll have a preview of the YT page, including its title and video.
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Not with my Android based smart phone browser.
Interesting. On my android phone currently, the “popular links” section shows two youtube videos in their raw URL format (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT1t29r2 type beat). Is that what you meant?