What other forums are you a member of?

[slowmotion]

An American engineering forum called CNCZone. It has tens of thousands of highly skilled professional mechanical/machining engineers who are more than willing to give good advice. They're amazingly polite too.

 

[mistyoptic]

that sounds like swingers forum...

I thought it might be dogging for beginners

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I have account on all sorts of forums

tried them and given up

 

[stephec]

I got banned from TalkBass for refusing to remove my thin blue line profile pic.

The US one is fairly political, but the UK one is a bona fide charity, but the tools in charge just didnt grasp that. They got a bit arsey, I lost my rag and told the admin he was a @#£ %^&#* @#÷× and I was banned.

And that's the last forum I ever bothered with after this hallowed establishment.

That's still not the greatest flounce of all though. 😂

 

[slowmotion]

At the start of the Covid thing, thinking that I would be isolated from the world forever, I signed up to some kind of "local neighbourhood" site.

It turned out to be populated by a huge bunch of entirely mad swivel-eyed cat lovers, curtain-twitchers and diverse neurots complaining about simply everything ......the noise of a helicopter, police sirens, a dog pissing on the pavement etc etc etc. I never knew that I lived amongst such nutters.

 

[Dogtrousers]

At the start of the Covid thing, thinking that I would be isolated from the world forever, I signed up to some kind of "local neighbourhood" site.

It turned out to be populated by a huge bunch of entirely mad swivel-eyed cat lovers, curtain-twitchers and diverse neurots complaining about simply everything ......the noise of a helicopter, police sirens, a dog pissing on the pavement etc etc etc. I never knew that I lived amongst such nutters.

Similar happened to me. I joined a local WhatsApp group. To begin with it was nice things like "my kids want some egg boxes for an art project". But it soon degenerated. I muted it after about a week. I left it after about 10 days.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Similar happened to me. I joined a local WhatsApp group. To begin with it was nice things like "my kids want some egg boxes for an art project". But it soon degenerated. I muted it after about a week. I left it after about 10 days.

you do get some nutters on the local groups round here

Clearly no-one EVER votes for the local MP - he is terrible - no-one likes him

etc etc - then he gets back in with a huge majority again so I suspect they are loud but not numerous!
same for their views on everything
I am quite good at ignoring them and looking at the other bits but it would be easy to be taken in and think they were talking from a point of authority and knowledge

Actually my wife rang her sister last night and she has fallen for all the carp about the Southport stabbings so had to be redirected to irrelevant things like truth and evidence and reliable sources of information
This is quite common - and worrying

 

[vickster]

At the start of the Covid thing, thinking that I would be isolated from the world forever, I signed up to some kind of "local neighbourhood" site.

It turned out to be populated by a huge bunch of entirely mad swivel-eyed cat lovers, curtain-twitchers and diverse neurots complaining about simply everything ......the noise of a helicopter, police sirens, a dog pissing on the pavement etc etc etc. I never knew that I lived amongst such nutters.

That'll be Nextdoor...home of the toxic NIMBY...I find it hilarious and indulge in the odd wind up You just need to mention ULEZ or Sadiq Khan and they go absolutely berserk Good place if you need a cleaner or handyman though...every other post is someone offering their services

 

[Electric_Andy]

Our local FB group is not too bad, there are recurring problems that people keep complaining about like boy racers in the beach car park, and dog poo everywhere. I've helped out a few people who need to borrow tools or something, but a lot of it is just "have you seen this cat?". It's also quite funny when someone complains about music from a house on a saturday evening, then the homeowner replies and says "it's me - great music isn't it?". And 90% of the replies thereafter are from people saying things like "I'm enjoying it, turn it up" or "they're just having fun, stop whinging"

 

[Dogtrousers]

Our COVID lockdown street support group went from nice people helping each other out to a toilet blocked with subnormal conspiracy theories in a matter of days. When it first started I was potting up some tomato and chilli plants and I thought "I'll be a good neighbour and distribute my surplus plants when they are established." Sod that.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Our local FB group is not too bad, there are recurring problems that people keep complaining about like boy racers in the beach car park, and dog poo everywhere. I've helped out a few people who need to borrow tools or something, but a lot of it is just "have you seen this cat?". It's also quite funny when someone complains about music from a house on a saturday evening, then the homeowner replies and says "it's me - great music isn't it?". And 90% of the replies thereafter are from people saying things like "I'm enjoying it, turn it up" or "they're just having fun, stop whinging"

Funny how a lot of those post moaning about fly-tipping and stuff seem to stop when I give them a link so they can report it to the local counsel.

It is almost as if some of them are all for moaning to everyone who will listen but don;t actually think they should have to do anything about it themselves - even if it involves almost zero effort!

I have seen some people who genuinely seem to think that "the counsel" - which sometimes includes the local MP - should know about every single fly tip and pothole etc by some form of magical intuition
and the local people should never have to help out by reporting stuff at all!

I have generally found our local lot to be pretty good at sorting out the little things if it gets reported!

There have been cases when I have told people how to do it just to annoy them and spoil their fun moaning!!!

 

[Venod]

Clearly no-one EVER votes for the local MP - he is terrible - no-one likes him.

It's the same in our local groups, Yvette Cooper our local MP seems to be the most unpopular MP ever, but she still gets voted back in.

 

[slowmotion]

That'll be Nextdoor...home of the toxic NIMBY...I find it hilarious and indulge in the odd wind up You just need to mention ULEZ or Sadiq Khan and they go absolutely berserk Good place if you need a cleaner or handyman though...every other post is someone offering their services

Yes, it was indeed Nextdoor.

 

[Badger_Boom]

Land Rover Discovery 3/4 owners’ forum.

Likewise, although I haven't posted much for a while. It's a fantastic source of advice and sometimes parts.

Reading this has made me realise that I'm a member of far too many forums. As well as this august forum I mainly dabble with TheFretboard.co.uk and because (or possibly in spite of) my military hobby/part time job I'm also a member of the ARmy Rumour SErvice.

 

[MontyVeda]

I ended up joining TDPRI, a telecaster discussion forum. When researching how to build a bass, lots of google results for various questions were either TalkBass or TDPRI's DIY sub-forum. I've had some invaluable advice from the people over there and seeing the quality of some of the builds is an inspiration.

but other than that, just this one.