Don Foreman wrote:

Decide for yourself, y'all. I'm about as gullible as they come,
but the last go-round on the "Can I use a stock SIGNAL GENERATOR to
drive an H bridge" has convinced me that it and perhaps other posts
from Ignoramus have been trolls.

It appears that willingness and eagerness to help must now be tempered
with a degree of skepticism on this n.g. I'm sorry to see that.
I've been here since Altovoz days. I have a pretty high tolerance
for bull****, as long as there are a few I can learn from and a few I
might occasionally help. I have several good friends I found on
this n.g. and several more casual friends that I enjoy corresponding
with from time to time. At least two of those good friends have
abandoned RCM as no longer worth the time to read. I'm glad I got to
know them when I did, and we continue to correspond frequently about
matters of mutual interest.

I have no problem mostly ignoring the political stuff. It's usually
easy to recognize from the subject line. It's no more appropriate in
this forum than dog**** is on a residential sidewalk -- but it
happens, and it's easy enough to avoid.

I suppose I should only be ****ed at me, because I was dumb enough to
get trolled. Whatever. I'm ****ed and disappointed. Things used
to be better on rcm.

I'll get over it, and I'll probably still be around now and then.





I haven't made up my mind yet about whether that recent welder/inverter
thread was a troll or not. I stayed out of it, because once I see you
check in on a thread involving solid state circuit design Don, I figure
there's little or nothing my outdated design experience can contribute.

If it was a troll, he should get a Pulitzer for creative and serious
sounding responses. And, IME most trolls stop with the original post,
it's the flamers who carry on endlessly.

I believe with all false modesty that it's generally easier for a EE to
understand and analogize (izzat a word?) to things mechanical than it is
for someone from the nuts and bolts side to do in the opposite direction.

That's probably because our maker, or evolution, gave us eyes, ears and
the other parts of our nervous systems which let us observe and feel
many things about structures and machines. Lifelong observation helps
us understand mechanical things more intuitively than an unschooled
person with no test equipment observing things in the world of
electronics can. (Nasty shocks, blinding arcs and the acrid smell of
burning insulation excepted.)

But, I must say that some of ignoramus' posts do start thoughts like
these stirring in my mind:

"Fools rush in where angels dare to tread."

"Jeeze Louise, I don't know if he's a smart guy trying to put me on, or
an idiot being serious."

"Doesn't that guy EVER listen to anyone?"

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Anyway, I'm gonna stick around here, it's more entertaining and cheaper
than the movies these days.

Jeff

--
Jeffry Wisnia

(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented."