Why dont we start discussion on renewable Energy sources?

Hi zbor,

Sorry, I don't know the history here, but at the same time I think if the OP wants to start a discussion on renewable Energy sources at excelform then he should definitely be doing this in the Water Cooler. I don't see the problem or the rule that is being broken.

abousetta

Hi zbor,

It appears that the OP has six posts but you tell him to stop trolling? I agree with Abousetta

I'm with zbor on this one. abousetta, xladept, have you read his posts?

Originally Posted by shg

I'm with zbor on this one. abousetta, xladept, have you read his posts?

+1 to this!

Take a look to the (small) history of the poster!

I can only see 1 thread started by the OP, but Im sure that zbor has his justifications for he comments. I know this is the water cooler, and "anything goes", but the thread title does seem a bit "off topic"

@shg & zbor & Fotis - I must be missing something, certainly nothing I saw seemed offensive???

Not offensive, xladept, just irrelevant posts in random threads, followed by his own irrelevant thread. I expect he'd be happier on Twitter.

Thanks shg!

Maybe there are threads/ posts that were deleted by admin/ moderators but what I see (s)he has 5 posts. Three of them were @synodbio thanking the person who provided a solution to another OP (I don't see anything wrong or weird about that). The last two posts are from a thread (s)he started (http://www.excelforum.com/access-tab...e-results.html). How does this constitute trolling (Urban Dictionary: "Being a prick on the internet because you can. Typically unleashing one or more cynical or sarcastic remarks on an innocent by-stander")? Again, there may be threads/ posts that were deleted and so I can't comment on them, but what I see either there is history that only a few members know about and isn't obvious to the rest of us or something else is causing this individual to get treatment that I wouldn't expect a newcomer to receive from the site's leaders.

abousetta

Renewables and recycling it is -- have fun, folks.

It's the concept of what moderators/ admin should be doing and what they shouldn't... people often will bring their desires and complaints about world events to the water cooler and I haven't seen anyone come out against that. Therefore I see a disconnect here (and I don't want to drag this on for too much or to read too much between the lines). If no one wants to comment on this thread then it will die out very quickly... so why threaten the OP???

Originally Posted by zbor

Oh, I forgot u r from Canada so you don't have sun as renewable Energy source :D

I could have easily taken offense to this comment or responded in a sarcastic manner but it wouldn't add anything except animosity.

On the contrary to your suggestion zbor, I find a lot of equipment sold for 'renewable Energy sources' at the common general stores here because a lot of people camp, travel or live in remote areas of Canada where there is no electricity. I even know a colleague who has retried and has a cabin on a remote island where all their electricity comes from solar and wind energy. I personally would like to be more kind to the environment, but am limited by budget (e.g. can't afford an electric-run car) among other things.

Originally Posted by shg

Not offensive, xladept, just irrelevant posts in random threads, followed by his own irrelevant thread. I expect he'd be happier on Twitter.

I'm entirely with you on this one shg and zbor. Looks like the OP is testing how the forum reacts to irrelevant threads ( or future spam for that matter)

The last two posts are from a thread (s)he started (http://www.excelforum.com/access-tab...e-results.html).

I think that's factually incorrect. Here's that thread:

Originally Posted by jiggahoe

Hey Guys,

Since I am investigating in line with my master thesis the correlation between soccer results and stock market returns, I would like to ask you if someone of you know, where I can download champion league results from 1972- 2012. Thanks in advance,

Best regards

Originally Posted by swhitesell

You might want to check wikipedia for some. While normally not used in citations for academic reports, you can easily use their external links to verify.

For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Football_League has links to the results.

Originally Posted by synodbio

Yeah thats true you can find updated results in wikipedia.

Wow, quite a relevant contribution.

At the end of the day, this is an Excel forum. If people interested in Excel want to go off track in the WC, I have no issue. They show up in Recent Posts, but there aren't so many that you need to spend time wading to find a thread about Excel. OTOH, if people with no interest in Excel want this to be a surrogate for Twitter or Dear Abby, the relevant content density will decrease dramatically.

Then maybe the solution is to remove posts from the WC from appearing in the Recent Posts (like the 'introduce yourself' subforum). I understand your logic but we have seen what happens when 'mods' start to act like demigods... making decisions as they wish regardless of whether or not they have anything to do with the 'rules'.

Originally Posted by Pepe Le Mokko

Looks like the OP is testing how the forum reacts to irrelevant threads ( or future spam for that matter)

With this logic, then anyone who asks a lot of questions in an incremental fashion then is really being paid by someone else to find a solution and he is just salami slicing the project and asking questions here on Excelforum to have others do the work for them. Even though this might be possible with some posters, how can we know for sure. How do we prevent posters from being discriminated against for no reason other than 'someone has a gut feeling that they are up to no good'.