I saw a thread in the Programming Questions section which read (in total):
what is the programming code to type in for power5v pin. on arduino uno.
I didn't quite understand the question, but thought that this was not a programming question, but a project guidance question, so I moved it to Project Guidance.
A few minutes later, a series of posts were created, which, to be frank, were a series of expletives which didn't totally make sense. Evidently the poster wants me to do certain improbable things with my anatomy, and indeed thinks the entire forum are, well, people who enjoy pleasuring themselves.
Ah well. Another moderator got to this person and deleted the posts and his/her/its account. At the time all this happened my family and I were watching "The Castle", which is a film which has some gentle humour in it.
Uhm ... when i was young (some geological ages ago :D), when one post in the wrong section (not mentioning the nonsense of the question in that post) and a mod move the post in the right one, the usual reply of the poster was, normally, something like "hey, sorry for the post in the wrong section, and thanks for move it in the right one" ...
Ah, well, times changes, i suppose ... (just joking :D)
I think is what we will have to do.
The OP concerned had 6 days to get his project done, not sure why it was left so late.
Notice another help for school/college project, for mag lev, the OP is IT student, but no practical hands on or electronics, but chose the project him/her self.
Asking for trouble. Hadn't even googled by the looks of it.
Tom....
What's also interesting is that the quickest way of deleting large numbers of posts is to delete the account.
This is what I did after the first few abusive posts, but the poster was so angry, s/he re-registered with the same name, and continued the abuse.
Sometimes I think that users of this forum (particularly new ones) forget, or don't know, that the people who are trying to help them are unpaid volunteers, who do so for the love of electronics, programming, or both.
We aren't paid by Arduino (or Atmel). I include here not only moderators but those other people with hundreds/thousands of posts to their name who visit the forum every day, trying to assist others.
We get accused of not providing a good "service" (which implies we are being paid for providing this service). Or, if someone posts in clearly the wrong section, cross-posts, or is abusive, we get abused back for trying to fix the problem.
It's thankless work, and when you start reading the new threads for the day, and once again the poster has made no attempt to follow forum guidelines (like using code tags) it seems even more thankless. So you reach for the boilerplate that you have, like politely asking "please use code tags" and respond. Half a day later, you get attacked because the forum "isn't friendly", they "didn't know the rules", and "this is no way to treat beginners".
Nick, I have a confession.
It was me who suggested to the Arduino Gods that you be "elevated" to moderator-dom after I was myself, unbidden, so afflicted.
Sometimes I think that users of this forum (particularly new ones) forget, or don't know, that the people who are trying to help them are unpaid volunteers, who do so for the love of electronics, programming, or both
New additions to the group (usually) want one thing:
Get my problem solved now, URGENT.
Do the work for me.
Don't link me to where the information is.
Don't make me think or learn.
Just the facts.
Tell me what I did wrong three days ago.
Well I guess thats more than one.
What is sad is when a new person says "Please be kind to me."
I for one am very pleased with the help offered by all.
While this idiot is busy trying to get access, after creating a number of highly insulting threads, in all caps, and using language that would be more suited to motorcycle gang members discussing each other's shortcomings, I have been working on a high-voltage parallel programmer:
The prototype is working, but as an additional challenge I am working on making it also do high-voltage serial programming (for the smaller chips like the ATtiny).
Power supply. When I write all this up I will explore various ways of getting 12V. It doesn't need much current, so a charge-pump (boost regulator) may well be an option. It's all reasonably straightforward, but I did waste over a day because I had inadvertently connected some of the wires out-by-one. However unlike some of the forum posters who post that the Arduino "can't do maths" I knew that somewhere, somehow, I had done something wrong, and just had to explore to find out what that thing was.
I also want to state that the datasheet, whilst not wrong, is silent on some important points. There are a couple of signals (BS1 and BS2) which for some operations it states must be 0 or 1. However for some other operations they only work if they are zero, but the datasheet doesn't say that.
:D), when one post in the wrong section (not mentioning the nonsense of the question in that post) and a mod move the post in the right one, the usual reply of the poster was, normally, something like "hey, sorry for the post in the wrong section, and thanks for move it in the right one" ...
:D)
