Industrial Heat's James A. Bass: President of Reactance Engineering Inc and Engineer for JM Products

Ditto to MY

if some process was generating close to 1200 continuous horsepower of energy in a 20 foot conex container,
a gerbil could determine that something significant was going on, without the use of a calorimeter

@Abd

You will be missed if you leave; and I can understand it is hurtful when posts are removed.

Alan has a difficult job. He does not do it as I would, draws lines in different places, etc. But no line drawn will be liked by everyone and he is doing this job, I don't think he is distorting the topic by doing it: in this case the deletions were because off topic. Therefore I think we should all support him, regardless of whether we agree with details of what he does.

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The posts were deleted because of off topic content.

Why is that a problem? Who cares? Don't read off topic messages if you don't feel like it. If the messages were disruptive, personal attacks, or lies, or extreme technical stupidity I can understand why you might wish to delete them, but just being off-topic is no reason to delete them. Besides, can't you just re-assign them to another thread?

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Incidentally I have majority management/admin support for my action.

Okay, they are pretty dumb too. This is a misguided policy. I will not leave in a huff, but I am not going to put effort into writing messages when you delete them for no good reason.

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Don't read off topic messages if you don't feel like it.

Yes but how can you tell it's off topic, before you read it? For example, I just had to read all of your message above, before I realised it had absolutely nothing to do with James A Bass.

Quote from zeus46

Yes but how can you tell it's off topic, before you read it?

Skim. Glance at the first sentence. Skip the rest.

It the message is in response to another off-topic message, skip it.

How do you know not to read on-topic messages about topics that do not interest you? Is that difficult?

Quote from JedRothwell

How do you know not to read on-topic messages about topics that do not interest you? Is that difficult?

Not at all. Why would I even want to read on-topic messages about a topic that does not interest me?