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Severe WX April 1-2 (overnight) Severe Weather Event

This whole thing on Twitter just kind of proves my point. The “action figure” BS and then the weird attempt at pubic shaming an entire site just tells me everything I need to know. This is someone just doing the usual social media BS of trying to “own people” for their followers and set himself up as some kind of weather twitter celebrity.

Luckily for him the NWS contacts he has spoken with are gracious with their knowledge and haven’t acted like he was stupid for asking a legitimate question like he seems to do with people. Kid has a ton of growing up to do IMO.
 
ColdFront said:
This whole thing on Twitter just kind of proves my point. The “action figure” BS and then the weird attempt at pubic shaming an entire site just tells me everything I need to know. This is someone just doing the usual social media BS of trying to “own people” for their followers and set himself up as some kind of weather twitter celebrity.

Luckily for him the NWS contacts he has spoken with are gracious with their knowledge and haven’t acted like he was stupid for asking a legitimate question like he seems to do with people. Kid has a ton of growing up to do IMO.
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To be fair.
 
jiharris0220 said:
To be fair.
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Hahaha that is a funny depiction of Reed. I’m not on that dumpster fire of a website so I wasn’t aware it was trending to do that. I thought he did it purposely with the two EF4 additions since Tornado Examiner said he stated they should be extinct. Although I don’t know why he’d be mad over that, tornado examiner is always ranting about something.

If he would’ve actually paid attention he would realize there are other posters than examiner
 
ColdFront said:
This whole thing on Twitter just kind of proves my point. The “action figure” BS and then the weird attempt at pubic shaming an entire site just tells me everything I need to know. This is someone just doing the usual social media BS of trying to “own people” for their followers and set himself up as some kind of weather twitter celebrity.

Luckily for him the NWS contacts he has spoken with are gracious with their knowledge and haven’t acted like he was stupid for asking a legitimate question like he seems to do with people. Kid has a ton of growing up to do IMO.
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If you show ignored content on this page, there is some pretty embarrassing stuff posted by some members. I'm not sure what he posted however some of the behavior on this site has been pretty immature. Can't help but cringe at this thread.
 
eep said:
If you show ignored content on this page, there is some pretty embarrassing stuff posted by some members. I'm not sure what he posted however some of the behavior on this site has been pretty immature. Can't help but cringe at this thread.
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It’s the same people every time though. It’s not like this is a pow wow of the entire site ripping on NWS members. I just have an issue with him acting like it’s the entire site doing it

And the Slenker question he posted trying to insinuate we don’t know what we are talking about was complete BS. Just not a fan of this guy.
 
ColdFront said:
It’s the same people every time though. It’s not like this is a pow wow of the entire site ripping on NWS members. I just have an issue with him acting like it’s the entire site doing it

And the Slenker question he posted trying to insinuate we don’t know what we are talking about was complete BS. Just not a fan of this guy.
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I understand the fact that specific members cause these problems, but you also have to understand that lurkers who do not sign up and are not as familiar with the site may base their opinions of the site on those specific bad apples. Maybe I wish that the mod team was a little bit harsher on some of these folk, oh well.

I think that the Slenker question was just bad tone on his part, it was an ok response and it was otherwise pretty informative. I think it's just really hard to read tone in text sometimes. I've also personally been reading a lot of his construction critiques as more of a backup to contextual damage. So I may be biased in that regard.
 
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eep said:
I understand the fact that specific members cause these problems, but you also have to understand that lurkers who do not sign up and are not as familiar with the site may base their opinions of the site on those specific bad apples. Maybe I wish that the mod team was a little bit harsher on some of these folk, oh well.

I think that the Slenker question was just bad tone on his part, it was an ok response and it was otherwise pretty informative. I think it's just really hard to read tone in text sometimes. I've also personally been reading a lot of his construction critiques as more of a backup to contextual damage. So I may be biased in that regard.
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It wasn’t bad tone. It was intentional. He included it in the screenshot about how people don’t need to go to talk weather to discuss tornado ratings and was using the “what is load bearing path” as an example to try and insinuate people on here aren’t knowledgeable. Have you actually seen the tweet he put out? You just can’t justifiably defend the public shaming attempt he did. I agree with your top point. But he was wrong to do the tweet, full stop. It’s typical social media “owning attempt” BS that is so prevalent in society today.
 
ColdFront said:
It wasn’t bad tone. It was intentional. He included it in the screenshot about how people don’t need to go to talk
weather to discuss tornado ratings and was using the “what is load bearing path” as an example to try and insinuate people on here aren’t knowledgeable. You just can’t justifiably defend the public shaming attempt he did. I agree with your top point. But he was wrong to do the tweet, full stop.
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I didn't see the tweet and have been trying to avoid looking at it, so I'm not exactly sure what he said. However I will concede that he was probably cherry picking an interaction that wasn't even in bad faith. Which is actually pretty poor behavior on his part.

Feel like misrepresenting a good faith interaction is a cardinal sin online lol, sours my taste of him.
 
eep said:
I didn't see the tweet and have been trying to avoid looking at it, so I'm not exactly sure what he said. However I will concede that he was probably cherry picking an interaction that wasn't even in bad faith. Which is actually pretty poor behavior on his part.
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Agreed. I’m going to stop clogging up this thread with this as well. So the damage survey critiques can continue
 
Not much to add, but @NickKrasz_Wx basing his opinion of the TalkWeather community entirely on a single immature poster (said poster does the exact same thing on twitter, but that fact doesn't fit the narrative Nick is spoonfeeding to his followers) and then using it to publicly shame the entire forum is pretty crappy to say the least.

Now I remember why I said he is full of it... it's because he tries to get his twitter followers riled up with crap like this!


And no, I'm not gonna use AI to turn myself into a fake action figure.
 
Regardless of anyone’s opinion of Nick (not a fan myself), this could have been handled better. The problem is that there are a couple of users who’s presence here is like a fire extinguisher against well-informed, mature discussion. Valid and knowledgeable EF scale discussion does take place here, but thanks to those few, it was buried under a bunch of low-quality posts and the forum was misrepresented. Great job guys.
 
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It’s typically what happens…I usually tend to keep the debating of these particular tornadoes to the threads they occur on because it’s directly related. survey updates and things post event just happen to stay here for me.
 
buckeye05 said:
Regardless of anyone’s opinion of Nick (not a fan myself), this could have been handled better. The problem is that there are a couple of users whose presence here is like a fire extinguisher against well-informed, mature discussion. Valid and knowledgeable EF scale discussion does take place here, but thanks to those few, it was buried under a bunch of low-quality posts and the forum was misrepresented. Great job guys.
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Agreed. I probably got a little too heated over the talk weather tweet-shaming. I will say, with everything the NWS is going through right now with cuts, a certain user, who posted earlier “we need to start holding surveyor’s feet to the fire” is also a bad opinion, statement, and look.

We have 2-3 posters every time the EF scale discussion starts up that never fail to turn it into a fifth grade food fight.
 
tornado examiner said:
It’s typically what happens…I usually tend to keep the debating of these particular tornadoes to the threads they occur on because it’s directly related. survey updates and things post event just happen to stay here for me.
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Dude just stop. You cherry picked a tweet about Rochelle, and in defense of Nick, put words in his mouth. You’re always at the center of these ruckuses over the EF scale every time on here and Twitter.
 
TH2002 said:
Not much to add, but @NickKrasz_Wx basing his opinion of the TalkWeather community entirely on a single immature poster (said poster does the exact same thing on twitter, but that fact doesn't fit the narrative Nick is spoonfeeding to his followers) and then using it to publicly shame the entire forum is pretty crappy to say the least.

Now I remember why I said he is full of it... it's because he tries to get his twitter followers riled up with crap like this!


And no, I'm not gonna use AI to turn myself into a fake action figure.
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Oh slam..
 
AJS said:
Friendly reminder that it costs zero dollars to be a pain in the a*s in any discussion or situation.
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I just get sick and tired of people believing every authorative person who rates tornadoes without questions. I probably am part of the problem but I am sick and tired of these people thinking that they own the EF-SCALE and do whatever they want with it and do what it is intended for.
 
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