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there's no point if there aren't others who can reciprocate. i don't have any interest in teaching people... i'm here to read material by people who already know what they're talking about

I think you need to seriously lower your expectations of this board.

 

The number of regular red taggers in this forum is very low compared to the other regions...well except Philly.

 

You want me to post less then fine, but you need to do your job as a red tagger and help those out that aren't as fortunate as you are to have received a met degree.

 

I would think that a lot of the red taggers here don't mind sharing their knowledge.

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I think these would solve some of the problems.

 

1) No more pbp on models that aren't the ECMWF. We all have access to them and can read them ourselves. I know some of you have paid access to model sites and get them a few minutes faster, but there is no point of 3 people doing PBP on a model that anyone can see on a site accessible to the public. What makes it even worse is people projecting the "trend" of the model at hour 6 for a storm that is 96 hours out. No more model projection. No more model analysis until it reaches the event. I don't care if you think the PV is 50 miles further west, don't try to project that onto what the model will show for the storm. Way too many times people tried to project model outcomes that ended being wrong, then waffled back and forth as each frame came out. I'm not naming anyone but they know who they are so if anyone replies hostilely we know that's an admission of guilt.

 

2) PBP on the ECMWF is good if there are differences such as the PV being 50 miles further west, point that out, but do NOT try to project that onto what the model will show for the storm unless you really know what you are talking about and don't just think you know because you have paid access to the ECMWF. I have access to those same ECMWF maps you do and I wouldn't post about what any differences would mean for the storm until the model was out to the storm and I could say what those changes were.

 

3) "We are going to get crushed" should get crushed. Seriously, no more of that.

 

4) Work to reduce the volume of posts. I visit this sub-forum and have to go through 10 pages of "IT'S A CRUSHING HIT!" to find any decent analysis.

 

If you get defensive at more than one of these ideas then maybe you should look at your own posting and instead of thinking "I'm just enjoying my hobby, who is he to say how should I post?" Think "Maybe he has a point and I will try and improve the quality of my posts" and maybe there wouldn't be this argument.

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there's no point if there aren't others who can reciprocate. i don't have any interest in teaching people... i'm here to read material by people who already know what they're talking about

Then why are you a meteorologist?

 

I think you need to seriously lower your expectations of this board.

 

The number of regular red taggers in this forum is very low compared to the other regions...well except Philly.

 

You want me to post less then fine, but you need to do your job as a red tagger and help those out that aren't as fortunate as you are to have received a met degree.

 

I would think that a lot of the red taggers here don't mind sharing their knowledge.

Exactly.  Forky is a lonely person.

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I think these would solve some of the problems.

 

1) No more pbp on models that aren't the ECMWF. We all have access to them and can read them ourselves. I know some of you have paid access to model sites and get them a few minutes faster, but there is no point of 3 people doing PBP on a model that anyone can see on a site accessible to the public. What makes it even worse is people projecting the "trend" of the model at hour 6 for a storm that is 96 hours out. No more model projection. No more model analysis until it reaches the event. I don't care if you think the PV is 50 miles further west, don't try to project that onto what the model will show for the storm. Way too many times people tried to project model outcomes that ended being wrong, then waffled back and forth as each frame came out. I'm not naming anyone but they know who they are so if anyone replies hostilely we know that's an admission of guilt.

 

2) PBP on the ECMWF is good if there are differences such as the PV being 50 miles further west, point that out, but do NOT try to project that onto what the model will show for the storm unless you really know what you are talking about and don't just think you know because you have paid access to the ECMWF. I have access to those same ECMWF maps you do and I wouldn't post about what any differences would mean for the storm until the model was out to the storm and I could say what those changes were.

 

3) "We are going to get crushed" should get crushed. Seriously, no more of that.

 

4) Work to reduce the volume of posts. I visit this sub-forum and have to go through 10 pages of "IT'S A CRUSHING HIT!" to find any decent analysis.

 

If you get defensive at more than one of these ideas then maybe you should look at your own posting and instead of thinking "I'm just enjoying my hobby, who is he to say how should I post?" Think "Maybe he has a point and I will try and improve the quality of my posts" and maybe there wouldn't be this argument.

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I think these would solve some of the problems.

 

1) No more pbp on models that aren't the ECMWF. We all have access to them and can read them ourselves. I know some of you have paid access to model sites and get them a few minutes faster, but there is no point of 3 people doing PBP on a model that anyone can see on a site accessible to the public. What makes it even worse is people projecting the "trend" of the model at hour 6 for a storm that is 96 hours out. No more model projection. No more model analysis until it reaches the event. I don't care if you think the PV is 50 miles further west, don't try to project that onto what the model will show for the storm. Way too many times people tried to project model outcomes that ended being wrong, then waffled back and forth as each frame came out. I'm not naming anyone but they know who they are so if anyone replies hostilely we know that's an admission of guilt.

 

2) PBP on the ECMWF is good if there are differences such as the PV being 50 miles further west, point that out, but do NOT try to project that onto what the model will show for the storm unless you really know what you are talking about and don't just think you know because you have paid access to the ECMWF. I have access to those same ECMWF maps you do and I wouldn't post about what any differences would mean for the storm until the model was out to the storm and I could say what those changes were.

 

3) "We are going to get crushed" should get crushed. Seriously, no more of that.

 

4) Work to reduce the volume of posts. I visit this sub-forum and have to go through 10 pages of "IT'S A CRUSHING HIT!" to find any decent analysis.

 

If you take one or more of those ideas seriously then maybe you should look at your own posting and instead of thinking "I'm just enjoying my hobby, who is he to say how should I post?" Think "Maybe he has a point and I will try and improve the quality of my posts" and maybe there wouldn't be this argument.

I agree-the contradictory and incorrect PBP's made things very annoying to read through and also sparked bickering back and forth. One person should do PBP for the Euro, that's it. People can analyze and discuss the resulting output all they want, that should be fine. But people just need to use common sense about what's acceptable and not.

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you fill the board with crappy posts. it would be different if we had more meteorologists to balance it out but we don't

This thread is filled with your posts saying that Yanks posts too much...

 

...and with other posters commenting on your posts saying that Yanks posts to much.

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Hey, the PHL sub-forum may not have the red taggers it once did, but if you go into a storm thread, you can easily find quality analysis from...Ray.

There are more posters that post in this sub forum than in that sub forum

 

since when does meteorologist = teacher?

http://weather.about.com/od/weatherfaqs/f/meteorologist.htm

 

A meteorologist is an individual with specialized education who uses scientific principles to explain, understand, observe or forecast the earth's atmospheric phenomena and/or how the atmosphere affects the earth and life on the planet. This specialized education would be a bachelor's or higher degree in meteorology or an atmospheric science. Individuals who have little formal education in the atmospheric sciences, or who have taken only industry survey courses, and who disseminate weather information and forecasts prepared by others, are properly designated weathercasters.

 

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As you can tell by my post count, I probably have 2000 posts in total from joining weather boards since 2003ish lol

 

Im the epitome of read more, post less

I have way too many posts because I'm a big weenie and  I was on Easternwx 24/7 before I got a job at CVS in 2008. I have been five posted 3 times. :cry:

 

In other hot topic for the day news, the sky had a thunderstormish look to the sky that you usually see in the summer from the showers out west. Excited for storm season baby

It smells like rain.

 

Forky can post here however he likes as long as he doesn't violate any board rules. There's no requirement that he "teach people". :lol:

He should teach me how he keeps his body in great shape

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I agree-the contradictory and incorrect PBP's made things very annoying to read through and also sparked bickering back and forth. One person should do PBP for the Euro, that's it. People can analyze and discuss the resulting output all they want, that should be fine. But people just need to use common sense about what's acceptable and not.

I agree with that. It's a pain b/c I have/had to cross over here to read ECM PBP since the PA forum doesn't have anyone for that, and I can't tell you how many times I saw "Hour X blah blah blah this is going to be way better!!!!" then "Hour Y blah blah blah no it's way worse".

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Forky can post here however he likes as long as he doesn't violate any board rules. There's no requirement that he "teach people". :lol:

 

Agreed. He's not obliged to do anything and I certainly don't expect anything. On the other hand, I lurk ALOT and I appreciate yank's posts also. Not everyone is perfect and I can't quite understand from my POV what this argument for the past week is about.

 

If you guys don't like each-others posts, just simply ignore and move on. Forky brings dark humor and I dont mind it one bit. Come on guys, spread the wubs and stop the bickering :wub: :wub: :wub: as you can tell by my name, Im not one that likes to see people argue ;)

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If you don't like the pbp, just skip over it. It's that simple. I know my posts don't mean **** at all but I gave it a shot.

Actually we will become harsher on bad pbp. It's not a matter of skipping over because entire pages become bad analysis. It's really a problem. One that I hope can be solved.

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Actually we will become harsher on pbp. It's not a matter of skipping over because entire pages become bad analysis.

 

To be fair, it's mostly from the posters that just joined. I noticed alot of clutter from low-post posters alot during the last big snowstorm(s) we had.

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Actually we will become harsher on bad pbp. It's not a matter of skipping over because entire pages become bad analysis. It's really a problem. One that I hope can be solved.

Pretty much when giving PbP of the ECMWF state what the model says at a given hour and thats it. No "going to be HECS" or "this is flat as a pancake move on" posts. I can agree with that, more constructive model analysis would be a plus
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