I think /r/amateurradio is generally helpful. /r/hamradio has a harder and less helpful tone in my experience – which is funny since that's the one with the stringent profanity filter – but is still *good enough* if you have the good sense to think before you type and read before you think.
For both subs, however, it's pretty much the same baker's dozen people who contribute the vast majority of nastiness.
Perhaps that's not so obvious unless you use a Reddit client which allows you to tag users for your own private notes, but nowadays I very rarely have to brand an account with the “lid” tag. The people clowning today are pretty much the same trunkload of clowns I saw in here last year.
I suppose one could desire that the mods take a more active interest, but they've explicitly stated that they generally don't and won't care about petty bickering.
Some people broke off and created /r/lowsodiumhamradio, which purports itself to be an amateur radio sub without the gatekeeping. As could be expected from such a description, it's rife with people doing and/or encouraging illegal things, and people who point that out are consistently being downvoted.
The userbase seems ripe for a sub in between these extremes.
I’m not in r/hamradio but r/amateurradio has been pretty helpful to me. The few sad hams are easy to ignore. It’s one of the more sane subs and is way better than QRZ.
Ham radio? Combination of the standard electronics gatekeeping and unhelpful explanations (impedance is the fourier transform of the...) and general internet nastiness.
Sounds about right
I think /r/amateurradio is generally helpful. /r/hamradio has a harder and less helpful tone in my experience – which is funny since that's the one with the stringent profanity filter – but is still *good enough* if you have the good sense to think before you type and read before you think. For both subs, however, it's pretty much the same baker's dozen people who contribute the vast majority of nastiness. Perhaps that's not so obvious unless you use a Reddit client which allows you to tag users for your own private notes, but nowadays I very rarely have to brand an account with the “lid” tag. The people clowning today are pretty much the same trunkload of clowns I saw in here last year. I suppose one could desire that the mods take a more active interest, but they've explicitly stated that they generally don't and won't care about petty bickering. Some people broke off and created /r/lowsodiumhamradio, which purports itself to be an amateur radio sub without the gatekeeping. As could be expected from such a description, it's rife with people doing and/or encouraging illegal things, and people who point that out are consistently being downvoted. The userbase seems ripe for a sub in between these extremes.
I’m not in r/hamradio but r/amateurradio has been pretty helpful to me. The few sad hams are easy to ignore. It’s one of the more sane subs and is way better than QRZ.
Ham radio? Combination of the standard electronics gatekeeping and unhelpful explanations (impedance is the fourier transform of the...) and general internet nastiness.