How not to make things

[Jon]

Agreed 100% on vids of that nature in the Homemade Tools main subforum, and in fact we'll be tightening things up a little bit there soon.

But a good fail, or even an entertaining one, is acceptable outside of a tech forum. I actually found a video this week of a, uh, younger gentleman, who decided to EAT a wrench, just to have it surgically removed, and record everything for the glory of the internet. Ironically, I found it in a thread discussing that same concept: the craziest things that people have done to get internet attention. Would've put it in that chocolate tool eating thread, but it was unusually profane, even a bit much for this crowd of adults, in letters superimposed on the video so that it couldn't be turned off.

On another note, I still haven't figured out why our non-tech discussions (Tool Talk and such) are such high quality. Our technical discussions are very high quality, but a small number of other tech forums have that same dynamic. But then you go in many of their non-tech sections, and everyone's arguing about the things that the people on their televisions said. In 10 years, Online Community Technical and Non-Technical Discussion Dynamics will likely be a common doctoral dissertation topic. These days, we're largely just winging it.