The last time I participated, a guy had build a loft in his garage that was going to fall on his head or his car within a year. Sooner if he actually put all the stuff on his shelves up there.
try /r/woodworking for a more mature conversation.
The people who know they fucked up post self-deprecating pictures for a group chuckle. Showing your first dovetail (even if it looks like a 10 year old made it) is practically a rite of passage. The rest of the projects are usually small enough they can't kill people, or anchored to the floor so you might lose a toe at worst.
Re:I built a lay-down desk
by TheRealDunkirk on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @10:13AM
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> Nobody who's actually contributing content of any value is going to stick around somewhere they have to take shit from a bunch of internet riff-raff that isn't contributing anything.
Ah, yes. The exact realization I had, 26 years ago, which made me finally give up on asking questions in EFNet #Linux.
The people who actually build cool stuff left because they didn't like a bunch of people with little to no experience in the things they are doing telling them about how they should have done them and that should have worn more safety glasses, used more jack stands and that a Dremel is going to eat their hand if they use it while wearing work gloves. Nobody who's actually contributing content of any value is going to stick around somewhere they have to take shit from a bunch of internet riff-raff that isn't contributing anything.
There's calling out stuff that's actually unlikely to last and there's pandering to the safety crowd for virtue points and the publicly accessible internet is rife with the former while actual constructive criticism is proportionally rare. For every comment to the tune of "you should consider fastener X because your application is Y and that plays to X's strength Z" there are ten teenagers (or adults acting like teenagers) making some low effort jab about something in the building code, or some written list of best practices, they don't understand the reasons behind.
It takes time and effort to build something. It doesn't take any time and effort to make some quip about PPE so that a bunch of teenagers can click on an up arrow and you can get your fix. The people actually building things got sick of being used like that.