So the current sticky is pretty old and some of the links are dead: time for an update.
This thread is intended as a place where PrepHole users can post suggestions for new links or material that should be included in an updated sticky. If there is some resource that gets regularly posted for new users or as a way to find answers to common questions, it should be posted here.
The rules of PrepHole are not going to be changing (so no weapons, no drugs, no sex toys, etc), but if there are etiquette problems not adequately addressed by the rules or the current sticky, feel free to mention those as well.
This thread will be open for several days. Try to keep off-topic or otherwise irrelevant posts to a minimum such that we can stay focused on improving the sticky.
>New to HAM Radio? Read this shit!
http://www.arrl.org/what-is-ham-radio
https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/bureau-divisions/mobility-division/amateur-radio-service
>Your search engine of choice works well too!
>Ham Radio FAQ
https://archive.is/PjR5s
>Idiot's Guide to Coax Cable
https://www.pcs-electronics.com/guide_coax.php
>Looking for frequencies to monitor near you?
http://www.radioreference.com
>Basic Rx loop fundamentals
https://www.w8ji.com/magnetic_receiving_loops.htm
>DIY SWL Mag. Loop
http://www.kr1st.com/swlloop.htm
>Small Tx Loop
http://webclass.org/k5ijb/antennas/Small-magnetic-loops.htm
>In Depth Loop articles
http://www.kk5jy.net/magloop/
>Homebrew RF Circuits
https://www.qsl.net/va3iul/Homebrew_RF_Circuit_Design_Ideas/Homebrew_RF_Circuit_Design_Ideas.htm
>NEW Library
https://mega.nz/file/UCgEGAjb#rwNcnMAQCUUbSp8supsFvn9QEHCWUW86eLcZa16ZG4Y
>Online Practice Tests:
http://aa9pw.com/
https://hamstudy.org/
https://hamexam.org/
> Real-Time Propagation Data
http://prop.kc2g.com/
>Space Weather
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/radio-communications
>WSJT-X 2.1 User Guide
https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main-2.1.2.html
>Homosexual (ft8) guide
https://www.g4ifb.com/FT8_Hinson_tips_for_HF_DXers.pdf
>APRS
http://www.aprs.org/
>Weather Fax resources
https://www.weather.gov/media/marine/rfax.pdf
https://weatherfax.com/stations/
>point to point predictions, its free and will give you an idea of how much power/ what frequencies to use to reliably talk to your friend
https://www.voacap.com/hf/
>how do I into Morse code in a good way?
https://pastebin.com/HByjfN4F
>Incredibly comprehensive list of electronics resources:
https://github.com/kitspace/awesome-electronics
>Project ideas:
https://adafruit.com
https://instructables.com/tag/type-id/category-technology/
https://makezine.com/category/electronics/
https://hackaday.io
>Archive of Popular Electronics magazines (1954-2003):
https://worldradiohistory.com/Popular-Electronics-Guide.htm
>Microchip Tips and Tricks PDF:
https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/devicedoc/01146b.pdf
>Li+/LiPo batteries required reading:
>https://buster-spb.ru/files/SAFT/li-ion_user_manua.pdf
>Your 3D print failed?
https://www.simplify3d.com/support/print-quality-troubleshooting/
>Calibrate your 3D printer.
https://teachingtechyt.github.io/calibration.html
>Where can I get things to print?
https://www.thingiverse.com/
https://thangs.com/
https://printables.com/
https://grabcad.com/
https://www.yeggi.com/
https://cults3d.com/
Sounds like power hungry mods trying to change PrepHole to me. The old sticky is fine.
>The rules of PrepHole are not going to be changing (so no weapons, no drugs, no sex toys, etc)
There's a drug manufacturing thread that's been up for over a month, you dumb cuck. Also, half the questions asked on this board can be rapidly and effectively answered using one of the GPT type services. Maybe you should put in a link to some free ones like perplexity.ai
These. Just permanently sticky a /sqtddtot/ and clean the board up
>Just permanently sticky a /sqtddtot/ and clean the board up
This is the only thing the board needs. Worrying about the sticky is like going into debt to put rims and a new paint job on an '83 Escort with a blown motor.
Sorted by creation date, the top rows of the catalog offer the following:
A picture of some guy
A stupid question by some ESL moron
B-but it's PrepHole related because we all had them jobs before amirite?
Yeah, it's just some queer's blog, but there is a picture of a tape measure there, so...
There's possibly even more that qualify, but at a solid 4 of 14 posts being moronic trash, that's damn near a 30% garbage rate for the board.
So, to sum up:
>screw the sticky
>make, sticky, and enforce SQTDDTOT
>clean up the moronation
You know - the basic sorts of things mods are supposed to do.
The digital tape measure nerd got bullied mercilessly though lol
I like bullying morons who don't k ow how to Google vasic shit. I say leave those up for our amusement
the dumb cuck was trying to blame boomers for his lack of tape measure skills. also kept talking about PLC ladder logic as if it was something highly intelligent wizards use and not mouth drooling boomers lol.
if they were actually removing things that weren't high quality DIY threads, then 95% of posters and threads would be removed. That would leave a dead and empty board--- what would be the point?
It would be a better board. They did this with PrepHole at one point, where the mods ACTUALLY moderated the board and deleted gear threads and garbage threads and while the board slowed down, the quality went WAY up. Then the mods got lazy and just let it go back to being shit.
It would be a good thing.
I don't really disagree with you, but at the same time, having a completely dead board is basically the same as not having a board at all. And if you're OK with that, you could just choose to never return to this board
>ll. And if you're OK with that, YOU could just choose to never return to this board
>I would rather have a board full of shit for my ADHD Zoomie brain to constantly scroll instead of having to WAIT for good content!
How about you eat a gun.
i think you're misinterpreting what I am saying. If 99% of content gets deleted from the board and 99% of the posters get banned, then there won't really be a board anymore.
In other words, there won't be anything left.
>having a completely dead board is basically
the board's already dead.
mindless, pointless shitposts stay up for weeks, often a month or more.
Right now, at the bottom of the catalog, is this gem
What kind of tradesmen are most miserable
Created July 17th
What is PrepHole about that? The pic of a guy in a green vest and a hardhat?
It's the same shitflood that's on every board now. Whether it's stupid zoomer humor or an actual concerted effort by malcontents (
) is irrelevant. It's stupid, moronic shit.
How can you possibly be arguing on the side of stupid moronic shit?
>well uh without the stupid moronic shit there would be a dead board
>i like my shitposting with pictures of tools that's why
You're a fricking moron, and probably the one that posts
>how do i undo screw
once a week.
Stickying a SQTDDTOT and then deleting stupid question threads would go along way towards cleaning up the board.
Trying to flat out ban everything that you don't think is good enough content is stupid, impractical, and pointless. You may have autism and mental moronation if you're unable to understand that.
Yes and we should have an upvote feature and rename the website “reddit.chan” and definitely no talking about “them” in a demeaning way unless it’s Jared Kushner.
We should ban name gays and implement per-thread poster id's to stop same posters though.
I agree a lot of this is dumb shit.
No posting about DIYs you've done. Mod deleted the thread about that yesterday.
No posting about blue collar work you did. Mod deleted that.
No posting dumb questions unless they're quarantined I. Sqtddtot
Just delete the whole board.
This fits better as the hangout spot for people that identify as diy peeps or blue collar workers, so just let us talk about whatever
>anon used logic and sense
>this upsets the tripgay
Banning this guy would also massively improve PrepHole.
>Trying to flat out ban everything that you don't think is good enough content
Again, I didn't say that. You're agreeing with me, and then putting words in my mouth so you can keep arguing.
Should stupid shit be corralled into a stupid shit thread? Yes.
Is there some shit that's just too stupid to exist? Yes, and if you're saying there isn't, you're either a liar or one of the people doing it.
Here's another israeliteel from the bottom of the catalog:
. It's over a month old. There's no question, it's just a shitpost, though it does eventually evolve into general talk about 3d printers. /3dpg/ exists. Why isn't it there?
>People don't respond to
That's completely untrue. This board is chock full of helpful boomers and namegays tripping over each other trying to prove to everyone how smart they are.
A stickied SQTTDDTOT would immediately turn into /qa/ you stinky dumbdumb
It would be a useful board. Quantity is not interesting.
Because the rules won't change nothing will be better. No one reads the sticky.
you forgot about the romanian kid and his multiple threads
Second. every one of the "creative" boards should have a stickied /sqtddtot/. At least then when morons ignore them and post the 100th "How do I remove this screw??" they can just die.
it's nearly a decade old
This. Everybody has to change everything all the time. It isn't worth it. Fixing things only attracts israelites and troons.
Here's an idea: have a nice day(diy style) you fricking homosexual
cheers!
dont forget to add /ouranime/
Seconding this.
I-is she tickling the dragon's tail?
It's perfectly safe, I wouldn't worry about it!
Posting in a sticky
>etiquette problems
who let this moronic homosexual in here
can we please get a .png or atleast a proper res sticky image so it doesn't look like shit
add this in bold or something
>Stupid questions will elicit stupid responses. Research your topic beforehand to increase thread quality.
Seconded. The number of moronic questions or projects that get posted is ridiculous. If you're seeking anecdotal advice on things that are already covered on the internet then sure, but half the posts are "der I had gamer rage and punched a hole in my apartment wall and im afraid of the landlord what do?" or something similar. I don't mind chiming in with ideas for projects or advice but a lot of the questions here are answerable with 3 seconds on any search engine.
Also I'm not sure how to make it happen, but it would be nice to encourage more start-to-finish projects. Sort of like how PrepHole has complete meal threads. I get that PrepHole is a slower process but the board is also slower.
Sticking in a posty
Basic soldering videos from pace:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL926EC0F1F93C1837&si=0q5dDDc1McvHkxH0
Please include something about banning for meming about how to hanging yourself
>Every thread belongs in a general.
Frick off. I hate "general" threads. Go to some traditional forum if you don't like people just making threads.
That's not at all what I said. Who are you quoting? I don't really care for generals, either, though they do have their purpose. Personally, I block all generals on every board I use.
Mods should be cleaning up the garbage. They're not.
>mods should be doing their jobs
Hmmmm best we can do is hire a couple janny troonys (for free) to make the board worse.
Sorry man but this has a been a problem on pretty much every board since like 2015, especially since all the popular alts got nuked. Best you can do is filter stuff. Remember, this is intentional and will never be fixed. Various groups want to drive out the users, and the only way that works so far is to flood the boards with low quality spam until the site becomes unusable. You can go read billion dollar think tanks and bunker troony discords talking about this exact plan. These weirdos think being able to say Black person anonymously on the internet is going to ruin their plans of utopia and are spending a lot of effort to shit up the place. It’s only going to get worse in the run up to the American election so be ready.
>inb4 right wing poll tard!!!!
I hate politics, the discussion of politics, and the American “right”, but the problem with this board (and most boards) is political. Organized groups want to kill PrepHole because Hillary lost the election. yes, people unironically believe this, look it up.
>the problem with this board is political.
Seriously? Link to one decent thread derailed by politics before OP received all the help he needed.
This board is fine for me, albeit it's chock full of idiots or trolls giving bad advice, but that is what makes this PrepHole more fun than the others. I've yet to see a decent thread not give OP all the advice he needs, except for esoteric topics where nobody actually can provide insight.
The point
^
Your head
>. Organized groups want to kill PrepHole because Hillary lost the election. yes, people unironically believe this, look it up.
you're the only one making this conversation political with your nutjob conspiracy theories.
Ahem... maybe read the OP again: HE SAID THE RULES WEREN'T GOING TO CHANGE, JUST TELL HIM WHAT WOULD MAKE A BETTER STICKY.
And some shit about etiquette, but we don't need no steenkin etiquette.
lol OP is not a mod or any staff and cant change anything. this thread is just so OP can feel special. mods wont give a shit and if anything was official a actual mod would post a thread and sticky it. frick you frick OP
wild janny spotted, but he will do nothing.
heat those hotpockets quicker and get back to work. AND NO YOU ARE NOT GETTING PAID.
jannies cant post as mods you moron. it even says MOD on the post stupid. how new are you
OMG I'M MAKING PrepHole HISTORY!
Mom get the camera.
90% of threads these days are brainlets asking stupid questions and poorgays trying to make $3 tools / parts instead of just buying them. This board needs to be renamed /pf/ - Poorgay
There's nothing wrong with being a poorgay, especially if you're young. A lot of us have been there and managed to lift ourselves out of poverty. But yeah the stupid ass threads should result in a b&. The board just needs heavy moderation and enforcement of /sqtddtot/ for just a few weeks. That would be a step in the right direction.
being poor is part of why you want to diy shit
Posh only /diy threads incoming. Fancy royale.
Finna thoeverbeit
N
Every once in a while a gardening post appears, it would be nice to remind to people that there is not one(/an/), two(/out/) but three(/ck/) boards whit gardening generals, we don't need more, also ZOMG POSTING IN A STICKE
Frick jannies
We need a permanent /pjg/ (piss jug general) thread
Honk was here
https://learnabout-electronics.org/index.php
Yeah, frick that. The SQT is garbage, you'll rarely get a solid answer there.
delete the sticky
nobody reads it anyways, they just make a new thread to ask dumb questions
the links will change in less than a year after its posted and instantly be outdated
PrepHole (or any board for that matter) cant agree on anything, just ask which tool/screw is better
nobody follows the rules, janny needs to clean up more often
<--reddit is that way
>the links will change in less than a year after its posted and instantly be outdated
So the solution is just to...
Archive the links.
This, mods and jannies are gay . There's no sense trying to mold the chatter beyond cleaning up obvious crap.
>nobody reads it anyways
Exactly. Nobody. Or if they do they just don't care. Even the rules, weapon, drugs and dildo/vibrators come up a lot.
check catalogue before posting new thread
DON'T copy/paste old threads repeatedly and post them automatically. Hoping for different answers and actionable reactions/posts.
If you come here year after year, and the same thread with very little change gets repeated, that's lots of wasted bandwidth and falsified evidence/info and shit.
JUST CHECK THAT CATALOGUE BUTTON FIRST!! Then jump into a newish/existing thread that covers what you are looking into doing. Saves on having to copy/paste trying to figure out how to do/keep up with continuing projects and stuff.
Better than becoming like v/ or other boards. Also fishing threads always full of hot women/(men if you prefer that shit/sex) because of the obvious sexual connotation's of a picture of a fish with its mouth in an O position and a sex person holding said fish up to camera.
>check catalogue before posting new thread
Those kind of people won't read a sticky.
>DON'T copy/paste old threads repeatedly and post them automatically. Hoping for different answers and actionable reactions/posts.
That's trolling. You don't need to put no trolling a sticky because
>It's already a global rule
>intentional shitposters are going to intentionally shitpost regardless and telling them not to can only incentivize to do it more often
A sticky won't fix chronic shitposting, only moderation will. The moderation here is trash. I started a legitimate thread about welding different types of metals or something that was deleted for spamming. Somebody starts a thread pretending to be a girl that's trying to dig a hole and it's up for months.
what the hell is the obvious sexual connotation of a girl holding a fish?!
This
That’s probably anon who tries to hijack the fishin generals
Not bad, more proactive than bot-spamming /x/ mods that still have half of their sticky links dead
Yay, I'm in a sticky!
Thank for new and improved sticky.
sticky's fine tbh. just replace the dead links
(which dead links? engineer toolbox works fine, maybe just give it an https:// link)
>Organized groups want to kill PrepHole
It is dead already. A dessicated corpse.
Pornbrains alone will destroy this forum beyond recognition.
Just be glad it's here now. It won't be in 15 years. The only option will be shiddit and by then I'll be glad I neglected investment into the digital realm for all the caveats and TOCs and psychosocial engineering.
I don't see PrepHole getting better until newbies stop bumping shit threads instead of letting them die and organic development of real DIY posting.
Just hope for decent jannies that aren't israelited up powerprostitutes with no sense of discretion or context
>organic development
This is the exact target.
Trains of thought derailed, conversations interrupted with bait and spam, constant porn and troll threads everywhere, deleting or moving funny and original content, this is the target. For varying reasons all these groups see organic development of thought (and even worse, organization) as a uncontrollable threat. For example, there’s been an effort of /k/ to make America generals for like 10 years now, but they constantly get nuked because the jannys are afraid of people having meaningful on topic discussion. God forbid the biggest country on earth with a high firearms ownership rate and gun culture get its own general on a gun board.
I mean what kind of dude volunteers to be an internet janitor for free only to do a bad job? Only someone with ulterior motives.
Which makes me realize "you do it for free" probably only applies to what few hyper programmed jannies independent of an oblique, prescribed, and definite agenda; of that, I agree, poisons the entire userbase with a certainly political motivation, american politics aside. If it weren't for the publicly available enumeration of posts this forum would surely be the hell of dead internet.
VPNs are all owned, you are always clearnet to someone seven proxies or not so I would put exactly zero stock in the notion of anonymity. It's a bygone notion and anyone who disagrees automatically self doxes
PrepHole is basically a honeypot in the vein of that secret book in 1984, using the yiddish argument of functionalism.
This is the last place to farm "extremists" and it only exists because its usefulness to such and other ends has not been expended. When moot left it died. Maybe before. But it was only a matter of time...
Yup, but it does make me laugh that some fat loser will be forced to sit at a desk and read all my posts, either janny or employee of some state or group. They are trapped in here with us forever. I’m here because it’s fun, they’re here because they hate it. Our reward is their punishment.
>I’m here because it’s fun, they’re here because they hate it. Our reward is their punishment
Cheers anon; thanks for being here and being real. Riding this b***h until the wheels fall off
Please tell the homosexual mods on PrepHole to update the sticky there too. PrepHole isn't a slow board anymore, threads die the day they are posted. The PrepHole wiki is dead and never gets updated, the charts are old/outdated and unnecessary.
Get rid of Kevin.
PLEASE
>Tool thread
>Namegay spamming his clean unused tools
EVERY TIME
A bunch of those posts aren't even bad.
People don't respond to threads that are too verbose, unfortunately. That's why people are terse in the OPs.
Don't use "maker" again.
We're not effeminate prissies painting figures and gluing random shit together to make an ugly, useless thing that will sit on a shelf gathering dust.
moron
Nah, I agree with that anon and always thought the term was out of place here.
Figure painting isn't a "maker" thing. Electronics and 3D printing fall under that umbrella.
I don't care about gatekeeping the term, I just agree that it doesn't fit the board
I think it kind of does, but maybe.
When I hear "maker" I envision some thin-wristed permanent virgin broccoli hair zoomer 3d printing funko pop scans and getting upset at people doing real work in their "makerspace"
When I hear "Do it yourselfer" I see a dad teaching a kid to fix his bike, a guy welding a decorative fence for his family garden, a kid learning to work on his car for the first time, or someone doing repairs on his house.
What you have made up in your head isn't reality, however.
Yes it is. Maker is an insult and should get you warned then banned
wordfilter "maker"
Into what?
or whomsted?
McTools
real.
change it to "reddit"
>when i hear X i envision Y
that is your personal problem, a maker is anyone who makes stuff
If you called me a maker to my face I'd punch you in the mouth
You're a c**t. Those are great threads and the subject matter interesting. AND whoever deleted my comment before about jannies and mods being gay will never be a real woman.
"Nobody reads the sticky" is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
There's no way to know whether it's true or not because you can't see the posts that people didn't make as a result of it.
I ignore the sticky on every board
Rule 1: Dont reply too Kevin
This. Dude doesn't understand half of the things he's giving guidance and advice on.
I am permanently in the sticky post now >:D
More threads about gay buttsex
Bosting in griddy
NICE! love being part of history.
>Battery info:
https://batteryuniversity.com/articles
>Troubleshooting
https://artoftroubleshooting.com/
>Open Source Robotics
https://robotacademy.net.au/
>Teaching Tech
https://teachtogether.tech/en/index.html
>Guerrila guide to CNC and resin casting
https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/
Fukken classic
Now I'm inmortalised for infinity. Javier M-R was here.
"Google it first" could use stronger language, so when anons point it out to OPs they'll feel humbled.
Mostly to deal with the garbage threads like "I have some piece of garbage I didn't want to throw away, what can I make with it?"
Also no asking how to use/sell/fix stolen items. Give it back, Jamal.
I like the other anon's suggestion to sticky a SQTDDTOT. The threads that have poor engagement can just die off or they can be told to post it in the sticky.
put some guides on how to drill a 2feet wide * 500feet deep hole in your backyard(without any tool of course)
Can you tell /misc/ troony mods YWNBAW and do their fricking jobs.
>No, we can't do anything about low-effort posts
we could report them and not reply to them
alright who bumped the board and knocked the pin out of this sticky
chuck's
formerly sticky
yeah
so yeah this all worked out great
the board's still a dumping ground of moronic questions and irrelevant bullshit, but shit, we got a new sticky.
top notch work right there.
No one in this thread can even agree on what they think is and isn't on topic for the board, so I don't know what you expected to change.
I think we can all agree op is a homosexual
Outerzone. Thousands upon thousands... upon thousands... of high-quality, mostly manually retouched model aircraft plans, of all kinds, for free, going back decades. This is one of the PrepHole gems of the internet
https://outerzone.co.uk/