It's our attention to AT that makes the purchase valuable. The forums are a part of that. The specter of sweeping changes must as an unappealing to them as it is to us.
Eh, I'm in no rush to go anywhere; I'll just wait and see. If all the posters worth talking with start migrating somewhere else I'm sure I'll notice. ATOT has changed a lot since I joined, and it did it all on its own. Some of it's worse, some of it's better, but on the whole it's still decent.
Yeah, I do have to agree with that. As much lip service that is given that things are going to stay the same, that is already exactly all it is, lip service. They have already changed things with the removal of dailytech feed/links.
It isn't a good start if you ask me, and certainly doesn't help the community feel good about the purchase. One of the reasons so many of us read Anandtech was the fact that the marketing and editorial were completely different entities with no power over the other. The ad sales for the site could not influence the reviews. As a result Anandtech had no problem at all calling out manufacturers and products that had blatant bad ideas and poor support, and the community that read Anandtech was what allowed the site to have the influence to force changes and fixes to occur on those products. No major manufacturer wanted to get called out in an article on Anandtech for screwing something up, and all tried extremely hard to work with the reviewers on this site to resolve any problem that cropped up because the reviews of this site were so influential to the internet audience.
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I like to hear from people who know where the bodies are buried and the landmines are strewn.
Sorry, I'm not one of you nerds who obediently follow around a female forum member wagging your tail and asking her how high when she says "Jump!"
GA was banned with Mosh due to the same incident of downloading the golden mod list...when all that happened. Gaynor...eh, he was more often an ass than not, and I seem to recall him being banned over some particularly assholeish thread. don't recall the details, though.GA and Gayner (or Gaynor, however you spell it; what happened to him?) were great for lulz.
I think Nick was banned for supporting mosh and/or colluding with the download...or so the official story went. I think the same is true with WYD and MoTF Bane. At least, I recall all of them being a part of "The Great Banning" in some way.Nick1985, WYD, and MoTF Bane should be unbanned however, along with those other guys.
So if the website is no longer updated at some point, will the website and forums stay up and accessible, if only in archived form? Or will the website and forums all just be ancient history? Or would the forums split off and become a separate entity?
Just that Politics and News gets a little raw sometimes. I figure that'll make the legal department nervous.
So, was I the only one here who saw this situation coming on like a speeding freight train after Anand left?
Just wait until they decide to "update" the forums with new rules, mods and forum areas; purge and delete all the officially unacceptable, rude posts and unwanted forum areas; and change how ads are displayed to increase ad revenue.
Because money talks a lot louder than any BSing lifer's posts here can.
If you truly want that, you're going to have to give some assurances of immunity.I like to hear from people who know where the bodies are buried and the landmines are strewn. Could you PM me with some examples and areas of concern?
So, was I the only one here who saw this situation coming on like a speeding freight train after Anand left?
That's a rather dire prognostication!
Communities and the preservation and growth of communities are sacrosanct to me. I'm not here to smooth things over, I'm here to tell you how it is. There's no "inevitable monetization", no strangle and no slow death and destruction for this community. Though, if there's no level of reassurance I can offer along those lines that will sate you, can I at least ask you to hang out for a bit longer and see what does take place? Every community needs a Prophet of Doom to cozy the place up with added character, and the contrarian in me wants the opportunity to prove you quite wrong.
what happen to Dailytech links on Anandtech front page?
Why would this be a sign that the site is going downhill? Is it common for companies like Purch to say they aren't going to change anything, and then change a bunch of stuff anyway?
Will be curious to see how many new account registrations we get over the next week or so.
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I'm not sure I've ever read an Anandtech review. I like hearing what real people from the field are finding, trolls and all. You get a better feel for what a product is really like. As long as the forums stay intact, I couldn't care less about the sale.