From the other thread:
Absolutely not. If your forums currently go down every Saturday night, you can and should expect to see the forums continue to go down every Saturday night.
The acquisition changes very little in the day-to-day. We can work to improve things as they are identified, but will do so with your input and at your urging.
The editorial teams exercise control over what they cover and how deep they cover it. Credibility isn't threatened by being part of the same parent company. The only major difference is that the AT team is going to have access to a greater number of resources now than it has in the past.
Goddamn you guys are being a little bit pessimistic about this....
Hop on that mat guys and take a turn!
To address the issue of the forums going down: This should only be done when the forums are usually at a minimum number of users, which simple logic and also a quick look at the forum user stats would probably be a Tuesday night, and definitely NOT on a Saturday night. Based on the sheer number of complaints about it going down on a Saturday night, it don't take a genius to figure out that it was a poor choice to begin with.
Ah so this is why Dailytech has been killed from Anandtech's main page I take it?
You and I will get along just fine :awe:(after which I proceed to trash Apple. Note: It's usually Apple.).
I wish someone would photoshop "loose" to "lose."
From the other thread:
The editorial teams exercise control over what they cover and how deep they cover it. Credibility isn't threatened by being part of the same parent company. The only major difference is that the AT team is going to have access to a greater number of resources now than it has in the past.
Such as?
Ah so this is why Dailytech has been killed from Anandtech's main page I take it?
how many people do you think will be banned before this thread gets locked?
my guess... 3.
when and why did anand leave?
A couple of months ago...he went to work for Apple. Formally this time.
Like many here, I read the announcement with a bit of dread. Tom's went to hell pretty badly...and is dead to me.
The level of pissing, moaning and chicken littling in this thread has been exemplary and, I feel, gives the new guys a good idea what they have just bought.
Does anyone have his contact, if ElFenix says this, it sounds like TFP has an open door.
I wonder if www.nograpes.com is available? Hmmn.
The level of pissing, moaning and chicken littling in this thread has been exemplary and, I feel, gives the new guys a good idea what they have just bought.
Any concerns or anything, happy to answer them in that thread. No reason to freak.
You guys don't know this, but Geekbabe and jposhgar just used code language to plot our very gruesome deaths in our sleep.
Its one of the main things that has made me rebel so hard against the mods: They ban people without reason and won't note why. Just can't log in. A couple of times I got vacationed and they even went through and modified/deleted posts to make it so no one could tell what happened. They make it look like people just left but in reality they were banned.
Another fun one is how sharing anything sent in a PM is a bannable offense for us but mods PMd me as members, shared my replies with the other mods, then used that to ban me.
Mention any of the in mod discussion and you will have 42 mods jumping in saying that never happens and to leave if you don't like it. Then a day later 10 of those mods will PM you saying they don't agree with it. Mention it in public and you get banned. But I've been vacationed and banned enough that I don't value this form at all. I like coming here but I couldn't give 2 shits if I get banned. Its worth getting banned just to expose the corruption, bias and bullying the mods and admins do.
It never stops with you does it?
I guess you thought this was a good time to complain to the new owners.
Take some needed time off.
esquared
Anandtech Forum Director
You guys don't know this, but Geekbabe and jposhgar just used code language to plot our very gruesome deaths in our sleep.