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Elite Member
Super Moderator
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Will be curious to see how many new account registrations we get over the next week or so.
 

HN

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anyone with experience with Tom's forums before and after the their purchase? read a couple of articles from that site but never visited forums (didn't even know that had any )
 
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Don't let panic become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Don't leave until there really is a valid reason to and the community will be fine. If everyone bails because they think everyone will bail, they'll be ruining the site for nothing.

Let's just hang on and see how it turns out. If they run it into the ground in a few months, then fine, leave.

Fuck your rational thought process, time to break out the lifeboats and survival blankets! Every man for himself!
 

IronWing

No Lifer
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Can we get better emoticons out of this? The Fusetalk ones were vastly superior to the current crop.
 

jpishgar

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Sooooo, that means you'll be shutting down Tom's Hardware then?

Pfft.

what happen to Dailytech links on Anandtech front page?

Dunno! But can look into this for you. One of the mods or admins here might have the scoop, or Ryan (when I can get a hold of him. )

Let's just hang on and see how it turns out. If they run it into the ground in a few months, then fine, leave.

We won't be running anything into the ground. Purch acquired Anandtech because we believe in it as a site. Like I mention in the FAQ I posted, messing with the secret sauce for a site that works would be goofy/dumb. Nothing will change, except your editorial dudes will have more resources and access to stuff than previously.

If it helps confirm his id at all, he does have the same avatar here as toms.

Classic wizard. My tabletop D&D nerd is showing. Sidenote- my avatar and digital persona tend to make people thing I'm way, way older than I am. But yeah, happy to confirm however or by whatever means.
 

Gillbot

Lifer
Jan 11, 2001
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We won't be running anything into the ground. Purch acquired Anandtech because we believe in it as a site. Like I mention in the FAQ I posted, messing with the secret sauce for a site that works would be goofy/dumb. Nothing will change, except your editorial dudes will have more resources and access to stuff than previously.

and the moderators of the forums will be even more brutally beaten and abused?
 

IronWing

No Lifer
Jul 20, 2001
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and how many old timers flood into olds' basement?

Olds shut down his basement forum. Turns out leaving a forum unmoderated and fully open to bot posting promotes the import of hot and cold running porn. Porn of a quality that would make Olds uncomfortable.
 

ControlD

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Apr 25, 2005
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Well, that's a great question. I'm Senior Community Manager for Purch. I was hoping to have my title all situated ahead of time here on the forums, but I can't seem to get in touch with Ryan at the moment.

Can confirm my identity in other ways though, if one of the forum admins or mods wants to reach out. My email is jpishgar@purch.com.

-JP

Somebody's looking to get some free iPod offers!
 

Gillbot

Lifer
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Olds shut down his basement forum. Turns out leaving a forum unmoderated and fully open to bot posting promotes the import of hot and cold running porn. Porn of a quality that would make Olds uncomfortable.

Olds uncomfortable? UNPOSSIBLE I SAY!
 

rudeguy

Lifer
Dec 27, 2001
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Well, that's a great question. I'm Senior Community Manager for Purch. I was hoping to have my title all situated ahead of time here on the forums, but I can't seem to get in touch with Ryan at the moment.

Can confirm my identity in other ways though, if one of the forum admins or mods wants to reach out. My email is jpishgar@purch.com.

-JP

Hi

Please send free ipads to everyone.


Oh...and don't ban me for at least a year.
 

Gooberlx2

Lifer
May 4, 2001
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Don't let panic become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Don't leave until there really is a valid reason to and the community will be fine. If everyone bails because they think everyone will bail, they'll be ruining the site for nothing.

Let's just hang on and see how it turns out. If they run it into the ground in a few months, then fine, leave.

Fuck that! The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
 

BlitzPuppet

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Feb 4, 2012
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Classic wizard. My tabletop D&D nerd is showing. Sidenote- my avatar and digital persona tend to make people thing I'm way, way older than I am. But yeah, happy to confirm however or by whatever means.

You're MY classic wizard
 
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