Good Evening Everyone.
Alas, the plot thickens - and woe to the serfs who dare to speak ill of the King!
I'm sure it has come as a bit of a disappointment (maybe even a shock) to some of the members that the admin folks over TT have apparently shut the door on your fingers - your typing fingers to be more precise. However, should you REALLY be all that surprised? Think about it. There is an embedded Gigabyte staff person on that Forum. Do you think that such an "arrangement" between TT and GB is just a convenient happenstance? No chance.
Mr. Blazer is probably correct in his thoughts about GB telling TT to stop all the bitching and screaming about failed RMAs and other assorted and sundry poor support issues from being published on the TT Forum. And you all are likely aware of the reason for GB trying to stifle that dissent - you just haven't quite thought about it in the right way. The answer to the riddle is: Google, etc!! That's right, those carnivorous worldwide search engines that comb billions of lines of new text on the Internet every day, if not every hour.
Think about it. Whenever anyone these days wants to find out most any type of information, they put a word or string of words in Google, and out pops page after page of links. Well, the more negative comments about Gigabyte's poor customer support that are entered each day, the higher the probability of a reader encountering a link that directs them to a web site, maybe the TT Forms, where they start to read all about how Gigabyte left their 680i board customers high and dry. If you were a potential buyer of a Gigabyte product, after reading those stinging comments, wouldn't you at least think twice about buying a GB product? Damn right you would.
And once that accumulation of negative comments about a manufacturer's products begins to become substantial, the problem gets worse by the day for entities like GB. That's because there's no effective way to immediately purge those links and comments from the Google system. Attrition is the only purge mechanism, and that takes many, many months, maybe years, maybe never. So those less than salubrious comments are bound to effect business for a long, long time. That is one of the reasons I was so startled to see GB stick their corporate head in the proverbial dark place, and pretend like nothing was going to happen. I have heard that syndrome referred to as "inverted cranial rectal syndrome," and also by the shorthand version of "ocular rectitus." Either description is illustrative of a serious corporate mentality cancer. Of course, they have to first dig the fecal matter out of their corporate eyes, ears, nose and mouth before they can hope to correct the problem. I'm sure you get my drift on that mental image.
Now GB is into damage control mode. But they need to quell or better yet, shut off any viable sources of expressed dissent that the giant search engines are likely to comb. Thus, squeezing the testicles of the TT administration, especially since they have such a "close personal working relationship with GB" (kinda sounds a bit incestuous don't you think?), and they just told TT to knock that crap off. However, rather than being dismayed over this turn of events, you should be joyous and thankful, since you may have found a rat in your closet before he could do much damage!
Best regards to everyone. Have a nice evening. TheBeagle :beer: