Man, eff WCCFTech. I'm a bit tipsy from drinking beer all day watching football, but I DGAF so here's what I think:
Khalid Moammer: Old hardware author who was notorious for making up BS rumor/leak articles and then got caught with changing his article after the fact. The guy had no ethics whatsoever, and would constantly make up BS claims without any backing:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6bih5e/after_vs_before_wccftech_changes_articles_on_amd/
The fact that WCCFTech has a lot less BS articles today is largely due to this author being gone. Good riddance.
Usman Pirzada: To give him credit, I honestly think that he wants WCCFTech to be a reputable tech website. However, that dream is cut short largely due to his own ineptitude with respect to understanding the technical aspects of the industry. He loves writing editorials with controversial takes, the most recent being his article on how comparisons between Apple's M1 and modern x86 processors is "unfair":
https://wccftech.com/why-apple-m1-single-core-comparisons-are-fundamentally-flawed-with-benchmarks/
The dude honestly does not understand a lot of technical aspects but he tries to. He's your typical armchair semiconductor analyst and he has a megaphone due to his position at WCCFTech, but ends up being corrected by the community and ends up getting butthurt by the community, including our own Andrei:
He also wrote that article about Lisa Su considering a position with another company, which Lisa shot down almost immediately via Twitter, and he got a lot of flak for it, including death threats. My take: you play with fire, you best be prepare to get burned.
That leaves the last author, good ol' Hassan Mujtaba. If Usman was on the quality end of the quality vs quantity scale (generous take), then Hassan is definitely on the quantity side.
Most recently, what the heck was this BS article about? Does he have any standards as to what he'll publish? Clearly not. This article came out of nowhere, as if he just needed to hit a quota and just made it up on the spot to hit said quota.
https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7000...with-64-mb-l3-cache-moved-to-vertical-stacks/
It's such obvious BS but yet it gets posted. I could have made it up and sent it into WCCFTech and they wouldn't blink and eye before publishing. Oh wait, that's actually what happened one time:
Dude got caught just pushing out a fake rumor that someone made up. He literally does not learn his lesson. The guy literally has no QA/QC filter, will write an article about any rumor regardless of how unlikely it is.
Another thing I dispise: they'll literally publish rumors about an unreleased product yet have one of their authors doing a product review behind the scenes on the same exact product. I'm guessing they think it's okay to do so because they think as long as the leak comes from another website, it's okay for them to just report on the leak. I find this highly unethical. Like, you'll never see this anywhere else. If you have the actual product in your hands, that should not give you an excuse to propagate leaks just because someone leaked it before you published your formal review.
As for the comment section, yeah it's literally cancer. Why is it cancer? Because they won't moderate it. Why won't they moderate it? Because there's too much money to be had to having a toxic community that jumps from article to article to continue the flame war. It literally would hurt then financially to moderate their comment section. They claim to have one of the most commented tech websites as if it were a bragging right. I wonder why... Yeah, it's clearly obvious why. They simply make more money riling up the fanboys than to keep their comments section civil.
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🍻) one of them, since he usually picks up on these rumors quite quickly. As a bonus, instead of reading a 500-1500 word article, the tweets are straight to the point.
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