- Oct 24, 2000
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I have been a member of Anandtech since 2000, after graduating college. I have participated in some minimal flaming but mostly have been a good member. I have never been banned, and only had my threads locked only due to the posting of others.
I have shared my engagement, my wedding, my surgeries, my problems, my laughs and my cries with the members as a great deal has happened to me over the past 6 years. However, several months ago, the Anandtech Moderators seemed to begin being a bit overly harsh to other loyal members.
One of my AT pals, Warcrow, for some reason drew the ire of the mods and he was temp banned as well as became a target. He was one of the few members who tried to drive traffic in the Software forums and ended up getting so disgusted that he left for a time... I decided to join him as I was also tired of the massive influx of childish antics throughout the forums.
The other day, I came back... starting my post return. Today I had posted two threads... The first was about a bug that I had found and was curious as to what it was. It was a quite interesting looking critter which happened to be floating in my pool. It drew a number of normal posts, some joking about it being an alien, but ultimately one member posted what type of bug it was.
The other thread, about my pool troubles which was accompanied with a photo of the pool... The before and afters were pretty outrageous in my opinion. It also drew some good posts and some helpful advice about my pool liner that one user noticed was pulling off.
Soon after the discovery of what type of bug was in the pool, that thread was deleted completely. The reason given was "two threads about your pool was one too many".
You have GOT to be kidding me. Apparently the mod who deleted the thread didnt even bother reading it... nor did they give a crap that there was a legitimate conversation going on in there.
I was looking forward to posting more here, to see if things had cleaned up, but it looks like the moderators have become overly protective about their precious off topic forums. I may come back to post more in the future, but I doubt I will much as it really offers very little to me anymore and frankly, is just stupid.
Thanks for the great years, but perhaps you should look at your policies if you want to keep good members around.
Thanks,
~Jim
I have shared my engagement, my wedding, my surgeries, my problems, my laughs and my cries with the members as a great deal has happened to me over the past 6 years. However, several months ago, the Anandtech Moderators seemed to begin being a bit overly harsh to other loyal members.
One of my AT pals, Warcrow, for some reason drew the ire of the mods and he was temp banned as well as became a target. He was one of the few members who tried to drive traffic in the Software forums and ended up getting so disgusted that he left for a time... I decided to join him as I was also tired of the massive influx of childish antics throughout the forums.
The other day, I came back... starting my post return. Today I had posted two threads... The first was about a bug that I had found and was curious as to what it was. It was a quite interesting looking critter which happened to be floating in my pool. It drew a number of normal posts, some joking about it being an alien, but ultimately one member posted what type of bug it was.
The other thread, about my pool troubles which was accompanied with a photo of the pool... The before and afters were pretty outrageous in my opinion. It also drew some good posts and some helpful advice about my pool liner that one user noticed was pulling off.
Soon after the discovery of what type of bug was in the pool, that thread was deleted completely. The reason given was "two threads about your pool was one too many".
You have GOT to be kidding me. Apparently the mod who deleted the thread didnt even bother reading it... nor did they give a crap that there was a legitimate conversation going on in there.
I was looking forward to posting more here, to see if things had cleaned up, but it looks like the moderators have become overly protective about their precious off topic forums. I may come back to post more in the future, but I doubt I will much as it really offers very little to me anymore and frankly, is just stupid.
Thanks for the great years, but perhaps you should look at your policies if you want to keep good members around.
Thanks,
~Jim
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