If you have a problem with my response, please take it up in PFI

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Idontcare
So my take on the OP is this is a fishing expedition.

Someone has been tasked with identifying the perception barrier their company's potential pci-based SSD lineup may encounter and so they are approaching the forums with a "me is dumb, please edumacate me on why pci-sdd is evil or superior" online persona to generate this information ahead of time in a passive manner.

I applaud the effort, it was almost convincing but in the end the overall post was just too scripted to come across as authentic.

I hope you get the info you need to do your job, if not from this forum then from the others you or your team-members are currently foraging and harvesting from.

Please excuse me, it's seldom if ever that I get called to moderate in any technical forum outside of the Video zoo, but you seem a touch paranoid and a bit out there in your bald faced surmise that the OP is some sort of stealth marketer.

Unless you have more to go on, please confine your responses here to substantive answers to the specific technical questions that the OP asks, or I shall be forced to confiscate your entire supply of tinfoil.

If you have a problem with my response, please take it up in PFI or by pm to the mods or in an e-mail to the legendary Derek Wilson, who may or may not actually exist.

Perknose
Senior AT Mod

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2298667&enterthread=y

I spend a non-zero amount of my time ferreting out spammers and shills on these forums and this is the first time a mod has elected to come down on me as the paranoid and out-of-line poster.

If I am to now be reprimanded for this activity I'd appreciate it to be more explicitly stated as a policy applied to everyone in general when it comes to scrutinizing the motive of posters and threads.

My post is, at worst, far less paranoid than the other posts in the thread let alone a lot of threads out there in the forums that pass as acceptable level of scrutiny of any OP's motives for creating posts.

Single me out and burn me in ephigy as an example if you must, but lets make it be a policy that is less selectively enforced please.


Tread has veered off topic.

Anandtech Senior Moderator
Red Dawn

 

[TransAm1994]

+10

 

[Perknose]

I'm sorry that you feel singled out here, but we received a specific complaint, and we do respond to valid complaints.

I spend a non-zero amount of my time ferreting out spammers and shills...

Sorry again, but your post itself negates this claim. Based on the flimsiest of pretexts, your entire post I objected to was an attack on the OP that he was a secret company agent of some sort. It was out of bounds and unnecessary, as well as basically unfounded and unhelpful.

If others have gotten away with the same, it is because we haven't seen them and the attacked person did not complain to us.

Look, I did not so much as enter even a "warned for" notation in your user notes, let alone impose any other sanction on you. Nearly 5,000 posts and 7 years here, I am confident you will behave going forward.

And also, please note that in my response to the aggrieved here in this very PFI forum I counseled HIM not to unwittingly escalate any such situation by engaging "accusers."

In other words, it takes a minimum of TWO geeks for a hissy-fit geek fight to break out. Only geeks can prevent needless geek fights! :laugh:

It is our eternal hope that common sense and a modicum of civility will prevail on the forums. We know better, we do, but it remains our hope.

 

[Idontcare]

edit: deleting all this non-valueadd blather of mine...I have nothing further to add beyond what perknose has already stated.

 

[Newbian]

The reason it was looked at 5 days later was because this was posted today:

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2299875&enterthread=y

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: TransAm1994
+10

:frown:

WWYBYWB?

 

[TransAm1994]

Originally posted by: shortylickens

Originally posted by: TransAm1994
+10

:frown:

WWYBYWB?

You have got it... :Q :thumbsup:

 

[Nik]

I don't see what's wrong with Perknose's reply or the way he handled it. I'm sorry, what are you complaining about?