Why turn things around for trying to pin the blame on people who criticize stealth/viral marketing. You're ignoring the fact that the AT forum moderators banned people for implying that someone was an Nvidia viral marketer without absolute proof. Did AT ever bothered to reinstate Tuttle's (I think that was him) account? You're just giving Nvidia and every company who stooped to using scummy tactics a free pass if you are not offended and go on insisting that people who don't like it have to temporarily/permanently boycott Nvidia. Instead of thanking people for bringing such matters to light, now they are part of the problem for not 'sticking up for their principles', what BS.
It boggles the mind that people like Rollo/Keys got to become mods when they were low key trolling the forums. Constantly making subtle jabs and disingenuous assertions, subtly trying to turn opinion against Radeon/AMD, making the forums a more corrosive experience. At least I get to point that AT mods/admins have to own that mistake and doubly so when the forum got DDOS'd by Rollo.
Your post contains straw man arguments; I was not blaming anyone, or giving any company a free pass. In fact everything I wrote was mischaracterized. And I will absolutely not comment on admin or mod actions, any criticism has to be taken to mod discussions, it is not permitted anywhere else. I cannot get involved as I have posted as a member, just giving you fair warning how the rules work. The same as any other member who has read them could.
I am not certain it can be made anymore clear, but I will try. It is the frog and the scorpion; can't blame someone for doing what you know they always do, even when they say they won't do it. Calling nV snake oil salesmen, guilty of the same tactics, including plants in the crowd, is definitely not a free pass, it's derisive. Seriously, I have to explain that? And yes it was comical to me that people old enough to use the forums, were naive enough to not be aware of a sales tactic that has been around for at least 100s of years, likely far longer. That is my perspective, and I have zero cares if it is popular or not. Because failure to use critical thinking, and do sufficient research, of not only tech but the purveyors, is intrinsic to being an informed consumer. I have no sympathy for those that fail to do so.
But that brings us to the other detestable parties involved: how some members reacted reminded my of Stalag 17: our protagonist points out that when they were all beating him as he lay in his bunk, the spy/plant was the one beating the hardest. My point, since it seems I have to be exhaustingly explicit to avoid having my words misinterpreted, is that a lot of the outrage was due to their having an emotional and/or financial investment involved, and were the ones "beating" nV the hardest. Never will I be handing out firm handshakes for being the worst part of an angry mob.
And why would I thank anyone? What? I am supposed to say thanks for telling me what I already know? Not gonna happen. To me, the whole thing was theater. Furthermore, nothing has changed. Shills are still shilling, and fanatics are still behaving fanatically. And Nvidia is still doing anything they want, and laughing all the way to the bank. In other news water wet. Perhaps a cold glass will help dissolve some of the saltiness.
Forums and comment sections on sites like Youtube are filled with the same tired shilling, both paid and pro bono. So what victory did that whole fiasco win? Whatever it was it was hollow. As if anything worthwhile came out of it. Here we are, discussing yet another Nvidia being the big bad. And the most amusing part for me is that they will make even more money. Because everything you guys do, just makes them a household name were they previously may not have been. The ONLY thing that changes corporate behavior beyond a South Park BP I'm sorry, is VOTING WITH YOUR WALLET. You stop buying anything they make money from, period, full stop. What is bs is thinking anything else works. There are outliers, but historically that is just the way it is, like it or lump, I care not.
Lastly, I told you it may be hard to hear.
