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OverVolt

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You can tell by the super long thoughtful replies that you guys are doing a pretty good job creeping out shehateme. Go obsess over something else.
 

cubby1223

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The real problem is that everyone is biased against Matrox. They have been putting out high quality 3d cards since the G400 and due to the AMD/Nvidia conspiracy no one will even review them!

Oh gosh, reading this reminded me of the XGI Volari. Anyone who said anything negative about this product was bombarded by vicious, negative replies, because, as we all know, not declaring allegiance to Volari meant you enjoyed watching everyone get raped by ati & nvidia's prices :)

All throughout, these forums are much calmer than they used to be, even including P&N - today's P&N is by far the most civil I've ever known it to be.
 
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SolMiester

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I'll throw out there for what it's worth that I stopped trying to contribute in a meaningful manner to a number of threads when I saw that SiliconWars started posting. This was likely not directly related to the specific content of any of the posts, per se, but rather that it became infinitely likely that any simple comment was going to get drowned out by his, demonstrable massive amount of free time, leading to him slamming any thread with multiple copies of extremely long posts, many of them quoting the same sources or images over and over. It made it hard to have a conversation, when it was likely that a whole page would be completely filled by the time that you finished typing a response to some other comment or thought.

This may well be more symptomatic of the general atmosphere of VC&G than of the particular poster, but I can't say with any 100% certainty. The atmosphere over there is definitely toxic, but there are ways to deal with that that are productive, and ways that are destructive. Usually, the destructive ones make people feel better about themselves, by tearing other people down.

In this case, rather than sighing and trying to work with people to reduce the overall level of vitriol, a forum goer went to extreme lengths over months to create alternate accounts, set verbal traps designed to be sprung months later, and admittedly spent time purposely insulting people, because he felt that some other people had gotten away with those sorts of insults before.

That is not a constructive, healthy, or peace making approach. Purposely escalating the level of verbal abuse in order to try and prove a point about how easy it is to get away with being verbally abusive is something that I don't feel is rewardable behavior. As someone that doesn't post often, due to having limited time, when I do, it's generally because I'm interested in having a real conversation about something interesting. When anything someone tries to say, and by extension, what some people that are just casual visitors to a forum might want to therefore read, gets drowned out in a protracted shouting match between two gangs of thugs.

When that happens, my purpose to interact with the forum has failed. I couldn't care less at that point which side or the other might be somewhat less accountable for their anti-social behavior. It takes two to tango, as they say.
Wow, I feel humbled by such an insightful post...thank-you!
 

HamburgerBoy

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The big difference between you and and geo and spidey is that they are fully open to listen and respect other people's opinions. They might disagree with them, but they'll have an honest an open debate. Just like you, they might not have popular opinions, but at least they're open to a discussion about why they feel the way they do.

spidey, honest debate? olololol. I'll even give you Geo despite his obvious racial motivation, but spidey?
 
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spidey, honest debate? olololol. I'll even give you Geo despite his obvious racial motivation, but spidey?


Absolutely.

He argues points he strongly believes are true and can back up with facts. I'm not saying "honest" as in he's right or wrong, I mean honest as in he is always agreeable to having a fair conversation.

This is compared to SHM and the rest of the crew, who mass report posts they disagree with. Rather than hear them out, provide a counter argument, try to actually develop and get somewhere they instead are hell bent on simply silencing anyone with a differing opinion.
 

surfsatwerk

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You 2 jerks are what's wrong with the world. Lackadaisical attitude, ftl. I bet you don't complain when a restaurant mucks up your order.

Hell, do you even lift?:colbert:

I call you out as my mortal foe!

LET IT BE KNOWN TO ALL THE GODS IN HEAVEN AND ALL THE WHORES ON BOURBON STREET THAT highland145 IS BANE TO ME AND MY KIN THROUGHOUT THE AGES UNTIL THE END OF DAYS!

Practically speaking what this will entail is that I will waste even more time at work following you around and creating elaborate and overly long counter arguments to stuff you probably didn't care that much about in the first place.

Also I will create witty new racial epithets when referencing your specific racial group, whatever that may be.

For example:

"Hey highland145 why don't you and all the other three musketeers go back and like... um... eat some hamburgers."

Prepare yourself for the onslaught.
 

manimal

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You 2 jerks are what's wrong with the world. Lackadaisical attitude, ftl. I bet you don't complain when a restaurant mucks up your order.

Hell, do you even lift?:colbert:

Currently lifting coffee to mouth


the neckbeard smell in this thread is a little too much for me though.
 

highland145

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I call you out as my mortal foe!

LET IT BE KNOWN TO ALL THE GODS IN HEAVEN AND ALL THE WHORES ON BOURBON STREET THAT highland145 IS BANE TO ME AND MY KIN THROUGHOUT THE AGES UNTIL THE END OF DAYS!

Practically speaking what this will entail is that I will waste even more time at work following you around and creating elaborate and overly long counter arguments to stuff you probably didn't care that much about in the first place.

Also I will create witty new racial epithets when referencing your specific racial group, whatever that may be.

For example:

"Hey highland145 why don't you and all the other three musketeers go back and like... um... eat some hamburgers."

Prepare yourself for the onslaught.
Yawn...bring it, nancy. I'll have you over 10k posts in no time.

Currently lifting coffee to mouth
Well that puts you head and shoulders above serfs and exterous. They're camomile tea drinkers.
 

manimal

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Well that puts you head and shoulders above serfs and exterous. They're camomile tea drinkers.

burn_them_all_got.gif
 

Squeetard

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Listen folks this place is identical to the 5 million other forums on the web. The mods are the same too.
Anyone who would waste their free time moderating a forum is the type of person you would not want moderating your forum.
Remember the hall monitors in school? Same people.
 

rudeguy

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He has a point.

Let me add my experience in the tech forums:

I was never a die hard ATI/Nvidia/Intel/AMD fan. I would only go into those forums when I needed a review or a recommendation. The reviews were always focused on things I never cared about and always managed to bash whatever competition was out there. So I stopped even trying to read reviews on this site. I would sometimes go in there to ask questions but I could never get an honest answer. I gave up on that as well.

I used to post in GG&P quite often. I am a cell phone nerd. I have sold cell phones since 1999, spent a good amount of time fixing them, tearing them apart, rooting them, modding them. I am an expert. But that community pushed me out. You could not post a thread about an Android phone without an iOS guy coming in to bash it and you couldn't talk about an iOS device without a flamefest going on. My final straw was when a mod that never goes in there infracted me for a "borderline personal attack" for speaking out against a fanboy who was derailing threads.

So the social forums are the only relatively sane place here now. Its sad. This is a tech forum visited by very technical people but most of us don't dare go into the tech forums. They are full of fanboys, trolls, morons and people trying to enhance their e-peen. The tech forums are more wretched than L&R or P&N which is saying a lot. Its so bad that the one time I actually posted in a tech forum, the mod emailed me to see if my account was hijacked. Seriously.

Shoutout to .*nix Software though. That is the only tech forum that still has sane, helpful people in it.
 

highland145

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Listen folks this place is identical to the 5 million other forums on the web. The mods are the same too.
Anyone who would waste their free time moderating a forum is the type of person you would not want moderating your forum.
Remember the hall monitors in school? Same people.
snap
 
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