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The AnandTech forum: let it die

slugg

slugg

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I haven’t visited these forums in years, but as you can see on my profile, I’ve been a member for 22 years. I used to really enjoy this place, learned a lot, contributed, and even met a few people in real life.

I left because the moderators turned into a bunch of jerks who had power go to their heads, including making it against the rules to talk about the moderators. The mods eventually started supporting trolls and banning quality, contributing members. I even got a temporary ban for calling them out on it, because remember, AnandTech moderators don’t make any mistakes and they are 100% infallible!

But I saw the news that AnandTech is finally shutting down. Then I saw that the forums aren’t shutting down? Weird.

Well, this site and these forums *were* awesome a very long time ago. Somewhere between then and now, the content went to 💩 and the forum moderators ended up stroking their own egos at the expense of pushing people away.

I’d rather see AnandTech completely dead than to see what it has become, and that includes the forum.

Just kill it; it is time. It’s already on life support.
 
slugg said:
I haven’t visited these forums in years, but as you can see on my profile, I’ve been a member for 22 years. I used to really enjoy this place, learned a lot, contributed, and even met a few people in real life.

I left because the moderators turned into a bunch of jerks who had power go to their heads, including making it against the rules to talk about the moderators. The mods eventually started supporting trolls and banning quality, contributing members. I even got a temporary ban for calling them out on it, because remember, AnandTech moderators don’t make any mistakes and they are 100% infallible!

But I saw the news that AnandTech is finally shutting down. Then I saw that the forums aren’t shutting down? Weird.

Well, this site and these forums *were* awesome a very long time ago. Somewhere between then and now, the content went to 💩 and the forum moderators ended up stroking their own egos at the expense of pushing people away.

I’d rather see AnandTech completely dead than to see what it has become, and that includes the forum.

Just kill it; it is time. It’s already on life support.
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Here's another idea: you can just leave, ask the mods to delete your profile and pretend the forum doesn't exist anymore.

You get what you want, we don't get bothered by you. Everyone wins.
 
It's the only place you can visit that isn't full of commercials and "algorithms" that forcefeed you junk you don't really want.

Obviously those of us hanging around enjoys it here, why would you deny us that? Would that make you feel better?

I'm sorry to say but maybe it was the turd who left.
 
welcome back @slugg
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All forums are on life support. Web forums are the superior format, but everyone's gravitated to shitty forum-like things where you type stuff in, but it's soon gone, hard to find again, and virtually impossible to reference over time. It's like comparing the Library of Alexandria to chalk graffiti on the pub wall.

That said, AT forums are cool, and I'd like to see them stick around for a good while longer. There's still a place for forums for people that aren't idiots(and some that are), and AT is a good forum.
 
Man, just saw the news. I just resurfaced to see that Anand is going his separate ways. I had a lot of great memories on this board. Let's see how things play out.
 
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