This is a big problem for members like Silverforce11 who when asked to provide links to countless threads by him, he refuses to do so. He may not be able to post here anymore. IMHO it sux for him.
he has toned down his rhetoric since he got all that 68x0 egg on his face. however, you are correct that people who post BS and can't/won't back up their sources won't get much traction now.
obviously you guys will need to use reasonable judgement, however. if somebody claims info, then when he is asked to back it up he says "my buddy at a board partner told me" that could easily go in the title, right? or, if he completely refused to divulge the requested info then the thread would get locked. also, my understanding is that this is only for the first post in the thread, not every single post. so I could post "according to BSN, 6970 is 880 core, 1536 sp, 91% of gtx 580" and you could respond with the 2nd post and say "bryan, that's bs, I know for a fact that 6970 will be 872 core, 1664 sp, and 87% of gtx 580". you might get some abuse for that post, but since it's not a thread title you could make up anything you wanted. Silverforce (and many others) might have posted opinions as facts, but in general most people who have done that prefer to do it inside threads instead of starting their own. for one thing, it's much easier to find it if you put that sort of info in a thread title then it turns out to be wrong... think of all the fun some of the fanboys from both camps would have with that!
For the record this is simply not true.
The motivation for the poll is/was the fact that it appears to be a reoccuring concern within the community.
If this perception is legitimate then we moderators would be failing to discharge our fiducial responsibilities to the community by ignoring the situation and failing to take action.
This poll accomplishes all of the above. It will determine whether or not the perception of a community-wide issue of source-citation is real or imagined on behalf of the mods as well as establish the specific method of a guideline implementation as well as its enforcement thereof.
The spirit of your statement is captured in the proposed enforcement section IMO, which means we are already seeing eye-to-eye on the topic in this area.
If the community votes to adopt the guideline provision then I personally don't see myself attempting to enforce the provision to any greater extent than what you outlined in your quoted statement above.
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ok, sorry, just thought it was obvious that happy had recently done this exact thing multiple times, as evidenced by his clear consternation regarding this thread's existence.
Looks like a very large majority thinks that "tell us where you heard the info" is the way to go.
A guy who's made 3 threads, one of which was about 3D Mark 11 with download link, and 2 of which were on AMD graphics cards and included links to his sources, is going to have a problem? Clearly you are just personally attacking a member and his posts.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2121973&highlight= (first line = source)
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2100974&highlight= (first line = source)
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2125717&highlight= (first line = source)
Most of his claims are made within threads created by other people. He'd have no problem with this rule, since it wouldn't impact his posting within threads.
Also, making claims without backing them up with links is something which a number of users do, not just Silverforce11.
I think the issue at hand is misrepresenting stuff as "fact" when it may come from a disreputable site. Silverforce11 in his created threads has not done that.
first of all: ninja'd!
2nd of all: no need to freak out, keys wasn't attacking anybody, silverforce DID spend a lot of time presenting his opinion as a fact. now, I think it's highly likely that he does have a source(s) for his info, and he wasn't the only person put together by amd with 68x0's launch, but his info was wrong. Silverforce doesn't post like that any more, and he's become a good forum member imho, so this new issue won't affect him at all.
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