BoFox! Ocre! iRollo!

[SickBeast]

They may never roost again.  If they do it certainly won't be at BTR.  They both have major beef with apoppin.  I can't say I didn't try.  For them to leave here without a trace it tells me that they either have no time to post on here or elsewhere (ocre), or else something may have happened to them (BoFox).  I hope they both are doing well.

Well, Mark did call them "no life losers" and tell them to "fuck themselves", that kind of stuff is will tend to annoy people.

It's nice to hear you wish Mark well for once.  He is a really great guy and he is an important part of the PC hardware enthusiast community.

I think it's got to be hard to be in charge of a forum and keep everyone happy.  There are a lot of big personalities on ABT.  What I think happened was that he did some things to try to manage the community, and there was backlash because most people joined here because of the "free speech", which is clearly very important to Dave.  I have got to say I really admire it.  This is one of the only places online where we can truly express ourselves freely.  I really can't see Dave ever moderating anyone unless something really extreme happens.

Anyhow, Mark has a right to run his website the way he sees fit.  I think he has done a really nice job with BTR.  You could be right in that tech forums are dying.  We could definitely use more members over there.  We have tried with contests and stuff but it hasn't been working.  I am at a bit of a loss for ideas.  Actually the comment sections of his articles are quite active, arguably with more activity than the BTR forum.  Perhaps the comments can be integrated in the forum somehow.  I will suggest it to Mario.

The only thing I had against Mark was his unfairly banning me here for calling out his Obamacare instead of "go get a job" lifestyle.

He is free to run his website any way he likes, but the forums are basically VHS tapes these days. Sure there are some around, but they're fading fast.

There's not enough to discuss with only one clear choice in CPUs and graphics. What are we supposed to talk about?

"Yep, have to buy intel and NVIDIA"

"I agree"

"I agree"

"I agree"

"I agree"


"I agree"


"I agree"


"I agree"


"I agree"

" AMD CPUs and GPUs off a darn good value and lots of good people working for gamers at AMD" -Aten Ra

Just not much point any more?

AMD CPUs are certainly a great buy for productivity apps, and their GPUs look like they might be bargain productivity solutions for some things as well, but that is not what we discuss on gaming forums. Here frame rate, image quality, even frame delivery are the coins of the realm and NV and intel own those metrics now.

So, dead and nothing Mark can do can change that. There's nothing to talk about.

Well Rollo, and I'm just being honest here, you can be really hot or cold. You're either really nice and great to talk to, or you go off and start insulting people and getting really offensive and hostile. So if you're wondering why you have been banned at so many places, that is the reason more than anything else. The infamy you gained in NVidia's viral marketing program didn't help matters for you. You had a huge ongoing beef with apoppin and I guess something had to give. I'll put it to you this way, if you had a belligerent guy in your house as a guest and he was patronizing you over your political views and also your lack of education, what would you do? Would you let them stay? I think most people would show them the door. I realize everyone has a bad day here and there, it's just that with you those "cold" days are pretty frequent and it can be quite disruptive.

I hope I'm not being too hard on you here. I'm just trying to help you understand, because you still seem oblivious to the fact that these bannings and whatnot have happened for a reason.

I will also say that most of the time you're fun to chat with online and you often bring well thought out points to the discussion. It's the other portion of time that gets you into trouble.

A good friend of mine didn't even finish high school, yet he makes more money than me with my multiple university degrees, and he can beat me at Words with Friends with my 138 IQ score and my ability to speak, read, and write multiple languages. Education doesn't mean all that much. Bill Gates is a university dropout, for example.