We're quickly heading into the territory that got the previous thread closed.
A simple clarification to what you think was wrong in the previous thread would have been welcome, instead of closing the thread with "
this thread is awful and you should feel ashamed if you posted in it".
I know
I pushed the report button several times within that month to complain about the several derailing attempts, so the thread where I posted countless news updates could be saved from being closed.
The result was
I should feel bad for posting there and the thread was closed abruptly without any warnings.
So worried about the integrity of the forums because
someone is allegedly insulting Ryan Smith, yet you close a thread with a literal
ad-hominem on the dozens of users who posted in it?
I know a private forum doesn't have to be fair, but it would be nicer if it was.
But before we inevitably get there, I just want to state that I think it's pretty insulting to insinuate our good friend
@Ryan Smith is anything other than fair and balanced. Ryan has done nothing in the past that would justify that treatment.
I'm sorry, who insulted whom?
AFAICT I'm one of the two who even mentioned Ryan Smith in this thread and I did no such thing!
I simply stated what anandtech's coverage around GPP was and I was as factual as possible.
What is the insult here? The suggestion that anandtech's staff could have been under pressure from nvidia to not talk about it, like so many publications openly stated it happened to them?
I'm a fan of anandtech. Probably the biggest fan in my entire 10 million people country. A good guess is we all are, here in B3D.
But does that mean we can't describe the site's publications or what its staff stated in an open platform through anything other than blind praise?
If there's something incorrect in my description, feel free to point it out. I may be wrong. I'm not perfect. I correct myself all the time.
But I'm not taking accusations of insults lightly. Much less towards someone I'm a fan of.
There's no grand conspiracy against AMD within gaming journalism, let alone at AnandTech.
AFAIK, you're the first one to ever mention a conspiracy from the media against AMD in this thread or any other.
At most, I suggested many publications may have been coerced into not talking about GPP
because some publications stated as much.
Feel free to disagree and present counter-arguments, but against arguments that were made and not arguments that were not.
At any rate, I think it's safe to say no one cares about Kyle's "vendetta" against gaming journalism. He's just looking for attention. Let's try to stay focused on "GPP"...
You mean you don't care that a man may have sunk his livelihood to bring the subject to the public while most of his peers stood by, or you don't care about how he's lashing at everyone?
I disagree with the first but can agree on the second (I made my criticism on his twitter rants pretty clear). Sure, I'll stop posting Kyle's rants and I'll even delete them if you want, but no matter how hot-headed he is, without him there could be no public knowledge about GPP, and things could have taken a very different path.
And yes, I'm aware of what I'm risking with this post.
Yet, this crap feels like I was branded
half a decade ago and since then this just
bites me in the ass on random encounters with none to very little regard to me or what I try to contribute to the forum on an almost daily basis.
If you're eager to use the hammer, hammer away.
And here's the paging to
@AlexV that you always suggest. Might as well go all the way.