Opinion Piece on Social Policies

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Keysplayr

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I'm sure it isn't done, and I never said it was done, it's just what I inferred from posts such as this:



Which led into this:



Then the thread went silent for about a week until now. He didn't get a response. I thought he just wanted the oppurtunity to tell AMD.

I don't recall ever dimissing anything. I recall questioning the motives and timing. And it seems more so his motives aren't what I just quoted him saying here. He clearly wants recognition if not absolution.

Welsh's post makes a lot of sense. His attitude changed once he got fed, and now that his morsel is devoured and no more food was served, well he started to ring his bell again.

I guess we will see if the consumerist has anything to report about it.
@Phynaz, you should probably ask apoppin yourself. Im sure he would give you any details.
 

Phynaz

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But wait, I though he was posting all his communications. How many people here have asked him to post names?

He's got nothing. Bunch of hot air from a crybaby whose site isn't big enough to rate free swag.
 

Keysplayr

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But wait, I though he was posting all his communications. How many people here have asked him to post names?

He's got nothing. Bunch of hot air from a crybaby whose site isn't big enough to rate free swag.

You bought it. Hook, line and sinker, you know that right?
 

SickBeast

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I just really question the people here ragging on apoppin when all he's trying to do is benefit the enthusiast community.
 

railven

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I just really question the people here ragging on apoppin when all he's trying to do is benefit the enthusiast community.

By accusing a whole sub-section for a forum, it's moderators, and indirectly the owner of being AMD influenced?

Or making it clear he has no qualms with any pro-AMD poster's opinion being deflected due to rampant shilling?

Have you seen any pro-AMD posters over at ABT? I can count on my hand the most active posters over there, and since 4/5 of you guys post here - I can tell you right now, none of you are pro-AMD. And it doesn't really matter, just ironic. This whole this is riddled with it.

Re-read his post for proof, then ask Keys to link you the social policy at nVidia, and scroll back to the picture of a female nvidia employee posting on a forum - can Keys identify her to us? I doubt it. Same applies to AMD. Identify them, and let the communities respond (ala the AEG fiasco who the Consumerist broke the scoop on, not Apoppin as he's claimed before.)
 

SickBeast

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By accusing a whole sub-section for a forum, it's moderators, and indirectly the owner of being AMD influenced?

Or making it clear he has no qualms with any pro-AMD poster's opinion being deflected due to rampant shilling?

Have you seen any pro-AMD posters over at ABT? I can count on my hand the most active posters over there, and since 4/5 of you guys post here - I can tell you right now, none of you are pro-AMD. And it doesn't really matter, just ironic. This whole this is riddled with it.

Re-read his post for proof, then ask Keys to link you the social policy at nVidia, and scroll back to the picture of a female nvidia employee posting on a forum - can Keys identify her to us? I doubt it. Same applies to AMD. Identify them, and let the communities respond (ala the AEG fiasco who the Consumerist broke the scoop on, not Apoppin as he's claimed before.)
Give me a break. He didn't accuse an entire sub section of a forum. All he did was point out that AMD's employees are both known to post here and they are allowed to by the mods without having to disclose anything. He's not accusing the mods or Anand of a bias; I'm sure they allow people from several companies to post here without full disclosure.
 

WelshBloke

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Give me a break. He didn't accuse an entire sub section of a forum. All he did was point out that AMD's employees are both known to post here and they are allowed to by the mods without having to disclose anything...

Are you talking about IDCs quote? Because that was taken way out of context, if I was IDC I'd be more than slightly pissed off about that.
 

busydude

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All he did was point out that AMD's employees are both known to post here and they are allowed to by the mods without having to disclose anything.

And how many people don't know this?

No one cared to reply to outrage's posts #306, 310 and 312.
 

WelshBloke

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This is a long established technology site. I would imagine that a lot of people who post here are in the technology business. Are we going to ask them all to identify themselves? I'd imagine we would lose a lot of members.
 

thilanliyan

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All he did was point out that AMD's employees are both known to post here and they are allowed to by the mods without having to disclose anything.

Do tell...you must know who it is right?

I think I'm not the only one getting tired of people saying that there definitely are AMD employees posting/shilling on these boards WITHOUT ANY PROOF.

The argument is basically, "...but...but...nVidia/Intel/Asus/etc does it!!!"
Well sure, it IS possible (like me winning the lottery tomorrow), but that doesn't mean it is fact.

I don't really have a problem with nV/AMD employees posting (NOT shilling) on these boards if it is transparent. Where do we draw the line though? Only people working for computer related companies should disclose their employers?
 

chimaxi83

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Yea, all he did was "point out that AMD's employees are both known to post here and...", without any proof lol. All of a sudden Anandtech VC&G is a haven for AMD shills, according to most of the ABT cult. I run an Nvidia card now, but I was still grouped in. Quite a few others here, too. Why? Because we didn't agree with Nvidia fan opinions? Because we didn't roll over and give in? lol.

Again, all these accusations, WITH. NO. PROOF. The cult following over there (and quite a few of you middlemen here too, you know who you are) sure latched on and suckled though, didn't they? That's too bad, I really was looking forward to the poor guy outing the "shills" here (quotations because, so far, they're mythical). I was genuinely interested simply because if they did exist, they sure did a good job of hiding it, in my opinion.

If you want to base accusations purely on posting pattern and behavior, there is definitely more of a shill attitude on the Nvidia fan side here, not AMD. The active posters here can probably name 5 of them without thinking. Jumping into every AMD thread to derail, thread crap, start a versus fight, throw out baseless "facts" (really just opinions), try to make posters feel stupid, etc. Call them out on it? They start with the flame fest and get vacationed, get a cat picture gif in response (real intelligence there), or both. It's boring guys.

I remember going off and throwing mantrums when I didn't get what I wanted too, but I was 7 fricking years old for crying out loud.
 

sandorski

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Do tell...you must know who it is right?

I think I'm not the only one getting tired of people saying that there definitely are AMD employees posting/shilling on these boards WITHOUT ANY PROOF.

The argument is basically, "...but...but...nVidia/Intel/Asus/etc does it!!!"
Well sure, it IS possible (like me winning the lottery tomorrow), but that doesn't mean it is fact.

I don't really have a problem with nV/AMD employees posting (NOT shilling) on these boards if it is transparent. Where do we draw the line though? Only people working for computer related companies should disclose their employers?

Indeed. This whole shentasy started annoying with just the accusation. Since then it has become a farce since it hasn't progressed 1 nm from that accusation. Just 1 fallacious argument after another. Hell, it seems to be an exercise in using Creationist argument style.
 

SickBeast

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Time will tell. Several agencies are investigating this now AFAIK. I highly doubt he would go to these lengths without some sort of proof; in fact I don't think he would be able to do it legally.
 

sandorski

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Time will tell. Several agencies are investigating this now AFAIK. I highly doubt he would go to these lengths without some sort of proof; in fact I don't think he would be able to do it legally.

Lots of time has already passed.
 

WelshBloke

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Time will tell. Several agencies are investigating this now AFAIK. I highly doubt he would go to these lengths without some sort of proof; in fact I don't think he would be able to do it legally.

He's had plenty of time already to show some evidence.

Of course the professional thing to have done would have been to gather some decent evidence then approach all the players for their take THEN go public.
 

SickBeast

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Just without the evidence part.
An AMD employee tried to turn his website into a flog site. Why would he make that up?

There's definitely evidence that the AMD employee in question was up to something at ABT.

Idontcare has directly said on here that there are AMD employees in our midst.
 

WelshBloke

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An AMD employee tried to turn his website into a flog site. Why would he make that up?

Lol. Have you seen who posts there? It's in no way an AMD flog site. Most of the members are notorious NV trolls who have been banned from everywhere else or are part of the NV marketing machine.

There's definitely evidence that the AMD employee in question was up to something at ABT.

Up to what?

Idontcare has directly said on here that there are AMD employees in our midst.

Can you quote that in context please?
 

Outrage

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An AMD employee tried to turn his website into a flog site. Why would he make that up?

There's definitely evidence that the AMD employee in question was up to something at ABT.

Is that prof that there are AMD shills here on atf vc&g ? if so, explain the connection please.

Idontcare has directly said on here that there are AMD employees in our midst.

And he also said that there are employees from other hw companys posting here.

So, AMD tried to turn some small time blog in to a flog site in the past, I would say that nvidia did something even worse in the past.

And idc said that there are ppl from more companys than AMD posting here, yet abt choose to single out amd, why would he do that?

He did't even research nvidia's social media policy, he didn't even know nvidia had a social media policy, he just posted something he had heard in the distant past about that nvidia employees wasn't allowed to post, when infact nvidia encourages there employees to take part in forum threads.

Why did he choose to target AMD?
 
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SickBeast

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Look, I'm done answering all this stuff for apoppin. Quite frankly I have better things to do with my time.

We'll all know soon enough hopefully how this all pans out. IMO it's for the best of the community here to have the shills outed.
 

Keysplayr

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You're deflecting again. What exactly is it that I bought?

You were spoon fed, that the only reason Apoppin is taking on AMD and their viral stealth marketing tactics, is because he is mad that he didn't get a review sample, or that he was blacklisted. That is what you bought. I know that isn't the reason. You know Apoppin favors ATI/AMD. Always has and maybe always will even with whats going on. But after this, who knows.
 

busydude

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You were spoon fed, that the only reason Apoppin is taking on AMD and their viral stealth marketing tactics, is because he is mad that he didn't get a review sample, or that he was blacklisted. That is what you bought. I know that isn't the reason. You know Apoppin favors ATI/AMD. Always has and maybe always will even with whats going on. But after this, who knows.

Why don't you explain what really happened? Maybe, you know, help clear out the confusion and all.
 
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