The direction of OcUK

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WeOwnTheSky said:
I've been here a long time, and bought many things from the shop etc etc.

However, the recent direction OcUK seem to be taking is a little unsettling.

We (and I mean everyone here on the forums and at the shop) have turned this place in the the number one hardware and forum in the UK.

Why oh why are Ocuk now going down the route is it? Three examples:

1) booth babes *shudders* to help sell hardware at events, and the associate half naked girls draped over computer cases.
2) the thread with all the boobs/babes
3) the April fool 'porn' forum

I can't think of a worse direction the company could be going - very tacky.

I know it's all about separating yourself from the competition, but is this really the best you could come up with?

I think it's genuinely quite saddening.

Sure, it's ticks the boxes of all the horny, teenage geeks out there but, to be honest, I can find this rubbish anywhere over the internet with a few clicks of a button.

Why do OcUK think this is the way to go? Would love to hear more.

Am I the only one that is thinking this? Should I care?!....

Edit: Prime example: posted this thread and the first thing I see:

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Are you a 40 year old virgin or something very similar?
 
Well this thread is pretty humourous and regarding the using the shop - where do half of you work? In a nunnery?

Well I guess thats the last time the mod team tries to lighten the mood. Back to being miserable and banning everyone I guess!
 
I don't fully understand the idea of booth babes in any trade event, just like I don't understand why there are semi naked women propped against cars during car shows. But then again I'm not "forever alone", I don't have midlife crisis or wife that grew twice the size curing hormonal rage with cadbury products after second baby, so my shopping choices are not dictated who's propping or draping over the products or similar frustrations. I am not a target audience for this type of campaign.

That said however, as a poster I am against any company or community, especially geek and computer forums going into any trouble or changing their advertisement methods to be work safe and family friendly.
First. If you are caught at work reading a forum and your worry is that there is a mild cleavage banner on top of the page rather the fact YOU WERE READING A FLIPPING FORUM on company time, you shouldn't really worry. You won't be working there long enough for it to ever become a problem.
Second. It might be just me, but if I were to pick one bad rule in this forum, it would be family friendliness. There is very, very little I personally need to discuss with or learn from an person under age of 16 on a computer/life forum, and if I had to chose between the two - I would personally rather stopped allowing kids into the forum and make this grown up only media by - to quote rules in FAQ - simply replacing some of the letters in a swearword with a * or any other character to be acceptable (at the moment you have **** entire word), rather than see people being repeatedly banned for reposting something from you tube or internet media that contained swear word, just to keep it "family friendly" with kids adding nothing more than "in before ban" or "Cool story bro" oneliner posts.
 
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First. If you are caught at work reading a forum and your worry is that there is a mild cleavage banner on top of the page rather the fact YOU WERE READING A FLIPPING FORUM on company time, you shouldn't really worry. You won't be working there long enough for it to ever become a problem.
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yeah god forbid anyone reads a forum while on their break! :rolleyes:

Second. It might be just me, but if I were to pick one bad rule in this forum, it would be family friendliness. There is very, very little I personally need to discuss with or learn from an person under age of 16 on a computer/life forum, and if I had to chose between the two - I would personally rather stopped allowing kids into the forum and make this grown up only media by
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Also stopping people from reading the forum while around their family just in case something adult pops up on the screen. family friendly doesn't just mean for the person using the forum, but also for the people they are sharing a space with while browsing the forum.
 
TBH I find both the boobs thread and the adult section tacky, but then I decide not to look at them, and it hasnt bothered me really. The only thing that bothered me was seeing what the '9am surprise' was.

I do find it cheap & tacky having crumpet on the stands, everyone else does it and it's way too 'Max Power' for my liking. spend the money on having more of a kick ass display, interative things etc. Or have a few girls but don't go OTT with draping them across gfx cards in the scantliest costumes you can find.
 
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Also stopping people from reading the forum while around their family just in case something adult pops up on the screen. family friendly doesn't just mean for the person using the forum, but also for the people they are sharing a space with while browsing the forum.
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I don't know how it would ever happen, and how you guys do those family tasks all in front of the same laptop, but let's say that's a valid scenario - how would something truly adult ever pop up on OCUK forums unexpectedly? If you don't click cleavage thread, you won't end up with cleavage on the screen? Sorted? In the meantime, to entertain those kind of super unlikely "accidentally all over the screen" "family un-friendly" scenarios the boys in motor section can't discuss Mazda engines without ending up with stars everywhere.
 
Booth babes! Jeez you ought to work in the motorcycle industry! If you havent seen boobs within at least 20 seconds of n trade show than its a mircale!

Last years gadget show live there were only a few "babes" just a few on the Duke Nukem game , lets be honest they needed the "babes" to distract evreyone away from how crap that game was!
 
The cleavage thread is a bit of fun, as a contrast to what OcUK normally, at least historically has been - which is steering away from threads of 'I'd hit that!'. It's ironic.

The Adult Forum was a similar joke for April Fool's Day. I don't think our New German Overlords dictated that there should be breasts.

The idea of 'booth babes' though I find quite repellent. They are of course very attractive, but I think it's in rather poor taste.

I do smirk though when OcUK has a monitor sale thread and some of the fake pics on the monitors have been picked just because they're hot wimmin. I don't mind that either.

I think it's just the booth babes casting a shadow over everything else.
 
It's cringe worthy in the adverts but the boobs thread was a bit of light fun, no harm done and I'm sure a very large percentage of us appreciated it!
 
A tipping of a hat to the denziens of GD once per year for a weekend of boobs and comedy forums is fine imo.
Rest of the time it a reasonably stuffy shirt around here.
Booth babes is a simple marketing ploy to lure nerds that has been used since technical kit was launched.
 
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I don't know how it would ever happen, and how you guys do those family tasks all in front of the same laptop, but let's say that's a valid scenario - how would something truly adult ever pop up on OCUK forums unexpectedly? If you don't click cleavage thread, you won't end up with cleavage on the screen? Sorted? In the meantime, to entertain those kind of super unlikely "accidentally all over the screen" "family un-friendly" scenarios the boys in motor section can't discuss Mazda engines without ending up with stars everywhere.
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if you are sitting at your dining table with a laptop and click an innocent thread that someone has for some reason only known to themselves posted a giant picture of a **** that hasn't yet been jumped on by the admins. This is GD, it could happen, it has happened before.

As for mazda engines, surely just saying "rotary engine" instead would sort that issue out?
 
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