Does this forum attract certain types of person?

meghatronic said:
Pretty... useless? :D

(in the interest of full disclosure, this post was written on a MacBook Pro, with an iPhone in my pocket and a MacPro in front of me)
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So, you're one of them eh. You even mentioned your crapbook pro twice, sickening. Go to starbucks and pretend to work on it. :p

@OP You may find the answer to this question has been covered - there was another thread about 'what attracted you to OcUK?', and most answers are shop customers IIRC. I can't seem to find the thread atm.
 
The diversity on the forum is what makes it great. OcUk has many knowledgeable members and the debates are second to none on a forum. Bare in mind most of the OcUk forum members registered because of the OcUk shop, making a large chunk of the online community geeky and clever :).
 
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alexhull24 said:
So, you're one of them eh. You even mentioned your crapbook pro twice, sickening. Go to starbucks and pretend to work on it. :p
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MBP != MP. One's a laptop, one's a desktop.

Funny you should call it crap book though. ~1yr old and 4 repairs so far. My 7yr old Dell is still going strong :D.
 
I treat this place as my escapism too, a good cross section of the male demographic frequent these forums.

One thing that bothers me though is that some people have such strong opinions of subjects that they cannot accept that other people feel differently or view things differently.

The typical one i see on here is regarding the NHS and benefits systems, it seems to split the forum straight down the middle and neither side will give any leeway on opinions expressed by the other.
 
zootfloot said:
I treat this place as my escapism too, a good cross section of the male demographic frequent these forums.

One thing that bothers me though is that some people have such strong opinions of subjects that they cannot accept that other people feel differently or view things differently.

The typical one i see on here is regarding the NHS and benefits systems, it seems to split the forum straight down the middle and neither side will give any leeway on opinions expressed by the other.
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Loads of things split, but that is not bad thing. Nail and head on your first sentence. It would be boring if we all say, "Oh bother the NHS is performing badly of late isn't it?", "Indeed", "Quite", "Yes" etc...
 
My mistake, it shows I do try to avoid. Probably without good reason, though I've used macpros before at uni and they irritate the hell out of me.

What Dell have you got that's still going? I doubt it was a cheap one. Their cheap machines barely last the warranty duration in my experience (as an IT repair man).

@Meatball

I agree on the most part, though a recent influx of stupid question threads that could be easily answered by common sense make me think the average IQ is reducing. People often seem to ask things that would just ask easily be answered by visiting another, sometimes official, website. Not sure if it's laziness (not that it makes sense) or stupidity tbh.

I browse some other tech forums, and although OcUK is probably the best in terms of overall contect+diversity, others have much more organised and informed discussions on hardware. That said, most common hardware forums are like a page of youtube comments, descending into pure hatred and malice within about 10 posts.
 
From what I have seen on GD I think OCUK attracts the slightly more right-wing and the slightly more intellectual. Certainly not all of the people here match these categories but if you compared the average here to the average in britain I would imagine that that would be the result.

Just look at the party poll about the next election. Vast majority went tory yet country wide polls have them close to neck and neck.
 
semi-pro waster said:
Those are attributes that apply to some but there are still a fair number of unreconstructed liberals on the forums.

There's a reasonable number, not a huge amount perhaps but a number of the posters here that I know to be female don't tend to do anything to bring attention to themselves. I can't speak for them but I'd suspect it is simpler not to have the extra attention and "OMG, gurls" posts that follow whether jokingly or not.
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Not to mention that most of the time when there is a thread and the subject is or turns to being "hey, I'm a girl" the page and view count suddenly jumps up ten fold.
 
There's a lot of witty people on here which I love to see! Makes me laugh as it's usually unexpected. I feel there's not many young people on here (as in not many people under 20) and the people that are on here that are younger seem to be older than they are! :)
 
I joined because of the motors forum (linked by a mate) and then to see some growers on here which I had an interest in. Strangely I work in IT and have a massive interest in Tech etc. but yea I do think it attracts a certain type, or maybe we have similar interests (generally?) as each other?
Who knows, but I like the crack anyway.
 
alexhull24 said:
My mistake, it shows I do try to avoid. Probably without good reason, though I've used macpros before at uni and they irritate the hell out of me.

What Dell have you got that's still going? I doubt it was a cheap one. Their cheap machines barely last the warranty duration in my experience (as an IT repair man).
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I don't think it was expensive... maybe £750? Inspiron 500m 9100 I think. Never had to replace anything, other than a harddrive which was by choice for a better drive.
 
meghatronic said:
I don't think it was expensive... maybe £750? Inspiron 500m 9100 I think. Never had to replace anything, other than a harddrive which was by choice for a better drive.
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£750 is well above the crud I'm used to fixing. That restores my faith in the brand somewhat, thank you.

Of course, they don't make em like they used to. I have a Toshiba Tecra 8200 sat here, probably about 10 years old, nothing has failed on it. Not even the HDD. The only problems are missing fascia bits and I lost the CDROM drive (it has FDD in it atm). The other issue is not being able to find any PC133 or PC100 SDRAM for laptops. It only has 128 mb and so XP is a stretch, but workable. Even xubuntu struggles, but lighter linux OS's are possible.
 
Stretch said:
Overwhelmingly white, male, under 35, interested in technology, right wing.
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This, but thankfully seems to be leaning more to the middle recently thanks to newer and/or better donning which I feel have helped to keep a lot of the stomach turning racist content off the forum, or at least confined to a single thread compilation.
 
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