GD may close for a while

DRZ said:
It USED to be a hardware enthusiasts forum. The life sections offered a bit more than that and that stopped the cream of the posters drifting away. Gradually (and with a few stutters along the way) this place became the absolute best forum on the internet by quite some way.
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The whole point of OcUK is to meet people interested in hardware, learn from people who know more, and help those you need it. You simply can't meet enough hardware enthusiast locally as their usually aren't enough to form a decent community. On the other hand GD doesn't offer anything you can't get from the people around you, if your GF breaks up with you or your Hamster is struck by lighting talk to your friends, there's no need to live your social life on the forums.
 
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Sp00n said:
Wrong!

It is a General Discussion forum for general topics, not hardware, not computer, not photography.

Pre-nuke was YEARS ago, get with the times.
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See, it's replies like that which have gotten GD closed - nuff said ;)

It's happening - get used to it :D
 
mightynimrod said:
No, YOUR so very wrong.

The cream of the posters were hardware enthusiasts, it has been made the way it is by having to "cater" for all of the non hardware related posts that were creeping in.

It's just got out of hand, and like i have already said, i support it.

If you want a GD forum, go join one im sure that a hardware forum and that can sit happily in your favourites side-by-side.

I wanted to join a hardware forum which i did pre-nuke so i did, in my opinion it's been going downhill for a long time and lost it's focus on what made it great OVERCLOCKING!
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If you dont like GD and dont wish it to be here why are you posting in here? :confused:

If you dont like it im sure you can go post in the GH.
I used to post in there all the time but its just so repetitive. Down here we have more variety.
 
Just thought I'd add my 2p......

I found first found the forums several years ago, they then led me onto the shop. I've spent a fair few thousand with OcUK through myself as well as several friends who were unaware of Overclockers.co.uk and wouldn't have thought of shopping there.
If GD closes, it would be a great shame. I have found it very useful in the past like a lot of other people probably have.
IMHO if the forums go hardware/software only, apart from myself being quite disappointed, it would result in lost business for Overclockers. But compared to the cost of running the forums, it may actually be better for the business.
 
mightynimrod said:
See, it's replies like that which have gotten GD closed - nuff said ;)

It's happening - get used to it :D
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:) I reckon there's more chance of me being made a Commissario than of GD being closed permanently.
 
Minstadave said:
On the other hand GD doesn't offer anything you can't get from the people around you, if your GF breaks up with you or your Hamster is struck by lighting talk to your friends, there's no need to live your social life on the forums.
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When i had a bad time when i had a fight with my best friend/girl i liked i couldnt trust anyone i knew. I had no one to talk to.
What brought me through it was posting a fewe things about it on GD, you may have a heap of friends but not every one does and friends arnt always stable and can turn against you.
Im glad GD was here for me because it helped a lot and helped me through it.
I can say things on here that i cant say to people i know or people around here. At least if it goes pair shaped on here i can just leave and not need to deal with it. I cant do that in life though.
 
mightynimrod said:
No, YOUR so very wrong.
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Firstly - you are = you're. Sorry but it's that kind of slapdash attitude that brings down GD ;)

Secondly - if the powers that be didn't want 'lifestyle' forums, why the hell create them in the first place?

I came into GD about a year or so ago, introduced by an existing hardware forum member who thought that I would enjoy the community, as I was fed up to the back teeth with crappy existing forums. I then went onto spend a fair few bob at OCUK as I wanted to support the forums I enjoyed using.

mightynimrod said:
See, it's replies like that which have gotten GD closed - nuff said
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What... people telling it as it is? Anyway, if you don't like it, you don't have to join in. Presumably you are able to harness the power of the 'back' button?
 
Zip said:
If you dont like GD and dont wish it to be here why are you posting in here? :confused:

If you dont like it im sure you can go post in the GH.
I used to post in there all the time but its just so repetitive. Down here we have more variety.
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Now thats a cracking one, erm - it's relevant to OCUK becoming what it used to be - a hardware dedicated forum.

Seeing as it's closing (yipeeee) i thought i'd give it a farewell shove.

I do post in the GH section, but thanks for the invite to do so again ;).

As said before, it's happening so moaning/bickering about it will only cement spies decision.

Bring it on.
 
mightynimrod said:
No, YOUR so very wrong.

The cream of the posters were hardware enthusiasts, it has been made the way it is by having to "cater" for all of the non hardware related posts that were creeping in.

It's just got out of hand, and like i have already said, i support it.

If you want a GD forum, go join one im sure that a hardware forum and that can sit happily in your favourites side-by-side.

I wanted to join a hardware forum which i did pre-nuke so i did, in my opinion it's been going downhill for a long time and lost it's focus on what made it great OVERCLOCKING!
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You arent a name that jumps out at me here, so I guess you are one of those that sits in hardware all the time and has never taken advantage of the fantastic community that used to be here and that was rarely felt in the hardware section. Life always had a far far superior feel to it (over every other forum on the web that I have come across) because of the community here. Hardware had (back in the day) a handful of exceptionally dedicated members (Tupac springs to mind) but that was about it really. GD, GDC/GDZ etc always had a better vibe to it. Now, there are a LOT of idiots everywhere and hardly any good discussion.

Look at the more specialised Life forums - the Hifi forum used to be about hifi, now its "spec me a tele" and "what POS all-in-one system can I get for 50p". Photography used to be filled with quality posts about the subject and it just isnt any more. All of the good people have mostly gone. Motors is well on its way to terminal decline. GD went to the dogs months ago and never managed to recover and so is looking like it has to be dropped.

Why? In my opinion, it started with Feek and Lopez going as admins. Then with the long list of "retirements", firing of dons and UBs, banning/suspension of longstanding contributers and various other decisions of the new upper-echelons.

That and an influx of people like those on my rapidly expanding ignore list...
 
Over the last year, I can admit that I have entered GD less and less.

When I first joined (which wasn't that long ago) I think it was pretty much the same as it is now, on the polite-ness-scale. From my perspective, the intrusion of the same types of threads, over and over, has brought a lot of frustration and bickering out of people. I've seen those that have been on the forum for many years 'attack' someone purely because we seem to be stuck in the same sort of loop.

It'll be a shame to close GD, especially when so many good things come from it. Had it not been for GD, I wouldn't have received a hug from Freefaller (who needs women).

My view is that whilst the rules are being enforced correctly, I feel the rules need to be updated. I feel that the moderators, whilst they do a great job, are not that visible and people feel they can get away with more. Sure, we need to RTM more, but I feel that just hides the problem.

Anyway, I'm heading back to Games. *doffs cap*
 
Rich_L said:
DD for Commissario! :p
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Minstadave said:
The whole point of OcUK is to meet people interested in hardware, learn from people who know more, and help those you need it. You simply can't meet enough hardware enthusiast locally as their usually aren't enough to form a decent community. On the other hand GD doesn't offer anything you can't get from the people around you, if your GF breaks up with you or your Hamster is struck by lighting talk to your friends, there's no need to live your social life on the forums.
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Get out of here, you dont know what you are talking about. I have many real life friends but I have got more from GD than I ever would have from them thanks to the diversity and knowledge that such a wide userbasae brings. If you cant see the value in that, then YOU are part of the problem.
 
Spie said:
Due to the declining standards in GD we are considering closing it for a while.

Bickering, insults, rule-breaking - the list goes on. It's better that you maintain standards here rather than having them imposed on you. It's in your hands ....
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Can only be for the good. Same can go for SC as similar simptoms are there too.
 
eXSBass said:
Same can go for SC as similar simptoms are there too.
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Nah I don't think so... firstly the quality in there was higher to begin with, plus SC has its own forum-specific rules which are much tighter than any of the other forums.
 
Playing the "Devil's Advocate" a bit, but if this is a hardware enthusiasts forum then apart from dropping GD as posters have suggested ( not the OP, Spie said close for awhile), there are several others that would need to go as well because they are not PC related.
Speakers corner
Motors
Sports Arena
Music and Box Office
Mobile Phones

:)
 
mightynimrod said:
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I wanted to join a hardware forum which i did pre-nuke so i did, in my opinion it's been going downhill for a long time and lost it's focus on what made it great OVERCLOCKING!
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So we have hardware forums. If that's what you want, and what interests you, stick to them.

But the fact that forums on other things (like photography, cars and music) exist here at all suggest that The Powers That Be want a more rounded forum than just a hardware forum, or TPTB wouldn't have created them, or would have removed them. So do most posters. OcUK (the business) started (as I understand it) as an overclocking specialist, and grew up into a general computer supplier. The forums have grown up with it.

If you don't like GD, why come in here? Personally, the Sport forum bores me rigid, which is a reason for me not going there, not for there not being one.
 
lol, lots of people that I've never heard of/seen before dropping in to give their opinion...funny how you can have an opinion on somewhere you spend absolutely no time at all really isn't it?

Thinking about it, it's almost as if they've been tipped off!! :eek: or maybe, just maybe, they're sneaking in to cause some trouble and tip the scales in the direction they want them to go in.

Hmmmmm.*ponders*
 
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