Soldato
This is why i signed up.
I was thinking of getting a graphics card, did a google search, and came across this site.
I lurked for a while, then signed up, then you just get sucked in.
How did the OcUK Forums get so Big?
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This is why i signed up.
I was thinking of getting a graphics card, did a google search, and came across this site.
I lurked for a while, then signed up, then you just get sucked in.
Obviously one member at a time but I think the recipe is giving a damn - the founder gives a damn, the mods do and the vast majority of the members do too.
So many forums are chock full of trolling and nastiness because it's hard to moderate it without being ridiculously stupid and over bearing, it's far easier to let it go.
It sometimes doesn't work here but the only reason it works most of the time is because the members allow it to and the mods don't let egos take over (some may disagree but the amount of discussion over anything controversial is amazing).
That's what I think anyway
So many forums are chock full of trolling and nastiness because it's hard to moderate it without being ridiculously stupid and over bearing, it's far easier to let it go.
It sometimes doesn't work here but the only reason it works most of the time is because the members allow it to and the mods don't let egos take over (some may disagree but the amount of discussion over anything controversial is amazing).
That's what I think anyway
Soldato
I joined sooo long ago, I've survived every 'Cull' they could throw at the Forums and I've only bought 3 things from the Shop, granted one thing I bought did have a fault that was dealt with quickly and without any problems!...
Dunno why I've stuck around so long!, I am a member of a few other forums, but I don't frequent them a fraction of the time I spend on here!!..
It's weird!!
(Only Rotty and Me are Oct 2002-ers up to this point!!
How many culls have there been? I seem to only remember 2? I can barely remember how the forums used to look lol.
Soldato
I think the OcUK Forums were one of the top 100 largest message boards in the world at one point, my memory might be hazy though.
Man of Honour
Via the shop for me, in the early days before the iffy service period when OcUK expanded too quickly. I got advice in the shop based on what was best for me, not what was most profitable for the shop, from staff who really knew their stuff. I ended up with a better spec for my budget than the one I'd come up with myself, because they knew a lot more about hardware than I did. That had two effects. Firstly, I stopped shopping elsewhere (lots of choice in those days) and bought all my kit from OcUK. Secondly, the pre-overclocked kit got me into overclocking, which got me onto the forums because it seemed likely to me that a shop specialising in overclocked kit would have customers who knew about overclocking and might have a forum attached to it, so I looked for it.
I don't buy a lot of hardware nowadays, but the forums are broad enough to hold my interest and they're much more civilised than most forums. Coupled with the free delivery, that means that I've stayed with OcUK for the hardware I do buy.
EDIT: My memory must be at fault, or some dates are wrong. My first purchase from OcUK was, at the latest, a complete PC using the brand new Athlon. Slot A format, 600MHz but running at 700MHz. Or was it 500 but running at 600? I also remember have an overclocked K6-2 300 setup. Maybe I got that from OcUK. I bought from everywhere in those days - my first foray into overclocking was with a Cyrix 5x86-100 I bought at the market in Trentham Gardens. Which was as unstable as a drunk on a pogo stick when I overclocked it at all
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Soldato
Talking about the past. Anyone tried looking back with that internet time machine thing?
http://web.archive.org/web/20000302123558/http://www.overclockers.co.uk/
This what I remember! Read a pc mag and then came straight to ocuk to buy the globalwin 802. At the time I had some cheap-nasty generic towers and the gw802 was the holy grail to me. I then found the messageboard and floated about for a while until there was a cull or a revamp... cant remember?
EDIT: Argghh the link dont work right!
EDIT2: It loads ok. Im tired, time for bed I think lol
http://web.archive.org/web/20000302123558/http://www.overclockers.co.uk/
This what I remember! Read a pc mag and then came straight to ocuk to buy the globalwin 802. At the time I had some cheap-nasty generic towers and the gw802 was the holy grail to me. I then found the messageboard and floated about for a while until there was a cull or a revamp... cant remember?
EDIT: Argghh the link dont work right!
EDIT2: It loads ok. Im tired, time for bed I think lol
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Associate
http://rankings.big-boards.com/?p=all
Ctrl F for "overclockers uk", it's rank 533. I assume that's global, in which case that's pretty damn good considering this is at heart a niche interest forum.
Ctrl F for "overclockers uk", it's rank 533. I assume that's global, in which case that's pretty damn good considering this is at heart a niche interest forum.
Wanted free delivery on my first PC build. Also went to General Hardware to get help on what spec to make.
Stulid helped loads, of course.
And then after a while I wandered into General Discussion and now this is my most viewed webpage. I enjoy spending time reading threads, I don't post that much but I enjoy reading.
Stulid helped loads, of course.
And then after a while I wandered into General Discussion and now this is my most viewed webpage. I enjoy spending time reading threads, I don't post that much but I enjoy reading.
Last time I checked it was a forum of a German retailer anyway.
no more Hovis.. its all about the Frankfurter now !
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The forum title makes me chuckle, somehow reminds me of when a older female relative would say 'Ohh how did you get so big?' When I was a kid. 
@Topic
Personally I thinks it one of the best forums I've frequented over the years, others where mostly MMO related, Guild forums are good, 'Official' forums are usually full of loons.
Good lols, good convo, lots of knowledgable people
Hats of to the Founders and Mods, and everyone who's been involved over the years
@Topic
Personally I thinks it one of the best forums I've frequented over the years, others where mostly MMO related, Guild forums are good, 'Official' forums are usually full of loons.
Good lols, good convo, lots of knowledgable people
Hats of to the Founders and Mods, and everyone who's been involved over the years
Soldato
Same here...ive been here for ages now...i was a member here when we had Dons such as Mindyourbeak and a few others, who have now gone to other pastures.
Cant remember when i first joined, its been that long
Wow.. I remember 'Beaky' and his liberal use of the 'BanHammer' and some weird contraption in the DON's room for flogging or Streching miscreants!..
I meant we were the only Pre-2002'ers up to that point in the Thread! Not just Me and Rotty are the only Pre-2002'ers still on the Forums
Is there a support group for OcUK Addiction???
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Caporegime
think I originally joined in 2004 or so, lost the email and pword etc. Then I had a dream where Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't rejoin the forums then he'd melt my brain - I'm here out of fear.
Soldato
Now I know why I come here so often!!...
Posted this earlier - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18374313
And you Guys answered!!
(feeling a little emotional!! )
Posted this earlier - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18374313
And you Guys answered!!
(feeling a little emotional!!
)
Soldato
no more Hovis.. its all about the Frankfurter now !
The Frankfurter must be nuked with fire and smothered in mustard!
Permabanned
From what I can tell, that's wrong.
Look at Overclock.net, which they rank at 98:
http://www.overclock.net/f/
Less users online, less posts in the forums. Don't forget that OcUK prunes threads, or used to.
If that's at 98, then OcUK could be quite a bit higher in fact.