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**parishilton** · 06-18-2007, 12:30 AM

Well I tell you what if you want a middle ground quit with the ****ing Religion and Politics combined. That was a right ****ing **** up.

Really? The world still seems to be turning; the Sun hasn't gone nova - I still wake up in the morning. Oh and people still post about politics and religion in the board. So what's the actual problem? You obviously don't like the change; okay, fair enough. Others don't mind, and plenty of other people haven't even commented. Your opinion has been noted but getting hostile and rude about it will not change a thing.

Whining or not, its the cold hard hard facts.

Hate to break it to you but they were a bad idea from the get go.

There are no facts as of yet, since nobody has shown any statistics - as it currently stands, everything is simply subject opinion. Sure, some people don't like the sub-forums; some people do like and, of course, some people aren't fussed either way.

Let me just make it clear now as to what's happening. We're taking onboard all comments about the changes; we're going to look at what those changes have done to the forums, its users and usage; we're going to then make some more decisions on whether or not things need changing. There's simply not going to be any knee-jerk reactions because some people are being very vocal about their opinions - the sheer fact that those people are still here, using the boards but still complaining, shows that the alterations aren't so bad that the boards are unusable. What that says is that those people just want the boards how they like it - well, that might not be possible; in fact, it's impossible to please all people, all of the time.

As a request to folks, if you've already made your opinion on the changes clear enough, then fine - I'm glad you've done so. However, repeatedly complaining and being blatantly uncivilised about it, just isn't the right way to go about thing; nothing is going to be achieved that way other than putting people's backs up the wrong way.

Oh, and as I final reminder, one can get an awful lot out of Futuremark for absolutely nothing - 3DMark/PCMark, ORB account, GoM tool (including an iFrame version to stick on your site); news, reviews and articles; plus a discussion board hosted on a very fast server. I would hope that most people are actually quite grateful for this but some folks sure have an odd way of showing this.

06-18-2007, 12:30 AM	#44
parishilton Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 406 Senior Member	Well I tell you what if you want a middle ground quit with the **ing Religion and Politics combined. That was a right ing ** up. Really? The world still seems to be turning; the Sun hasn't gone nova - I still wake up in the morning. Oh and people still post about politics and religion in the board. So what's the actual problem? You obviously don't like the change; okay, fair enough. Others don't mind, and plenty of other people haven't even commented. Your opinion has been noted but getting hostile and rude about it will not change a thing. Whining or not, its the cold hard hard facts. Hate to break it to you but they were a bad idea from the get go. There are no facts as of yet, since nobody has shown any statistics - as it currently stands, everything is simply subject opinion. Sure, some people don't like the sub-forums; some people do like and, of course, some people aren't fussed either way. Let me just make it clear now as to what's happening. We're taking onboard all comments about the changes; we're going to look at what those changes have done to the forums, its users and usage; we're going to then make some more decisions on whether or not things need changing. There's simply not going to be any knee-jerk reactions because some people are being very vocal about their opinions - the sheer fact that those people are still here, using the boards but still complaining, shows that the alterations aren't so bad that the boards are unusable. What that says is that those people just want the boards how they like it - well, that might not be possible; in fact, it's impossible to please all people, all of the time. As a request to folks, if you've already made your opinion on the changes clear enough, then fine - I'm glad you've done so. However, repeatedly complaining and being blatantly uncivilised about it, just isn't the right way to go about thing; nothing is going to be achieved that way other than putting people's backs up the wrong way. Oh, and as I final reminder, one can get an awful lot out of Futuremark for absolutely nothing - 3DMark/PCMark, ORB account, GoM tool (including an iFrame version to stick on your site); news, reviews and articles; plus a discussion board hosted on a very fast server. I would hope that most people are actually quite grateful for this but some folks sure have an odd way of showing this.
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