Not too good for their main audience I guess
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Aliencow
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· Score: 4, Insightful
I haven't seen the site since it doesn't load, but most people I know who are fans of Tom's Hardware are gamers who will tell you stuff such as "OMFG LOL!!!111 Did u see that burning athlon on tomshardware !? AHHAR ROFLELFELFLE" and who will never actually READ anything unless it's a chart with big colorful bars for FPS rates on video cards.
Damn slashdot's influence to hell
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t0qer
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Why is it every CMS based site out there now wants to be sectioned out like slashdot?
Tom if you're listening. Just keep the site the way it is. You don't need to copy slashdot. I go to your site for good reviews. My favorite part about your site is the graph analysis you provide with every review that compares a product to a similiar line of products. Also I know you're a smart guy, who knows his stuff, and I hold your opinion in high regard.
Keep doing what you do best. Slashdot is here for bullshit comments, karma, and is generally not considered a "valid journalistic source". Your site is considered journalism by many.
Re:Damn slashdot's influence to hell
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 3, Insightful
"Your site is considered journalism by many."
I hope to God you're kidding about this. Tom is about as credible and knowledgable as any random/. post.
Domain pollution
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ziplux
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Yay for the corruption and pollution of DNS! Couldn't they just have used a subdomain off of tomshardware.com? If this site really is a subsite of tomshardware.com, it would make sense (and be more considerate to the Internet community) to use something like "networking.tomshardware.com" instead of registering a new domain name.
Re:I'll say it.......
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W2k
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Admittedly Anandtech write solid reviews, but HardOCP is run by an idiot with an ego problem. I would not rely on their reviews. As for Ace's, I don't visit it very often, so I've no opinion of it.
ALL hardware sites are influenced by advertisers as far as I'm concerned. Though I cannot prove this - some of them may very well be clean - but it's safest to assume this and never put your complete trust in a single site.
-- Quality, performance, value; you get only two, and you don't always get to pick.
"ALL hardware sites are influenced by advertisers as far as I'm concerned. Though I cannot prove this"
I can prove it purely on theory:
Give every product good reviews, manufacturers love you, consumers view you as a cheap shill and your site dies due to lack of userbase.
Give every product honest reviews ("this hardware is worthless" included), manufacturers refuse to supply you with demo hardware and you're stuck paying for your own equip and doing reviews weeks later than everyone else. your site dies due to users going elsewhere.
The only compromise is to favor certain companies and let them deal with the financial aspect(read: cooperate bribing), while trashing their competitors so as to appear like a real reviewer. Its easy to take any data and mangle it to say what you want, and thats all a payed off reviewer has to do.
Combine all of this, and you know that any review site still running is influenced by advertisers. Same with magazines/tv too.
-- Pain lasts, kid. Its how you know you're alive.
Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management-TheMaxx
Slashdot Mirror
I haven't seen the site since it doesn't load, but most people I know who are fans of Tom's Hardware are gamers who will tell you stuff such as "OMFG LOL!!!111 Did u see that burning athlon on tomshardware !? AHHAR ROFLELFELFLE" and who will never actually READ anything unless it's a chart with big colorful bars for FPS rates on video cards.
Why is it every CMS based site out there now wants to be sectioned out like slashdot?
Tom if you're listening. Just keep the site the way it is. You don't need to copy slashdot. I go to your site for good reviews. My favorite part about your site is the graph analysis you provide with every review that compares a product to a similiar line of products. Also I know you're a smart guy, who knows his stuff, and I hold your opinion in high regard.
Keep doing what you do best. Slashdot is here for bullshit comments, karma, and is generally not considered a "valid journalistic source". Your site is considered journalism by many.
Yay for the corruption and pollution of DNS! Couldn't they just have used a subdomain off of tomshardware.com? If this site really is a subsite of tomshardware.com, it would make sense (and be more considerate to the Internet community) to use something like "networking.tomshardware.com" instead of registering a new domain name.
Admittedly Anandtech write solid reviews, but HardOCP is run by an idiot with an ego problem. I would not rely on their reviews. As for Ace's, I don't visit it very often, so I've no opinion of it.
ALL hardware sites are influenced by advertisers as far as I'm concerned. Though I cannot prove this - some of them may very well be clean - but it's safest to assume this and never put your complete trust in a single site.
Quality, performance, value; you get only two, and you don't always get to pick.
"Now for the informative part of by rant:
try www.hardocp.com
or www.anandtech.com
or www.aceshardware.com"
www.hardocp.com:
Do you want to install Macromedia Flash?
No, fuck off annoying animated unblockable advertising crap.
www.anandtech.com:
Do you want to install Macromedia Flash?
No, fuck off annoying animated unblockable advertising crap.
www.aceshardware.com:
Do you want to install Macromedia Flash?
No, fuck off annoying animated unblockable advertising crap.
"ALL hardware sites are influenced by advertisers as far as I'm concerned. Though I cannot prove this"
I can prove it purely on theory:
Give every product good reviews, manufacturers love you, consumers view you as a cheap shill and your site dies due to lack of userbase.
Give every product honest reviews ("this hardware is worthless" included), manufacturers refuse to supply you with demo hardware and you're stuck paying for your own equip and doing reviews weeks later than everyone else. your site dies due to users going elsewhere.
The only compromise is to favor certain companies and let them deal with the financial aspect(read: cooperate bribing), while trashing their competitors so as to appear like a real reviewer. Its easy to take any data and mangle it to say what you want, and thats all a payed off reviewer has to do.
Combine all of this, and you know that any review site still running is influenced by advertisers. Same with magazines/tv too.
Pain lasts, kid. Its how you know you're alive. Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management-TheMaxx