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Posted by michael on from the rolls-downhill dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Former G4TechTV employee, Dan Huard, blows the whistle on G4. In the last half of his article, he states that TSS manufactured questions and used 'ringers' to ask their questions on the show."

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  1. Re:basic questions by koreaman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    G4 - the network that bought out TechTV, which really sucked

    TSS - A show called "The Screen Savers," used to be good until the G4 buyout, see above.

    Why do we care - Because /. says you should.

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  2. Re:G4, the MTV of tech by ergo98 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Saying that the programming stinks and you're not interested in watching is one thing, but when you talk about actively boycotting parties they are involved with you're legitimate turning consumer choice into mere thuggery -- they don't have programming that you don't like, therefore they shouldn't exist and you'll do your best to annihilate them. To make a lame parallel, you seem to subscribe to the Bin Laden philosophy.

    Don't watch the show. If they really don't cater to anyone anymore (I personally don't watch it - I use to love the game show with that nerdy guy who looks sort of like Alton Brown, but the new version with the kinda scary looking woman [but with boobs!] is just terrible) then the rating monitors will measure accordingly and they'll change their programming or go off the air, and if there really is a market for truly geek TV then someone else will come in to fill the void.

  3. Re:Not surprised. by MutantHamster · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hitler is not a TV show! How can they be compared?! What is this foul device from Hell you call an analogy?! I don't understand it!

    Shut the fuck up.

    Kudos to Slashdot for filtering out my post because "all caps is like yelling!" Sometimes it's also satire! Thanks, assholes.

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  4. Re:Staged Calls on G4's TSS Leo and Kevin fraud by blaberski · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sorry?

    Thats an intersting way to end a sentence when you pretty much call the man a lier. Perhaps you would care to eleborate on your hatred for Leo, and Kevin?

    Perhaps you would care to give spacific examples? Pretty much every dark tip that Kevin did, he gave credit to the authors of the porgram. When leo did a segment he always referred people to the website of the program they needed.

    Please go back to playing your video games and masterbating over pictures of britney sphears and leave the rest of us alone.