To everyone in the WC section, Please read!

[CyberDruid]

Without speulation I can say that just from my own POV there is a nasty edge to a lot of the posts from a pretty regular group of waterheads. They seem to be pompous and self absorbed type of posts...generally spending their wit defending themselves and attacking what they see as weaknesses in other's reasoning or response. It's drama plain and simple...a way to pass the day and amuse one another. The problems arise (IMO) with all the overinflated egos. There's a kind of Hubris that is really grating on those of us that didn't start doing this a few months ago. This pedestal sitting and gloating in the ill found praise of those entirely lacking in experience is more than annoying..it detracts from the spirit of the Forum. It's not about Excess...it's about Extreme. There is nothing Extreme about throwing a ton of money at a rig...although an Extreme rig may cost a ton of money...and I think all the Dr. LongDollars, and Wannabee Richboyz leave a fetid aroma for the rest of us to wade through just to try and glean a few kernels of wisdom from an LC thread.

In short it's been a drag.

[SiGfever]

Gentlemen,

This is a private forum and we do not know all the facts surrounding these issues. The mods here have the very tough job of overseeing more posts than we care to count. It is not an easy job and in most cases a thankless one. So much goes on behind the scenes that we are not privy to. All of the mods and admins that I have had dealings with have been very fair and patient people.

I do like R3 and Iany both and they also have very strong opinions about their views. I try to look beyond the post and see the overall person making it. A lot of us have strong opinions but some feel the need to vocalize it more than others. Each of us has something that we bring to this forum everyday that makes XS a very exciting place to visit. Sometimes tempers get heated and things are said or implied that can be taken wrong since we can not see the face of the person involved.

I have learned so much in so many areas from this great forum and the great people that frequent it that I hate to see any of them leave or have hard feelings amongst each other. This should be a place of learning and sharing of ideas not a place to prove who has the biggest epeen or widget. We were ALL noobs at one time and people coming here to learn because this forum is known for it's knowledge base can easily be scared off or worst affraid to ask a question for fear of being made a fool. We all learn something new everyday (if we are lucky) and should welcome the chance to pass on some of the knowledge that this and other forums has given us.

So lets put the past behind us because it IS gone, the future is yet to be and the here and now is all we truly have. We have in some ways become a dysfunctional family as of late and even the closest of relatives fight at times but life is too short to hold a grudge. I lift a glass and salute my fellow XS brethren and hope that we can make this section a fun place to visit again.

[Waterlogged]

Gentlemen,

This is a private forum and we do not know all the facts surrounding these issues. The mods here have the very tough job of overseeing more posts than we care to count. It is not an easy job and in most cases a thankless one. So much goes on behind the scenes that we are not privy to. All of the mods and admins that I have had dealings with have been very fair and patient people.

I do like R3 and Iany both and they also have very strong opinions about their views. I try to look beyond the post and see the overall person making it. A lot of us have strong opinions but some feel the need to vocalize it more than others. Each of us has something that we bring to this forum everyday that makes XS a very exciting place to visit. Sometimes tempers get heated and things are said or implied that can be taken wrong since we can not see the face of the person involved.

I have learned so much in so many areas from this great forum and the great people that frequent it that I hate to see any of them leave or have hard feelings amongst each other. This should be a place of learning and sharing of ideas not a place to prove who has the biggest epeen or widget. We were ALL noobs at one time and people coming here to learn because this forum is known for it's knowledge base can easily be scared off or worst affraid to ask a question for fear of being made a fool. We all learn something new everyday (if we are lucky) and should welcome the chance to pass on some of the knowledge that this and other forums has given us.

So lets put the past behind us because it IS gone, the future is yet to be and the here and now is all we truly have. We have in some ways become a dysfunctional family as of late and even the closest of relatives fight at times but life is too short to hold a grudge. I lift a glass and salute my fellow XS brethren and hope that we can make this section a fun place to visit again.

Make mine a milk please, my stomach is actin' up from too much Coke.

[Omastar]

Make mine a milk please, my stomach is actin' up from too much Coke.

Coke contains carbonic acid--just raises the pH of an upset stomach even more. Where did that lie ever even originate?

[SiGfever]

From back in the day when Coke was first made containing extracts from the Coca plant and still contained traces of cocaine. Coke was first advertised as medicinal and a pick me up. It is the coke syrup that is supposed help upset stomachs, not flat Coke as it's told today with the carbonic acid from carbonation left in.

andyc

They didn't name it Coca-Cola for no reason.

As did Dr. Pepper, give you that pick me up at 10, 2 and 4.

[Kayin]

Funniest of all, I didn't even notice RRR was banned. I was trying to get IFMU sorted on a VGA block.

I'll say this. I have been a mod with banhammer on two very large forums. I have seen numerous circumstances where the community at large has no idea WHAT goes on behind closed doors, and there are instances where a peson has said or done something in private that is just way beyond banworthy, and they get it, and the community is mystified. What's done is done, the mods I know have good reason, and I'm not sure I have to know that reason (Doesn't mean I'm not curious, RRR was always rather polite to me.)

Maybe it's the hard transition from way too enthusiastic about water to attempted block maker that's clouding my eyes on what happened, but I missed a lot of it. Fanboyism I saw, a bit of rudeness I saw, but some of these things I never noticed. All I have to say is thank God the mods restored some order around here a little while back. It's been a new site, honestly.

[dengyong]

From back in the day when Coke was first made containing extracts from the Coca plant and still contained traces of cocaine. Coke was first advertised as medicinal and a pick me up. It is the coke syrup that is supposed help upset stomachs, not flat Coke as it's told today with the carbonic acid from carbonation left in.

andyc

Colas still contain phosphoric acid, flat or not.

[Freaky Freezer]

Without speulation I can say that just from my own POV there is a nasty edge to a lot of the posts from a pretty regular group of waterheads. They seem to be pompous and self absorbed type of posts...generally spending their wit defending themselves and attacking what they see as weaknesses in other's reasoning or response. It's drama plain and simple...a way to pass the day and amuse one another. The problems arise (IMO) with all the overinflated egos. There's a kind of Hubris that is really grating on those of us that didn't start doing this a few months ago. This pedestal sitting and gloating in the ill found praise of those entirely lacking in experience is more than annoying..it detracts from the spirit of the Forum. It's not about Excess...it's about Extreme. There is nothing Extreme about throwing a ton of money at a rig...although an Extreme rig may cost a ton of money...and I think all the Dr. LongDollars, and Wannabee Richboyz leave a fetid aroma for the rest of us to wade through just to try and glean a few kernels of wisdom from an LC thread.

In short it's been a drag.

These are words of a scholar and a gentelmen in explaining what was going on here. Also from my own experience, almost every post from RRR and IanY were written in a manner to subtly offend or piss someone off. Then the rest of there clan/flunkies would come out of the wood work to pounce on whoever tried to defend themself or call them out on their snubby little comments. They offended and turned off just as many "noobs" from this forum that they helped.

And CD's analysis of the whole "I'm the Donald Trump of watercooling and your computer sucks unless you spend $15,000 on it" was very annoying and just plain un-helpful to newcomers to watercooling. I can't imagine how many more members there would be to watercoling and this forum had it not been for that little "clic" basically telling newcomers that spending $250-$500 on there watercooling parts would only produce "average" results that were no better than air-cooling.

I literally stopped coming here a few weeks ago, only checking my older subscribed thread for new comments. I will definitely be visting much more frequently now that they are gone.