Chew, was good meeting you and watching you bench at CES this year. I was the guy that asked you if you chewed tobacco, thought that might have been where the name came from.
Wanted to share my perspective in seeing you drop the point rankings.
From someone on "another team", I respect your decision for what makes sense for your situation, but I would vote you keep the boints. For good people like yourself who enjoy the hobby and are known around the enthusiast ranks, everyone knows how your boints were achieved. They are real submissions, real hardware, real work. It's well known that boints are a lot like monopoly money and its not hard to "counterfeit" - its all imaginary, but it makes playing more fun for a lot of people. We all compete on hwbot not because its a perfect platform, but because its the best platform available.
I compete in boints because my friends and people I trust compete in boints. The people gaming the system don't mean anything to me - that is the playing field, and my friends and people I trust are on the same playing field. Those are the people we are really competing with. Maybe in time you can look past the negativity a lot of people get caught up in with hwbot, refocus on what you can control which is your own benching, and remember that this is all just for the hobby and for the fun... I know you can do that without the boints, and thats cool. But the boints do make it more fun.
@slaveondope.net: Just to clarify, it is Overclockers.com. We don't have anything to do with oc.net, and I wouldn't want to be confused with them.
Originally Posted by imog
Chew, was good meeting you and watching you bench at CES this year. I was the guy that asked you if you chewed tobacco, thought that might have been where the name came from.
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