All 4 GBS of VRAM on the 970 perform at the same speed.

[NormalJoe]

Hello guys,

Allow me to show you what the LTT forum really is behind their friendly facade.

First one. Msquared had issues with his account, he was told BY LUKE AND LINUS to make a new account, it was all approved and then windspeed
in his infinite wisdom banned it for ban evasion. In short, the mod team is not even informed of how things work. The mods can be forgiven
except the ones that approved this damn thing.


 

Anyways guys , it happened again

msquared got banned again
For no reason
He talked to the mods
Slick told him to create a new account
everything was approved
And stuff
And then windspeed banned him for ban evasion
1500 points

Sorry for shit formatting.

Now lets talk about what they call justice shall we? This is what they call "Proper" course of action which does not even come close to
adhering the CoC. Here is a message from a forum member who I will not name:
 

To be honest there are some mods who do not deserve thier position or even have power on the forums AT ALL...

One time i got in an arguement with a guy on how the stock intel cooler could keep an over clocked 4690k under 60 at full load.

He contacted a mod and had all of MY posts deleted, and removed all my likes, and gave me a warning post.

I forget who it was but they sided with the person i was argueing with, which was the kinda person who enjoys argueing. I do not know of a

single post of thiers that is posative, nor do i know how theyre not ip banned.

So an argument/discussion cannot be had without someone running to the mods requesting a deletion of the posts and they actually
removed the posts. On what grounds? I've talked to this person and in no way, shape or form was he breaking the CoC and yet he was still
punished. What was the thought process behind this or is common sense and simple reading too hard?

Now how about some "Professionalism" and coming back to keeping the mod team informed.



1. Calling it "BS wahh wahh story" when he clearly doesn't even know what was what
2. The sheer disrespect of someone like this is appalling

Also to come back on this. Here is a TL;DR is what was really the case:

1. I had my account banned by request to prevent coming back
2. I made a new account with literally the ONLY goal of PM'ing luke as RECOMMENDED by @Blade of Grass (instead of making a thread)
3. This new account was IP banned for no reason (If the reason is ban evasion then he needs to rethink of what the scenario was)

So doing what the mod team suggests you to do gets you banned. Yay

So here is the deal basically. I had screencap proof of LTT simply applying censorship to the entire forum. Make a thread showing their
incompetence/unprofessionalism? Banned. PM Luke or another administrator with constructive criticism and an explanation of the situation
WITHOUT breaking the CoC, something the MODS recommend over making a thread? Banned

There are even other worrying occurences. A forum member who I will not name spotted @colonel_mortis blatantly expressing anti-semitism then
banning someone during said occurence. Of this I have no screencap proof but something like this is not something you make up about a mod that
is otherwise perfectly fine (However I must question the fact that a 17 year old is a mod for something like this)

And as was said last time. 20 minutes to lock a good bye thread under an impossible premise yet taking hours upon hours every single time
where it's blatant disregard of the CoC is simply incompetence.

TL;DR

Mods are clueless and warn you for the most stupid of things that are not even breaking the CoC
Censorship is enforced
Luke is IP banning people for doing what the mods suggest people to do

Then again this thread will most likely be whisked away as blind fanboyism is apparently stronger than actual facts that incriminate the
almighty gods of the average forum joe.

@LinusTech

Revamp your mod team except wooden marker and blade of grass. Those are legitimately the only 2 mods I've seen that are actually decent.
P.S. @airdeano Problem with him? More like problem with LTT mods that seemingly

[MegaDave91]

Cool clickbait

 

Bye

[Syntaxvgm]

lol if you are not bullshitting, just make a new account over a VPN, don't post, and PM slick. But you are probably bullshitting. 

[Liam-McShane]

[NormalJoe]

lol if you are not bullshitting, just make a new account over a VPN, don't post, and PM slick. But you are probably bullshitting. 

 

I wish i was bullshiting.

[minibois]

gr8 clickb8 m8.

(I know your problem, but the false title does not help)

[TheKDub]

inb4 this is gonna be deleted

[mr moose]

This thread will be deleted in 5,4,3...

[dadasmithywinkle]

Best of luck. Some people just look so negatively against all of the mods based on the one or two actions that they may produce.

[Guest Kloaked]

You're lying.

 

I've talked to the mods in PM's before about my warnings I've received and it didn't escalate into more warnings.

 

You're probably outright disrespectful. You don't belong here. See ya. 

[Decon]

@Blade of Grass is certainly on of the best mods on LTT

[Slick]

So today was fun! Outside of my normal admin duties this got slammed in my face out of nowhere...

I try to keep most mod things behind closed doors because things just work better that way, but msquare, or whatever name they are going by currently, seems to be pulling everyone they can into this; so I'll give some public explanation to hopefully clear things up so people can finally move on.

Here we go...

Hello guys,

Allow me to show you what the LTT forum really is behind their friendly facade.

First one. Msquared had issues with his account, he was told BY LUKE AND LINUS to make a new account, it was all approved and then windspeed in his infinite wisdom banned it for ban evasion. In short, the mod team is not even informed of how things work. The mods can be forgiven except the ones that approved this damn thing.

We can fix problems with peoples accounts. Being banned isn't a "problem with your account". You were banned for a reason, and with that you are not allowed to come back.
msquare was not told by Linus, nor myself to make a new account. This never happened.
Windspeed correctly banned the account for ban evasion. This is our moderation policy.
Sometimes things do get lost in communication! We're a rather large team of volunteers (yes even me, I do most of my admin duties outside of work hours). This was not one of those times.


- All of this has been addressed above.

Now lets talk about what they call justice shall we? This is what they call "Proper" course of action which does not even come close to adhering the CoC. Here is a message from a forum member who I will not name:


So an argument/discussion cannot be had without someone running to the mods requesting a deletion of the posts and they actually removed the posts. On what grounds? I've talked to this person and in no way, shape or form was he breaking the CoC and yet he was still
punished. What was the thought process behind this or is common sense and simple reading too hard?

Funny you brought that up, you will find that the mod team is surprisingly well informed and I happen to know exactly who you are talking about and what posts they are actually discussing.

Incoming fantastic paint censorship skills in 3...2...1...

This is the post that was removed (not deleted, just hidden)
This user was issued a warning for spamming and their post was hidden. This is a minor infraction which is fairly unimportant, yet definitely was contested.


For reference, here is the actual warning. A member made a post that only contained the word "Penis". That post was then removed and a warning was sent as it is a waste of space on our boards and served no purpose (spam). Seems pretty straight forward.

Now how about some "Professionalism" and coming back to keeping the mod team informed.


1. Calling it "BS wahh wahh story" when he clearly doesn't even know what was what
2. The sheer disrespect of someone like this is appalling

Was this dealt with entirely professionally? No it was not.
That being said, I'll re-iterate something I've said in the past. My Mods have lives, they are unpaid, they are not trained police... they will make mistakes. Sometimes they will take it slightly too far or not far enough based on external factors... It will happen. This warning was rude, you are right. Airdeano is also a very experienced moderator and deals with a metric ton of reports every day... He is a machine. I'd estimate his accuracy to be well over 99%. A pretty damn fine track record if I do say so myself and I'm proud to have him as a member of my team. Everyone slips up.
Now to add some insight, the member in question here posted a quite abrasive "I'm leaving" thread, which we don't allow and it was taken down. The member then sent me a PM requesting a ban, so he was banned. He then evaded this ban by creating a new account.. Something that is extremely frowned upon. Considering he did this in order to talk to me, fair enough.. I did respond to his PM, which consisted of him simply attacking my mods for not responding quickly enough to a thread he felt should have been taken down, and then attacking the user that posted the thread... a generally unproductive conversation.
After responding to the PM I banned him again. He requested a ban, so he was banned and he is no longer welcome on our forums... That is how it works

Also to come back on this. Here is a TL;DR is what was really the case:
1. I had my account banned by request to prevent coming back
2. I made a new account with literally the ONLY goal of PM'ing luke as RECOMMENDED by @Blade of Grass (instead of making a thread)
3. This new account was IP banned for no reason (If the reason is ban evasion then he needs to rethink of what the scenario was)
So doing what the mod team suggests you to do gets you banned. Yay

Oh it's YOU! That's fun. I'll let you stay around for a bit then ban you again when I get back home from Jiu-Jitsu
Cool, yup, making a new account and PM’ing me about issues is a heavily suggested way to dispute a ban! I did reply though... I can screenshot and PM it to you if you'd like! I keep WONDERFUL logs of these things
You requested a ban, this puts you in the group of people that have been banned... And you are treated like the other banned members! I mean no offense by this, but if you no longer want to be a part of the forum then so be it! But the rules still apply.
Also I didn't IP ban you, not sure what's going on there...

So here is the deal basically. I had screencap proof of LTT simply applying censorship to the entire forum. Make a thread showing their incompetence/unprofessionalism? Banned. PM Luke or another administrator with constructive criticism and an explanation of the situation
WITHOUT breaking the CoC, something the MODS recommend over making a thread? Banned

There was no screenshot in that thread, we still have the thread. Also you asked to be banned, I have proof of that as well.
After replying to your PM you were banned again for ban evasion, as per our policy.

There are even other worrying occurrences. A forum member who I will not name spotted @colonel_mortis blatantly expressing anti-semitism then banning someone during said occurrence. Of this I have no screencap proof but something like this is not something you make up about a mod that is otherwise perfectly fine (However I must question the fact that a 17 year old is a mod for something like this)

That doesn't sound like mortis, but accusations like this are serious, if there is any proof this should be brought to my attention immediately. As this is the first I have heard of this I find it very hard to believe.
I am tired of people attacking my mods for their age. They act very mature regardless of their age, more mature than a lot of people who are my age.

And as was said last time. 20 minutes to lock a goodbye thread under an impossible premise yet taking hours upon hours every single time where it's blatant disregard of the CoC is simply incompetence.

Sometimes people are busy, sometimes the thread hasn’t been reported, there are many reasons why thread could slip through.

TL;DR
Mods are clueless and warn you for the most stupid of things that are not even breaking the CoC
Censorship is enforced
Luke is IP banning people for doing what the mods suggest people to do
Then again this thread will most likely be whisked away as blind fanboyism is apparently stronger than actual facts that incriminate the
almighty gods of the average forum joe.
@LinusTech
Revamp your mod team except wooden marker and blade of grass. Those are legitimately the only 2 mods I've seen that are actually decent.
P.S. @airdeano Problem with him? More like problem with LTT mods that seemingly

Yes, censorship of "Penis" was enforced.
Disputes are to be sent to my inbox, not publically over the forum.
You were not IP banned. I very rarely IP ban people... this is a tech forum, most of the users know how to and will install a VPN, so IP bans are virtually useless.
WM and BoG are both great mods, I agree, but so is the rest of my team. If any members have issues with mods please PM me, I have removed members of the mod team in the past and I will do it again if it's needed

Now please. Go away. You left and requested a ban. Let's not make this awkward - we had a good run baby, now it's over... stop trying to sneak into my house

[Guest Philosophy]

I've talked to the mods in PM's before about my warnings I've received and it didn't escalate into more warnings.

 

You're probably outright disrespectful. You don't belong here. See ya. 

I've talked to mods about disciplinary action also, with no problems. 

[Slick]

I've talked to mods about disciplinary action also, with no problems. 

This is encouraged

[givingtnt]

woah. ok. thats. .... ok.  that. .   ok


I don't know what it is with people nowadays. but god people can be disrespectfull

[Thebman712]

@Slick

will this post be locked at all?

[Slick]

@Slick

will this post be locked at all?

Unless it gets crazy out of control - then no... normal rules apply

[Guest Philosophy]

This is encouraged

Can I say I have had a conversation with you now?

[Slick]

Can I say I have had a conversation with you now?

Philosophically, yes.

[Flight1sim]

-snip-

GO LUKE!!!

[Victorious Secret]

This is encouraged

 

I've had my mod/admin dealings too. Its very simple. You come to a common ground, you accept that mistakes were made, you damn well make sure you avoid them in the future. Pretty simply and fair, no?

I knew this story was BS from the first line. Luke and Linus telling you to make a new account? Really? I'm sure that while both of you care about this site, you've got a hell of a lot more to worry about than something like that. 

 

I have no real remarks to add further. This gongshow has left me speechless. I'll let my good old pal summarize what a lot of people are going to be thinking after they take a read through this:

[Trik'Stari]

-snip

Talk about #Slickrekt

 

@Slick, awesome rekage bro.

[Flight1sim]

*waves hand*

Jeez, is it hot in here, or did someone just get

SLICKREKT?

 

Or is it just someone's AMD GPU?

[Slick]

-snip-

Ahhh the captain So excited for Con Man

[Thebman712]

*waves hand*

Jeez, is it hot in here, or did someone just get

SLICKREKT?

 

Or is it just someone's AMD GPU?

yes it is my amd gpu, fuck i want a 960 soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo fucking dickbut bad