Rage 3D Shocker

Could I please get this thread deleted by a moderator? The Admins at Rage3d have remedied the situation to my satisfaction. I no longer have a just reason to accuse them.



I never thought I'd say this, but Rage3D has turned down a dark and deceptive road, denying their readers accurate information about ATi's competing products.

Here's what happened:

While reading Rage "General ATi Radeon Discussion" forum this morning, I found the following thread:

3870 hitting $219 at newegg... - Rage3D Discussion Area

User "cvearl" (in general a good guy and valuable poster) had made an error with his statement:

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This is good but needs to settle into $199 to answer recent price cuts on the 8800GT which has settled into the $239 price point.

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I thought, "That's not right", looked on the vendor he referenced (newegg) and saw there are three 512MB 8800GTs available for between $209.99 and $219.99 AMIR, and that all the prices began before cvearl made his posts. (as evidenced by the rebate dates)

So I posted this, prices only, no comment as to which card was better, only the corrected pricing.

Here's where it gets interesting.

Apparently Rage3D staff do not want their readers to know 8800GTs are available for the same price as HD3870s, they deleted my post as "Off Topic".

Think about that a moment. In a post that directly compares the lowest prices of HD3870s to the middle range prices of 8800GTs, Rage3D does not want you to know there are 8800GTs priced the same.

I can understand why if you're ATi, but not Rage3d.

Furthermore, I asked them their reasoning for this decision hours ago, and received no reply.

When a forum staff actively cultivates disinformation, the community as a whiole suffers. A Rage3D member might as well make AMD.com the target of their Rage3d shortcut if this is their new direction.

I was shocked and saddened, and regret having to bring this information to the online community.:(

You had good intentions, but they had rules against what you did written here.

Personally, I do think it is rather silly to divide the forum in such manner, I just can not think how it can help the community. The rules was probably set to prevent thread hijacking and they felt it best to enforce a strict policy.

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Originally Posted by TooNice

You had good intentions, but they had rules against what you did written here.

Personally, I do think it is rather silly to divide the forum in such manner, I just can not think how it can help the community. The rules was probably set to prevent thread hijacking and they felt it best to enforce a strict policy.

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That rule is fine with me, if the thread (that compared ATi to nV pricing) were in the other forum I would have posted the same.

UPDATE:

I've been told by the moderator who deleted the post that it "upset other members and threatened to derail the thread".

How can the correct price of hardware "upset" anyone????

As it stands, I don't think any information seen on Rage3d forums can be taken as accurate, because they clearly have an agenda to suppress accurate information about non ATi products.

Reader Beware!

The thread starter also had to remove their bit about the price of the nvidia card.

If I'm honest, either stick to the rules of the forum (whether you agree or not), or find a forum that is less restrictive. At the end of the day the community is a symbiosis with the admin team. Neither will exist fully without the other.

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Originally Posted by Flibb

The thread starter also had to remove their bit about the price of the nvidia card.

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I don't know if he had to, or if cvearl just did because he's a good guy and wanted to make it more accurate.

All I have from the staff is what I've posted here- that the posting of accurate prices upset other members, so it was removed.

If you would have asked me yesterday if this could happen on Rage3d, I would have laughed. It has been one my favorite forums on the net for YEARS. It saddens me to see it slide down this path.

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