Dumb. Dumb means can't speak. Dumb arse. You are the one with comprehension problems. You applied your interpretation to what I wrote and came up with nonsense. You are whinging. And when called out, you insult, and try to turn the argument. Malicious and stupid.

If you'd only made one or two comments about how Dean has persecuted you and others, that would be comment. However, you constantly being it up. That's just petulent (look it up) at best. Whinger. Oh, and please point out where I said you must. Option--"one thing which can be chosen from a set of possibilities, or the freedom to make a choice:"..

Take repsonsibility for your actions, and forget the insults.

Wanker.

The state of Dean Kent's forums mean I am right, you are wrong, again.

You are deluded. You've made a number of unsubstantiated assertions, and tried some mud slinging. Par for your course I'd say. You've proved nothing.

There are healthy discussions going on, with (some) intelligent and thought provoking posts. Spam, sure, bu that is more a problem of the forum implementaion technology.

What the forum has lost is the deep and inciteful MPU hardware posts. So what's on missing on RWT is of interest to you. You have stated that more than once before. Oh, and the useless and petty vitriol. And that brings the discussion full circle.

The only difference at rwt is Paul missing in action. There is a fine balance between heated discussion (which I appreciate since it really can force people to dig deeper), and personal attacks (which I agree should be avoided, not claiming to be innocent). Aces has traditionally been a more harsh environment than rwt, and it has polarised somewhat due to the well-known events. It seems to me that both are in good shape, catering to different needs. If any, Aces is the endangered one without a proper server.

First of all, it's interesting to see how big a deal that single change in attitude was for RWT.

Blaming it solely on Dean is entirely wrong - it was a joint decision.

We decided that some of the more flame-like posts were deterring lurkers and new posters from joining in the discussion. IOW, our laissez faire attitude about moderation had created an environment that made RWT less likely to grow as a forum (because the only way to grow is to get more members). That simply had to change.

We've gotten a lot of feedback about the overall change in philosophy, and a lot of it has been positive. In fact, I'd say the majority.

And the bottom line is that fostering a more open and civil environment will enable RWT to grow as more new people join the conversation.

DK

RWT is a better civil place without Paul and Bill abusing everyone in sight. When you go there now you know it's only going to be about the technology now. They are both very bright guys but they just couldn't resist getting very personal and abusive with anyone who disagreed with them. You only have to see the kind of threads Paul starts here that he is only interested in the economic side of microprocessors now and how that benefits Intel. Paul contributed greatly to RWT's start and his early articles are still classics in intelligent and rational unbiased technical analysis as he hadn't been bitten by the Intel bug then. David has taken the ball though and run with it very well, he has really learnt computer architecture very well since he started posting and his articles are of a similar high standard.

Funny, this started out about toms hardware dying.

I see that Paul is still his old self :)

Oh what a surprise, we ended up in the flame wars section.

Good ol' Paul - I knew I could count on you :)