I can write a book about the content I have for today's "tech" sites and their so called "experts". The internet's main flaw is any idiot with $5 a month and knows how to use a FTP program can make a decent "looking" site. Unlike a real business your not required to have any real skill or knowledge about what your site's about before they give it to you. No tests, no questions, no resumes. Just fill in your credit card number and off you go to fill the tech world full of shit.
Nordic Hardware comes to mind. (sorry Ben, but damn...) That Zalman case (p)review was ridiculous. Not only do they not have a ****ing clue about the product itself but they don't even pretend to know! Christ, if you put an article up about a product at least take the damn time to learn a little about the subject first so when your called out you don't sound like a dumb ass that never heard of a heat pipe before (lon). At least attempt to use google and read a few pages about heat pipes so you can at least pretend to know WTF your doing so when people that DO know WTF their they are doing don't slag your ass for being an idiot! And then don't get all defensive when your called out for not knowing anything when you DON'T KNOW ANYTHING!!
You post an article and people are under the impression that you might actually know more about what the subject is than they do. Unfortunately this is not the case anymore. These people are throwing up stuff they not only don't understand but don't care to understand. They just need new material to keep their freaking alexa rating up so they can brag about it and get more advertisers interested.
And this brings me more to the subject of the overclockers article. The members of forums posting their ignorant shit all over. They think they are cool because their mobo does all the work for them and all they have to do is hit a few keys to change the settings in the bios so all the pre made commercial stuff they bought can be justified to be bragged about. Can't tell someone about their ignorance without it being called a flame. There was once a time that if you where being stupid it was actually ok for you to be called stupid. Now you can not call someone what they are or all hell breaks loose. Your now a arrogant condescending prick that has nothing good to say. Well, god damnit, give me something that I CAN say something good about then. It isn't that damn hard. All it requires is a little effort and some common sense, heaven forbid...
If your CPU temp is 2C over room temp then don't go spamming around how leet you think you are. Maybe we need to start selling clues being people would rather buy stuff for convenience. I will tell you why your CPU is not 2C over room temp for $10.00. Maybe if we put a price on our knowledge people will take it more seriously. Of course it wouldn't be long until they started selling their bought knowledge for half the price after they duplicated it over and over.
At one time I thought the internet would be a place of higher learning and knowledge that would continue forever. That thought sure gets it ass kicked more and more everyday! It is turning into a boarder town like in Mexico. Where they sell you cheap booze and you can get a BJ for $10 and come out dumber than when you went in! Who can shove the most junk in your face in hope you buy into it wins!
It used to be when you got on the net to look for information on a subject you actually learned something. Now you come out more confused than when you went in!!! And that's providing all the pop ups didn't piss you off enough to just give up. It is pretty pathetic you NEED a popup stopper just to browse the freaking net. Now they got viruses in popups! Thank you microshaft for that wonderful web browser.
One of these days I will tell you all what I really think!
