For the love of god...
Does every single BFL thread have to degenerate into a troll mud slinging free for all?
I have an early July order with BFL, and look in to see if there is any new news here, and by and large I have to wade through pages and pages of utter nonsense to find 1 or 2 meaningful messages. It is ridiculous.
And yes, it may say newbie by my name, but I have been lurking here for years... I remember when Inaba was a 'respected member of the community' and how everyone was so happy that he was going to represent us and visit BFL to verify that their FPGA product wasn't a scam...
And, quite frankly, anyone considering a BFL ASIC pre-order should have known or researched the BFL FPGA debacle. Heck, i was pretty convinced that their FPGA thing was scam back then. When I made the ASIC order, I was confident it would be late, use more power (or have some other metric missing spec), but eventually be shipped. It's a calculated risk, and it has been fairly accurate.
Yes, they have made statements that weren't accurate, yes their ASIC product missed their power estimate, yes, they still are not shipping in quantity, yes, Josh seems to be missing the customer service gene, yes they are a ridiculously horrible company..... We know. We get it, you do NOT need to pollute every last BFL thread with Josh clown pictures.
They've had my money for 10 months, I'm not exactly excited about it, but trolling on about in the forums won't make my ASIC get here any faster.
/rant
Sorry, bud, you're wrong.
For every single person tired of seeing a BFL rant, maybe 5 others become informed of BFL's reputation by way of these constant shitstorms.
This is the purpose of a forum and a collective response resulting in the formation of the entity in question's reputation.
Just because you are bored reading this stuff doesn't make it any less important. Rather than wishing to control content in these threads why not pick up a hobby or something that interests you? Because your premise is entirely self centered.
Sorry, bud, you're wrong, but right at the same time somehow.
Your stats are not real stats. For every person tired of seeing BFL rants, 5 other are now informed.. now that may be true. but you continued to say "by way of these shitstorms" which falsifies the whole thing. When someone rants about BFL, the newbies thinking about a preorder and doing their due diligence will see it, and will become informed. Everyone is allowed to rant. Hell I see no reason not to rant from time to time. Look who is their Director of communications. But seeing it from the same 10 people in 20 different threads (made up stats) is doing one of two things:
1. This means a person researching this possible purchase will be bombarded with 200 rants from 10 people. It looses its effectiveness. Silly childish rants with silly photoshops from the same people over and over is not doing anyone any good.
2. It also means that the people who are "shitstorming" their BFL hate feel like they HAVE to pound it in someone's head in order for them to get the picture? Pretty much means that they think these people not intelligent enough, and makes this forum look like shit. This is absolutely not what you want which brings me to your next point.
"This is the purpose of a forum and a collective response resulting in the formation of the entity in question's reputation."
That is certainly 1 of the purposes of a forum and if it is to defend having an occasional rant about BFL then you are 100% right, but what is not happening is a collective response. It is the same small handful of people over and over spouting off their absolute HATRED for BFL and passing it off as trying to be informative. People should be spouting off their hatred of Josh first and foremost. He is the one who has come on here and basically abused people. The statement from smoothie right next to your post is a prime example.
I will keep repeating myself so that those who are thinking about investing with BFL will THINK TWICE before sending a fucking dime to those scum bags
Absolutely not the kind of statement that do any good to new people. If this guy would have said "Until BFL fulfills all orders up to this point, I will keep letting people know what has happened in the last 10 months and how they should think twice before gambling their money away." THAT would have sounded like a reasonable comment. But even if he has reasonable comments, out of the 16 posts in the past 6 pages by him , he has "warned" people 14 times. 14 times. It doesn't matter HOW reasonable your statements are, if someone has to read it 14 times it is no longer reasonable. That is not anywhere CLOSE to "helping people out" and more on the lines of basically being EXACTLY like Josh. Just constantly poking a stick into people and spouting off hate.
People who do this are the self centered ones. Even worse that they claim they are just helping the people. Say your piece and move one.
