Sean B. Veteran Posted March 24, 2006 Veteran Share Posted March 24, 2006 Neowin started out as an enthusiast website dedicated to bringing the latest news on Windows XP from its initial announcement to its final release. 6 years later, and the website still manages to cling on for dear life. Are we now finally starting to see tears in the fabric? Or is Neowin promptly going to pull something off? Digg.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+StevoFC MVC Posted March 24, 2006 MVC Share Posted March 24, 2006 wow...haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samg Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 ohhh... thats not good. edit: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted March 24, 2006 Veteran Share Posted March 24, 2006 It is amazing what passes for news at some places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keito Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 WTH - Neowin may not be as quick with the news as other sites, but it sure has the best and biggest community for tech-related problems... so basically I don't get this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotdog666al Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Who cares. It's the forum and the community that count! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evostrata Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Yea, the news may not be the strongest feature, but Neowin has the best forum on the web. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samg Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showuser=26941 appears to be the criminal at large, also seems to be banned. Wonder why he posted the topic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j4020 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Reported as : ok this is lame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadishTM Veteran Posted March 24, 2006 Veteran Share Posted March 24, 2006 https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showuser=26941 appears to be the criminal at large, also seems to be banned. Wonder why he posted the topic! Nothing new there, what is really creepy though is that he loves Neowin deep down :laugh: Shame he couldn't keep his wad together. Radish™ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean B. Veteran Posted March 24, 2006 Author Veteran Share Posted March 24, 2006 Yea, the news may not be the strongest feature, but Neowin has the best forum on the web. I agree, to some extent. I was just reading around digg.com and saw this, might as well post it :blush:. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samg Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Nothing new there, what is really creepy though is that he loves Neowin deep dow:laugh:h: Shame he couldn't keep his wad together. Radish? Funny how all the stories like this are started by banned members of the forum. They cant stick to the rules, get banned, and then all of a sudden the forum is crappy! Love there mentality! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Allen Veteran Posted March 24, 2006 Veteran Share Posted March 24, 2006 Good to see he's gaining attention :no: What an idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOC Veteran Posted March 24, 2006 Veteran Share Posted March 24, 2006 Awww, he didn't like the fact that I was posting in the Neowin News thread. Poor little kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangbang023 Veteran Posted March 24, 2006 Veteran Share Posted March 24, 2006 Funny how all the stories like this are started by banned members of the forum. They cant stick to the rules, get banned, and then all of a sudden the forum is crappy! Love there mentality! Well, duh lol. I used ot get worked up over it, now I just laugh. In the end, it's simply more publicity for Neowin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlogank Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 perhaps if member's submitting news actually worked, Neowin wouldn't be a couple days behind on Frontpage news. Hopefully this gets fixed with v5...whenever that will be. Well, duh lol. I used ot get worked up over it, now I just laugh. In the end, it's simply more publicity for Neowin. yes, but I am not sure if negative publicity is a good thing...from reading around the past couple of days, seems there are becoming a few more disgruntled members than usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedorpheux Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 I'm going to go create a "news" website dedicated to informing everybody about how Neobond is actually a Spanish-speaking purple monkey from space. Peabody, here I come. :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangbang023 Veteran Posted March 24, 2006 Veteran Share Posted March 24, 2006 perhaps if member's submitting news actually worked, Neowin wouldn't be a couple days behind on Frontpage news. Hopefully this gets fixed with v5...whenever that will be. yes, but I am not sure if negative publicity is a good thing...from reading around the past couple of days, seems there are becoming a few more disgruntled members than usual. 1. The lack of "submit news" isn't the problem. The higher ups are trying to address the actual problems now. 2. People are always going to be disgruntled. This just gives them something to bitch about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Veteran Posted March 25, 2006 Veteran Share Posted March 25, 2006 It's just a publicity stunt. It doesn't really offend Neowin (consider what there has been). But it doesn't exactly praise it either. It is interesting that this site was started to track XP from start to finish though, I didn't know that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZZOOzzoo Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 I don't find anything terribly unreasonable about that article; it's just a cold and critical analysis of Neowin's current situation by an ex-member. I disagree with many of his points, but then we can't completely dismiss it as "publicity stunt" when a three weeks old news sadly gets posted in the main page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomwarren Veteran Posted March 30, 2006 Veteran Share Posted March 30, 2006 Lord, I posted the "news" the other day. It was 2 weeks old and not 3 weeks old for a start and most hadn't seen it and we hadn't posted it main page. 2 weeks is hardly old if you ask me and it was a topic worth covering Our news is fine, there haven't been that many major tech news stories of the past couple of weeks anyway. We will be covering WinHEC 2006 like always and will provide video footage, audio podcasts, interviews and great pictures like always. People need to realise that we're not here to compete with Digg.com, this is a prime example of how Digg.com is flawed as it takes "news" like this and allows it to get posted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TokyoKiller Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 What a loser :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panacik Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 perhaps if member's submitting news actually worked, Neowin wouldn't be a couple days behind on Frontpage news. Hopefully this gets fixed with v5...whenever that will be. yes, but I am not sure if negative publicity is a good thing...from reading around the past couple of days, seems there are becoming a few more disgruntled members than usual. If members could submit news it would become silly with false information or people saying that another website is rubbish. It is best have the members submit the news to the BPN and let the mods etc examine and decide weather it should be posted on front page. Yes there are more disgruntled members lately, but when you are as big as Neowin is it is hardily surprising. More and more members are joining this hugh community. The more that join the more great posts can be submitted but there is also the potential for newb users to join asking for warez and acting like arses without reading up on the rules. They end up getting a banning and decide that Neowin is rubbish anyway just because the site is well moderated and they are not allowed to tell another person they are a cu*t. At the end of the day, in England anyway, if you call someone a cu*t or use threatening behavour in the street, you get arrested and maybe imprisoned. You do this in Neowin and you get a warning or even get banned... simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miuku. Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 Someone actually uses digg? I'd consider it about as unbiased and reliable as Slashdot comment pages. *cough* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalsoft Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 he has a point though, neowin is a bit "yesterdays news" only joking! :p, idiot person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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