What do you like or dislike about Neowin?

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Dance.

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Like : Everything

Dislike : Neowin is ceasing to be a community. They're lotsa flame wars and fanboys who just can't seem to get along. And alotta posters try to show superiority (over the internet, really?) over ignorant people. But that's about it. Personally I think Neowin should live by the "Got nothing nice to say? Then don't say anything" motto, it will make Neowin alot nicer.

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Konstanov

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The Moderator Team

The Friendly Members

Great Discussion

Don't really have any dislikes seeing as I don't use RWI that much so dont get involved in heated discussions.

We may not have Kool and the Gang from RWI, but we have JediXAngel down in the Media Room.

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-KJ

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Likes: Recent Activity at the top of forum, helpful and meaningful replies and members.

Dislikes: Community is a a lot harsher here. Ignorance will get quoted multiple times over and beaten to death by certain members in a condescending manner. They seem to get a high off of that.

Neowin also has a bad case of questioning questions rather than answering them. Not just honest questions, but questions meant to extract ignorance from the OP or just so they could reply how their way is superior, although really many of these questions come down to personal preference. The Superbar/Quicklaunch comes to mind.

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thealexweb

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Like:

Good articles

Friendly atmosphere overall

Despite being a small country, there seem to be a lot of people here from the UK

Don't like:

Heavy fisted moderators, order needs to be maintained but in some areas it goes to far.

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REM2000

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Massive range of knowledge and experience from other members, the willing of members to help with problems. I can't think of any better support network out there.

News stories are always pretty quick and up to date, faster than many sites.

Community driven design, i.e. the owners / mods take on board feedback

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As others have mentioned fanboy's on any side, it doesn't do neowin or the members any good.

Any other site and the fanboy crap would have made me given up, however the pro's are compelling enough for me to keep returning.

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Likes: nearly everything. There is a wide range of interesting topics here and I've found the moderators to be fair and even handed for the most part.

Dislikes: the fanboys. At times constructive debates get lost in the fanboyism here.

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Syanide

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Likes: The site. I mean the way it's made, the way it looks and works, the effort put into it, the community (for the most part).

Dislikes: Fanboys. And I might be alone here, but I almost never go to Neowin for news, even though I check the main site from time to time. Because lately they seem dumbed down, or mainstream, if you catch my drift. The way articles are written, and what's talked about, the attitude and the format, it's pointed a lot to the 'Average Joe' (Christ, I hate that term). Tech news should not suffer from those things, they should be technical if needed, and should not hype some totally irrelevant things. That's just how I feel, I hope I haven't offended anyone.

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