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rjohnson11
 
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away EVGA forum members started complaining about no one putting articles into the news section. I was the one who ended up getting many of these complaints via PM (Personal Message). So I decided to go ahead and post news articles that I thought were worthy of that section. I am not going to 'snippet' too much from the article or post the article in full as that is a violation of copyright law.
 
I receive far more 'thanks' from the forum members for posting these articles than any negative complaints. As a matter of fact there is only one negative complaint and that is from 'you'. You complaint about it but what have 'you' done to contribute to that section? If you feel there is a better way than start contributing to the section rather than moan and groan about it.

If you would bothered to read the "if you could make a new forums rule" thread, you would see more than just me feel the computer industry news section is being spammed. Do you pay attention to what members say in your own milestone threads, they call you the king of spam for a reason. some even comment "that's a lot of url's". Your not going to snippet too much? When have you ever posted a snippet from a news article. All we see are url's with some generic reply like "good info in that article". If it's so good why not post a snippet to allow members to see if they want to read the article or the visit website that has all kinds of ads on it. That can't be too much to ask can it.
 
Some members wonder if your not making money on the side spamming articles from sites like techpowerup. That is no lie.
 
Moderators and members have commented about it to me in private messages over the years.
Moose518
Violence
Winvert
Arctic_eagle
Sajin
Holo
at least 2 moderators
 
I could go on and on of members who agree with me or have made a comment in public or in private messages. I won't name the moderators who agree with me, don't want them receiving backlash because of it. Evga has instructed server admins and forum moderators to not engage with me and other members on the forums. 
 
I have tried to improve things by including the following when i make a news post.
 

• Original source of the article whenever possible
• Snippet which a lot of members like when i do it
• add any youtube video in the post if possible (long as it doesn't have cursing in it)

 
I would say that's more effort than you put in any news post. I have lost count the number of times Computer Industry News section first page is almost full of topics made by RJohnson11. In every one of those topics is a url with generic reply, wow such quality contented added to the forums for members, let me tell ya.
 
You opened this can of warms by attacking me.
 
 

You can put my name twice on that list - the spamming is ridiculous and adds not value. To some degree I doubt RJ actually reads the article and not just the title. But I digress. I come to this community very rarely anymore because of the lack anything worthwhile. Honestly, I hang around in an IT professional community nowadays with a company that doesn't police people because of a family oriented forum bs policy. The end result is a much friendlier atmosphere where adults are trusted to police themselves. I guess what makes that place worthy is that only one post per thread counts towards your contribution, so if you happen to post 10 times in a row, it doesn't matter - in fact many of us use it when responding to a thread to keep the lines of communication clean.
 
But RJ, if 52k posts over 12years @ roughly 12 posts a day, so be it but when half of those posts per day are in the News Section, it looks poor on you and adds little value.