Not ANOTHER OCN'er?

[ArchStanton]

@Outsider if you need to vent, feel free to curse me for my newbish stupidity here .  It's okay, I've got my "big boy" panties on .

[iamjanco]

40 minutes ago, Sir Beregond said:

Which thread?

 

Probably not the ban thread there  

 

hence:

 

1 hour ago, Outsider said:

I still check out OCN from time to time and not being able to comment has really helped me realized why I got banned. The amount of BS and people talking like experts but sprouting total nonsense is too much for me not to call it out. I just don't have the vocabulary to not resort to name calling. 

I really feel like an old man yelling at kids to get off his lawn.  

 

I'm reading a thread on there atm and can't help but yell at my screen. 

 

if it were me, i wouldn't blame myself. I think OCN's become a great place to test the limits of what might get one banned, especially by an overzealous moderator who might not fully appreciate the subtle difference(s) between innate sarcasm and a lack of diversity training. 

 

That's the social scientist in me speaking, btw 

 

Still, sites like OCN do come equipped with their own TOS. One either behaves, or well, you know 

 

Edited March 24, 2022 by iamjanco

[Hacksword]

Welcome, @Alastair, glad to see you again!

[Bones]

On 20/03/2022 at 18:58, PCSarge said:

just about everyone, and most of us are all wearing the same names aswell

You knew me as "Kryton" there but the name I've always tried to use is "Bones" which is of course my benching name.
I do remember you from there, after "Whatever" happened over there it just lost it's.... Soul?
I guess you could call it that, certainly isn't what it used to be by any means.

I won't be in that often (I'm all over the place anyway) but will pop in on occasion.

[Alastair]

On 26/03/2022 at 16:08, Hacksword said:

Welcome, @Alastair, glad to see you again!

Glad to be back

On 26/03/2022 at 19:35, Bones said:

You knew me as "Kryton" there but the name I've always tried to use is "Bones" which is of course my benching name.
I do remember you from there, after "Whatever" happened over there it just lost it's.... Soul?
I guess you could call it that, certainly isn't what it used to be by any means.

I won't be in that often (I'm all over the place anyway) but will pop in on occasion.

I think i remember. Hopefully you won't be too scarce. I know forums are going the way of the dinosaur what with you tube and stuff. But dammit I don't want us to go gently into that dark night. 

[pio]

Just now, Alastair said:

Glad to be back

I think i remember. Hopefully you won't be too scarce. I know forums are going the way of the dinosaur what with you tube and stuff. But dammit I don't want us to go gently into that dark night. 

He has to stick around for a little while since I've got dinosaur hardware that he wants me to bench off. 

[Alastair]

2 minutes ago, pioneerisloud said:

He has to stick around for a little while since I've got dinosaur hardware that he wants me to bench off. 

I would love some dinosaur hardware to mess around with. But all I have is my e2200 kicking around on some kek G31 motherboard kicking around in the garage somewhere. 

[pio]

1 hour ago, Alastair said:

I would love some dinosaur hardware to mess around with. But all I have is my e2200 kicking around on some kek G31 motherboard kicking around in the garage somewhere. 

Bust it out and join our cpuz bench off! Oldest I've gotten going so far has been my 939 opteron 180 set up. I haven't been pushing people to enjoy old rigs or anything...... Nooooo.  

[PCSarge]

On 26/03/2022 at 13:35, Bones said:

You knew me as "Kryton" there but the name I've always tried to use is "Bones" which is of course my benching name.
I do remember you from there, after "Whatever" happened over there it just lost it's.... Soul?
I guess you could call it that, certainly isn't what it used to be by any means.

I won't be in that often (I'm all over the place anyway) but will pop in on occasion.

your not wrong, its been quite a while, OCN was sold to the corporate market, we all then all proceeded to exit stage left.

Edited March 28, 2022 by PCSarge

[Bones]

6 hours ago, Alastair said:

Glad to be back

I think i remember. Hopefully you won't be too scarce. I know forums are going the way of the dinosaur what with you tube and stuff. But dammit I don't want us to go gently into that dark night. 

I was always involved with AM3 stuff and got into alot of AM3+ stuff too.
I've come a long way since those days.....
Not sure how long I'll be at it and I have slowed down considerably over the past few years but I still crank out a few scores every so often.

And yes, among the things I have to do on the list  - I have to destroy Pio per his personal request so I'll be around for awhile yet.

[Alastair]

19 hours ago, pioneerisloud said:

Bust it out and join our cpuz bench off! Oldest I've gotten going so far has been my 939 opteron 180 set up. I haven't been pushing people to enjoy old rigs or anything...... Nooooo.  

I'm busy ocing my 3800x. So I will post some results of that soon. Over 6000/570ish cpuz seems pretty good for PBO Oc and that looks within reach. 

 

Ill bust out the e2200 once I am done with my main rig. I need to sit down and take the time to OC my ram to try eek whatever is left out of my system. But I will make a, seperate thread for that when the time comes because I think I will need help getting these c-dies to their best. 

 

I see the cpuz bench off thread. I feel we should have bench off threads for everything. Cinebench, 3d Mark, heaven etc.

Edited March 28, 2022 by Alastair

[PCSarge]

i challenge pio....to run super pi 1M on a 486DX2

[pio]

2 hours ago, PCSarge said:

i challenge pio....to run super pi 1M on a 486DX2

Wanna ship me that Voodoo I know you have on hand?  If so, I'll buy a 486DX2 rig to put it in.  

 

For real though, I can't even get this stupid Socket A to recognize drives yet.  Haven't even started on the 2 older ones I have on hand yet.

Edited March 29, 2022 by pioneerisloud

[LordXeb]

On 21/03/2022 at 02:52, ENTERPRISE said:

 

History lesson time lol. 

 

The initial V-bulletin migration honestly wasn't what damaged OCN. I mean sure, as with any change there was frustration and some losses. Huddler (the platform OCN moved to) was actually decent and the owners were community focused and were working with myself and the other management to bring back any lost functionality and fix bugs. They were actually exceptionally quick on fixing things and making adjustments. I cannot really find much fault with them. We were making some great progress. 

 

Then came our troubles. 

 

Huddler became EOL as a platform. It was a proprietary software that was no longer going to maintained. Bugger ! Huddler was then purchased and we became part of the Wikia group. This didn't mean a platform change....but we did see stagnation as dev work etc had come to a standstill.

 

Ironically it was only a short time after that Wikia re-shuffled their company portfolio and decided that tech forums such as ourselves were no longer a good fit....Sigh. 

 

Here comes ANOTHER move.

 

OCN was the sold to Verticalscope which was running its portfolio on...get this, the same super old version of V-bulletin we initially migrated away from. This meant OCN was migrated back to V-bulletin, but with that meant we lost EVERYTHING. All the features we had managed to get back thus far with Huddler...poof gone.  

 

This is were you would have started to see the mass exodus of users and slow down on OCN. To make matters worse, we couldn't get much work done to restore OCN after the move to Verticalscope as they were already planning to mass move their entire portfolio to a custom fork of Xenforo. 

 

So we stagnated for ages, with nothing unique that made OCN what it was, that was the REAL damage. We eventually migrated to Xenforo which is the OCN of today. The rest you can figure out (I cannot go into details)

I left sometime in 2018 and haven't really been back since. The new forum is great and all but I barely see any staff there. I see old faces but the place is not the same. And god what a mess with everything. Enterpise, how have you managed to stay as admin for all this time? I would have been so frustrated and said fuckit. 

[LordXeb]

On 24/03/2022 at 11:54, EHW Ai said:

I still check out OCN from time to time and not being able to comment has really helped me realized why I got banned. The amount of BS and people talking like experts but sprouting total nonsense is too much for me not to call it out. I just don't have the vocabulary to not resort to name calling. 

I really feel like an old man yelling at kids to get off his lawn.  

 

I'm reading a thread on there atm and can't help but yell at my screen. 

Dude I know what you mean. I went to a techsupport forum and people are just idiots there too. There is no "experts" on OCN anymore. Just people spewing *. I went over to TechPowerUp and LinusTechTips afterward. 

[ENTERPRISE]

12 hours ago, LordXeb said:

I left sometime in 2018 and haven't really been back since. The new forum is great and all but I barely see any staff there. I see old faces but the place is not the same. And god what a mess with everything. Enterpise, how have you managed to stay as admin for all this time? I would have been so frustrated and said fuckit. 

I promise you, It has not been without its upsets and challenges but it's how the new owners want it, so I will go with the flow.

[neurotix]

Fond memories of the Vishera club and we talked a lot back then. Can't believe that was over 10 years ago. I'm sure you must remember me. Welcome to a site without 25 tracking scripts, @Alastair

Edited January 8, 2023 by neurotix