i joined the website in 2015 was a loyal visitor, apparently as soon as i started speaking up about all the paid shills and the vote hacking that was going on the Director there did not like this at all.
I was muted from speaking any longer on the boards of my first post. As a few weeks went by i kept seeing more and more subscribers that were voting up all the paid news mainstream media comments that were defending corporate honor but silencing with downvotes all the actual relevant comments in the news sources.
ArsTechnica has a system where they hide a comment if it goes below a certain vote threshold. This is now being abused by paid shills to hide all the relevant comments.
Just like Stackexchange, reddit, and all the other major players adopted systems about votemanipulation i started speaking up about it with ARS and they wouldnt have none of it.
Instead of speaking with me about it, i logged on today to see a message: You were banned because "GoodBye".
If there are any websites like Toms and Gizmodo reading this please do an article on this. The website Arstechnica wants to play like big boys but now has lost any favor with us people who just want an unbiased news source.
They also leverage the paid subscribers to have more voting power, this shifts the comments to the most relevant section of the page. Thus eliminating "QUICKLY" all the most relevant comments that could help other people truly understand what is going on if the editor got it wrong.
Used to be about community. I was there before they switched out there new website theme, i was there when i heard about it through HackerNews. Yet being on there that long didn't matter to them, a voice speaking the truth is always the first to be silenced.
This is not the ArsTechnica i grew up around.
I was muted from speaking any longer on the boards of my first post. As a few weeks went by i kept seeing more and more subscribers that were voting up all the paid news mainstream media comments that were defending corporate honor but silencing with downvotes all the actual relevant comments in the news sources.
ArsTechnica has a system where they hide a comment if it goes below a certain vote threshold. This is now being abused by paid shills to hide all the relevant comments.
Just like Stackexchange, reddit, and all the other major players adopted systems about votemanipulation i started speaking up about it with ARS and they wouldnt have none of it.
Instead of speaking with me about it, i logged on today to see a message: You were banned because "GoodBye".
If there are any websites like Toms and Gizmodo reading this please do an article on this. The website Arstechnica wants to play like big boys but now has lost any favor with us people who just want an unbiased news source.
They also leverage the paid subscribers to have more voting power, this shifts the comments to the most relevant section of the page. Thus eliminating "QUICKLY" all the most relevant comments that could help other people truly understand what is going on if the editor got it wrong.
Used to be about community. I was there before they switched out there new website theme, i was there when i heard about it through HackerNews. Yet being on there that long didn't matter to them, a voice speaking the truth is always the first to be silenced.
This is not the ArsTechnica i grew up around.