Amiga.org Vs Amigaworld.net........Give us your views!

[Paradox]

cool.


just to let you know im never going to go away so your stuck with me wether you like it or not.

Im not a {bleep} im just honest and people dont like it.

i will try to behave a bit more chilled in the future the was just my grand opening rofl

[redrumloa]

@Paradox

You are right on the threshold of breaking the TOS of this site in several areas. Actually you have broken them in at least one post, probably more. I ask you kindly read the Posting Guidlines.

[Rob]

@Paradox

Im not a {bleep} im just honest and people dont like it.

I think opionated would be a word to use there.

[Hans_]

@Lando

Lando wrote:
I disliked aw.net for claiming to be an Amiga community site while discriminating against the large sections of the Amiga community who are MOS or AROS users. I have no such problem with amigans.net, since they make no claim to cater for the Amiga community, but only for OS4 users, and they state this in their terms which is fine by me and I wish them luck.

Really? I was always under the impression that AW.net was an OS4-centric site that was ok with sideline discussions of other Amiga OSes and even general computing stuff. In that context, anyone that continually posts "OS4 sucks, #OS is better" (replace # with OS of choice) just get annoying.

Hans

[Akiko]

@Lando

"He said 'put across his views'. He never mentioned trolling"

Hehe.. I'm not saying everyone who has a different opinion to mine is a troll in fact quite the contrary! If you don't believe Paradox is a troll then thats your prerogative however if you asked him yourself I have a feeling he would probably admit to it! lol..

My view is this...

1) Both sites serve their audiences well, and hopefully we do a decent job of representing our audience, just like Davey does.

2) Each site is a small community on it's own.  I'm a little unclear as to why the community needed to be split, but in context of the time in which it happened, I have no problems with Amigaworld.net.  I just don't have time to hang out there, keep this site going, keep my job, and everything else during the normal day.

3) This thread in and of itself is one of those "slippery slopes" which cannot help itself but get more and more out of control.  The very fact that such a thread would be started after years of a comfortable detante is questionable at best.  

Let's try to watch ourselves here, and be a bit careful.  After all, it's the intolerance of differing opinions which led to (now) three sites where one would have sufficed in the first place.

If it gets out of control, wrists will be slapped, sheep will be sacrificed, and the thread will be closed.

Wayne

[NoFastMem]

Paradox wrote:
I personly think A.org is miles better than amigaworld.net becuase you can get away with much more and poeple dont ban you all the time.

Grow the f**k up.

[Cyberus]

This site is the best IMHO, because it caters to all people who have any kind of vague interest in the Amiga, even people who don't use them anymore and fondly remember what they did in the 80s and early 90s. It has a good mix of people from around the world, and is an extremely friendly place.

The only other site worth visiting is wrongpla.net ;-)

[Argo]

I personly think A.org is miles better than amigaworld.net becuase you can get away with much more and poeple dont ban you all the time.

You're right! We will not ban you all the time. We will just ban you once and for all.
So listen to Red, read the posting guidlines, and relax.

[tomazkid]

@paradox

yeah it sound right that the poeple who made AW.net were banned from here becuase they very annoying and ban people etc..

aw.net is not a true amigans website if a fellow amigan cant put across his views without harrasment or flamewars or even a ban!

There is reasons for all your accounts (a quick look gives at least 3) being banned on aw.net.

And please do tell people yourself about those reasons before accusing aw.net for discrimination and harassment.

[tomazkid]

@Wayne

1) Both sites serve their audiences well, and hopefully we do a decent job of representing our audience, just like Davey does.

You do.  :pint:  :-)

[amiga92570]

I will drink to that.  :pint:  :roflmao:

[Paradox]

I'm very sorry dudes i will be good boy promise

[Fraggle1]

Hi,
I used to be a regular on both channels. (Some may remember me as KevM) I run classic hardware,and I seriously considered buying an AmigaOne when it was announced, but I couldn't justify spending the money on what would have been (at the time) a Linux box for the forseeable future. Later, other financial considerations took precedent, so I never got an A1, but you can see that I am neither "Red" nor "Blue", just an Amiga fan.

I was never made to feel welcome on aw.net, possibly because of my classic machine, and eventually, I stopped going there. It always seemed to me to be a place where TechHeads went to argue about the minutiae of one chip versus another, sometimes quite heatedly. Ultimately, I didn't find it the most pleasant place to be.

I had lots of good friends on amiga.org, but even there, there were people who couldn't resist the temptation to snipe, ("Powerflyer?, a nasty little hack!") and eventually, I realised that the only way that I could use my Amiga in peace was to leave there too. It's a shame, because now I have virtually no contact with other Amiga users, and I'm not ashamed to say that I miss it, but until I feel that I can simply use my Amiga without having to take sides, I won't be returning to either channel. Sorry.

I'm sure that both channels DO serve their respective communities well, but is it too much to ask that I'm simply allowed to be an Amiga fan?, and without being pilloried for my choice of hardware?

Respect to all.

[koaftder]

@Fraggle1

You seem to be taking the boards to seriously. If you told me my bog standard a3000 with no case and hacked up atx powersupply was lame it wouldn't even phase me or keep me from coming to the site. I just wouldn't care.

[neon32]

Too many ego's and "experts" on both sites, in my oppinion. To make a nice place to visit.

I think most people just leave or dont bother posting.. Of the 2500+ members on AW, i only ever really see about 50 of them posting.