Just to inform that LYN was featured in "The Edge Malaysia" Magazine (March 2-8 2009 edition). It was in a pullout entitled "Malaysian websites that we like" where they could only find 65 good websites in Malaysia. They tried to find 88 websites but couldn't do so.

Nice to see LYN getting recognized!

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OMG! I didn't even notice that!

That will certainly attract more people to LYN!

@cstkl1

Look. A website is only as good as the content and the community within it. In LYN's community, we have a variety of forumers. From those that willingly help to improve the website/community/forums to those "backbenchers" who complain, whine and give negative criticism that makes matters worst (thanks the stars we don't have many of those).

From the forums, it is evident that you have the time and the money to splurge on whatever hardware you want. Mind you, a lot of us don't have the time nor the financial luxury to do that.

You say that this forum could be better. Would you be one of the forumers to make it better?

I'm sure you have tried out a lot of expensive high-end hardwares that most of us can only dream of. Have you ever done or tried to do any reviews?

If you, with time, money and knowledge, could not do that, how do you expect the average forumer to do so?

Yes, our forums could have be better...... care to help?

This post has been edited by kmarc: Mar 7 2009, 08:31 PM

First of all, my elite status is immaterial to the discussion here.

Secondly, my guides were meant to help noobs to at least grasp the topic at hand. My view that you should "teach a man to fish" rather than "giving fishes to every tom-d***-and-harry" that comes along. How many times did you see a noob ask "Can somebody teach me how to overclock?". One time? 10 times? 100 times? Are you going to be there all the time to teach them? Or maybe we can have an understanding that if anybody needs help, we can say "Pm cstkl1, he will help you".

Your argument about guides are flawed. Nobody can make a guide that covers every hardware and situation. You can never cover every aspect including, like what you mentioned, newer chipset/hardwares!!! Guides, as I make it, are catered to a specific group/topic relevant to that point in time, nothing more and nothing less.

Since you seem to be an expert in guides, I challenge you to make a guide. Make sure it is VERY specific to every situation/scenario/hardware which also includes older and newer hardwares. It should also cater towards noobs and non-noobs so that you don't leave out anybody that might benefit from the guide. Also, you have to make sure your guides are not complicated and long that people will get lost in it but not too general that some noobs might not understand it. All this from what you have said, and I quote:



For your information, my first overclocking guide WAS posted in the overclocking section. However, it was moved to the essential/guide section by the moderator of that time. After discussion with the moderator, he advised me to post all my guides in the essential/guide section. I was a bit frustrated but that's what I did. Mind you, I didn't have to reply to this but since you asked......

As for the rest of the comments, I'll leave it to other forumers to reply......

Edit : Oh ya, about your question on "indirectly agreeing with you that there are not much hardware review in LYN"....
This is in relation to the magazine which said "Although famous for its forums, Lowyat also offers news and reviews of products". Note that LYN also OFFERS news and reviews of products. It didn't say LYN offers many many many news and reviews of products. Worse case scenario of ONE or TWO product reviews already makes the above statement true. As such, while I agree with you, it is irrelevant to the discussion.

This post has been edited by kmarc: Mar 7 2009, 11:24 PM

@cstkl1

Remember that a guide will definitely help somebody. It just can't cater for every person or situation.

Everybody has their strength and weaknesses. With your advantage/strength/time/experience/money, you can help a lot of our forumers. Just be a bit patient and hold back the cynicism and bitterness.....

LYN is not perfect but we do what we can to make it a better community, no?

Anyway, we're off-topic......