QOTD: What Do You Think of Our Weekend Comedy?

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I always viewed Tomshardware as a respected site, that performed analysis & benchmarking of computer related hardware. I've read the Tomshardware site for several years, and always respected Tom's information. I like to use date and reviews from this site to help me make my own decisions on buying options.

However, since the ownership change of Tomshardware, I believe the site has slowly lost the respect it once held. Never before the ownership change did I find comments on other sites about how Tomshardware was anything but fine.

Personally, I do not enjoy the joke articles. I believe Tomshardware originally built a reputation as a no-nonsense, hardware review site. It was unbiased, and gave us all the skinny on what hardware did and didn't do, and what was worth it's salt.

Today, Tomshardware has turned into a news site. And if Tomshardware intends to become a computer news website, it needs to refrain from the made up garbage joke articles to keep it's respect among readers and peers. Otherwise folks will look for serious sites to obtain their factual hardware reviews and news.

Personally, I want the OLD Tomshardware back. The Pre-"Best of Media" Tomshardware.
 
I won't rehash what I've said previously on this issue or what other folks here have already mentioned, but my short answer is "no". There is news, there is comedy, and there is respect. Don't confuse the first two, and you won't lose the third!!!
 
I never noticed that there were joke articles. Whenever I see a bullet point, I assume it's for formatting. NOT some cryptic code to tell me not to take this BS seriously. When I read web pages and I know the content I'm looking for is in a certain font (not bold, not italic, and not hidden in foot notes), I don't even bother reading the rest. That's where advertisements, sources, and legal mumbo jumbo is found. I thought those joke articles were serious. I feel cheated. I demand retribution. If I knew how to do the angry smiley, I'd put one right here.
 
Yikes... these people have something stuck up their you-know-what. I've gotten a good laugh out of the articles, though there was one time I was reading as if it was real and going, "WHAT!?!"... THEN it made sense when I say the footnote. That April fools-ness does get a laugh but I could see how it could be frustrating to some... frustrated people. Maybe just make them more look more obviously satire.
 
I never leave comments. Wasted effort, I always thought.
I'm gonna make the effort though if it will help put an end to the 'so-called' comedy you've been posting as of late. Not funny. Not interesting. Not why I visit Tom's.
 
If you are going to waste resources on comedy articles maybe it's time you bring Tom's Games back?
 
haha "According to his personal assistant, Dean Andrews (who asked to remain anonymous)"

was funny, keep it up.

also, i would suggest a more obvious mark that these articles are jokes.
bullet points aren't the best mark in my opinion.
 
Personally, it doesn't matter for me.

I love a good laugh every now and then, and the "Thriller" video was hilarious.

However, some people are looking for a srious news site. I'm just looking for an entusiast site.

However if you do decide to continue on your course of comedy weekends, I would like to ask that you get some better content. :)
The users will appreciate it if it's professional comedy, helping Toms remain its professional reputation while still having a good stress relieving lol after an hour straight of BSOD. 😉
 
[citation][nom]JMcEntegart[/nom]This QOTD is nothing to do with my articles and this comment section is for discussing the weekend comedy only. If you have a problem, feel free to click on my name and email me directly.[/citation]
Also - I think you tend to feed more trolls than other Tom's writers. 😉
 
Just further erodes what little respect this site was given at one point. Putting crap "joke" articles right next to real articles riddled with spelling and grammatical errors. I'm not sure which one's are the jokes these days but I do know I find myself more often going to Anandtech to get my tech news because they seem to honestly care about the quality of the articles not just the quantity they are able to crap out on a daily basis. They also don't feel the need to "add" weekend comedy crap that would only be funny had I been living in a hole for the past 15 years. Site has been going down hill for a while this just about puts the cake on it.
 
I like the idea for the most part. Weekends often lack any form of real content on the interweb and its a nice change to a site I visit regularly. I respect you guys, but you are not the Onion. Good Journalism and good satire are worlds apart. There is a fine balance between realistic enough to be believable yet crazy enough to make it sensational and humorous. The macbook wheel was funny, Steve Jobs as a palm pre powered android not so much.
 
I come to Toms for the Hardnews...Not comedy...I want indepth reviews...specs on the specs...not comdey...If toms is gonna go with comedy I might as well as start reading Cnet again...HAHA.

Please keep it serious....keep it real...keep it Tomshardware...Not Toms standup.

Otherwise Ill unregister...stop clicking...and go else where...
 
I know they have a dot, and if enter the article and look at the bottom it explains that it is only for entertainment purposes - but regardless, these articles are being posted in a section called NEWS.

I ate spaghetti for lunch, and while true that is news, I don't think that is what readers are looking for. April Fools Day joke articles in the news section are accepted as common convention - but these weekend jokes definitely do not.

Perhaps Tom's should seriously consider having two feed - one for news (where only articles based on journalistic news reporting standards go) and one for blog posts (where the more recent highly opinionated articles with subjective conclusions within, the QOTD, and the joke articles would go).

Like others, I am starting to look elsewhere for my news as Tom's seems more about making a punchline or unfounded (and possibly even libelous) comments within the article.

Of course, I am also looking elsewhere do to a dislike of the changes from when I first started coming here. (This started when ads start choking up my netbook and render the site unusable - all the "Web 2.0" upgrades and these dot articles are just another set of reasons to go.)
 
Hmm....I think that some people on here might be taking this a little too serious and even as an insult? I really have not read any of the articles because I am not a fan of those kinds of articles, but I don't think that it is a bad idea mainly because it lets the writers have some fun and use their imaginations. Either way After reading some of the comments (not everyone) it is clear that some of the fans are getting a little too serious over what is suppose to be enjoyable (after all it is the weekend).

I can only wonder if the reason some people are only taking this so serious because they were actually tricked by this (by mistake of course)?
 
Leave this stuff to The Onion - seriously. Also, stop soliciting opinions at the end of news articles, since it lowers credibility and turns the "news articles" into blog posts. The Internet is diluted enough with useless drivel, opinions, "iReports", and blogs. Don't let it happen to your site; keep the news articles as more factual reporting.
 
I agree with most people commenting, stop the joke articles, use spell check and find a new editor to check your work before you post it online.

Also, please stick with the factual elements of the story without adding what you might think the manufacture was "thinking". Not only it is wrong to do, it is down right disrespectful of the manufacture who may have provided you the unit to begin with.

 
I agree with most people commenting, stop the joke articles, use spell check and find a new editor to check your work before you post it online.

Also, please stick with the factual elements of the story without adding what you might think the manufacture was "thinking". Not only it is wrong to do, it is down right disrespectful of the manufacture who may have provided you the unit to begin with.

 
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