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Combatus · 26th Feb 2013, 21:08

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Originally Posted by Parge

If its helpful in your upcoming plans, 3 reasons I come back to BT is

Antony Leather and everything he does, and the more unique reviews.

Well I'll be damned that's probably the nicest comment I've ever received while I've been working here

My pleasure sir!

I can also reiterate Ed's calibre as someone who is more than capable of giving bit-tech what it needs. On top of his experience he's also a thoroughly nice chap who I'm looking forward to working with. Also, thanks to Simon for his hard work over the last year and bit.

Meanmotion · 26th Feb 2013, 21:10

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Originally Posted by Nexxo

As for plans for the site, if you could include Captcha or some other human detection tool in the new member sign-up process, so we don't get spammed to death with spambot accounts, that would be grand.

We don't have that?! Yeah, I'll definitely look into it.

kenco_uk · 26th Feb 2013, 22:51

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Originally Posted by Flibblebot

I'm guessing that with a name like Mat, he'll be a walkover...

I'll get my coat...

Mac?

This could be awesome, a long-time forumite becoming editor. All aboard the fun train, woo-woo!

Bindibadgi · 27th Feb 2013, 00:37

Ed, I demand 4,000 word motherboard reviews or no advertising!

Nexxo · 27th Feb 2013, 08:03

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Originally Posted by Meanmotion

We don't have that?! Yeah, I'll definitely look into it.

We don't. Every day we have to manually trawl through about 2000 new registrations and try and pick out the real ones. Real people get inevitably rejected/deleted by mistake. This has been going on for the best part of a year.

So yeah, if you could do something about that you'd have our eternal gratitude.

Meanmotion · 27th Feb 2013, 08:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bindibadgi

Ed, I demand 4,000 word motherboard reviews or no advertising!

Know anyone that might want to write them?

Meanmotion · 27th Feb 2013, 08:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nexxo

We don't. Every day we have to manually trawl through about 2000 new registrations and try and pick out the real ones. Real people get inevitably rejected/deleted by mistake. This has been going on for the best part of a year.

So yeah, if you could do something about that you'd have our eternal gratitude.

Righty ho, here's hoping that's something I can get fixed fairly promptly.

Dogbert666 · 27th Feb 2013, 11:12

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Originally Posted by stonedsurd

Is he missing a 't' from his name?

He certainly is :P

Quote:

Originally Posted by Parge

Matt is doing a STERLING job on hardware reviews

Aw shucks. Thanks! Means a lot

Farewell to Simon, in my short time here he's always been a pleasure to work with. Looking forward to seeing what changes Ed (and Mat) bring to the table!

kelvinb · 27th Feb 2013, 14:42

Can we please do a cheesecake comparison to finally put to bed that strawberry cheesecake is the one cheesecake to rule all others !

Meanmotion · 27th Feb 2013, 18:04

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Originally Posted by kelvinb

Can we please do a cheesecake comparison to finally put to bed that strawberry cheesecake is the one cheesecake to rule all others !

Tell you what, let's do a homemade cheesecake competition and you can use your own 'special recipe'.

kelvinb · 27th Feb 2013, 19:10

Deal..... bring on the cheesecake, wonder if royal mail could be trusted with one in the post !

Nexxo · 27th Feb 2013, 19:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Meanmotion

Tell you what, let's do a homemade cheesecake competition and you can use your own 'special recipe'.

The one with the secret ingredient?

kelvinb · 27th Feb 2013, 19:24

haha fung fu panda rocks !!!

Nexxo · 27th Feb 2013, 19:32

"There is no charge for awesomeness"

KidMod-Southpaw · 27th Feb 2013, 21:06

It's still one of my favourite films...

BLC · 28th Feb 2013, 08:46

Well it's been something of a bumpy ride over the last year or so - and to be fair most of those bumps have primarily involved advertising woes, which are ultimately out of Simon's hands - but I can see that things are definitely changing for the better. Good luck in the future Simon, and thanks for all your work.

I'll agree that Ed's "pedigree" (for want of a better term...I'm not trying to compare anyone to a dog!

) does seem an excellent fit for bit-tech, and I can certainly see the value in wanting to branch out and expand the audience. The only reservation I would have - and I'm sure that anyone running a site that's seen any measure of success is already well aware of this - is that there's always the risk of diluting your core content and alienating long-standing readers/members/whatever-us-old-timers-are-called. Though to be honest, many people will cry foul and storm off in a huff at the slightest hint of change anyway; I'm not criticising anyone specifically here, but I worked in Change Management in a large enterprise for a long time and once you understand the behavioural patterns it's hard to avoid seeing them everywhere.

IMO there's no point trying to compete with sites like AnandTech and producing massively in-depth analyses and articles; you'll lose that battle before you even start fighting it, and you'll expend a lot of time and effort while doing it. Stick to what you do well and keep trying to do it better; I read bit-tech because of the quality of the writing (aside from the odd spelling/grammar error here and there - I'm looking at you, Gareth!

), not because they produce 15-page reviews of a USB card.

Gareth Halfacree · 28th Feb 2013, 13:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by BLC

(aside from the odd spelling/grammar error here and there - I'm looking at you, Gareth!

)

I do'nt knwo whta yoru takling abuot.

steveo_mcg · 28th Feb 2013, 14:42

Don't know why, but I read that with Jimmy Nail's voice in my head...

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