[POOL] Moderate some users (was: Re: [MPlayer-users] Re: divx 6)

[Alexander Noe']

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski schrieb:

> The point is, Rich's opinions usually _are_ backed up with good technical
> information.

And each time the technical information is against him or he doesn't 
have any, he starts flaming instead of saying nothing when he doesn't 
have anything to say. If he wants to present tests showing that GMC 
isn't worth anything, he should present them, if he doesn't have any, 
then he should say so or shut up, if he doesn't care about whether or 
not GMC is useful, he can say that as well. But posting random 
nonsense when he doesn't have information is not the way to go, 
otherwise there is a danger that some people actually believe him.

That situation is dangerous because such nonsense information has a 
tendency to stick in people's heads, as has been proven at several 
occasions: for example when THW made up some funny theories about the 
SaveDisc 2 protection (the laser being to weak to correctly record 
certain data patterns on CDs), which has been treated at The Ultimate 
Truth for years, or when people started to say AVI supported only 2 
audio streams, or VBR audio in AVI was not completely spec compliant, 
or AAC audio should not be used in AVI because it was a bad idea etc 
etc, or, even better, even having 2 audio streams in an AVI file was a 
hack, just because M$'s player doesn't support certain features of the 
AVI file format introduced like 15 years ago.

If he can finally decide to restrain himself, and to restrict to 
technically information he actually has, there is no need to moderate 
him, but with GMC, he has shown that he has severe issues restriction 
to technical information he actually has.

I guess the next couple of weeks will show whether or not he can do 
that contrarily to the impression he recently gave.



Alex