Quick review
So below you can see the letter I sent to Kyle Bennett in its entirety.
He was kind enough to respond with this message:
Don’t have time to read it. It is funny you have nothing better to do that spend time typing this. Time could have been better spent on your resume. Glad Palit is gone and we did not waste any more time given their “PR” persons were idiots on their best day.
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Kyle R Bennett
Editor-in-Chief
[H]ard|OCP
Hrmph. I was expecting a little more. I suppose it’s more of a response than most people with MASSIVE Internet muscles would provide.
There was a short lived forum discussion on the subject at http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=4078c9d26d571a857e6f8e41c444cf0f&t=1405891 but, apparently, the dismaying number of WTF are you doing Kyle type of comments brought things to an abrupt halt. My account has also been banned.
Kyle graced that thread with another stunning anecdote, “Palit’s PR team was a bunch of idiotic jackasses. For some reason they thought they could control what we said and when we said it. I basically told them to stuff it up their asses and they would never see another Palit review on [H] ever again. I kept my end of the bargain. That was in late June of 2008.”
My favorite bit was when I reminded him of the first rule of his forums which can be found here, and states:
(1) Absolutely NO FLAMING, NAME CALLING OR PERSONAL ATTACKS. Mutual respect and civilized conversation is the required norm.
That was about the time things started to go pear shaped. While the thread was locked for a while, it’s open again although I’m still banned. Kyle has this to say on the matter:
If we just sit here and did nothing when it is painfully obvious that someone registered simply to troll a thread, we would sitting in a heap of troll shit.
Now every post I made has magically disappeared.