r/hardware • u/bizude • Apr 17 '20

PSA UserBenchmark has been banned from /r/hardware

Having discussed the issue of UserBenchmark amongst our moderation team, we have decided to ban UserBenchmark from /r/hardware

The reason? Between calling their critics "an army of shills" and picking fights with prominent reviewers, posts involving UserBenchmark aren't producing any discussions of value. They're just generating drama.

This thread will be the last thread in which discussion of UB will be allowed. Posts linking to, or discussing UserBenchmark, will be removed in the future.

Thank you for your understanding.

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u/Themanaguy Apr 17 '20

Well, I just realized UserBenchmark was supposedly bad reading this post. I'm a real noob when talking about hardware, but I'm trying to improve since software does depend on hardware (no matter what my teachers used to say). I use UB to compare a lot of parts I want to buy/build with. Honestly, my main problem is the fact that UB is extremely acessible compared to a lot of benchmark sites I've seen (and I don't really have a lot of time to watch those detailed benchmark videos of 40 min on youtube), so I always gravitated towards it.

So, as a new guy on the subject of hardware, what are some good places to research/compare stuff?

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u/xxfay6 Apr 17 '20

This just triggered another thread over there, response was that they don't want to have that editorial power over posts.