On this topic, it seems that my username has some how became a household name. I heard even my username was occasionally cited a few times. This certainty brings me honor.
Honestly, I havn't visited macrumors forum have a while.
However, today I was DM (a few times) on reddit to log in to macrumors forum again. There is something that appears to require my immediate attention. I was also asked to clarify my stand towards the below messages, for my positive reputation thus far (not entirely sure if it is the correct word) is at stake here.
I opened my inbox and to my horror ~ below was what discussed about me in a private group chat.
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So this user in red omitted circle was a former reddit pwm_sensitive I have banned just about 12 hours ago.
So some context on this user which lead me having to ban him, and thus resulting in him instigating and campaigning against me with the above allegation. (The one in omitted purple is his acquaintance, I supposed.)
This reddit user first came to PWM_sensitive tentatively around
June of this year, seeking to learn more about PWM, and interpreting waveform results. Of course, being the me that I am, I showed no constraint in sharing what I knew.
June 2023 - first encounter with this user
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Later on
July of 2023, he reached out over to me on DM to learn more about this new test of using fast shutter speed I've often been bringing up about. I again shared and discussed with him what I knew.
On
August of this year, he created a post promoting his facebook private page. In his post, he claimed that he has access to many phones and can offer early exclusive Opple light meter reading to members only to his private facebook group. While this may seem like a red flag, I let the matter rest for he claimed that he will also share the reading to the PWM reddit sub in due time.
However, he never once contributed any readings to the PWM reddit sub.
In fact, I recently learned that despite having the reddit members compromising their own facebook account details to receive the "exclusive readings", they were never really delivered.
August 2023- 3rd encounter.
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Shortly following that, he returned back to the PWM sub to promote his own personal website again. While I do not have a problem with him promoting his website despite advice from Reddit moderator guidelines, I closed an eye in view that it might be of beneficial for the members.
August 2023- 4th encounter.
However, I visited his website and it appears to have even more red flags.
His new site appears to use some really heavy background processing, despite being almost an empty bogus and placeholder website. This typically screams malicious collection of your personal data.
What's even more red flag about his website that it was first created in
June 2018. There were no post from him since then, until
August 2023 where he post Xiaomi 13 readings, in an attempt to convince PWM sub reddit members that this is a brand new website, made with the community in mind.
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He remained under the radar until recently. I learned from another member that in the said private group, he has made numerous attempts in instigating members to believe that Google has maliciously changed the PWM frequency in a deliberate attempt to make flicker sensitive users difficult. He claimed that he has evidence to back it up. According to what I learned from another reddit member, another user within that group has repeatingly asked for chart readings for verification. (I taught the member how to verify and interpret the correct frequency, just like how I have first identified the iPhone 15 Pro Max is using a stack 2x 240 hertz on higher brightness).
However, the user again refused to show any readings. A member then cautioned me that it is very likely that he will make his next move on the PWM reddit sub in promoting his agenda. As he was having trouble gathering support on his conspiracy. Although, I was also informed that Nick from Androidcentral
might appeared be in full support of this conspiracy claim, despite the lack of evidence in producing the wavechart.
Indeed, it was as he cautioned ~ the user in question did make a post earlier to promote his agenda. In his post, he even claimed that he found sources online "to back up his claim". His "source online" was his own personal questionable website.
Of course, I did attempted to reason and clarify with him. However, he doubled down in his attempt and responded with strawman arguments. Considering his history with his past acitivites, it left me with no choice but to ban him.
Hence, that resulted in him responding with the above messages you saw earlier.
Had it been him alone ranting, I wouldn't have minded. However, what I do mind is that even
Nick (from androidcentral) is in full support of his malicious behaviour (based on the screen shots given to me). Even he too, believes that I played a role in hiding the conspiracy surrounding Google's recently launch Pixel 8 pro.
This completely contradicts what I have been doing. I criticised iphone 15 series in not showing any improvement, was also among the first to criticise Apple for pushing down updates upon the iphone 11 pro, through changing its duty cycle and also gamma intensity. All in the name of brighter screen at lower power comsumption.
In one of my post for Xiaomi 13T PWM test, I also admitted that the Pixel 8 Pro gave me one of the worst symptoms ever, citing that it was due to me being extremely sensitive.
Thus despite the above, I really wonder at what point it appears that I am hiding a conspiracy. What I really aim to achieve is that we do not falsely allegate a company for actions they did not commit. For such allegations will only create more friction between our online community, and the display engineers working at the large firms.
Yes, some of them do spend time reading online criticism of OLED PWM. Below is a good example (a member kindly has shared this to me). Please do not circulate this around for I do not wish to have the employee being placed in a difficult position. As Samsung could easily just have him held responsible for publishing this and replace someone else equally as unfamiliar.
With the above,
I do question if there is a need to continue this, and how much people online are really benefiting. Being on the other side of a major senior content producer from a tech website is certainty not something I have signed up for.
That said, I am really proud of what the sub PWM sensitive stands for. From what I have learned, the PWM sensitive sub is the only active online public english community that is looking into the phenomenon of screen flickering, and what works or what do not works for us.
In fact — to my knowledge, in terms of screen flickers, we are even slightly ahead of the best researchers investigating to the flickering phenomenon. I couldn't be more proud that a number of the members of the sub community are actively contributing and sharing data (qualitative and quantitative)
Thus, when I learned that this PWM sub was brought to awareness to the best researchers on the flicker phenomenon, it brought me great joy. It is indeed a huge milestone for us whom are struggling to find their next essential device.
All the above achievement will turn meaningless and futile the moment the sub's core value of seeking better lighting solutions is compromised. If the community is actively involved in promoting conspiracies theories but not producing any tangible solution, it will be just as bad as a bunch of karens clustered together holding hands and cheering just how miserable their life are.
So for those that have saw some of my work ~ what do you guys think? Do you think I should resume such activities?
Or, should I shut the reddit PWM_sensitive community down, before it eventually become compromised?
Do let me know your thoughts on this. Even if we have barely interacted before.
