Alright, now I’m pissed at OverclockersClub.com…. you know, the site that I helped out with for many years before going off to try my own thing. I was reading a comment in the OCC forums that was talking about how the site recommends most of the products that they review these days. I went back and was looking up some of the reviews that I did oh-so-many-years-ago, only to find out that those reviews no longer have my name attached to them.

That’s right, the reviews I did don’t say reviewed by Bryan or even d3bruts1d. In some cases, the review simply says “Admin”, but what really pisses me off is when it is someone else’s name completely. Go look for your self…. try and find a review with my name on it.

Here are some examples….
eDimensional Wireless E-D Glasses Review says the review was done by Jeff Loper . Sorry, but that was my review. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (PC) Review, Unreal Tournament 2004 (PC) Review and Battlefield Vietnam Game Review… yup all reviews I did as well. Heck, in the Ahanix dboX Case Review you can even see my mother’s couch in the background. The COMDEX 2003 coverage was done by Matt Cameron and myself, yet are names are no longer on it. In this one, you can see me talking to a guy from Microsoft, and here I am getting my game on at the nVidia booth. Here is Matt posing with the ladies at the Biker’s Bash Pre-COMDEX show.

They didn’t stop with reviews… they even took my name off of guides. Remember the How To Use IRC guide? Written by me… now, if someone updated it down the road, it should have said “updated by” and someone else’s name… that’d have been cool. There’s my lapping guide which also doesn’t have my name on it.

What’s the point of removing my name as the author for the reviews/guides I did? Did they just want to remove any trace that I had once been a reviewer there? I don’t know if I’d go so far as to call it plagiarism, but it’s pretty damn close when you remove someone’s name from a piece of work and then call it your own.

Not cool OCC… not cool at all. If you don’t want my name associated with the site, even for past articles then you need to take those articles down. Don’t just replace my name with someone else’s… take everything down.

Update: Please see this follow up.