Actually, hate to be the bearer of bad news, but resetera moderation has no credibility, here or anywhere. If it did, half this forum would be permanently banned already.
Next, I was guilty of absolutely zero trolling or console warring, unless console warring by your definition was telling them the Series X had the stronger hardware, regularly disagreeing with and calling out their fake insiders, klee, tommy, etc. (remember them? they would be upset that I pointed out their ps5 claims were wrong) or speaking up when I told them the github leak accurately described the PS5's GPU layout, which it did, 36 CUs was accurate. Matt made a post claiming it was false then later did another suggesting the github merely "didn't mean anything" but they went back and deleted his post where he said the PS5 did not have 36 CUs, that it had more. That's the real reason for my ban, I was the one saying that they did that. They deleted my posts where I was saying it too cause they knew I caught their asses doing it. Without my permanent ban they knew I would have kept saying it, so the only way to shut me up around that time was to permanently ban me. All you are seeing is the redirection from the true reason for my perm ban.
As far as me doubting hardware ray tracing on the PS5, I did that exact same thing here, and I'm confident there are posts that show me doing it. I felt that Sony were behaving strangely on the subject, seemingly not highlighting it as much as Microsoft were, which made me have doubts. Even some of you if you're being honest found Sony's messaging strange early last year on stage when they skipped past and failed to mention hardware accelerated ray tracing despite it being on the slide. Beyond that, what real trolls leave out is the detail of me stating even back then that seeing it appear in a shipping PS5 game would be all it would take for me to admit I was wrong. And when that time did come, I admitted I was wrong, completely owned my mistake in doubting it in the first place, and did so here and on twitter. So I can admit when I'm wrong, unlike some people.
Github left out some information, such as on Ray Tracing, but it was correct in a couple of places. It was absolutely correct on no hardware VRS. The PS5 GPU really is a chip without all RDNA 2 graphics hardware features like the Series X. Not just no Tier 2 VRS, but no Mesh Shaders, No hardware accelerated Machine Learning and no Sampler Feedback. This brings us back to the deleted posts scandal of the resetera mod staff. They saw having "insiders", even fake ones, as a way to grow their forum's popularity more like what gaf was at its height, so they were protective of anything that even remotely casted doubt on the credibility of their insiders and mods who pretended to know stuff. They would delete fake insider posts where they went too far and tripped themselves up by making claims about the PS5 and Series X that were proven totally false. I was drawing attention to this with evidence via my twitter at the time that they were actually deleting posts to hide the archived history of what was said. At that point they needed any excuse they could find to permaban me from the site itself as I was one of the few not afraid to challenge them. So desperate they were to attack my credibility (because of me pointing out they were deleting their posts) that they would ban entirely different people who were also bringing it up, and then claim publicly that it was an alt account belonging to me. One thing about me is I will never use an alt or be afraid to on accounts that make it crystal clear that it's me. And if I can't do so using the alias and same avatar under which people know me best, I won't even bother.
How quickly do we forget the hall of shame where many here, as well as on Resetera, even after Microsoft made it crystal clear that Series X was 12TFLOPs RDNA 2, many kept insisting that they were actually speaking of efficiency compared to GCN, and in reality it was probably more in the 8 or 9TFLOPs range. Many of you said it wasn't an ACTUAL 12TFLOPs. Forget all about that, did you? We got direct numbers, we got a common sense 2x the Xbox One X GPU statement, and still people were like "Nope! Efficiency gains over GCN, under 10TFLOPS for sure. If it were 12 TFLOPs Microsoft would be screaming it from the rooftops. They're not saying it because it isn't actually 12."
So we've been down this road before. Nice try on changing the subject though to an entirely different forum.