A posting on Slashdot has escalated into a minor frenzy, over the claim that Apple is censoring comments and forum posts that pertain to a specific NVidia bug. Here is the post verbatim from Slashdot:

“I purchased a Mac Pro within the first week that they were available, and immediately upgraded to 3GB of RAM (knowing that OSX loves memory). When playing 3D games (World of Warcraft mainly), the game would Kernel Panic the machine if I had played it for a few hours, or if I swapped in and out of the game a few times, etc. I eventually found out (from an official Blizzard poster) that NVidia has a bug in their drivers that kernel panics a Mac Pro if any memory past the 2GB boundary is addressed in the driver. After waiting months for a resolution to this, I decided to post on Apple’s support site. Here is an image of my post.. Within a few hours, they removed it from the site, placing it under ‘Posts Removed by Administration.’ What’s going on here? Is Apple trying to hide this bug, or is there something more serious going on between Apple and NVidia?”

The Inquirer actually dug through the endless sea of trolling comments, flames, and ranting fanaticism that are typical on Slashdot to discover the following:

Amongst the reply posts on Slashdot was one which claimed to be from an Apple admin which said that they have been ordered to nuke anything regarding NVidia.

Apparently Apple’s arrangement to provide kernel drivers involves some very restrictive IP deals that upper management has interpreted to mean support shouldn’t even acknowledge certain kinds of bugs in a specific area. Although there is no proof that the poster is really from Apple, it makes sense, particularly in the light of Drago’s experience.

Why this particular report is gathering so much noise is not clear. Apple is known to regularly police their support forums, removing or locking threads that are either unflattering or gain too much attention. We have reported on Apple locking and deleting threads many times in the past, from PowerBook screen troubles to the infamous MacBook staining. No explanations have ever been given.