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- Monday February 9, 2015
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- California
There has a rather disturbing amount of negativity on the forums as of late.
/RantOn
By 'negativity' I don't mean people disagreeing about products and techniques - that has, and should, always be a part of any forum as its good to exchange points of views on what we use - and how we use it.
This "new negativity", that at least I see here, is about products/techniques that the poster(s) have never tried and is simply bashing products - and often its users - based on nothing but perception, rumours and, presumably, some convoluted personal agenda. More often than not these comments are written in such a way that it belittles the user/owner/believer in those products/techniques - and that's what I think is the recent change.
I have rather thick skin and have no problem at all with people not liking the product that I own/use - heck, they can hate them for all that I care - but there's way of phrasing things and there's arguments based on experience vs simply being oddly phobic about things you've never used and just want to raise a negative voice.
It used to be;
"I've owned a blue razor. F**k they're terrible what on earth do you like about yours?"
but has become
"I've never owned a blue razor but you're less intelligent than me if you buy one because they are SO bad"
Any person/company coming out with a new razor that dare to step into this forum simply to say "Hi" and/or answer questions have also as of late received everything from insulting accusations (and incorrect) about how the product was made/created - to why the price point is so high as "anyone can make that for 50p in a couple of minutes"-type of comments.
I used to enjoy trying to bring vendors to the forum as I enjoyed the interactions
and people asked them questions I would never had thought of myself due to different backgrounds, experiences, etc. and I think I brought some rather interesting vendors here such as Blackland, Hone and Option.Five, etc but there is no way that I would ever again ask a vendor/manufacturer to come onto this forum in the state it is now.
I don't even mind if people disagree or agree on any of the above - what matters is why you do.
The irony of creating a negative post complaining about negativity is obviously not lost on me but I don't know any other way of expressing it.
/RantOver
/RantOn
By 'negativity' I don't mean people disagreeing about products and techniques - that has, and should, always be a part of any forum as its good to exchange points of views on what we use - and how we use it.
This "new negativity", that at least I see here, is about products/techniques that the poster(s) have never tried and is simply bashing products - and often its users - based on nothing but perception, rumours and, presumably, some convoluted personal agenda. More often than not these comments are written in such a way that it belittles the user/owner/believer in those products/techniques - and that's what I think is the recent change.
I have rather thick skin and have no problem at all with people not liking the product that I own/use - heck, they can hate them for all that I care - but there's way of phrasing things and there's arguments based on experience vs simply being oddly phobic about things you've never used and just want to raise a negative voice.
It used to be;
"I've owned a blue razor. F**k they're terrible what on earth do you like about yours?"
but has become
"I've never owned a blue razor but you're less intelligent than me if you buy one because they are SO bad"
Any person/company coming out with a new razor that dare to step into this forum simply to say "Hi" and/or answer questions have also as of late received everything from insulting accusations (and incorrect) about how the product was made/created - to why the price point is so high as "anyone can make that for 50p in a couple of minutes"-type of comments.
I used to enjoy trying to bring vendors to the forum as I enjoyed the interactions
and people asked them questions I would never had thought of myself due to different backgrounds, experiences, etc. and I think I brought some rather interesting vendors here such as Blackland, Hone and Option.Five, etc but there is no way that I would ever again ask a vendor/manufacturer to come onto this forum in the state it is now.
I don't even mind if people disagree or agree on any of the above - what matters is why you do.
The irony of creating a negative post complaining about negativity is obviously not lost on me but I don't know any other way of expressing it.
/RantOver