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Originally Posted by aceflor
What is often happening and is infuriating me is the way others, always the same group of members btw, decide what is a bug, what is not, who is allowed to complain, who is not, how we should complain, how we should not. In German we have a verb for this : bevormunden. Sadly, there appears to be no exact translation in english.
I even read posts when some of these glorious members advised another not to complain directly to Kobo, since it would not accelerate anything and put too much unnecessary pressure on Kobo. So globally it was : do not complain here, you are bothering us. Do not complain to Kobo, you are bothering them. Logically, it comes in the end to : DO NOT COMPLAIN, IT IS PERFECT AS IT IS.
A new thread pops out that is critical ? There comes the cavalry.
Which makes me wonder, again, about what is the mission of these members, and what they are. Just private persons, members of MR, or do they have some other kind of relations to Kobo ? Because I have been at MR for years now, and am active on different boards of this forum, and I have never, never experienced group pressure at this level in any other boards. Not in the amazon board, nor in the sony, nor in the nook, nor in the pb one.
It is eerie...
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How eerie can it be? You're still here.
I just think it is dumb and unproductive for people to come to a third party forum to make their complaints. If you have an issue, send the company an email. If you're unhappy with the response, or lack of response, then find a device that works for you. To sit around hoping and waiting for something to get fixed is ridiculous, especially when you're doing it in a manner with no guarantee of ever being heard.
I also feel that if someone buys a Kobo device, only to then discover it doesn't do what they thought / assumed it did, they're an idiot and I want nothing to do with them. I certainly don't want to read about it or the rest of their idiotic experience. They can stumble onto this place but they can't do a little pre-shopping research? Yeah, stay the #$%& away from me.
And so what if people with positive experiences want to share them? It's rather telling that you feel that those with only negative things should have their voices heard without question but anyone with a positive experience has some ulterior motive or 'mission'.
P.S.
oT ym oboK sdrolrevo, erehw si ym kcehc???