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Originally Posted by MattW
I wasn't even talking to you or responding to one of your posts. How you can infer that "[your] stance was summarily dismissed as brand loyalty" is a beyond me. You seem to have somehow taken away a "every positive post about Amazon means the poster can't think for themselves" vibe from my post when I was actually saying something like "the sheer volume of pro-Amazon and lack of contra-Amazon sentiment here implies a pervasive bias".
I maintain that there is a very one-sided view of Amazon here and I strongly believe that this has in part to do with the fact that Amazon is great for its customers and we're reluctant to pass judgement on a company that we buy from. Ergo my "if Amazon is good for me, then Amazon's enemies must be wrong" line of reasoning.
And if you re-read my original post, you'll notice that I did not advocate boycotting Amazon and that I used "we" when talking about Amazon's customers. I am one of those, too, you know.
The only one doing any "summarily dismissing" to a specific person in this exchange was you. *shrug*
Matt
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You seriously don't think your opening and closing sentences came off as a bit judgmental/inflammatory? While you may not have been referring to me
directly, I was one of the ones in this thread that you lumped together as a tribe of "back-patters" reassuring each other of Amazon's (and hence our own) "nobleness." The fact that you might include yourself in that "we" is irrelevant to the fact that I don't even consider myself a "fan" of Amazon, per se. I've been buying about 75% of my ebooks from other retailers for quite some time now.
I DO tend to come down on the side of Amazon when it comes to "them vs big publishers (RE agency-pricing)," or the "Inhuman Warehouse Conditions;" and since these things seem to be the only issues discussed here and everywhere, I'm sure it's easy to mistake me as being "pro-Amazon."
What you choose to attribute to "pervasive bias" here at MobileRead, could just as easily be attributed to a general public consensus that Amazon really isn't doing anything wrong, no? Not because we're dazzled and confused by the dangling, shiny "we love taking care of our customers" coin, but maybe because they're really not doing anything "wrong" ... or at the least "wrong-
er."
Your bias affected your decision to attribute certain things to bias--when those things could just as easily be attributed to "there's really nothing to see here."
Even if one believes that Amazon doesn't NEED defending, that doesn't mean that those who choose to do so on certain topics, aren't doing so in a logical, clinically-detached manner. Certainly not bias-
free, but at least not bias-
driven.