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Originally Posted by mycurlylocks
So are you belittling Michael? Or others?
Or perhaps it's the 3 backers, which I happen to be one of?
I'm finding this very rude. I expected better of members on this forum.
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I am only belittling GoodEreader, not their backers.
Although I admit I did also express my doubts at how many people will back it.
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Originally Posted by mycurlylocks
I understand about Michael. I will still support his project.
What I don't understand is the constant rudeness from some forum members here. I was always taught growing up, if I had nothing nice to say, then say nothing. I still practice that.
I don't need to put products or people down. Perhaps that's why I seldom post here.
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"if you have nothing nice to say, then say nothing", yes, I have heard of this PC virus.
If I have nothing nice to say because there is genuinely nothing nice to say, but there are rather a lot of not-very-nice-things-at-all to say, and
they are all true, I see nothing wrong with saying it.
The fact that there is
nothing, I repeat
NOTHING, good to say about them, is in and of itself noteworthy.
Where would any of us be if everyone was too afraid of peer pressure to say any statement not liberally doused with saccharine sweetness?
... We'd live in a world that was a perverted inversion of something out of Lovecraft. I'm not sure which one scares me more.
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There are actually forum guidelines against putting *people* down. ("When things get controversial please disagree with the opinion, not the person.") But there is nothing against putting an idea, action, or product down.
There is a reason for this -- because there are a lot of opinions in the world, and many of them disagree. Usually in a very, um,
emphatic manner. Several of those opinions have to do with communication norms.
I guarantee you, there are at least as many people offended by that line as there are people who use that line to get offended at people -- and who are you to pass judgment?
(Bit of hypocrisy in that stance, actually.
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And I for one am not very impressed with GoodEreader's word-twisting -- which seems about par the course, judging by their average "news" article.
I also don't like their egotistical description.
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And anything they do, I am already biased against.
- Because in case you were unaware, they once operated a black market for pirated books (and charged money, IIRC!
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- They still pirate news articles, giving me little faith in their supposed change of management.
- And they've been permanently banned from MobileRead for sockpuppeting
This is above and beyond the haphazard approach they take toward their articles, both in editing, and in verification.
And I can only assume, in their Indiegogo campaigns.