jnk... wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 12:14 pm
Was just suggesting a way to make a sticky in which the title would be the message and without allowing posts--just to drive the shills bananas. Kind of an anti-ad.
Of course I expect that suggestion to get filed where ALL my suggestions get filed, both here and at work.
Your boss sent me a note and suggested what I do with your ideas.
To everyone....
Here's the problem with doing an anti ad sticky....won't stop anyone from posting their whatever comments pro or con in the main thread and all we are doing is giving it free press right up front and sort of permanent. Do you really want to give them free ad space for their Google search hits? Remember....sometimes any press is good...even if it is bad press.
I guarantee you that the shills would be laughing their ass off...."lookie there we didn't even have to bruise our fingers typing to make the news".
They want us to keep talking about it...good or bad they don't care as long as we keep bringing it up...
The best offense against these guys....the one that's really, really hard to do....don't feed the trolls.
The more someone bad mouths them/something...that's just more food to them.
My advice when someone asks about it (notice I didn't mention the name at all) is simply state the facts as you see them and move on and if someone else as already stated the facts as I see them...no need for me to restate those same facts and give it any more free press than it already has.
Don't poke at the people who already bought one and are happy with it. That's attacking the messenger and not the message.
Hey...it's their money and they got a right to spend it on whatever they want no matter if we think it's a waste of money or not.
We aren't going to change their mind about it and they will just likely get their hackles up and want to defend their personal choice and they have that right and then off we go into another pissing contest that just gets uglier and uglier and accomplishes absolutely nothing. It's the same pissing contest that I have seen happen multiple times in my 9 years here. It's not going to change and we aren't going to stop people from asking the same questions over and over again.
What we can do is limit the free press it gets by not having pages and pages of fighting about it.
Let it die off the page at least until the next time. State your opinion or answer the question asked and move on.
It's not worth fighting over and it certainly isn't worth giving free press to.
As for the new one...that uses UV...I haven't yet formed much of an opinion about it. It never says it "cleans" anything and in fact it tells people that they still need to wash per usual to remove crud. I am actually okay with that. Doesn't mean I am going to go out and buy one though because I have no urgent need to sanitize anything...heck, I barely have the need to clean anything.
Now the other part about sanitizing actually something that just has to be done....assuming it gets done....I am thinking that it's up to the person how important that aspect of things might be. I don't have an immune system that is compromised but if I did then I might look a little harder at doing extra sanitizing of stuff for peace of mind if nothing else. That's a personal choice IMHO.
Peace of mind is real important to some people and I for one don't think it's my place to dictate my peace of mind requirements on someone else. The fact that something is important to me is enough for me and unless someone wants to give me money...they don't get to dictate what I choose to spend it on.
And that's my opinion...FWIW.
I may have to RISE but I refuse to SHINE.
If you want to try the Eclipse mask and want a special promo code to get a little off the price...send me a private message.
In the meantime, as the saying goes, "Down with anti-establishmentism!" 
Pugsy said a sticky would be made, "over her dead body"! 
I took that to mean any ole sticky pertaining to SoCrap. 
Jeff, you need another cuppa. 
Yep. Read the thread. And I want Pugsy to keep her body alive!