Author: Pete Galati
Date: 08:40:28 01/30/00
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On January 30, 2000 at 06:45:45, Alvaro Polo wrote: >On January 30, 2000 at 01:25:31, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On January 29, 2000 at 21:40:53, James T. Walker wrote: >> >>>The only thing I think you did wrong was taking too long to delete that garbage! >>> Commercial advertising here is not allowed and Anti-Commercials should also not >>>be allowed. If there is a real problem with a program, then discussing it here >>>to put out the word should be OK but to just shoot it down with no real >>>substance or concrete complaint should be zapped immediately. I'm glad you did. >> >>As far as I know this place isn't violently anti-commercial. The charter says >>"flagrant commercial exhortations". That's a pretty high standard in my >>opinion. >> >>In any case I don't think this applies. If your reason was the only reason not >>to allow people to do this stuff, then it would be OK to do it to Crafty, and >>it's shouldn't be. >> >>bruce > >Perhaps I am missing something, but I believe that this (ie. "Don't buy Crafty, >it sucks!") couldn't be done to Crafty since Crafty cannot be bought. > >Anti-commercial posts are commercial posts because they try to modify the >natural amount of sales of a program, for the upper or for the lower side, the >direction just being a detail. > >Alvaro Yes, you are missing something, it's not about selling Crafty. If someone recklessly insults Crafty, then it's an insult to to work that's gone into Crafty, I think everyone knows that it was no small task, in the same respect, it shouldn't be allright to recklessly insult a commercial program. If you have a complaint about a program, or a suggestion for how it can be improved, that's different, but "curtis" was just coming right out and saying flat out, don't buy Shredder, and then went into ripping at the program. Not the smoothest thing I've seen. Pete
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