Author: Alvaro Polo
Date: 09:16:56 01/30/00
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On January 30, 2000 at 11:40:28, Pete Galati wrote: >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 What I am saying is that the anticommercial = commercial idea is enough to delete the daily "dont buy shredder, it sucks" post. Of course it doesn't mean that I would find acceptable a daily post that would simply say "shredder sucks" (I wouldn't, and I would give a different reason to have it deleted), but his is another question. Alvaro
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