Amazon.com spamming

POSTED BY: Username2
UPDATED: Friday, March 10, 2006 03:49
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MAL4PREZ

Friday, March 3, 2006 10:38 PM

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Originally posted by Zeek:
We love this show with a passion and want the rest of the world to experience that love. Is it so wrong that we want everyone to be happy?

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THEPISTONENGINE

Saturday, March 4, 2006 2:29 AM

A ha! Thank you very much. Now, onto business.

You all still suck. Especially me. Because I troll myself.

In all seriousness here, there is much truth that has be said on this thread.

It is a sad day when so called browncoats beat to death a perfectly legitimate, yet regrettable, opinion of firefly. That being said, I don't understand the purpose of the original post. Is he trying to bring to our attention a problem so we can peer pressure our more unruly members? Is he pointing his finger at us an wagging it "No, no."

Of course it's stupid that reviews that contain nothing more than "OMG, why did they cancel this wonderful series!?" would be rated helpful. But point me out someone who actually bought anything on Amazon because they saw a 14/15 helpfulness on a review like that? If they did, well, bless their stupidity, because they're going to get a very nice series in return.

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Originally posted by daveshayne:

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Originally posted by ThePistonEngine:
PS: Why do I have to rewrite my signature for every post?

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Have you tried going to my firefly and using the profile to set your signture?

David

"A lot of people are asking me, you know, what exactly is Firefly? It's a tv show you morons!" - Joss Whedon

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USERNAME2

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 6:05 AM

Well hey, thanks for seeing my side on this, at least some of you. I'll address some specific points brought up (and yes, I like typing.. sorry):

1. Apparently, since this is the only thing I've posted since registering, I appear to be a troll. While I get where you're coming from in saying this, I think it's pretty obvious why this is the first thing I posted here. I wasn't fanatical enough to be interested in joining this forum just to discuss the show, but I find the whole "campaign" of this thing both intriguing and slightly troubling in some respects. I posted this thread to address that. I knew I'd get that kind of reaction from some people; hence the disclaimer at the beginning.

2. The idea that I reviewed the show's potential. That is actually untrue. If I were to have reviewed the show's potential, I would've given it 5 stars. :) I gave it 3 stars on the merits of the show as it was so far. But I also acknowledged that it had potential. I think that's relevant because it means there are things in the show that are worth watching, even when it's not at its best. Maybe some of the storylines weren't all that good, and I got embarrassed when my roommate was around during certain parts, but I really liked other things about it. You know?

3. Someone said that 3-star reviews are not helpful. I'll admit that I usually go to Amazon.com and look up 1-star reviews to see why I shouldn't buy something. But I've actually known people who only read the 3-star reviews because they usually find them to be the most balanced. Neither fanatical nor hateful, but not necessarily neutral either.

4. Why do I care how many "not helpful" votes my review gets? I don't think "care" is the right word there. I just think it's funny when people vote a review unhelpful simply because they don't like the person's opinion. They aren't reading the review to decide whether or not they want to buy the thing, they're reading it to see who agrees with them. As for why I bothered to keep track of it, I don't think it's all that unusual for people to look through the reviews they've written there and see what sort of reaction they've gotten to them. Or maybe it is and I'm just a flaming wacko! But I doubt it. At least not for that reason.

My original post wasn't to try to get people to "peer pressure" the less tolerant fans into not abusing Amazon.com or whatever. I'm just trying to understand the mindset going on here. And I want people to understand that being really, really fanatical tends to turn off people who aren't so much. That's fine if you want to keep Firefly all to yourself, but it can backfire if you're trying to spread the Firefly love.

I'm also pretty sure that the people who are spending the most time writing multiple reviews on that site -- and going through clicking helpful/not on all those other reviews -- are members of this site and are obviously part of the campaign to make the series appear more popular than it is. That's why I posted this here. But I know it doesn't apply to all of you, or even most of you.

Am I making any more sense now? I know my point isn't really a focused one, and I'm going on all sorts of tangents that don't help to make it any clearer. But thanks for reading.

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ALGUS

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 6:16 AM

I can feel for you. I remember when Fable came out, I wrote a review where instead of praising it, I discussed some of its faults. I concluded it was still a very good game, but that it was not what the producers made it out to be. I felt it was a fair review that would give the potential buyer information on what he was getting. Oh I was flamed to high hell for that from rabid Fable-fanboys.

Now I love Firefly, but its got its faults, Hell, everything has its faults, nothing is perfect. It's too bad that some rabid fans are too obsessive to realize that. I don't think being aware of the show's faults makes me any less of a fan though, heck it might make me even more of one for being able to embrace it despite those faults.

Then again, Im also the type who is literally going to wear a browncoat, so maybe I'm just a rabid fan in disguise?

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