Amazon.com spamming
POSTED BY: Username2
UPDATED: Friday, March 10, 2006 03:49
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Originally posted by ThePistonEngine:
The only conclusion I have is, you see this Amazon voting a problem to be stopped. How do you propose that to be done.
I know you weren't intending to elicit flaming responses, but if you really don't have a goal, I think the term "troll" does apply.
Well, it's not so specifically an Amazon voting problem. I consider that to be more of a symptom than the disease, if you will. The problem is diehard Firefly fans attacking non-diehard Firefly fans. I posted this here in the hopes that the people who take part in the attacking would see it and possibly consider that it's possible to like the show without loving the show, and even a non-diehard fan is a fan.. a fan that might have money. My $30 is as good as anyone else's. So putting down my opinion of the show just because it's not as high as yours makes no sense.
There it is in relatively concise form.
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This has been brought up before, mostly attempts to keep the overall rating at five stars whenever there appeared to be a chance it was slipping. Don't get me wrong I love the series, but this bothers me (as does the coordinated poll voting). There's a fine line between showing support en masse and forcing a certain opinion on others (I believe the doorstep analogy has already been made).
And it reminds me of a line in Serenity: "We're not telling people what to think, we're just trying to show them how."
Everyone has the right to their own opinion on the show. Quite frankly I would rather read a well thought out 3 star review (even if I didn't agree with it) then a one line 5 star review.
The word troll seems to get thrown around way too easily these days. I don't know if I would bother to join a board I wasn't already a member of to debate this, but I don't think it's necessarily trolling. And we all had the option of ignoring the original post.
But that's just my $0.02
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TROLL!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by LittleAlbatross:
This has been brought up before, mostly attempts to keep the overall rating at five stars whenever there appeared to be a chance it was slipping. Don't get me wrong I love the series, but this bothers me (as does the coordinated poll voting). There's a fine line between showing support en masse and forcing a certain opinion on others (I believe the doorstep analogy has already been made).
And it reminds me of a line in Serenity: "We're not telling people what to think, we're just trying to show them how."
Everyone has the right to their own opinion on the show. Quite frankly I would rather read a well thought out 3 star review (even if I didn't agree with it) then a one line 5 star review.
The word troll seems to get thrown around way too easily these days. I don't know if I would bother to join a board I wasn't already a member of to debate this, but I don't think it's necessarily trolling. And we all had the option of ignoring the original post.
But that's just my $0.02
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Carry the Nuttin'
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Ha ha 
I was just asking for that, wasn't I?
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I am being honest, but you don't like my honesty.
So first you get all weepy because no one likes your witty comments on Amazon, and now you want some acknowledgement for being honest? In any case if we're speaking of honesty - why can't you just take the fact that people honestly don't like your opinions?
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