But that's it.
Most people have not been supportive of this and have been vocal in their opposition to your "spamming" threads.
Narta and Spiff were deffo not the only ones saying that but they were amongst the few that articulated their opposition, unlike many others that just swore at you or came here to call you bubble boy.
I told you, privately, that running a poll to gauge interest amongst member was something I thought should have been done, if only to stop the constant pushback you were having, which created an unpleasant environment for everybody.
This topic has been very divisive.
I appreciated everyone's input in this.
It has changed and/or informed my thinking about it.
But yes, there has only been a handful of people who have given it their time, whether in favour or against.
You started a poll asking people why they are here, why they have joined.
I liked the idea and it is a shame more have not responded, yet.
Maybe needs a bump.
But a poll about your testing proposal would have probably been more significant, for your purposes.
You need to bring people together, for this to be successful and popular.
Regardless, you being praised for engaging with sources on your own and managing to get them involved was certainly fair.
Thanks for the reply.
you are totally off on this,
"most people have not been supportive of this"
well that is exactly the intention of the source shills that are vulgar and emotional towards other users and are always fighting testing. To make you believe that it is an unpopular idea.
So the anti-readalot propaganda campaign has been effective on you and has made you question your own beliefs and even implanting doubt on readalots mission, despite the SITE OWNERS EXPLICIT WORDS.
because the people who readalot causes the most bother for are the vendors, and really are the only people effected and the most angry. There are a few lonely people that have formed parasocial relationships with other users and naively latch onto an imaginary idea of who they might be , and strangely side with them against their own best interest, and the interest of their fellow gear user.
A poll isn't needed, this isn't a democracy, we don't need to change peoples minds, the people that post the most against testing are clearly the people who additional testing would effect the most negatively.
Like a kid saying their room is clean, but has the door closed.
Then you say, "ok I'm going in and checking"
the kid says "OK OK, wait just one second"
you hear the kid scrambling inside
five minutes later, he proudly opens the door,
"SEE its clean! I wasn't lying!"
Then you see the closet door is shut
"did you stuff everything in the closet?"
"No its clean its clean, you dont have to look"
To lazily quote a shill here
"the average gear user buys some vials a few times a year and fucks off"
the testing is for this guy. The consumer that doesn't have the time or aptitude to look into this stuff much less push for it on a forum. We can't let a handful of chinese shills and their sycophants discourage us from getting the quality standards raised for thousands of people and many thousands more in the future.
The whole point of this forum is to talk about enhanced testing, vendor practices which is harm reduction, not to have werid circle jerks in source threads , if people want to do this, then go to the off-topics, make some friends in real life, go on facebook, get a hobby, etc.
instead of trying to clique up with obvious shills in source threads to feel included.
