Another country, another culture. To a US citizen the UK may appear sometimes very rude. It is just another attitude of another country. There is no right one. To me most Brits are way more friendly than people here in Germany. Imagine that!telebass wrote:I hate to admit it, but this has hit the nail on the head. And I'm somewhat embarrassed that what started as a dispute between the Basschat Moderators and John Hall has spilled over onto to this site.Ashgray wrote:To a degree, yes, but I do think, in general, that US citizens tend to be more "chilled out" over such issues than the Brits. It's always seemed to me that we love an argument.
I think the whole good old Europe is more direct. What is ok here is maybe a challenge or an affront for a US citizen. Who is right now?
But: If You want to sell here You have to accept the habits of the market and the people. If not, on the long run the market will solve that by falling sales figures. You have to understand Your customers (You do not have to marry them in case of doubt!).
IMHO there is a reason why this came to this forum. I agree, problems of another forum should not be solved here, normally.
But remenbering a few discussions about new colours, fretboards, schratchplates of the white 330 S LE it was nearly impossible for people to have a skeptical, different opinion - even if it was expressed in friendly words.
(What is a must, of course!)
Strange: not the mods became angry, there were (and are) a lot of people that think they have to protect a brand. It is a bunch of well known persons that alway start very subtile personal attacks to "shut somebody elses mouth".
Closing this thread will just crush again a free speech. Since a longer time I notice that the waves of what (too) many people grasp as "riots" against RIC are growing bigger and bigger from discussion to discussion. Most of them ended with a lock. - So now I was quite surprised when I found this thread.
Personally I just need a statement if the RRF is for praising a brand or discussing and helping each other on a grown up base. Of course every person has to be treated friendly and respectful. And laws have to be accepted. I am sure more than 99% of the users already do that.
My respectful advice for the mods and admins (that do a very hard job!) is to take out the cork out of the bottle before the bottle will break. If not, I fear the next wave will be bigger again and so on until this forum is crowded only with claqueurs.
I am not interested in a forced to line forum.
Being in the Martin forum, too, my experience is that it is possible to critizise the factory without destroying its reputation.
To the contrary! - There it is very constructive and the factory has a big benefit of getting a customer's feedback.
I just hope my opinion does not appear too much direct, rude or european...
