Quote from: SHONuf on May 01, 2020, 09:57:14 AM
This is kind of what I mean right here. Your* biggest qualm is not your own experience but rather the experience of others. Three people you respect, admire, and compete with so instead of basing your opinion of an entity based off your own interactions, you're forming an opinion vicariously through their experiences. That's not to say we don't do this when asking a friend about a restaurant or reading a review on Amazon for a tool we're looking at. But, when it comes to shops I personally prefer first hand accounts.
I'm not entirely sure what's meant by "we need to stop letting others get burned." We all collectively have zero control over what others do with their cash. Removing them from the forums will certainly not put them out of business or prevent people from doing business with them.
Regardless that's about all I've got to say about this. I'm clocking out of this discussion. Do as you please.
So if your friend got burned by a company, would you endorse that company to another individual?
This question is completely relevant to this post. Most tuners are endorsed by word of mouth esp by posts on forums like this. Limiting the discussion and not letting other express themselves is censorship, which most of the time is protecting the company screwing over the customer.
I have seen this time and time again on other Forums. Company X pays a monthly fee to Forum X. Company X starts doing shady things and screws customers. Forum X members start posting negatively about company. Company X puts pressure on Forum X. Forum X does not want to lose revenue. Forum X covers for Company X with either censorship/suppression, ultimately leading to customers getting screwed because they don't know any better. Happens on every forum.