@theelench wrote:
To be clear, I genuinely wasn't trying to be rude to anyone."
It just comes naturally then, without conscious effort ?
Seemingly so. Then again, I didn't expect people to have such paper-thin skin that they would feel that somebody saying "but you have the option of leaving whenever you please" was somehow akin to advising them to fornicate and travel.
@theelench wrote:
I just wonder why, if you're so certain that complaining is a waste of time, being carried to ridiculous lengths by so few sellers that it will not sway ebay in the slightest, are you and the same few others popping-up on every thread to tell them that they are wrong. Countering every argument that those complaining put forward and repeating the same out-of-date analogies to 'prove' how wrong they are.
Surely you see that it isn't me assuming it as a certainty at this point? It's more or less a stone-cold fact. When was the last time a major eBay policy decision was affected by people on these boards? eBay are not going to change anything based on discussions that occur on these boards. They never have. As it stands, they never will.
I'm not entirely sure as to which "out-of-date analogies" you're referring. The only analogy I made was a reference to "the good old days" that people are constantly praying for the return of.
@theelench wrote:
If, as you say, putting so much effort into complaining is a futile waste of time, surely spending as much time and effort on your elaborate rebuttals is an even more so. Why not let the fire burn itself out rather than keep flinging more fuel on the flames by arguing ?
Because if the moaners and whiners stopped bogarting every single thread and allowed it to be, this place could actually be useful. It could become a place where people can share ideas, engage in discussions, offer advice, lend a hand, and make more sales. At that point, when there's constructive conversation and the entire place isn't just the same five to ten people shouting "eBAY IS TEH WORST" over and over again, maybe - and admittedly, the odds are slim - there's a chance that it could be a place that eBay takes seriously.
Yet, if the people who are "complaining about complaining" just give up and walk away, then the boards just fall into ruin. They become a festering pit of humanity just reassuring each other that nothing is their problem, nothing they ever do can be improved, and that eBay is the cause of every issue. "It's not that nobody wants to pay £8 for the macaroni portrait of a duck you saw once, Brian! It definitely isn't that you had your thumb over the lens when you took your one photo of it or that you gave it an item title of 'DUCK PICSHURE RARE.' It's that eBay threw the BPF on top! It's the Chinese sellers they don't do anything about! It's that they've 'hidden' your listings! "
I'm not saying that people shouldn't be heard and shouldn't be able to speak their mind. They should. I think BPF and SD are the absolute pits myself. But I can't see that ruining every single conversation or posting the same topic day after day after day is helping anyone.
