Monday, Jan 12, 2004 at 18:24
So, this wasn't a baited post? It appeared to us to be a post from a negative person wishing to discredit the site and we imagined it could even have been a magazine??
We also get our back up a bit when people comment on ExplorOz from the
forum point of view only, which is simply absurd, given the wide and varied articles and advice we have provided covering all issues of product purchase and use.
I actually have no problem with your post at all, and it will remain, no need to delete it. But since you raised the point and we interpreted that it was direct at US, as the publishers, rather than the forumites as the contributers, we felt we needed to respond. Since I do NOT hold the belief that on reading ExplorOz, whether it be the articles or the
forum, that a person would get a disgruntled viewpoint of travel in Australia, or of purchasing both David and I responded as we did. (As I said, David wrote the first response, using my
logon. It bugs me when he does that, as we are quite different in our views, spelling and writing style. But he didn't realise at the time).
So, sounds like you were trying to raise the point to the contributers to the
forum that you'd like to see a little more positive comment, rather than negative. We simply didn't read that in your post and misinterpreted you I guess. So, if that's the case, then my response is to point out that it is a sad but true fact that in general people's time is limited, and when they have something to say, and hence bother to put the time into writing a post, its going to be a complaint. There are literally thousands upon thousands of positive posts on this
forum too of course, but you've highlighted some negative ones that's all. By the way, most of the fridge posts are due to the fact that
Perth has had a recent spate of thefts, that is so rife its hits the nightly news and papers.
Interesting how this thread as gone full circle, just shows how careful one must be when writing - the interpretation you get may not be as the writer intended...
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