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I have read this thread, and find it - in terms of both tone and content - quite interesting, and wish to add to what has been said.

Whether or not one disagrees with what @laptech, the OP, has suggested, I do think that to recommend that he simply ignore the threads in question as suggested by @chown - and it was thoughtful and respectful of @chown to respond as a member of staff - or, as others have written, to suggest that one "has choices" if one doesn't like how a business operates, or simply ignore this stuff and scroll by - is, in a way, belittling and denigrating of someone who started a thread in good faith.

It should be possible to simply disagree with somebody's posts, while commenting that you do not think that what this person would like to see is desirable, feasible, possible, without also suggesting that they simply ignore, or scroll by, the offending material, or take themselves elsewhere.

In other words, online exchanges don't have to be - or, ought not necessarily be - so binary in both tone and content.

Two more thoughts occur.

The first is that MR may have many reasons - and presumably, not solely commercial ones - for making a decision, a choice, to allow so many threads on such a topic to be posted and visible on the site.

The second is that this very activity that is being written about - the transfer of such manufacturing to the US from elsewhere - is clearly a reflection of - and response to - much that is currently taking place, - one can hardly attempt to argue that it is taking place in a vacuum, be it political or economic - and the plethora of such threads, in the complete absence of any attempt to provide context, - simply serves to make them a curiously frothy anomaly.

Personally, - and in the absence of the old PRSI thread, which was where it used to be possible to discuss such matters, if not, alas, without heat - I think that there is a case for MR itself creating a thread in the 'political news' section to allow for discussion of the transfer of these elements of technological manufacturing to the US.
 
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When an objectionable thread first appears, you can go to the 1st page and click the "Ignore" button. Choose the checkboxes where you want to ignore the thread. That thread will then stop appearing in your forum or feed listings.

I wish there was a way to do this on the thread list ... enter a "select" mode and check the boxes on all the ones to ignore, en masse, all at once.
 
As an observer of this thread, I'd say the overall tone is largely due to the topic and the participants. I feel both the topic (views on MR's homepage programming) and the participants (a small group of people who have strong feelings about how MR operates) make frequent appearances in the Feedback forum. So the tone naturally becomes similar to how long-partnered people bicker all the time without it really meaning anything.
 
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So rather than make the forum more functional and streamlined and efficient, MR's view is to tell people to ignore rather than for MR to improve. That about sum's up MR's attitude in a nutshell.
I mean, yeah. But first the members will tell you that your idea is stupid.
 
Whether or not one disagrees with what @laptech, the OP, has suggested, I do think that to recommend that he simply ignore the threads in question as suggested by @chown - and it was thoughtful and respectful of @chown to respond as a member of staff - or, as others have written, to suggest that one "has choices" if one doesn't like how a business operates, or simply ignore this stuff and scroll by - is, in a way, belittling and denigrating of someone who started a thread in good faith.

It should be possible to simply disagree with somebody's posts, while commenting that you do not think that what this person would like to see is desirable, feasible, possible, without also suggesting that they simply ignore, or scroll by, the offending material, or take themselves elsewhere.

In other words, online exchanges don't have to be - or, ought not necessarily be - so binary in both tone and content.
I really like what you said here.
 
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So rather than make the forum more functional and streamlined and efficient, MR's view is to tell people to ignore rather than for MR to improve. That about sum's up MR's attitude in a nutshell.
What you're really saying is "So rather than make the forum more functional and streamlined and efficient for my own particular needs and desires, MR's view is to make their site useful for a wide variety of members." Your suggestion is to have MR cater to you own particular tastes, rather than serve its entire membership.

I don't have an Apple Watch. I don't want an Apple Watch. I'm not interested in any news related to the Apple Watch. But unlike you, I don't make the ridiculous argument that MR should stop posting threads about Apple Watches. Instead, I simply scroll past them and focus on what does interest me.

But some people expect the world to bend to their own personal whims. It doesn't work that way.
 
I'm curious how many of MR's readers are from outside the US.

Because for me "apple switches to widget X made in the US" means "apple raises prices for no good reason", as I'm not in the US.
 
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