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Fallforward said:
Good grief you are so wrong about the the feedback from Op and the response from Arn. All feedback is helpful and table-stakes for a professional business person is what you call "holding their tongue." In fact, Arn did not "hold their tongue." Arn clearly appreciated the negative feedback, given their second response was to show how they used the negative feedback to improve MR.

Edit: BTW, how does one who left MR receive friendly goodbyes?
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How is my take on the feedback so wrong?

At almost every post I have been stating that OP's feedback/criticism was valid. Are you now saying that OP's feedback was invalid and I am wrong for calling it valid?

There are two parts to this. OP's feedback. I AGAIN say, I don't have any issue with that. It's valid, IMO.

The second part was about being here 20 years and posting to say they were leaving. If you don't feel that feedback/criticism is valid unless you've put X years into it, then I can't help you. And I guess we just have to hold different opinions about what OP was seeking when saying goodbye.

As far as Arn, yes, he appreciated the feedback. Again, not arguing that. What I was referencing was the goodbye - not the feedback.
 
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Fallforward said:
Good grief you are so wrong about the the feedback from Op and the response from Arn. All feedback is helpful and table-stakes for a professional business person is what you call "holding their tongue." In fact, Arn did not "hold their tongue." Arn clearly appreciated the negative feedback, given their second response was to show how they used the negative feedback to improve MR.

Edit: BTW, how does one who left MR receive friendly goodbyes?
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Over the years I’ve seen a number of changes made and/or considered based on members’ suggestions. These suggestions made things better for the person suggesting the change while not making things worse for those who may not be in agreement with the change.

Implementing the criticism in the first post would makes things worse for those who want to see the articles in the forum they are used to seeing them in.
 
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Also, and I've been flamed and downvoted for saying this before, but practically all of the "Something on sale at Amazon" posts - of which we seem to get multiple of each week are all just US based. I've got told before "Its a US site, what do you expect". macrumors is meant to cater to an international community but it feels like a large proportion of the posts only apply to US based users.
 
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TheMacPotato said:
Also, and I've been flamed and downvoted for saying this before, but practically all of the "Something on sale at Amazon" posts - of which we seem to get multiple of each week are all just US based. I've got told before "Its a US site, what do you expect". macrumors is meant to cater to an international community but it feels like a large proportion of the posts only apply to US based users.
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As an ad based business, it’s easier to limit your efforts to where income is easier to manage, and not have to deal with income, and the subsequent taxation that attracts attention.

As an American, Apple is very much the same. It sells globally, but ring fences its services to the USA for many years, sometimes permanently.
They’ve expanded Apple Pay, but not Apple Cash!
 
numenorian said:
I totally understand the financial reasons for those sorts of posts. Ultimately, this is as much about myself losing interest as it is about the changes on MR. I'm going to try to find a site that posts once a day (if that) and is more heavily slanted towards Mac and MacOS.

Thank you for all you do, Arn!
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Dude, we’ve all gotta eat. It’s not free.
Let’s become paid subscribers and filter out the stuff we don’t want.
 
I7guy said:
It really brings up a good question, how do you say goodbye to a community of online friends. (I know some people don’t care and have no “online friends”, but some do)
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This is one of the reasons that while I don't use facebook much anymore, I haven't closed the account. It took me a while to quit the facebook habit. Message boards are different, though they do provide a way to embrace your interests with like-minded people and it's a better alternative to reddit. Despite some issues I have with this forum I don't know if I can leave it.
 
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sjsharksfan12 said:
This is one of the reasons that while I don't use facebook much anymore, I haven't closed the account. It took me a while to quit the facebook habit. Message boards are different, though they do provide a way to embrace your interests with like-minded people and it's a better alternative to reddit. Despite some issues I have with this forum I don't know if I can leave it.
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I have never had a FB (Meta?) account, but I used to frequent Twitter (passively for the most part) in the days when it functioned as a sort of town square.

While I haven't actually closed my account, I have neither visited nor posted (tweeted) there in a number of years.
 
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chmania said:
Rumours?
Those who spread rumours are...

Rumours are simply gossip, and not news.
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I take issue with the framing of this. Rumors and gossip are two different things. Rumors are not verifiable facts. Gossip is personal (refers to people) and sometimes meant to be malicious.
 
I7guy said:
I take issue with the framing of this. Rumors and gossip are two different things. Rumors are not verifiable facts. Gossip is personal (refers to people) and sometimes meant to be malicious.
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I was thinking gossip was the spreading of both verifiable and non-verifiable information.

Rumor has it that I7guy and conmee are Communists (rumor). Pass it on (gossip). No? lol
 
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