Leaving Macrumors

[eyoungren]

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?

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.

 

[I7guy]

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?

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.

 

[Madonepro]

BTW, how does one who left MR receive friendly goodbyes?

I think it’s more like ‘au revoir’ 😊

 

[TheMacPotato]

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.

 

[Madonepro]

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.

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!