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No, I'm sorry, that is not perfectly acceptable behaviour. It's not illegal - but it's also not helpful, or constructive, and nor is it desirable if you're try
by victorhooi 10y ago
No, I'm sorry, that is not perfectly acceptable behaviour.
It's not illegal - but it's also not helpful, or constructive, and nor is it desirable if you're trying to build a helpful community.
There are other ways of getting your point across, without resorting to insults such as "piece of s*it".
In Chinese, we might call this 家教 - or "upbringing". If you have no decorum, or class - it suggests that your upbringing was poor, or that your parents failed to raise you well.
We often forget that there's another person at the other end of the phone, or at the other end of our comment. In this case, a real-life person who put a lot of work into a product. You don't have to love it - but if you are going to criticise it, at least don't be a jerk, and make some good-faith efforts to work with them through the issue.
It's not exactly like the developer didn't try to help.
- PeterisP 10y agoThe audience of Amazon product reviews is other customers, not the developer. "Don't buy this product, it's a piece of shit" is constructive, helpful, actionable advice to other customers. It is desirable if you're trying to build a helpful community where customers help other customers differentiate between good products and products that sometimes don't work on arrival or have software reliability problems; a community that recommends to avoid certain companies is a helpful community to have for a buyer.
- yunolisten 10y ago> It's not exactly like the developer didn't try to help. In their first and only reply they perma banned the customers device ID. How are they helping?
- RVuRnvbM2e 10y ago> In Chinese, we might call this 家教 - or "upbringing". If you have no decorum, or class - it suggests that your upbringing was poor, or that your parents failed to raise you well. It's impressive that you're able to extrapolate the questioners life up until this point based on three words. If the product in question is a shitty product, there's no problem describing it as such.
- AIMunchkin 10y agoIf he's from China (and I'm assuming so), I'm not so surprised. It's a status thing culturally. I've had my ideas at work dismissed on the basis of my not attending an Ivy League school by the sort that spouts concepts like this. A more amusing instance of this outlook at work: http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1940-china-one-place-american-teachers-are-treated-as-stars.html http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1940-china-one-p...
- psyc 10y agoI agree with you in principle, but times have changed. We still have words for this in America, but no longer really have the idea.
- code_sloth 10y agoThe phrase "piece of sh!t" for better or worse, is now so widespread its almost never meant literally. People who take it to heart shouldn't be working in _any_ client facing role. It might be chinese culture to avoid criticize things directly, but it's also part of the chinese culture to give backhanded compliments like "5 out of 5 stars, when it works, which is never." I don't think the 笑里藏刀 (literally translated as "dagger hidden in the smile") aspect of chinese culture claims any moral high ground over the western straight shooting f* you. I'm chinese too.
- zzzcpan 10y ago"No, I'm sorry, that is not perfectly acceptable behaviour." No, you don't get it. From a business perspective expecting good behavior from customers is just plain stupid. It's not customers' fault if they don't understand something and don't take time and effort to deal with your product and just call it shit, they are human after all. You can't defeat human nature. But you can try to understand it and at least be prepared to deal with it and minimize a negative impact on your business.