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"but don't try to tell others what they should or shouldn't do, and don't use your personal bias to try to sabotage this project."

Do you see the hypocrisy contained in a single statement?

Rachael, I don't agree with every point of your post. I can't envision a more effective means of providing a counter-point of information and personal experience than at the source, and the habits of internet users aren't to go look far for contradictory information -- what's in front of them is all they want to work with, especially in an area of impulse buys. It's unfortunate that qzar's feelings are going to get hurt, which is an unfortunate side effect of investing yourself personally in a venture and not treating it as a business, but I'm thinking about the feelings of other people who might invest money and experience buyer's remorse. I'm the consumer advocate, though I could be more professional myself with how I go about it.

If someone still chooses to invest, at least they are better informed of potential risks. I can't prioritize both his business and his potential consumers if my opinion is that it is a bad idea to give money to him. I've made a number of poor, blind investments myself out of enthusiasm, both financially and emotionally. The internet's all marketing. People are all marketing. We have negative reviews for this reason -- handled properly, it isn't an insult directed at the creator, but a warning about the work to inform others about a bad purchasing experience / potentially unsafe action.

Qzar, I also do not agree. I understand why you'd post the way you did, but such hostility! You've drawn your own assumptions about what certain things mean, and to prove otherwise, I had to change-up accounts.

What you see as commands, I saw as putting options for a better use of their money. "Please do not give any money. Direct it elsewhere if you want to have something created with a good degree of quality." Was this the statement you took issue with and blew up over? Who commands with 'please'?

Bottom line: you're arguing for investment, I'm arguing against it. Buyer beware. We can argue semantics and how we're both writing until we're blue in the face, but the internet doesn't work the same way as the real world. There's so much room for misinterpretation and reactionism.