Against my better judgment, I am putting in my 2 cents on this subject.
Some may want to criticize me as being a "list cop" but I am not and
don't care to be. But as a member of the list, I am entitled to express
my opinions too.
I really don't see Steve Barwick as much different than Mercola, Byron
Richards, Natural News and other similar sellers that send me
information. All of them are out to sell me something and whatever news
they send just happens to conveniently correspond to a product they have
handy and for sale. If you have ever read an article or book on writing
advertising copy, they all use some bit of news as the hook to get your
interest followed by product info and a request for you to buy their
product. The news is selected to correspond to their product and their
copy is biased towards their product and getting you to buy it. If you
are looking for unbiased news these are not the sources for it. These
people are MARKETEERS, if you don't trust their info then just ignore
them.
As for the idea that if you own someone's product, then you are biased
in your opinion and unqualified to express an opinion on that product.
Bull. That would mean that those with Silver Puppies or SG7s or xyz are
not qualified to give an opinion because they are biased. While I think
that those are the opinions that are really are worthwhile. Since I do
not own a commercial CS generator, my opinion may be unbiased but it is
worthless regarding them.
And the discordant remarks. Trolls, jerks, chit-chatters and so on. Mike
has tried to close this trend several times but to no avail. What is the
matter with everyone? Yes, John is sometimes abrasive, sometimes
insulting and tends to bring this on himself but why must everyone be so
persistent in responding in kind to him? This so much reminds me of the
phrase "pissing in the wind". You are pissing in the wind and when you
do you only come away with piss on you.
John isn't a troll. He obviously supports CS use and isn't attacking it.
It really doesn't take much to recognize John's personality type and
realize the futility of arguing the subject with him so why do it? This
is not meant as a knock against John or anyone else, but combativeness
is not usually a sign of security but of insecurity. And attacking that
person only increases the insecurity and escalates things. It will solve
nothing. A person truly secure in his knowledge will feel no need to
argue the issue. If they do it will only be to the extent to be sure
they have explained their point sufficiently and that another can
understand it if they wish to. They are comfortable in their rightness
and don't need the agreement of others. What is right is right. Even if
the whole world disagrees, it will not change that fact.
Also, John has shown to be a good source of information on numerous
other subjects. Why drive him away and lose the benefit of that
knowledge and experience?
Now that we have archives, remember that what you post will be there for
a long time. And the archives are not private. Even as we speak, Google
and others have their metacrawlers caching everything in the archives
and what you say will be available to the world. How do you want others
to view you and the silver list?
Just my opinion,
Steve N
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