David_D

@David_D, EXACTLY! I do not think sharing my experience/providing "testimony" is worthy of ANY comments - agree, disagree, or otherwise. A person asked for experiences with online comic book providers. I provided MY experience. Others provided THEIR experience. I did not agree, disagree, or whatever on any of THEIR posts because I do not feel it is my place to do so. I can only share MY experience. The person who requested that others share their experience, it is up to THAT person to read everyone's post and then make her/his own decision as to which company she/he prefers to use. THAT person gets to judge and have her/his own experience, but that judgment does not include agreeing or disagreeing, etc. THAT person can/should thank the rest of us for sharing our knowledge & experience so she/he has now gotten a variety of experiences from us to make her/his decision. I am glad that you had a positive experience with DCBS, and it is perfectly acceptable for you to share that experience. It is not my place to agree or disagree with that. How can I agree with YOUR experience? How can I disagree with YOUR experience? Our experiences HAPPENED, regardless of what others think of it, and I feel it is rude to place a judgment of any kind on one's experience (vs one's opinion) as it looks like an attempt to co-opt that person's experience. I thought I was being a nice forum member, helping out another forum member by responding to her/his request for help. If I had had no experience with DCBS at all, I would not have posted anything. But, since I HAVE had years of experience with them, AND she/he ASKED for this to be shared with her/him, I did so. I had no idea that people on forums feel compelled to like, dislike, agree, etc with EVERYTHING, including someone's experience. It's like if I shared that I went to the beach this weekend, and people disagreed with that. Really?

... that you went to the beach is a fact. I could see how it might be surprising if someone disputes a fact.

If your experience of the beach led to the conclusion that, 'this is a poor beach. It sucks. I would not recommend people go to it.' Then other people who went to that beach may choose to agree or disagree with that recommendation and conclusion based on their own experience.

That is part of what makes it a discussion. And it is a discussion. Some may decide to add their own review or recommendation, too. Or they might use a simple system that is in place that allows people to also express whether they agree or disagree with what you are putting forth.

That you were a DCBS customer is a fact.

That DCBS "sucks" and should not be recommended to others is an opinion. Same as whether or not someone would recommend reading a book. It is an opinion rooted in experience, of course. No one is invalidating that. Rather, a click on "agree" or "disagree" is one of several ways that people can express THEIR OWN opinion.

You can choose to see that as an attempt to invalidate your experience or call you a liar or something like that. It is your choice to see it however you want. But I honestly don't think that is how many other people- including those clicking on those buttons, as we have heard from a few- see it. I think you are choosing to see the worst in it, and getting upset by an "agree" or a "disagree" is not worth it.

And, at the end of the day, with my moderator's cap on, if your responseses to clicks on "agree" and "disagree" continue to be things like this:

My experience with DCBS was not posted as a "discussion", or something that needed critical review, dislike, or disagree . . .

To get your panties in a bunch & "disagree" because your little fanboy ass is hurt for poor DCBS, well all I can say is you need to get yourselves a little self reflection time, and step the fuck off my shit! DCBS SUCKS! I WOULD NEVER USE THEM. Disagree with THAT mo-fo's!

. . .Then you will have to go be not agreed or disagreed with somewhere else. Because that doesn't fly here.

This is not any one person's blog. These are discussions. The original poster even chose to start this as a "discussion" rather than a "question" (as those are options when you create a thread.) When experiences and opinions are put forward, on a service, on a book, on a movie, etc., they may get discussed and commented on. So let's not lose our temper with those that respond to what we say. Thanks.

@CourtofOwls yes. You stated your experience, and came to a conclusion based on those experiences. My experience has been far more positive, and therefore my conclusion differs from yours. The OP is asking what to expect, I "disagree" (hence the button) that one should expect to have your experience. It is simple as that. Like all reviewing, if someone says "this movie sucks!" And I disagree, I am not invalidating their experience, I am simply speaking from mine.

I have a question- would you have yelled at someone that clicked "agree"? It seems you feel that your post should not be seen as an opinion of your experience, but rather as a sort of testimony. So I take it no one can agree with you, because even if they, too, felt DCBS "sucks", they would be minimizing or diminishing your "sucks" by agreeing with it based on their "sucks". Right?

@David_D it is very clear that we see things differently - which is OK. I disagree that, because I have had a factual experience that sucked, this makes it an opinion now rather than a fact. Like the beach analogy, other people may have had their own experience with the beach & feel it is a good beach. Good for them. They are free to share their experience with others. Again, that does not negate my experience or opinion. Rather than having the beach lovers label and/or judge my experience, let them post their own and trust that the objective reader of ALL the posts will judge for themselves if they want to go to the beach or not. I say DCBS sucks. You say it doesn't. Let the person who started this discussion thread decide for themselves without undermining one another's experiences.

Yes, we do see it differently. I see these at discussions. And I don't see the reactions as attempts to undermine, or hiding. Rather, they are simply more speech added to the discussion.

If you quote someone else's post and respond to it without even reading it, as you did with @Trev earlier, then we see the whole intent of this discussion board very differently.

This is not just a place to be heard. It is also a place to listen, to respond, and to discuss. If the reaction buttons are that troublesome to you, ignore them. It seems you have no problem engaging in a thread with the intent to hear about the opinions or experiences of others, so why let an "agree" or "disagree" get to you? It seems like wasted energy. Especially if you see it as a monologue rather than a dialogue.

@TheMarvelMan Of course I know you're not dumb, but here's my point- the reason I am talking about things in terms of the facts is that I think the idea that they actually lied to you is a little strong. The fact is, OMD did lead to single Peter stories. They are just aren't the ones you wanted. But that is subjective. Whether it not they are good enough to justify OMD is also subjective. Quesada and Wacker and others might love these stories, who knows? A lot of people have enjoyed these post-OMD years. But that comes down to individual taste. Objectively I don't think they lied. I think that is an overstatement. They said OMD would lead to stories of a single Peter, and it has.

Clearly they didn't succeed in entertaining you enough to make you feel that it was worth it; and it is fair to feel disappointed with that. But I don't think that is the same as being lied to.

The point that I made was that even the i

That's understandable matt from a personal stand point, but the show couldn't find anyone who HAD been reading for the last 100 issues? That's a big jump from 2008 to 2012, and again significant stuff happened in the spidey-verse before the start of the Dying Wish story

This was the point that I was trying to make as well. As thorough as your reviews were of the past ages, it was disappointing to see such a large gap completely ignored. Again as I said in my first post, what was there was great, and I don't think anyone is denying it. I think you might have gotten a few complaints if you skipped a storyline or two, but you all skipped 4 years of spider-man continuity! Somebody pull up a wiki and write some notes! lol

To be fair, the spotlights have always been, from the beginning, the guys talking about the issues they've read, or what stood out to them. They were always meant to be a discussion, and not a complete guidebook or a dry info dump. If they left out stories you wanted to hear them discuss, then I get why that would be frustrating. And personally I think there has been a lot of great work in the Brand New Day era. But I don't think them researching stories a lot of them haven't read just to complete the era would be the organic way of going about the discussion.

Put another way, if you want them to be reading information off Wikipedia, then you are better off just going to Wikipedia yourself, you know what I mean?