Re:Disqus bait and switch, now with ads
by res0nat0r on Thursday February 14, 2013 @01:14PM
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My point is that there seems to be an entitlement to be outraged over free services you don't pay for now days, and that people seem to think they need to write blog posts to publicly shame companies when they alter services they are offering to the public for exactly zero dollars.
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Re:Disqus bait and switch, now with ads
by MatthewPhillips on Thursday February 14, 2013 @01:24PM
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You seem to be suggesting that free services are free from criticism, which is just silly.
He is entitled to be outraged, stop it.
Re:Disqus bait and switch, now with ads
by Turing_Machine on Thursday February 14, 2013 @01:55PM
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Right. To take it to a somewhat ridiculous extreme, what about something like this?
"I just found out that this company was infecting all their users with bubonic plague."
"Stop complaining. It was free!"
Re:Disqus bait and switch, now with ads
by res0nat0r on Thursday February 14, 2013 @02:26PM
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That comparison is ridiculous. It's a free service, either click two buttons to revert it to the previous state without ads, or delete your account. Move on with your life and stop the entitled whining.
This is what Turing_Machine is doing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
Offering something free doesn't make one immune to criticism and criticizing isn't entitled whining. This is fair criticism.