Forum: Complaint & Debate


Subject: To All Merchants!!!!

Virus opened this issue on Sep 21, 2001 ยท 221 posts


Mehndi posted Sun, 23 September 2001 at 2:29 PM

Questor, we have never once said we will charge anyone for anything. In fact earlier in this thread, someone asked how we would plan to have testers paid for their time, and it was a new thought, a new idea, since honestly it had not occurred to me that testers should or would need to be paid ;) I would not be asking to be paid. But as I said then, way up the thread, if someone wished to keep a model of mine they had tested as their payment, I personally would not object to that. I am sure others too feel that way. As for again, your fears that the guild would encourage people to Free Stuff, notice I said, "if someone happens to..." meaning I will not condemn it, nor encourage it. It is not my place. Nor will I personally knowingly target someone my own self. Have I the ability to understand why some here are doing this, or have done this? You bet your boots I can understand it, but I am offering a way to make a real contribution to the community as an alternative to vigilante activism. A way to achieve the same ends (one can hope in time), without resorting to need to Free Stuff. In all movements there are revolutionarys. They generally start out independent lone wolfs, acting almost as vigilantes. We have a few in the community. I found a few, and I can understand how they feel. I can even understand thinking of Free Stuffing. But I have not personally done so, choosing instead to think of a way to turn the energy and frustration towards good. When I mention a place, a site, etc, yes, no doubt we will form up a small website someplace, with our FAQs, our tutorials, etc also on them. Membership rosters maybe. Perhaps even a list, gallery, whatever, of things that have been tested and approved, since right now, quite frankly, we do not even know if any community out there will let us post our knowledge base, or let anyone use the Free Market Guild Logo. Many people and organizations have small websites. They do not in any way detract from the communities. Do not be so evil your own self as to assume our right to have such a website about our activities would be an evil thing on our part. You speak in ignorance and in fear, on what you do not understand yet. As to not sharing what I know, that is not quite literally true. I think if you check back through this forum, and the merchants forum (assuming you can get there), you will find I am fairly active (around 2500 posts in the last year alone) and alot of that effort in posting is trying to help everyone I can help. What I have not ever had time or energy yet to do was to write many tutorials in a formal sense. For that you would condemn me? I come now to offer to do so, and I am condemned because I have not already done so ;) I am amazed. With treatment like this, do you see where one could indeed turn all snobbish and want to keep ones energies for ones own self and owns personal friends? Thank god I respect the community more than that!