vilters opened this issue on Dec 08, 2014 · 90 posts
moriador posted Fri, 12 December 2014 at 6:17 PM
If I had a question about using Genesis in Poser, I'd ask it at the Daz forums. After all, they should -- and can -- answer questions about the products they sell. In this forum -- depending on who's online -- it seems that you're just as likely to get misinformation or a lecture as an actual answer to your question.
I think we'd be a lot better off if intentionally making false statements was a violation of TOS.
"DSON doesn't work in Poser" is a patently, obviously, and clearly false statement, no different in the quality of its falsehood from saying "Dawn doesn't work in Poser" or "Victoria 4 doesn't work in Poser." And repeating it over and over may well have affected the sales of those making Genesis content, and ultimately the profitability of the site that hosts those products and THIS forum. And I do not believe that simply tacking an "IMHO" (etc, etc) to a false statement that otherwise pretends to be indisputable makes it okay.
"I don't like using the DSON importer" or "DSON doesn't work in Poser the way I think it should" are, on the other hand, legitimate statements of personal opinion.
In my experience, stating disputable opinions as though they were facts only leads to the dissemination of harmful myths, and contributes just as much to the environment of hostility as any sort of "personal" attack. Shane has said as much again and again, and I agree completely.
I don't come here much these days. We're advised to put annoying posters on our ignore list. But if I did that with all the people who are otherwise reasonable and post very useful information but still get overly passionate and irrational about one single subject, hardly any of the threads would make any sense. I'm missing so much of the conversation already that I can't follow half of them. Alas, except as a way to tune out complete idiots who never post anything useful, for me, using ignore isn't really a viable solution.
Of course, people could stop pretending to be experts about subjects that they don't know all that much about....
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