....and because of that....
I think
YES!
it deserves to be brought up to the top of my blog......
this person who IMHO
lied sooooo much....has a HUGE habit of calling others out when they do not agree with her....and that is indeed a sad situation in my book ....but I don't have a need to be friends with everyone I meet..and no..we do not all need to get along even in a global economy.....we just need to learn how to co-exist....
and in this case I am very glad that I do not have to acclimate to anything this particular person says or does..... :)
Update Update 4/25.....The Rest of the story! A Big Can Of Worms on About.WHAT?????
So it turns out that DIYnever contacted the loser about their concerns that someone was abusing the voting system ...but it was in fact the loser who messaged DIY about her concerns that someone had taken advantage of the voting system to make her lose....and DIY responded that they don't have any way of controlling how it works so long story short....DIY did not contact her about the voting...but only responded to the losers' suspicions about the voting (after she contacted them!) 
...... So once you know the rest of the story it is quite a different story indeed.........but I am really glad that what the loser insinuated is in fact not what really went down.........anyhoo here is my original post on this matter but knowing the truth now anwers all of my questions about why would DIY do something like that? Answer.....they didn't-----------------------------------------------------------
It was brought to my attention yesterday that a recent loser in a "shop showdown" posted a statement on their FB page.....stating that someone from About.com messaged them and told them that
quote"...they felt someone or a group of people were abusing the voting system. They felt badly because they cannot control the voting mechanism as it is set up by About.com and have to rely on the honesty and integrity of their readers, but that obviously there was a lapse of judgment going on here..."
Seriously???
hmnzzzz.....here are some of my thoughts on this matter.......#1........If the voting system on About.com can in fact "be abused"......why would anyone ever bother voting for anything there from now on? What a waste of time .....especially if they are in fact messaging someone that they "feel badly that they can not "control" the voting mechanism" Wow! Just wow! I think most people would feel badly if voting mechanisms are somehow controlled .....
#2.......If the voting system could indeed be manipulated...wouldn't the loser in fact have also had this same type of so called "manipulation" available to them?
#3.......If I were the winner of this shop show down I would be a bit upset that someone from the sight is messaging the loser and saying that " obviously there was a lapse of judgment going on here"..........
#4........If in fact an employee of this company is messaging these types of comments and having them publicly posted on FaceBook...(and basically in my opinion seemingly "bad-mouthing" the integrity of their own venue by questioning the integrity of their readers)......why should anyone really spend much time reading what is written there?
I myself recently found the venue and have been enjoying a lot of the articles and telling people about the sight..but after hearing about this...I have to say that I am now going back and deleting the posts that I made linking to this venue.
I am still very very proud of the wonderful shops and people I personally know of that have been mentioned in features on this venue.....but if one of their employees actually told someone that there was quote "a lapse of judgement"... why would they even have a show-down and tell the competitors to have all of their friends vote in the 1st place? Why not just pick your own winner instead of posting the results of the voting and then later having the loser post on Facebook that someone from About.com told them they felt badly that they quote..... "couldn't control the voting mechanism"?????
Now that's just about the biggest can of worms that I have seen in AWHILE
wOw WoW just WOW!.......hmnnnnnn???????
Oh my. I had no idea as I don't follow about DIY. Well, some people are sore losers. After all, she had the right to tweet and facebook, etc. for votes just like everyone else. So I see it as the field was open to all and she is upset that she didn't get the votes.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you that she should not bad mouth on such a public forum as it isn't to becoming for a business to talk badly about another business especially if your not a customer of that business.
We all should support one another in the handmade community. No, we don't have to be friends, but we shouldn't be bashing cause that really doesn't look good for future customers to see such nonsense. I like what you said, we need to learn to co-exist. So true, especially in a competitive market.
I love that you did not mention names. If she did however, shame on her and that is a lapse of judgement on her part. It is sad that there are some bad apples out there of course that is life and you got to take the good with the bad and like you, I try to avoid the bad. LOL
Thanks for adding your thoughts Gena :)
ReplyDeleteEvery one makes mistakes at some point in their life....
I really had a hard time "wrapping my mind around" her insinuation that there was an obvious lapse of judgement simply because more people voted for the other item :)
I think that "sore loser" pretty much sums it up :)