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> Are you just an Amazon shill who jumps in to try and suppress any criticism of them?

This breaks the guidelines, so please leave it out of your comments.

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> Are you just an Amazon shill who jumps in to try and suppress any criticism of them?

No, I'm not. Are you the kind of commenter who accuses everyone who disagrees with you of being a shill, so that you can control the conversation? (There's at least as much evidence of that than there is of me being a shill...)


There have been stories about this for months. It's reasonable to assume that most people reading and commenting on them are familiar with the history of this long running story and the well publicized last minute change in the terms of the agreement by Amazon in the last week.

If you are honestly unaware of this and need it explained to you, then in the future take some time to familiarize yourself with the context of what's going on or ask some questions before you jump in and start insulting people.


I was rather careful not to insult you. I merely said that your style resembled that of obsessive ranters and nut cases; I didn't accuse you of being one.

You came at least as close to being insulting as I did. In the future, take some time to familiarize yourself with peoples' posting history before you jump in and question whether they are shills.


A parallel post to this one, by imgabe, has been flag-killed. While I don't agree with the post, I had to look very carefully at my history in this thread to see whether he was right in what I said. His post had enough of a basis that I think flag-killing it was unwarranted.


Well, I appreciate your saying so. I apologise for my part in this discussion going off the rails.


Well... there was probably blame enough to go around to both sides.

Apology accepted... and offered in return.




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