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Originally Posted by mopek1
I agree with most of what you say. You shouldn't have to pretend, or give good feedback when it's not deserved and be fake etc... I also find that that happens too much on this board.
But why be harsh (or in your words above, 'an asshole')?
You can just as easily tell people that their site won't sell or that you think their idea won't work without the added harshness.
I'm not saying you should change, I'm just curious.
All in all I'd rather hear the truth with harshness, rather than fake praise.
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I think more for the reasons i stated and moreover, the single reason you stated "fake praise". It's always fake praise, by disingenuous, self serving people, complimenting someone's crap project knowing they are so emotionally invested, they won't want to hear anything else... and they do it for their own benefit, not that of the person who actually sweat blood and tears into his work. In fact, they do it at his direct expense.
The other side is how do you wake someone up? How do you make Sleazy see YesSignals.com as being a bit of a mess that needs a lot of work? You can't do it by ass kissing. You can't be gentle and get his attention. You can't wake someone from their trance with politeness and courtesy. You certainly can't get them to see it completely differently when they are so emotionally invested in what they are doing, by being nice.
He hit up a lot of people on ICQ telling them about his "idea" and showing them his "site" and everyone basically said "looks cool bro" to avoid an awkward, but much needed conversation that an actual "friend" would have had with him. Because this business is so full of fake, self serving douchebags, he then launches a site which makes no sense at all, where it's not even clear what the site is, what it's about, what it's selling or whats going on and that was basically his last chance before fading away into obscurity.