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At 08:21 16/10/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>The Omega Man
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>PS2Ki - The trading platform for the next 1000 years
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I rarely ever bother to follow the "argumentative" threads on the list,
because I have neither the time nor patience to do so. Not that I object to
their existence mind you, because they do provide some light entertainment!
Plus, I'd rather use my own email filters and multiple delete button, rather
than suggest a clampdown on freedom of expression.
However, this chap "Omega Man" has inspired my first foray into this area.
It is so patently and blatently obvious that he eithers works for (or is
contracted to) Omega Research. Anyone who writes the above statement "for
the next 1000 years" is not merely an individual client using the product.
No user would ever say something so over the top, no matter how content they
were with the product. An independent user would merely write and say how
happy they were, but if he then got a bunch of flames back, he would simply
say to himself "who cares what you think? because I'M happy and it works for
me". He just wouldn't care what anyone else thought.
But this guy Omega Man isn't an individual independent customer. He just
can't be! His rabid defence of TS is so over-the-top and is so clearly
designed as a counter-attack to the naysayers on the list. If he were just
a little bit subtle, he might have got away with it. But IMHO his
credibility is now totally and completely shot. He can argue til he's blue
in the face that he has no affiliation with Omega Research and I will not
believe him. I consider him to be a fraud.
This guy obviously has his brief from OR as part of their 'rapid response'
team and I envisage it as follows:
"Look, there's a lot of bad press about our products on the list. Your job
is to monitor it and to fight fire with fire. Portray the naysayers in as
bad a light as you can. Lecture them. Preach at them. Just do whatever
you can to try and convince the silent majority of customers that these
naysayers are a bunch of extremists who are not representative of the
majority of satisfied customers".
I know that there are legitimate critics of mb, tj et al. But Omega Man is
not one of them. He is with Omega Research and therefore has no business
doing what he does on this list. At least with PO, he's up front about his
affiliation with Omega. PO's credibility is simply shot for an entirely
different reason - he's never used TS2Ki in real-time.
But Omega Man ???
Give me a break!! Does Omega Research really believe people are THAT stupid??!!
BTW, Go ahead and yell to the world/me that you've told us a thousand times
you have nothing to do with Omega. That's your rapid response brief after
all, so you have to do your job! But of course, it'd be like water off a
ducks back at this point, and not something worth replying to. Your
extremist views ("there are no bugs"), and over-the-top, lack of subtlety
have blown it for you and the company.
It might even be time for the company to pull you out of battle, and to send
in a different black knight. For me, your rantings and ravings are
indicative of a company that knows it's in trouble. Please spare us all the
further embarrassment of watching your pain and squirming.
Simon.
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