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@Harry.Major
This isn't a question about Foffa's right to exist, this is a question about the public at large's access to publically generated information in a public forum.
I'll gladly defend Foffa from the petty bitchiness of this place if I have the time. But thats not what we are talking about. There was a kind of timeline, it kinda went like this:
1) Foffa made fairly shit bikes
2) The forum noticed point 1
3) The forum did what forums are good at and took the piss.
4) Genuine issues were flagged up.
5) Danni read the forums discussion
6) Danni took action based on reading the forum.
7) Foffa relsea a new frame
8) The forum likes the new frame and foffa alot more than it did before.
9) Overall attitude is positive
With the thread being here this process is hidden from the public. This information and opinion is censored to make it easier on someone who we have no responsibility to as an independant forum. Someone who, in fact, we have a responsibility to crticise as an independant forum.
And the decision to make this act at least appears to have been made by someone who does infact have a vested interest in this someone and this buisness. I've remembered what its called, its called corruption. Now it might not be, it might be a huge coincidence, Wicksie may geuinely believe what shes done is right despite being given a free frame and a pat on the back from Danni. But in cafes like EAT you aren't even allowed to serve your family to prote t you from accustations of corruption.
What am I saying here?
Three points really:
1) I don't agree with moving this thread here. Not only is it not fair on other shops, its also wrong to movea thread of criticism and bitching in a forum famed for its criticsm and bitching out of the public eye.
3) The protection of a buisness' financial security is not our concern, and furthermore ranks below provinding lots of indvidual opinion along side a evidence based history to the public. people have more of a right to know what happened (see lame chart above) and what others think of Foffa than we have a right to protect an (almost) unaffiliated enterprise's future income.
2) The person that made this decision, is affiliated with the shop in question and rightly or wrongly it stinks of corruption.
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But like I said I'm just a stupid hipster working in a shit shop that everyone either dislikes or thinks is a joke. So you don't really need to worry what I think, 'cos no one ever seems to agree with me.