Can I, again, remind people about the fact that general rule 2 includes the outlawing of posts that are regarded as defamatory.
This includes defaming stores.
There is a huge difference between statements of fact and statements of generalisation.
For example, "I went to Petrubbish and the store in Wonderland had lots of dead fish", is very different to "All of Petrubbish's fish are cared for badly".
The first is a statement of your experience, is a useful review, and is actually a more detailed and useful statement what you're talking about, the second, whilst it may be accurate, could also be viewed as libellous in several legal systems.
Given that we're not particularly keen on libel action, we tend to shut down threads that take the latter approach, it's not that we don't always agree with them, it's just that's what we do.
Please keep threads to the first type, and they'll last longer and I'll have less to do, which is nice.
(Any similarity to stores with names like Petrubbish or in places like Wonderland is entirely coincidental and this in no way denotes any opinion on the fishkeeping practices of such an organisation)
This includes defaming stores.
There is a huge difference between statements of fact and statements of generalisation.
For example, "I went to Petrubbish and the store in Wonderland had lots of dead fish", is very different to "All of Petrubbish's fish are cared for badly".
The first is a statement of your experience, is a useful review, and is actually a more detailed and useful statement what you're talking about, the second, whilst it may be accurate, could also be viewed as libellous in several legal systems.
Given that we're not particularly keen on libel action, we tend to shut down threads that take the latter approach, it's not that we don't always agree with them, it's just that's what we do.
Please keep threads to the first type, and they'll last longer and I'll have less to do, which is nice.
(Any similarity to stores with names like Petrubbish or in places like Wonderland is entirely coincidental and this in no way denotes any opinion on the fishkeeping practices of such an organisation)