New Discussion

[cheranne]

Factnet announces new discussion forum for all kinds of non-cult related complaints called “Complaints I.M.H.O.”

What is it?

It is a new Complaint discussion forum to post any kind of complaint about products, services, companies, individuals, organizations, relationships and even governments. Everything from defective products to dishonest dating.

Why the Complaints I.M.H.O. Forum Exists at Factnet

The complaints IMHO forum was created to give people a place to express their opinions about products, services, companies, individuals, organizations, relationships or governments that they feel have not behaved in a proper way or have failed to keep a promise or, have been deceptive, defective or harmful in some way. How many times have you felt like someone or some organization did something wrong and has acted in ways that have convinced you they will not do anything to change their behavior and, if this information was not publically available to warn others, others would then be unfairly harmed by this individual or organization in the future.

In ancient times we lived in small communities. When someone misbehaved in a small community it did not take long for other members of the tribe to be put on notice that so-and-so was not a fair trader or would behave in ways that would violate fair and ethical exchange or other key values of the tribe. The cheaters, freeloaders, charlatans, greedy, con men and/or incompetents of the tribe would soon be exposed and would either have to change their ways or they would have no one else to unfairly exploit because everyone in the tribe had been informed of their behavior with others. In some ways this was the original positive and disinfecting role of gossip that is today lost in modern gossip that is spread primarily to harm fully knowing the gossip is untrue.

In modern societies we have moved into huge cities and we move regularly from city to city. In these modern times the necessary social transparency and accountability of the small ancient tribal communities has been lost.

The cheaters, freeloaders, charlatans, greedy, con men and/or incompetents of all kinds are able to unfairly and unethically exploit the ignorance of new targets (consumers or individuals,) most times because our modern society has of yet evolved no effective community early warning system to indicate the presence of such individuals or companies and their products, policies and services. The Complaints IMHO forum is an attempt to fill this critical social need using modern information technology in the age of people searching the Internet for information about people organizations, products and services.

The creators of this forum at Factnet have themselves too often experienced being harmed by some individual, organization, company or government department and having their complaints either arrogantly ignored or summarily dismissed with no real evaluation or fair attempt to mediate the complaint. The frustration of feeling cheated by a product, service or transaction is multiplied by the additional frustration of dealing the individual, company or organization ignoring their responsibility to play fairly often simply because they believe that you really can do nothing effectively remedial about what has happened to you because it’s too expensive to sue, too time consuming or, they will be long gone and moved to a new city or location can be unbearable!

Now because of the existence of this new global Complaints I.M.H.O. forum you can now express your opinions, those opinions can be found by Internet search tools and, other individuals can evaluate your opinions before they engage with some individual, company or organization. Your posted opinions matter now have the disinfecting power of open disclosure and open dialog and, hold the potential of saving others from the harm, loss and frustration that in your opinion you have experienced.

Your opinions will no doubt create common threads to other individuals who have had similar experiences with some individual, company or organization. From these patterns of complaints about a particular individual, company or organization many other good things are possible. Various agencies that are charged with the responsibility of protecting consumers can more easily find and collect these complaints.

Lawyers specializing in class-action lawsuits may now see that it is financially viable for them to take on a class-action lawsuit because hundreds of people complaining about the same thing are all found on one or several web sites. That’s also why we recommend you sign your complaints and provide a contact e-mail address.

If by chance you feel that some opinion has been expressed that is not accurate, you too have the equal right to express your opinion and counter the opinion being expressed by another.

In closing, at Factnet we strongly believe that there is much good that can be done from providing this critical transparency and accountability social complaint opinion archiving and library-like service. To get the full benefit for yourself and society please strictly adhere to the special policies for this new complaint opinion forum just below.

Factnet’s Special Policies for the Complaints I.M.H.O. forum:

Great social good for others can come about if you are aware of and follow these simple policies:

1.) All of the disclaimers of Factnet Inc. as well as all of the policies and terms that you sign and agree to when you join Factnet as a registered user apply fully to this Complaints I.M.H.O. forum as they do to all the other aspects of the Factnet web site.

2.) This is an opinions only forum! This means that everything in this forum is treated as an opinion that is being expressed by the party providing the information. Any content in these forums is to be treated only and exclusively as the opinion of whoever put that posting into this forum.

Nothing in this forum is to be treated or to be considered as confirmed fact. That is why we have called this forum the Complaints I.M.H.O. forum. (IMHO is the abbreviation and acronym commonly used on the Internet, which means “In My Humble Opinion.”)

We would appreciate that after every posting you make you add the initials IMHO to your post. If you don’t this, these forum policies will treat anything you post in this forum as opinion anyway, because —this IS the complaint — In My Humble Opinion forum!

3.) We recommend that in the subject line of your post that you always put in the name of the organization individual and/or product, policy or service that you are expressing your complaint opinion about. This way other users can easily find the treads or search for an individual or organization name or a product, policy or service and find similar complaints quickly.

4.) We strongly recommend that you sign your name to your complaint opinions and provide a contact e-mail address. As mentioned earlier always add IMHO to the end of your posting. As complaints accumulate about a particular individual, company or organization agencies assigned with protecting consumers or lawyers involved in class-action lawsuits may find your complaint and may want to contact you. Your opinion may have for more power to effect good than you can ever imagine and as part of a class action lawsuit you might even get financial restitution for your losses!

5.) Please do not post opinions with any information that you know either in good faith or, in your most sincere opinion is not reflective of the actual situation and experience that you have experienced regarding your complaint. Do not use this complaint IMHO forum to be vindictive using knowingly false or grossly exaggerated statements.

Use this forum only to post your informative first hand opinions that will stimulate open dialogue and improvement for situations that individuals and/or society needs to be aware and remedy.

6. If someone has expressed an opinion about you, your service, your company, your product, etc. and you disagree with it or don’t like it, or feel is not appropriate or accurate in any way, you are free to post your opinion about someone else’s complaint opinion.

In the United States, freedom of opinion is your constitutional right. Here you may express any opinion you wish.

In our complaint forums you have the full right to enter into the disinfecting dialogue of free speech and the right to freely express your opinion about someone else’s opinion.

Please do not complain to us that someone has expressed a constitutionally protected opinion about you, your products, services etc in the complaint opinion forum asking us to remove their constitutionally protected opinions. Your ONLY recourse is to express your counter opinion in the complaint forum and contest any and opinions that you feel are not appropriate.

We additionally recommend that you read John Stewart Mills essay “On Liberty,” of the socially critical disinfecting power of open and free speech dialog by clicking here.

The Board of Directors at Factnet

To go immediately to our new Complaints I.M.H.O. forum, click here.

IMHO

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Posted by David Pike on January 19, 2010.

Filed under: News

[JeffSjo]

Hi Cheranne!

I'm afraid you lost me at "Factnet." hehehe

[cheranne]

Hi Cheranne!

I'm afraid you lost me at "Factnet." hehehe

Hey there Jeff..I thought I would throw that out there for someone. I am watching 2 babies and don't have time too much to be here anymore.

[JeffSjo]

I'm sure many others are qualified to chew on this.

I hope you are well.

JEFF