Originally published at: menino.com - Miguel's website
See if you can follow the logic in this one:
The Northwest Compass is a “new” publication recently launched in Prince Rupert. It seems linked to the old Northwest Weekly “spam” paper. It appears less spam-like than its predecessor.
One of the employees of the paper signs up on HTMF and posts a new topic to announce / discuss the new paper.
Discussion takes place, with various comments made:
and
You can view the entire topic over on HTMF.
Anyway, there isn’t much of a response to this criticism, as it is mainly directed at the old Northwest Weekly Spam paper, not the new Northwest Compass. I even comment that “I haven’t seen the new one, so I can’t really say anything about it. But from the website, it does look more promising. Unlike the NWW, it doesn’t seem to have an ad-story ratio of 20:1.”
But here’s where it gets strange.
Along comes HTMF member SteveDVS. Steve is an amateur photographer and promising designer (visit his site for proof). Steve makes a comment about the Northwest Compass website:
And he’s mainly right. The website does look like it was designed by somebody who read a “webpages for dummies” book in 1994. There are numerous spelling mistakes on the site. I’m not a designer, nor do I pretend to be, but even to my own untrained eyes, it looks like they purposely made it look ugly.
Well, if all the comments about the owners and employees of the Northwest Weekly didn’t draw any reaction, then Steve’s humble opinion certainly did. Instead of actually answering the criticism, though, Mr. Northwest Compass Employee attacks Steve instead:
Boy, how clever he must feel to have insulted somebody on the internet! His ad hominem attack validates Steve’s criticism. But it does more: Some have been insinuating that the Northwest Compass is run by a bunch of arrogant, ignorant and unskilled assholes. I’m not one to say this, of course, since I don’t know them. But I can only judge by the evidence that they may be right.
I mean, what kind of person insults his customers, makes fun of his audience, questions the intelligence of people in Terrace, all in the name of a new publication? Well, perhaps those who think the Northwest Compass is run by a bunch of arrogant, ignorant and unskilled assholes may be right.
They’re certainly not the smartest people in the world if they think it’s good business practice to post a link on a forum, and then proceed to abuse members of that forum.