sec_yote_agenda

sec_yote_agenda, 9 months ago

@gray17 I'm not even talking about something as extreme as a stumble though.

sec_yote_agenda, 9 months ago

@gray17 "(Person) was key in doing Y"

sec_yote_agenda, 9 months ago

@gray17 Actually, what made me twitch was the phrase "key in", not the word 'key' in and of itself.

sec_yote_agenda, 9 months ago

@gray17 If it's acceptable, that's fine...my whole point was that it made me twitch but I couldn't identify why or whether it should. As an edtior, my inclination would be to change it, because I want text that doesn't make me twitch, unless I can find strong evidence that it's used plentifully and I'm just being weird.

sec_yote_agenda, 9 months ago

@gray17 Exactly what I did. I'd like to think I'm very honest in evaluating the certainty of my edits.

If I'm sure something is wrong, I try to fix it without explanation, but if I'm on the fence about somthing, I may try to fix it, but I'll also leave an explanatory note. "This may be fine, but it's rubbing me the wrong way..."

sec_yote_agenda, 9 months ago

@kkarhan I'm not familiar with those, but is there any reason furries can't do both?

sec_yote_agenda, 9 months ago

@kkarhan Fair. I was looking at this from the angle of what buyers can do to directly protect themselves, and I'm not aware of any reason not to trust an escrow service provided you've done your research first, as you certainly should before you drop $XXXX on anything.

sec_yote_agenda, 9 months ago

@kkarhan Most if not all of the horror stories I've heard involve the maker failing to deliver, not the buyer failing to honor their obligations. And frequently a part of those stories is the maker claiming they can't refund because they've already spent the money elsewhere, which seems like poor protocol. Escrow would obviate this.

I'm also pretty sure there have been makers who deliberately stalled buyers past the point where a PayPayl refund was easy.

sec_yote_agenda, 9 months ago

@kkarhan That's kind of the problem. Furries are too trusting...

Hell, I was trying to commission paws from someone who was well-reviewed, and after months of "hopefully soon!" and "you're first in the queue when my new molds come in!" they just stopped replying to me.

Thankfully I hadn't sent them any money yet, but they even had a decent reputation and had been fine up to that point except for the delay.

sec_yote_agenda, 9 months ago

@kkarhan I probably wouldn't have gone escrow on this because it would have been under $300, but for a full suit, where you're talking $XXXX? Yeah, take actions to protect yourself.

Hell, even just -suggesting- it to a maker could be revealing if they balk at all.

sec_yote_agenda, 9 months ago

@patterfloof This does make me wonder what K'en looks like...

sec_yote_agenda, 9 months ago

@patterfloof Also glamorous!

sec_yote_agenda, 10 months ago

@anthropy I'll grant that cellphones weren't quite uniquitous by the early '00s...that I recall...but they were far from uncommon by that point. I got my first one in 2000.

The roulette game part...I mean...trying to figure out who you could tell was stressful for me, but not on that level, though I know it might have been worse for other people in other parts of the world (and is).

sec_yote_agenda, 10 months ago

@anthropy ...too bad most of them are sour balls, pun intended. :p

I've often said I miss the days when getting online required a degree of tech savvy...

I found gay people at college.