• glimse@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I wanted to figure out what game hosting sites were good and Google pointed me to reddit…every thread was full of boilerplate ads for different sites. The comments were the most obvious, marketing-approved sentences I’ve ever seen

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      6 months ago

      Everything I can find online seems to be advertisements or paid reviews (Also advertisements) when looking for anything anymore. Businesses are terrified of an open honest conversation about what is good and what is not

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        6 months ago

        I so don’t understand how to run a business.

        • Spend $Billions shoving advertising down everyone’s throats? Absolutely!

        • Just make a good product and provide good customer support? It will never work!

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          6 months ago

          Option 1 is easy and any idiot can throw money at it to solve the problem. Option 2 requires talented people and real effort.

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        6 months ago

        If you’re terrified of honest conversations, your product is probably shit.

        Marques Brownlee had a video recently about the question “do bad reviews kill products?” that highlights the issue well

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          Exactly. Every company is terrified of honest conversation since it makes putting out shit harder.