On Tuesday 04 March 2008, jaydra2003 wrote:
> --- In mlmsurvivorsclub@
>
> wrote:
> > --- In mlmsurvivorsclub@
> >
> > wrote:
> > > Has anyone heard of a new MLM that sells a drink called seven or
> > > Ex Fuze? It's a new drink that is composed of all seven of the
> > > Super berries (including the mangosteen berry).
> >
> > Seconds of googling tell you that it's an MLM like any other. Why
>
> are you bothering to ask? So that we'll look it up and be impressed?
>
> Wow. This is my first post on a yahoo group.
Congratulations, but at the same time, and I'm not trying to be mean,
each Y! group is quite different and that really has little to do with
anything else.
> I specifically looked
> for one having to do with MLMs, and this one looked like it had the
> most members. In the rules somewhere does it say you can't post
> innocent questions?
That's a good question. Do you remember getting a email when you
joined? When everyone joins, they are sent an email and it tells them
a bit about this group and what documents we have in our files section
to read before posting. Did you read that email or any of the files.
Actually, most of us know the answer to that one. If you had read the
files, you would have read the part about the MLM flavor of the month
and you would have read about what kind of group this is.
If you had read the files you were asked to read before posting, or even
just the email you were sent upon joining, or, even easier, just the
group description, you would know that or have gotten a good idea about
it.
I'm not trying to be rough on you, but you were asked to read the files
and if you had, you would have been asking different questions and you
would have started in this group with a better understanding of MLMs.
It would have helped you a great deal.
> And if they are innocent, should I expect
> sarcasm as a response? I asked this question because my brother is
> thinking of getting into the MLM regarding ex fuze and I want to have
> some information to talk him out of it.
Again, read the files about the MLM flavor of the month. New MLMs
appear continually. There is just no way we or other groups could
track all the new ones. They're like a bad disease that's in the air.
We can help you deal with it, but on the other hand, remember that we
get a lot of questions about new MLMs and also questions about new MLMs
by people that are already in that MLM and are acting innocent so they
can entice us into a discussion, tell us how great it is, and recruit
us. Again, that kind of thing is in -- oh, you know where it is by
now.
> I have no idea how long it's
> been around or if it has scorned ex-members (the people I'd like to
> converse with). So, a simple "no, I know nothing about it"
> suffices. I'm sorry for being stupid and wording my post wrong.
In general, people expect the same manners on the Internet that they do
in real life. For example, you would not go into a group of people and
say, "What's this about?" without doing some research. It's generally
considered polite to do the research before asking the question.
For example, in most email groups I'm in the focus is tech support and
if you ask questions in those groups without doing research first,
you'll get a blunt "RTFM" (READ THE er, FINE MANUAL) response and if
it's a question that could be answered with a simple search on the web
that it's clear you didn't do, you'll be told RTFMA (READ THE, ahem,
FINE MANUAL, SIR!).
In this case you're asking a question that could have been answered
quite simply with a quick Google search -- and it was something you
would have learned about if you had read -- oh, I won't go there again.
We'll be glad to help you with the situation with your brother and to
discuss it with you, but on the flip side, we expect you to do your
part as well by reading the files you were asked to read before posting
and by doing your own research as well.
We know MLMs. We don't know Ex Fuze specifically, but there's nothing
new that Ex Fuze can do or offer that we haven't seen in scads of MLMs
before.
If you had come in saying, "My brother is in Ex Fuze and I'm concerned
about this. I've found some info on it through Google (or Yahoo or AJ)
but I don't know if it's as bad as it looks or if it's any good. Can
you help me?" then we would have been all over ourselves to help you.
But coming in and asking a simple question that was covered in the
READMEs and with a quick Google search basically tells us you want us
to do all the work for you and most people, here or elsewhere, don't
take kindly to that.
So tell us what is going on, what he's been told, how deep in it he is,
and so on and we'll be glad to help with what we can.
Hal
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