Not sure how "reading between the lines" comes into here. I would have thought given the comments being made about these stores that one could make an reasonably informed decision about them.Dirty32 wrote:In the case of Elite (and a couple of others in the same rhetoric), over and over again, many members seem to say similar things about them. That they go above and beyond expectation etc. and that would happily return / give them more business. Surely this constitutes a recommendation of sorts. Reading between the lines, it shouldnt take much for people in the market to realise that these would be a shop worth visiting.
and this would be uninformed decision. Just because a shop is not named it does not make them a bad shop to go to, all it says is that they have not been mentioned.In the same breath, if there are other shops that seem fairly central to many members that have not been recommended or even mentioned, reading between the lines, the perception would be that perhaps these are not the types of shops that would be worth visiting.
You don't want naming and shaming but it seems that will accept shaming by silence. No thanks ... I prefer to be informed as best as possible to allow me to make a decision. BTW just because someone says something negative, an intelligent reading of the comments should be at a level to make an assessment of the criticism and to judge it on its merits.
There is a big difference for example in "xyz shop provides poor service and I will never shop there again" and what the OP posted. At least with level of detail provided by the OP an intelligent reader can make an informed assessment as to whether the the OP's experience warrants bypassing the shop or not.
To me it comes down to empowerment, to be able to make informed decisions; knowledge empowers, knowledge allows for informed decisions.
Cheers
Andrew