Comments on: Dell responds to accusations of censorship

By: ninjagecko

ninjagecko — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:33:08 +0000

Bullshit: Dell (or the contractor) is censoring that site like crazy.

As a random user, they purposefully edited my suggestion (which has a decent +vote) to remove hints that they have not tested their keyboard/trackpad paint for toxicity and carcinogenicity.

Granted, the deleted post in question was a rant and deserved to be taken down. However, they *do* censor the Ideastorm site.

By: DebianROCKS

DebianROCKS — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:31:12 +0000

I agree that the poster Beer28 was not posting an “Idea”, just a RANT. I applaud Dell for “merging” the post and would prefer they just DELETE it.

Rants belong on blogs (like this one) and not on functional websites like IdeaStorm.

Will Dell act on every idea, probably not. But that’s their business. It’s up to them to make profits while satisfying as many customers as possible. They’ll never satisfy 100% of people…

BTW, in case you’re wondering, I’m a die hard Debian user and only use Windows to play a few games that I haven’t been able to get working under Wine…

By: wldrylie

wldrylie — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 06:03:34 +0000

Well…. I was going to tailor a computer for SUSE, then read about Dell’s idea to certify a machine, Oh Joy! Out of the box. I have never owned a Dell and now it looks like I never will……..

By: Rory Buszka

Rory Buszka — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:49:44 +0000

I think this has been blown way out of proportion. IdeaStorm was meant to be a place where customers could suggest ideas for Dell to improve their products and services, not simply vent about the way Dell chooses to go about achieving their capitalistic aims. Dell’s IdeaStorm is not an open forum — the discussion there is restricted to products and services. It made sense, then, to delete the off-topic post. I’m sorry, but as much as everyone wants to take a bite out of the Big Evil Corporation, IdeaStorm is simply not the venue. For all intents and purposes, Beer28 was trolling IdeaStorm and harrassing the company in an inappropriate venue. Naturally, his idea was deleted. It would have been more appropriate for Beer28 to find the discussion thread related to the preinstaled-Linux option and voice his thoughts in there. However, I suppose he was under the influence of that 28th beer, and this didn’t occur to him at that moment.

This is probably hard for you to hear, but this is not the big deal that everybody is making it out to be.

By: JohnP@Dell

JohnP@Dell — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:07:17 +0000

I guess we can agree to disagree on what constitutes an idea and censorship. But at least the facts are on the table and people can, and will, decide for themselves.

By: Bob Dobalina

Bob Dobalina — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:52:00 +0000

Dell is under no obligation to implement every suggestion. If someone makes a suggestion on Dell’s website and Dell decides not to implement it, then what’s the problem in moving on? If moving on means deleting the comment then what’s the harm? The vast overreaction to this by Linux advocates simply makes Dell look like a responsible parent who is trying to quiet a screaming three-year old in a nice restaurant who is throwing a tantrum because he didn’t get peanut butter for dinner like he wanted.

By: Blind Freddy

Blind Freddy — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:50:23 +0000

I think you’re being too harsh on Dell. It is their web site, NOT Digg, and they have every right to remove content they deem inappropriate.