I agree your comment. I would also say, that I've seen on other chatboards and social media sites, that people who are associated with a company shoot down any negative complaints by using ad hominem attacks against those who made complaints.
AMEN!
I am there with ya. I would LOOOOVE to know what the May surprise is. I hope they tell us soon. It's my birthday the end of the month, and it's always fun to have an extra surprise. Also, I made a delicious salad using the Strawberry balsamic this weekend, soooo good.
@@mellibot, In the weirdest coincidence, I went to Bryn Mawr!!!! Graduated 2000. Did you write this because we know each other, or is this TRULY proof how small the world is?!!!
Nope, honest to goodness proof that the world is a tiny place! What's even more interesting is that (1) I graduated in 2002 so we were there at the same time and (2) 2000 is the first year I stayed in Bryn Mawr for the summer so I actually worked your graduation handing out programs! And, seriously, my judge story is honest to goodness true as well. LLB could very well be "wiping" people THEY went to college with (or former colleagues, long lost friends, etc.) off on their "shoes." Terrible.
Unbelievable!!!!!!! The world is a small, small place. Anassa kata
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I agree with EVERYTHING you said, but I'm concerned about companies being able to track me down through MSA. Can they do it through the swap part of the site or spme other way? I try to be very careful about what information is available about me. Can you explain it a little bit? Feel free to pm me if that 's better for you.
is there another surprise? I just thought our choice of a full size bottle of the oil or vinegar was probably it.
Could you post a picture of your canvas? I would like to see how it turned out. Oooh! I should have ordered the blackberry, sounds so good!
As someone else explained it to me a while back, they can somehow view your MSA profile info if they're logged in themselves. Some forum members also link their personal blogs or other social media accounts to their MSA profile which can include email addresses, but the majority don't that I've seen. How they get to specific MSA profile info I'm not sure (I'm far from being an IT whiz) but I do know they successfully cross referenced posting IDs from comments and MSA email addresses and eventually connected them to subscriber accounts. Another possibility is using context clues to narrow down potential identities. For example, if I just subscribed to LLB and shared that fact on MSA not long afterward, they could piece together that I, new subscriber x am also MSA user Y. That's a reverse engineering possibility and a plausible one at that, even more likely to be successful if used in conjunction with confirmatory profile info. When I was contacted by LLB via email regarding a comment I made on MSA (just wondering when my first box would ship), they contacted me within minutes of my comment using an email address associated only with MSA (not my personal/subscriber email address). Given that I don't use my real name as my posting ID and the email they used to reach me I only use on MSA/blogs, the most likely source of that information was my MSA account. I had accidentally created 2 MSA profiles by logging in using FB after I had already established an account via traditional user name/password, having forgotten that my FB account is linked to my personal email address. With access to my MSA profile info they eventually connected my MSA email with my subscriber email and determined/confirmed my identity. I know all of this sounds crazy cloak and dagger/James Bond-ish. I'm amazed that any business would dedicate such time and effort to tracking down MSA commenters for the purpose of punishing those who share opinions by canceling their subscriptions. Either they have significantly more manpower than it seems and are dedicating them to being sub box bounty hunters or this kind of detective work is someone's personal obsession. Regardless which, both scenarios are disturbing given the purely business context involved.
Thank you for the compliment. I'm always happy to share experiences if I think it can offer some clarity in a given situation. After a career spent in litigation, I have to agree with your assessment of prosecutors. I have explained a few times in the past that as defense counsel my job was to convince jurors that the sounds of hoof beats they heard were made by a zebra; as a prosecutor it was my job to remind the same people that when hearing hoof beats in downtown Chicago, it's most likely a horse, not a zebra.Unbelievable!!!!!!! The world is a small, small place. Anassa kata
@@Fashion Diva, thank you for your insightful, exceptionally well-written analysis. I feel like I understand the entire situation -- and why it's so disturbing -- so much better. You must be one excellent part-time judge. But I always feel like the prosecutors have a way about cutting to the chase.
I have no idea if that is a true story, but your way of describing it makes it sound like way more fun of a job then I pictured courtroom law as!
