Reply To: Sad news about 4Ground going into Liquidation

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Indeed,

So it was all due to a re-organisation, which is what they said last month (and no-one should be worried). Alas “the internet” likes to stir up trouble when it’s not really there.

….and to be frank is even this stuff our concern (even if you back a KS by the company)? We’re not investors in the company, nor are we creditors (due to the liability agreement that we agree to when we back via KS). I doubt many that demanded to know “everything” will understand the complexities here (I know I don’t).

But basically what we all CAN take from this is that running around crying “the sky is falling” on a companies head CAN be damaging (as this may cause customers to pause making a purchase, which does hurt the company involved). We’ve gotten so used to the “keyboard warrior” culture, that we don’t pause for thought before putting pen to paper like our forebears used to do. Some of the things typed in a forum if placed in print would easily fall foul of laws on slander AND upheld in court.

But “we” are not a court, we do not sit in judgement. So why do we act as tho we are?

Perhaps a few lessons to be learned here, and perhaps people that have posted should review this thread and see “if” what they posted was actually justified (now we have more information). Perhaps this will make us “pause for thought” before merrily typing away in the same way our ancestors did (who never had a thing called an “internet”)