Silent Jay wrote:Actually, the only reviews from people who have any real knowledge of balisongs were both unbiased and both negative and both about it on it's own merits (or lack there of) as a balisong (in fact, the one guy had gotten one to try to defend it).
It's an overpriced piece of shit, but if you're happy with it, ignorance is bliss.
Care to link me to these reviews? I'm eager to see one that doesn't punctuate every second sentence with either "JB is an asshole!" or "JB is the greatest guy ever!"
So far, mine is holding up damn well for an "overpriced piece of shit". Two weeks of me dropping it on hard wood floors, no loctite, no oil, still flips well and the screws are strong as ever. So if that qualifies as "piece of shit", then I'm not entirely sure what a knife needs to be in order to be classed as "good".
I did my review anyway, and it's uploading as we speak... Very slowly. And in 3 parts, because YouTube is an ass.
I suspect I'll cop a lot of flak from it. I seem to be copping flak already just from mentioning I own the damn thing, which brings me back to my original point:
The drama circulating around this knife is giving the whole thing a bad air that nobody needs to deal with. It's painting a horrible picture of this community in general that people are acting so condescending and dickish, all while calling out somebody else for apparently being an asshole and pointing at him when reviewing a product. It seems every negative review I see of the knife equates to "JB is an asshole, therefore this knife is shit, I shall now list every single flaw it has and none of its redeeming features!"
Alternatively, there seem to be a batch of reviews saying "JB is a super swell guy, therefore this knife is awesome, I shall now list every single good thing about it and none of its flaws!" which is, really, just as bad.
They both suck because neither is actually helpful in the slightest. A review is there in inform a prospective buyer about a product. And if that review can't review the product in question without letting it's creator's personal behaviours influence that review, then it's not an unbiased or helpful review.
It'd be like calling a car manufactured by Ford utter shit, and then saying that it was shit because Henry Ford hated Jewish people. Or saying that every medical or scientific innovation stemming from Nazi Germany is worthless because it came from asshole Nazis.
You may not even intend to be insulting, but all I'm hearing is stuff like "hope you're happy with your ripoff!" or "ignorance is bliss!" or "great job supporting an asshole!". And it's really putting me off even coming here. I only signed up a few weeks ago, to boot. JD is the same deal, I saw the drama thread on the FU42 there, too. It's even worse than the one here...
I just wish people would drop this worthless drama into the bin, where it belongs, and start looking at the products in question rather than the parties and personal agendas of the people behind them. So far nobody I've seen has done that.