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- It is a commendable initiative, but its credibility must be maintained by applying the policies scrupulously.
It's a pity that pages cannot be created in other languages, given that anti-consumer practices also occur outside the English-speaking world.
by a9i - You can create something like verbraucher-rechte.de just fine.by eru
- The main issue is the fact that the wiki just does not have enough resources to support having more than just the English language. It would be nice to support having more languages and thus covering more anti-consumer incidents in non-English parts of the world.
Realistically speaking, it would be unfair to run a wiki with additional languages where the volunteer staff are unable to actually moderate the content because they can't understand the language.
by JamesTDG - Any RSS feed for articles? I can only find one for every change and it is quite spammy.by zero0529
- For those that don't know, this is an initiative started by Louis Rossmann and is largely run by a few volunteers.by chrysoprace
- Dear Santa, please make consumer rights true; The other entities didn't really listen.
- It's funny how so many of the articles are hyper-specific grievances, e.g.:
https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Bose_QuietComfort_Sleepbuds_do...
https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Tyre_warranty_sold_via_mobile_...
And there's also https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Mr._Clinton_the_cat
by matherial - It's hard to take seriously when many of these pages are not anti consumer but just products that one random person distant like something about. Like for one the fact that it has a mobile companion app is anticonsumer.
You can't when against these people and I highly suggest ignoring these "consumer rights" people as their opinions don't reflect what makes actual business sense to do.
by charcircuit - Each one reads to me as:
User is lead to believe X, if they don't read the fineprint.
X is not the case. Instead you get Y.
That sounds perfectly fitting into a consumer rights wiki to me.
Also, Clinton the cat is the much beloved cat of the persom who started the wiki.
- On the Bose one:
Consider if your laptop was paired to it's specific charger and would refuse to charge with any other cable or charger. Lose or break your charger and suddenly your $2000+ laptop is irreparable.
That seems obviously stupid, right? And the sort of thing that ought to be illegal? Well, the headphones are the same, just with a different looking charging cable.
by ball_of_lint - Each one is a bit funny in isolation, and it's also true that the most common feedback is always unhappy feedback, but every company looking for another vein to tap for sustenance hopes observers will write off their particular incision as hyper-specific. Besides providing a place to check before doing business with a company, the Consumer Rights Wiki is about making the cumulative effect of a thousand hyper-specific cuts harder to ignore.by sfRattan
- I encountered a BTRFS filesystem corruption today, nothing too heavy, it got recovered by a repair (even tough I don't know what caused it, memtest is clean and ssd is also clean), but while researching about it I was surprised to see Louis Rossman's business website show up !
https://rossmanngroup.com/problems/btrfs-filesystem-corrupti...
by LelouBil - Louis is quite vocal about transparency for consumers and openly sharing knowledge for people to be able to do repairs themselves or even set up a competing business.by chrysoprace
- Wow, the amount of AI-generated SEO content on this website is wild. I clicked on one of the related articles and it's also hijacking my scroll so I can't scroll down to the pages of extra content underneath the article.
I don't care who's doing it, that's not cool.
by Aurornis