Award winning - yea..really?
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- KVRAF
- 2648 posts since 20 Jun, 2012
I got an award for participating in this thread.
No signature here!
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- KVRAF
- 4801 posts since 1 Aug, 2005 from Warszawa, Poland
How about award losing software? Would you like one? I would. I think it would suit me better.
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- KVRAF
- 16808 posts since 13 Oct, 2009
You educate yourself and look for specifics. I get a lot of grief about this because I come across as picky and dismissive, but this is all that I look for really. If you aren't pushing boundaries then I'm not really interested.hivkorn wrote:How can you know if the technologies are new or not ? I have read this sentence so many times so i want to know , how a simple customer like me can know it ?Urs wrote:What I love even more than fake awards are technologies that are "exclusive", "unique" or even "patented" when indeed they are not.
Thx
For a "simple customer", and by that I assume that you mean lacking technical education, my best advice is to look for openness in forums like this. If the only thing that you see is vendors claiming that technology is new and groundbreaking without actually talking about why it is, in specifics, then it probably isn't.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1478 posts since 14 Jul, 2013 from Sweden
In some countries, like in Sweden where I live, false and/or missleadnign advertising is ilegal. Now, saying one's product(s) are "award winning" or "best on the market" may not, always, be an outright lie. What is true can, to a certain extent, be rather subjetive.
And so, that may get one out of juridical toruble.
However, when a claim is not properly anchored the only remaining ground, for it, is the reliability and credibility of the company making the claim.
In some cases - the paradox is that the company's credibility, which the claim in turn gets it's own credibility from, is created by the claim it self.
Unknown company: "Our product is AWARD WINNING ! (no references whatsoever). Because our product is award winning you should understand that this is a great and reliable company making superb stuff. And because we are a great commpany (which the awward proves) you cna trust our claim that we are award winners".
I I suppose this is called feed-back.
And so, that may get one out of juridical toruble.
However, when a claim is not properly anchored the only remaining ground, for it, is the reliability and credibility of the company making the claim.
In some cases - the paradox is that the company's credibility, which the claim in turn gets it's own credibility from, is created by the claim it self.
Unknown company: "Our product is AWARD WINNING ! (no references whatsoever). Because our product is award winning you should understand that this is a great and reliable company making superb stuff. And because we are a great commpany (which the awward proves) you cna trust our claim that we are award winners".
I I suppose this is called feed-back.
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- KVRAF
- 3362 posts since 31 Dec, 2004 from People's Republic of Minnesota
It's probably difficult to enforce in malmo no-go zones, though. 
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- KVRAF
- 3729 posts since 3 Nov, 2015
What's the name again of that guy that creates those wonderful synth sound patches ? Ah. Award Scarr.Urs wrote:What I love even more than fake awards are technologies that are "exclusive", "unique" or even "patented" when indeed they are not.
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- KVRAF
- 25849 posts since 20 Jan, 2008 from a star near where you are
When it comes to Grammy's you don't even need to win the award to flaunt it, being "Grammy nominated" is enough
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- KVRAF
- 3729 posts since 3 Nov, 2015
Does it work also by being in the same room as where the Grammies are given ? Is there a "Grammy Presence" attribute ?Numanoid wrote:When it comes to Grammy's you don't even need to win the award to flaunt it, being "Grammy nominated" is enough