Latest struggles with our EVIL corporate overlords

The ONLY good part of my experience on the Starbucks website was that the second submission attempt did not try to route me to the FAQ again, but just accepted the message. Probably a bug, and the claim that the message was accepted was probably false.

Visiting a corporate website should NOT make you dislike the company.
Starbucks offered usage-based d - shanen0 | ello
What if Starbucks offered usage-based discounts? For example, after the shop has been less than half full for more than 30 minutes, they flip on a "Happy Hour" sign and give 10% discounts until half the seats are taken? Obviously the three parameters of usage, discount, and time should depend on the location, but the optimum solution would also be an interesting metric of the location itself.
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  John SkeatsModerator

  Hi +Shannon Jacobs. This post was shared in the Google+ Help community, which is Google's official English-language support community for Google+. The community is for questions and discussion about using Google+ not for general posts, so the post was removed from the community. I encourage you to read communities' rules (on their About this community cards) before sharing posts in the communities. If you have a question about Google+, please create a new post in this community with your Google+-related question.
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  Shannon Jacobs

  I did NOT want to put it there, but the increasingly EVIL google insisted that I put it somewhere and that was apparently the least irrelevant place on the short list of places the google offered. If your goal was to convince me that the Google+ "product" is not useful, then you are already too late.
  
  Tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to wait a couple of minutes to see if you suggest anything constructive, though right now I think I'm tossing keystrokes in a bit bucket. Then I'm going to the website that linked to Google+ and give them feedback to the effect that they should cut the link to Google+.
  
  Actually, I'm quite likely to go farther than that. If time allows, and unfortunately I have nothing but too much leisure time these days, then whenever I see a 'share' link to Google+ I will make the effort to explain to the managers of that website why they should cut that link.
  
  I'm trying to imagine what a constructive response might look like. "I deleted your comment" was obviously not it. Maybe something like "Your comment belongs on [other google product] and I have taken the liberty of transferring it there" or even "We are sorry that our nice little google company has grown up to become such an EVIL monstrosity."
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  Shannon Jacobs

  I shouldn't have double quoted "I deleted your comment" there. The correct phrase was "the post was removed" or "[your] post was removed".
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  Shannon Jacobs

  While waiting, I now see that you [John Skeats] are not an actual representative of the google, but merely a self-proclaimed "Google advocate" of some sort. Funny sort of advocacy you have going there. Better luck next time, eh?
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  Shannon Jacobs

  Hmm... How long should I wait... Refreshing, I see that it's only six minutes since I replied, but your [John Skeats'] censorious advocacy of the google was about that quick after my misplaced comment... On the one hand, I feel like I should give you some time to think about it, but on the other hand I wouldn't want to forget to do what I can to further reduce the visibility and use of Google+ since that seems to be what is most called for right now... Do your duty, and all that rot, eh?
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  Shannon Jacobs

  While I'm waiting, I might as well note that I don't regard the EVIL as unique to the google or even Starbucks. The rules of the economic game of multinational businesses now worship cancerous growth uber alles. The growing EVIL is just the natural result of the worship of cancer.
  
  Okay, I think that's long enough and I can head back to the other website now...
  
  As the old saying goes, it's the poor craftsman who blames his tools. As the new joke goes, but it's the worse craftsman who doesn't know the different tools and how to use them and who doesn't want to use the best tool for the job at hand. Writing as a poor craftsman, I've NEVER been able to figure out what kind of job the tool called Google+ was supposed to be good for.