Theo Altman
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- Posted: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 04:54:21 +0000
Rya Dracosin
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Question:
If six people told you that they liked chocolate icecream, and one person told you the other six were lying, who would you believe?
If six people told you that they liked chocolate icecream, and one person told you the other six were lying, who would you believe?
That is not really relevant. Because liking something is an opinion.
However, if you'd like to use the ice cream metaphor...
Seven people work for an ice cream shop. Customers usually talk to the ones in front, who are in charge of selling the product, or providing information about it. They ask questions like "Is my ice cream made with real milk and sugar, or is it processed?" or "I see you have a popular flavor that's pretty well talked about within the community and liked, but you seem to carry less of it than you used to, why is this?". Their questions are met with vague answers that don't provide more information than is absolutely necessary, like "Yes" and "Well, the flavor isn't paying for itself".
To be fair, four out of the seven employees work up front. So when a customer asks to see a manager about the popular flavor, they're met with the same response, lets say the managers are two of the remaining three employees (so we have six out of seven employees just relaying vague responses).
However, the last employee overhears something that is rather incorrect of a response. He steps forward, and makes an annoucement about the popular flavor. How it's popular and actually pays for itself, however, the extra space it takes, the extra time it takes to make it, is hindering on the owner's ability to market other ice cream flavors.
So while flavor after flavor of ice cream gets cranked out that some like, there are still plenty of regulars who prefer JUST the popular flavor, however, if it's always sold out because there's not enough of it being made, it might make them have to change their flavor tastes, or even choose another ice cream shop to begin with.
I really hope that makes sense....
I've been lurking these threads. I don't play Zomg, so I've been trying to piece things together to satisfy my own curiosity.
This explanation worked perfectly for me. :} My brain does well with metaphors.