Avera L.

I ordered some "healthy" skin products while recovering from a bout of infectious facial cellulitis and none of the products (but the soap) were usable, the face makeup was too dry and clogged the pores and was too light in color. I got three of those; also some brow/lid color and that was too smeary-and-stainy, wrong consistency and no brush, and the cheek color barely came out of the container and didn't go on at all, almost hard as a rock, and only the three bars of castille soap were ok, so I returned everything but the soap and should have received maybe 40 in refund (the three soaps were maybe 6 dollars) but they took the whole 50 after they lied and said I opened the other 2 bottles of makeup. But why would anyone do that even if they liked the product. Who opens 3 bottles at once, and the reason they did that was for spite; they didn't like the accurate feedback, smarmy, abusive vindictive company... please avoid them like the plague!

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Advantage is to keep in touch with good friends you can't see a lot. Disadvantage is to add and accept people who are not friends and will never be. So the page is most commonly a watered down page, which looks more like an advertisement for parts of your more superficial soul, with a scattering of one or two contributions from real friends. Twitter goes to the other extreme however and as a result it is more like a slambook and headline-rolling device... and I can't use a site like that. In general I say that any social networking site reminds us that looking through this monitor-glass darkly, or brightly, or multi-colored-ly... is a terrible (in all that word's dire implications) substitute for squeezing all the juice out of life that we can, and when to suck on the inner skin, and then knowing when to throw the rinds in the compost pile;=)

I asked a question about a desperate personal problem involving another person and I immediately realized what a terrible mistake it was to use QUORA for anything but pure academics. I was first insulted for having the nerve to have this problem at all and then I was invalidated and belittled and mocked by others and then finally someone actually CHANGED MY QUESTION without my permission.The person jacked the words as if they were full of grammatical mistakes and the surmised purpose was supposedly to "soften" the effect on other people of the implications embedded in my question. Then I got all sorts of inappropriate and presumptuous snooty "feedback" from the jacked question. It was ghastly. For each one of these I had to rapid-fire TELL the person that this was not my question; that I had been jacked and that I highly resent what everyone on QUORA was doing to me in all my naive trust. Then I blocked and muted and reported them all. I also did that to the guy who had jacked me and then tried to come in the back door as "anonymous". I was actually told after that vile person molested me... that I was now being considered for QUORA jail due to the fact they disliked my NAME. Before I muted, blocked and reported the people I had to... my comments back to them were actually being squelched because they didn't like my accurate but traumatized feedback. The last thing I did when I got it that QUORA was really an abusive inhumane site... was to ask a question, ie: "IS QUORA AN ABUSIVE SITE?" Finally the "management" said all my comments (ON MY OWN QUESTION no less!) were to be "blocked" and at that point I asked to be removed from QUORA. They have so far ignored me so I am planning to let my email account go down (ie: never look at it again due to the ugly foot-in-the-face effect of seeing the ugly incoming messages from QUORA. Here's what my original question was (and all the variants I had to compose due to the abusive feedback I was getting): My question was: "How can I deal with a domestic situation wherein a schizoid roomie was constantly invalidating and dehumanizing me, and demonstrating no ability to show anger OR empathy, and mostly behaving like a monster, worm or machine?" Beneath this I explained how I could not simply "move out". And I guess the QUORA crowd was more offended at my situation than motivated to care about how I was getting hurt. Not one of them understood that I could not just leave, or ignore this person either, and ALL of them demonstrated an alarming incapacity for empathy themselves. SO that's why I say, for cold academic issues QUORA could suffice but for the rest, meditation or divine intervention would work better. And just as an addendum I must say that the purely "human" questions were in general dealt with much less skillfully than the academic questions and within that category I was also struck by the much less skillful answers around the more human side of academics, versus the technical/scientific/mathematic. Getting hurt this way was an eye opener and really educated me re: the repressive, primitive nature of the hi-Q crowd when it comes to issues of the soul.