@022580 @Chucky_ott @NewsVan @Spamming_Eddie The OP is asking about the AltMill. Please refrain from comments about the actions or behaviour of competing companies. Thank you.
I think bringing up my personal experiences with a company in a post that is explicitly comparing the options from that company is a valid thing to bring up in that post.
The openness of Sienci is the number one reason I bought their machine, and I think is a massive selling point. The virtues of that only become more valuable when contrasted against the business practices of Onefinity.
These are not small purchases, when youāre trusting that much money to a company, knowing you can trust them is important.
That is valuable information for customers, not baseless slander.
@NewsVan To be clear, I never accused anyone of ābaseless slanderā.
The OP asked how everyone was liking their Altmill, presumably looking for reviews before making a purchase decision. I am asking that the replies address that question.
I posted it myself and put my experience, I am asking about peoples experiences and posted what happened to me.
Please donāt tell me this forum is filtered too
why can I not slander a owner of onefinity that is basically stocking me on this forum with a fake account.
Plus I lost a crap load in exchange fees, if this is an issue and I can not talk freely here let me know so I can move on and just build my own cnc.
Nothing i speak is baseless
Now siencilabs is defending onefinity lol im building a printnc lol
And to be clear my slander has everything to do with my question, I would not be here if the ONEFINITY owner Jim is a not a wierdo creep thatās following my on this forum.
There i
Have changed the subject so it doesnāt conflict , is it better now ?
letās see if this gets muted like onefinity does on their forum
@022580 Iām sure @gwilki will chime in with a reason for his comment. Fwiw, heās not a Sienci employee. Rather, heās a moderator trying to keep things civil and keep a post on topic.
I have never seen a complaint about Sienci being censored or deleted. Iām not sure what happens with posts about competitors but maybe he doesnāt want it to become a bitch-fest on this otherwise chill forum.
You will get scolded if you talk religion or politics tho. 
Well then the moderator should go find the onefinity employees fake accounts instead. It feels weird knowing that some weirdo you almost gave 5-6 k to is creeping you.
i appreciate and love everyone , i think everyone should be free to speak their experiences. I am in Canada and we are so multicultural and multi religious. All my friends are of different race and religion.
I donāt do business with companies that filter or act very weirdly. I can easily build a cnc myself, I can weld if I want steel, have all the tools for extrusion and I know how to program grbl.
I was just looking to support a good company and save me some headaches.
@022580 dunno if you need an account to read this forum but I agree, it is creepy that he found you and associated your username with whatever you use there.
Since this has gotten far off the original topic, and there has been nothing added that refers to anyoneās Altmill experience. Iām closing the thread. I can appreciate that you are creeped out by the experience. Take that up with the people who creeped you out, not here.
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Hey @022580 and others involved in the thread, just thought Iād jump in here to provide more context. Firstly, @022580 itās wild to see the experience youāre sharing and by that I mean itās alarming youāre seeing that behaviour in the Hobby CNC community which is meant to open, welcome, and uplifting, so Iām sorry for that.
I think there have been a few misunderstandings in this thread so just to clear the air:
- @gwilki is a great member of our community and is always doing his best to keep things on-topic.
- It seems there was a misunderstanding between who the OP was and who else was contributing to the conversation.
- This is an odd situation for us as a Company to be in since we try to create a positive space for people to ask questions and learn, and although itās fair to say that people need to share their experiences so that others can know what to expect, we also need to draw a line somewhere. Till now, one of the things we try not to do as a Company is draw negative attention to others in the CNC space but we have yet to decide how to extend that rule to community discussion, so I think out of caution it made sense to stop this Topic from spiraling downwards.
- Since this is an open Forum, anyone can come on here and look through Topics without an account, so we really canāt stop who sees discussion on here (which Iām sorry isnāt comforting for your particular case @022580 )
I hope what Iāve outlined makes sense. In order to move forward, Iāve temporarily re-opened the thread in case there was any remaining discussion that anyone wanted to make toward their machine-buying decisions. Iād also be happy if people wanted to give feedback on our policy for handling threads like this into the future.
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Dear fellow line walkers,
When I was looking for a suitable machine and stumbled upon Sienciās machines, their website with all the technical manuals, blogs, and this forum, I knew something was off. Something was different, better, out of the ordinary. Something installed a confusing feeling that I could trust this company with my money and deliver on their promisses.
When you, for instance browse this forum , you are going to stumble upon topics about machine problems that end up with sienci replacing components, often well beyond their warranty period. That, my fellow oldfartshoutsatclouders, was what pulled sienci into my nostalgic heart. Here was a company that stood for what I thought was lost to time -costumer first-.
I think the post above reflects and enriches this feeling I have about sienci. This isnāt the run of the mill reaction we expect companies to legaly isolate their reputation with, this is a call to me as a costumer to understand and act, repay if you want, the old fashioned decency that sienci has been handing out so generously throughout the years. And though I like to step on and over lines, when called upon like this, I am happy to and maybe even obligated to myself to admit that I am an ass more times than I need to be.
So to compensate my asseyness a wee, I like this opertunety to express my gratitude towards the people that work so hard to let me know that parts of the world still holds the values thought lost. That they are nurtured and held at heart. Not by hollow words, but by actions that seem to go unnoticed in a world that seem to only listen to the loudest mouths.
Be assured, they are not unnoticed.
I love you all.
Requested by @Chucky_ott I include a hug emoticon.
Or at least something that looks like it, if you squint.
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@Spamming_Eddie Whereās the hug emoji when you need one??
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