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1. engine+(OP)[view] [source] 2021-02-08 13:07:18
> the solution is simple: make the customer put up their own money as collateral for getting to speak to a human.

Maybe a company at a certain scale should have a legal requirement to get a person on the phone for any support issue, full stop.

All these companies will continue the race to the bottom unless you twist their arm. For PR, sounds like a nice job creator to me!

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2. DaiPlu+qd[view] [source] 2021-02-08 14:18:32
>>engine+(OP)
> Maybe a company at a certain scale should have a legal requirement to get a person on the phone for any support issue, full stop.

For any support issue? Given the realities of running a business over the Internet today, that would be a waste of resources and needlessly expensive.

But I do agree with you in principle though: I think there should be a legal requirement that anyone with a dependent business relationship to a service provider should be legally entitled to human review of any automatic suspension decisions within a single business day. This shouldn't affect long-tail businesses because when there's a strong dependency relationship there's definitely large amounts of money exchanging hands - from which presumably a small fraction would pay for the requisite support costs.

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