Talk:Flat-D
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The company and its products appear to me to be legitimate and not a joke.
(I'm not connected with them and didn't know anything about them until I saw the deletion discussion, Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Dog Fart Neutralizing Thong. I don't think the thong is worthy of an article, but I think the company probably is... hence the article.).
The company website, http://www.flat-d.com/, is oddly amateurish, suggesting that it has not exactly hit the big-time yet. It is marred by occasional slight style and spelling errors, e.g "sulphide" ("sulfide" is the U. S. standard spelling), "Dr. Recommended" (which reads as if there were a doctor whose surname was "Recommended"). Some diagrams look slightly amateurish, e.g. the product picture at [1]. There is a curious lack of product photos. Some of the writing does not sound as if it has been professionally edited, e.g the run-on paragraph at The American Inventor, and odd phrasing ("Brian knew he had opened a censored topic.")
Oddest of all is that it is difficult to locate the website page on which it is actually possible to add products to the shopping cart.
I particularly liked their "female odor survey results" page[2] in which a comment on one product--I can't tell whether it's one of Flat-D's or not--is
- What was good about the product? AT LEAST IT TRIED TO WORK
- What was undesirable about the product? IT DID NOT WORK
Dpbsmith (talk) 21:06, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
The company appears to be moderately active in internet astroturfing and self-promotion, issuing phony USENET postings, e.g. [3] in which someone named "Franko" (any relation to Frank Morosky, one of the company's principals?) disingenuously asks "Has anyone heard of the flatulence deodorizer by Flat-D Innovations??? Please let me know if you have any experience with it," and gets shot down by a reply saying "You must already know about this product, considering your email address is @flat-d.com." They also issued an press release in amazingly poor taste, opening
- Flatulence brought 99 passengers on an American Airlines flight to an unscheduled visit to Nashville early Monday morning. If she had known about the Flatulence Deodorizer by Flat-D Innovations she would not have disrupted the travel of the passengers.
