Golf Monthly's appalling behaviour on Facebook.

[CharlieWebb]

A video was posted recently on Facebook by Golf Monthly. It was a video of a low stinger fade. Golf monthly claimed it was a shank. Many of the page's followers picked up on this and the fact it was not recorded at 120fps like the caption claimed it was. Any other reasonable company/magazine would have openly accepted this criticism but not Golf Monthly. I will post a couple of quotes which I think are the most diabolical but I will also post the thread link so you can experience this first hand. Craig Bradley wrote 'Can't stop laughing!'
GM: 'Craig Bradley you should probably see a doctor then'
GM then said 'Jon Majka put your hand in your pocket and pay for a magazine, send us a picture of the receipt and then we'll start taking your advice'
Jon Majka then wrote 'Christopher Round
What I was thinking.
With public relations like this, why on earth would I WANT to pay my money for this magazine?'
To which GM replied 'Jon Majka Probably best you don't purchase a copy - it contains several words with more than two syllables that you'll struggle to understand'
As I could see GM losing its rag, I felt the need to comment 'I'll have your finest pint of bitter'
GM sent me a 'hilarious' picture of 'BUTTFACE' ale...
To provide some context, last year I contacted GM to do some work experience. They accepted and we arranged a date. The day it was supposed to happen there was a train strike and so I never got to do my work experience. GM decided to personally attack me at this point 'Charlie Webb email me - we still haven't got you in for your work experience'
Other face bookers expressed their disgust: 'Let's face it, nobody buys magazines anymore and therefore this pish will go bust and the commenter from golf monthly will be jobless...'
'You're attitude here is absolutely disgusting Golf Monthly. If I ever thought about buying your publication again I would now choose an alternative simply because of what you've written here'
I think you get the idea. I'll post the link, you should know they further target me using my Golf presenting and swing video at last year's kings of distance event.
https://m.facebook.com/comment/repl...fid=AQCsRp-P8z8f0gEf&ref=m_notif&notif_t=like
I hope Michael Harris or one of his colleagues sees this and addresses the problem immediately, it is ruining their business after all.
Thanks.

 

[SaintHacker]

Having struggled through that, I don't think journalism would be your thing anyway

 

[HankMarvin]

Not sure this thread will be here for long.

 

[CharlieWebb]

Oh, so you don't have a problem with this? Ignorance at its finest.

 

[Foliage Finder]

I'll admit, I'm confused. The link is also a dud, page doesn't exist/unavailable error. If the comments from GM do indeed exist then they aren't exactly a shining example of professional social media conduct, but as far as I can tell, this seems a bit more of a personal vendetta that you have.

 

[upsidedown]

Oh, so you don't have a problem with this? Ignorance at its finest.

Is there a possibility it was hacked, see the link is not working at the moment but their main FB page is fine ?

 

[CharlieWebb]

It is personal vendetta when they start targeting a 15 year old boy. Try this link:https://www.facebook.com/GolfMonthl...1094955723858231/?type=2&theater&notif_t=like - it is Craig Bradley's comment where the silliness unfolds.

 

[Norrin Radd]

i dont do faceache so cant really comment ,but.........having read what has been written i am pmsl

 

[ruff-driver]

If you had done the work experience maybe you would have learnt to write an article correctly !

 

[Junior]

A video was posted recently on Facebook by Golf Monthly. It was a video of a low stinger fade. Golf monthly claimed it was a shank. Many of the page's followers picked up on this and the fact it was not recorded at 120fps like the caption claimed it was. Any other reasonable company/magazine would have openly accepted this criticism but not Golf Monthly. I will post a couple of quotes which I think are the most diabolical but I will also post the thread link so you can experience this first hand. Craig Bradley wrote 'Can't stop laughing!'
GM: 'Craig Bradley you should probably see a doctor then'
GM then said 'Jon Majka put your hand in your pocket and pay for a magazine, send us a picture of the receipt and then we'll start taking your advice'
Jon Majka then wrote 'Christopher Round
What I was thinking.
With public relations like this, why on earth would I WANT to pay my money for this magazine?'
To which GM replied 'Jon Majka Probably best you don't purchase a copy - it contains several words with more than two syllables that you'll struggle to understand'
As I could see GM losing its rag, I felt the need to comment 'I'll have your finest pint of bitter'
GM sent me a 'hilarious' picture of 'BUTTFACE' ale...
To provide some context, last year I contacted GM to do some work experience. They accepted and we arranged a date. The day it was supposed to happen there was a train strike and so I never got to do my work experience. GM decided to personally attack me at this point 'Charlie Webb email me - we still haven't got you in for your work experience'
Other face bookers expressed their disgust: 'Let's face it, nobody buys magazines anymore and therefore this pish will go bust and the commenter from golf monthly will be jobless...'
'You're attitude here is absolutely disgusting Golf Monthly. If I ever thought about buying your publication again I would now choose an alternative simply because of what you've written here'
I think you get the idea. I'll post the link, you should know they further target me using my Golf presenting and swing video at last year's kings of distance event.
https://m.facebook.com/comment/repl...fid=AQCsRp-P8z8f0gEf&ref=m_notif&notif_t=like
I hope Michael Harris or one of his colleagues sees this and addresses the problem immediately, it is ruining their business after all.
Thanks.

Storm in a tea cup. That 'personal attack' seems like the complete opposite to me. Looks like they are trying to get you in for work experience?

They are a decent bunch at GM, as are the people on here. Stick around and you will see what I mean.

 

[Oxfordcomma]

I can vouch for the fact that it was on GM's FB page, saw it at the time. It was quite funny, some people got a little too serious about whether or not the disastrous MH stroke in a video was a shank or not. The OP does have a point though, a couple of GM's responses went beyond banter. I was half expecting the GM account to invite someone outside for a straightener

 

[CharlieWebb]

Since when do forum posts have to be articles? It was a personal 'dig' at me, is it not obvious they were trying to get under my skin. If you actually read the entirety of the comments you would see the other vicious things they said. I suppose the golf monthly forum was not the best place to come for this as you're all die hard GM readers and don't care about some annoying little child.

 

[Foliage Finder]

Having read some of the comments now, in all honesty, whoever was manning the GM FB page had done a bad job at dealing with a bit of trolling. There's a fine line between a bit of banter and laughing it off and then just coming across as a bit personal and not funny. Paddy Power's FB page on the other hand, they know how to do it well. Which reminds me, it's Monday....#FanDenial.

 

[SaintHacker]

and don't care about some annoying little child.

You said it

 

[CharlieWebb]

I really have no interest in what you say. I believe the name given to people like you is 'GCW'.

 

[Three]

Three points :

Definitely not a shank.

The GM responses are "surprising"... bad publicity imo...

Charlie Webb, you come across in the conversation you have linked as a completely immature, attention seeking troll. They did well not to hire you.

 

[jp5]

Charlie, as you get older you'll learn to not get involved in online spats which amount to nothing.

I am surprised at the taunting of Charlie from a respected publication such as GM, mind. Whoever is running the social media accounts should know better.

 

[CharlieWebb]

Regardless of what I came across like, these responses are totally unacceptable. Being a GM subscriber, and lover of the magazine they have lost many a customer because of this.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Since when do forum posts have to be articles? It was a personal 'dig' at me, is it not obvious they were trying to get under my skin. If you actually read the entirety of the comments you would see the other vicious things they said. I suppose the golf monthly forum was not the best place to come for this as you're all die hard GM readers and don't care about some annoying little child.

I don't buy the mag, nor have any inclination to do so. I also don't pay any attention to Facebook, especially corporate entries. However having read your outbursts, I cant help but feel the term " and breath" would have applied to make your whole point more easier to understand, and then maybe you would have had more obvious support.
Sadly there are always troll's and keyboard warriers with anything cyber related, that's how it is. Gone are the day's when you needed pen and paper plus a stamp and envelope to make worthy contributions to anything.

 

[MikeH]

Can everyone please spare a thought for me..

I was the one who hit the horror shot that was posted on FB. In fact I hit about 10 on the spin with a seven iron. Sickening group of balls lying about 85 yards from the teeing ground and 45 degrees to the right. Could have thrown a blanket over them.

Anyway putting that to one side... we try to respond to as many communications for the GM community as possible be that in the form of posts on here, tweets, FB comments and handwritten reader letters on good old fashioned paper. From one medium to another the content and tone of the response varies. Sometimes we get it right, sometimes we don't.

If you're offended by anything we say then best advice is to unfollow us, don't get involved in the forum, don't buy or unsubscribe from the mag etc etc.

Other sources of golf media who don't bother reply to letters, emails, posts, comments and tweets are available

Remember, anyone disagrees with us and we'll see you behind the bike sheds, loser buys the winner a quarter of their favourite sweets from the tuck shop. Can't say fairer than that!