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What if Nanni was the kind of person that complains that the Great Sand Dunes National Park is too sandy, and we have the complaint (presumably found in his house) because Ea-Nasir kept it to remind himself never to do business with Nanni again.

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[–] cryptiod137@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They found multiple complaints from different people, at some point we have to accept his copper was bad

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Did they ever find contrary comments giving praise to his copper? What's the ratio of likes vs dislikes? They shoulda invented Yelp thousands of years earlier.

[–] cryptiod137@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

One never got his copper, and another said he was tired of receiving bad copper.

No positive reviews survived, if there were any

1.2/5 stars would not place order for copper ingots again

[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

To be fair, if people acted back then more or less as they do now, they'd be more inclined to leave a negative review than a positive one. All the more so considering the effort involved in writing, the skills and materials needed to write, were rarer back then, and the effort just to transmit the message after it was written would not be trivial, either.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nanni wasn't the only one, just the most famous.

Like, we found Ea Nasir's house, and it was filled with evidence that at one time he was trustworthy, and then just went to shit.

Like, we know ~5 other customers of his by name because they also left written records about him not delivering or cheating in other ways.

It wasn't a one off thing.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago

at one time he was trustworthy, and then just went to shit.

Enshittification has been around for a very very long time.

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Maybe it was the equivalent of a competitor making a bunch of fake one-star Yelp reviews.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I read a history blogpost claiming that Ea-Nasir was a patriotic (but hot-tempered) man who carried on trying to sell his home town's copper long after they had mined out the good deposits.

[–] gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Upon reading his Wikipedia page, it seems that we likely didn't really get him wrong. Not too wrong, anyway.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah he was the first scrapper. Probably stole that copper from a defungled monument.