The impact of this forum on an ML is seriously overrated by some bros imo. While it's true that if an ML get mentioned A LOT positively during a certain period it will create slightly more text booking for them from interested bros in this forum, the truth of the matter is like what you said, there are many more customers who don't bother to come this forum coz to them it's unnecessary, many may not even know such a specific discussion thread exist.
Hence the view that an ML ricebowl can be broken by bros bad FR is quite laughable imo. Some ML in SLG never had a glowing FR but is still plying their trade for damn long already, many had ZERO FR but are still around too.
This thread at the end of the day is for us bros to share our experiences, we don't have that kind of POWER to have that much of a say in ML long term success /failure lah, similar if an ML decide to throw in the towel early and RTC, it won't be mainly because of what was written here, more likely is she can't cope with the "demands" of this line or her personal reasons.
All these makes zappers and white knights actions even more silly, because they are of the opinion that they are helping the ML to protect their ricebowl when the fact is in our local market, typically ML are hardly short of text bookings. Those that lament "no business" is because they die die follow blindly their database records to decide on customers to accept
So let's not kid ourselves lah, we don't have that kind of influence on ML business / livelihood ok
