[Note 7 Questions & Answers] br0adband:
BozQ: It's not about you, honestly. ;)

teegunn: I'm not debating whether it's blown out of proportion or not, but what you will find is me dismissing the practice that most people adhere to which is "I saw it on some website so it must be true..." because that's where I have a big issue:

I don't care if some website - reputable or not - says something like "We talked with a Samsung engineer or whoever who agreed to speak with us on condition of anonymity and said <whatever..." because I don't attach any faith in such things at all. In today's world entirely too many websites and "news" agencies are reporting on items that have no actual basis in fact or have a verifiable or provable "chain of evidence" so to speak. There's no way to get confirmation on the "Some person that works for Samsung spoke on condition of anonymity..." or words to that effect.

One reason that I consistently say unless I see something posted by Samsung itself as a press release or a statement on their website is that I don't attribute a high level of confidence to those "We heard from some Samsung employee..." kind of reports for that reason: lack of anything to back it up, no confirmation possible, and essentially hearsay almost every time. I don't care how reputable the organization posting the information might be, it's just not right to post such things overall so that's where I would agree on the media issue.

If you want something that is incredibly simple, and I mean gut level basic instinct simple that anybody on the planet should be able to comprehend instantly it should be this:

Samsung created the Note 7 smartphone and apparently it is a defective device according to them. There's nobody on the face of this planet that knows more about the Note 7 than they do, and if they - the creators of the device - say it's defective then there's nobody on the face of this planet that can really argue with them about it. They ask(ed) people to return the defective device for refund or exchange for some other device that hasn't proven itself consistently to have failed and caused injuries and property damage.

Common sense - and I sincerely hope you truly comprehend what that means - immediately dictates "It's a known device, Samsung says it's defective, it could harm me or destroy property, they asked me to return it, that's the smartest thing I can honestly do and it just makes sense."

Unfortunately the problem is entirely too many people - talk about screwed percentages - just don't have or exercise any common sense.

Based on that post you just made, I'm leaning towards you actually beginning to exercise some yourself. ;)

As for the car thing, again I'd have to point out I was being extremely specific when I said is there a car under recall right at this moment for a defect that's proven to cause injury or property damage... not just some recall for a busted windshield wiper or anything without a history of injury or property damage... hope that much was clear.

And yes I know that a recall can be in place for years at a time, often permanent because some folks out there - go figure - just don't either get the news or they take that "Well it hasn't happened to me and I don't suspect it will so I'm not turning it in..." mindset - that's where the common sense part comes in once more.