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How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by erreon »

StavrosK wrote: post #80
dpcan wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you. Agreed. He fed a village (or more), saved the crop, and it looks like the people there find this to be a noble act. Our U.S. grocery stores have stock piles of meat stacked in open refrigerators, butchered behind closed doors. Animals are fed and bred to be slaughtered so we can have a juicy burger and fries. Out of sight out of mind I guess. Now... MAYBE the CEO of a hugely popular brand should not have p…

> I'm certainly not moving my domains over this. Me neither. I'm moving my domains because this reminded me of the silent, seething rage I have for Bob Parson's face. When I go to a site that registers and manages domains, I don't want to see your face. I also don't want to see ads about how great your company is. When I buy a domain, I don't want to wade through five pages of bullshit you put up in the hopes that I…

Just out of curiosity where are you going to move your domains? I own just over 30 domains all at GoDaddy and I'd move them over the massive amounts of cross selling and insanely cluttered UI.

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by powertower »

elliottcarlson wrote: post #173
powertower wrote: post #104

Let's see who this outrage is coming from: 1) Someone who has never gone hungry for a single day in his/her life. 2) Someone who has consumed 100s of chickens, many cattle, and many other animals so far... Most of which have been literally tortured all their lives. 3) Someone who has never gone to Africa to help, but sits around all day posting his/her opinion on how things there (and everywhere else in the world) sh…

You are making some broad assumptions of a large community. Some of us have indeed gone hungry for multiple days in our lives. Some of us have gone to Africa to help. "Stop finger pointing. Stop exerting yourself on others."

My assumptions (in the post) are across society in general, and not specific to the HN commenter pool.

Though I see how it can be read that I'm commenting about the readers in this thread.

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by logjam »

I will be on the phone with each and every person I know who has a domain.

We will discuss whether or not they happen to be using this cowardly imbecile's business.

I will describe this horrible little gutless advertising stunt.

We will work to switch them over to another company immediately.

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by Untitled »

fistofjohnwayne wrote: post #151
Untitled wrote: post #136

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> As someone who has worked with ecologists in the field on a number of wildlife projects in rural Africa, I find this to be truly repugnant. Really? You know that the majority of ecologists support Elephant Culling (killing elephant family groups wholesale from helicopters)? > There are many ways of controlling "problem elephants" other than killing them There is an oversupply of elephants and an undersupply of spac…

There is an oversupply of humans and an undersupply of space. Killing a lone human male is no problem. I find it sad that a lot of damage is done to the ecosystem and to other animals (which may not be as pretty as humans) because some groups (such as the UN) opposed human culling. How long does it take for a tree to grow? How long for a beautiful Baobab? Do you know how quickly a human fucks up a tree? Humans are no…

> Humans are not an endangered specie –they are often a plague (due to limited natural predators, long life expectancy and the availability of water).

Tragically enough, in Africa humans have natural predators.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Africa

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by amitagrawal »

mitjak wrote: post #144
amitagrawal wrote: post #33

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Actually, it will. What if a 1000 customers like you who own 10 domains do it at the same day? They sure HAVE to notice it. I've already transferred my domains and I'll make sure I won't buy any from GoDaddy again. GoDaddy already has one of the scammiest UIs I've ever come across (with a possible exception of, maybe, MySpace) and the recent elephant killing was the last straw!

But where to transfer to? NameCheap? 1&1?

I have had my domains with Name.com as well as NameCheap for more than half a decade.

Name.com's interface is a little confusing and NameCheap have great customer service!

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by Tichy »

bpodgursky wrote: post #161
Tichy wrote: post #35

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He explained it - it gives an incentive for marking more elephants as "problem elephants" than needed. I wonder if a couple of fence (electric) might be a better solution than shooting the elephant. And all I saw in the video was a couple of square meters of trampled grass. I wonder what animal court in the world would give the death sentence for that.

It might look just like trampled grass, to you, but it's Sorghum ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum ) which a subsistence farmer was growing so he could feed himself, and to him it was the difference between eating and starving. It's ridiculous to glibly dismiss the farmer's worries about STARVING because you didn't see much damage in the video. And do you really think a poor village in remote Zimbabwe is going t…

Would I be very far off if I would guess that a single photo safari for taking pictures of living elephants would earn more money than the whole village makes in farming the whole year?

Maybe they can't afford electric fences, but the GoDaddy guy surely could. Also now I remember in the Zoo they also don't have electric fences. It sounds doable to me - certainly not more effort than for example building those rice terraces other countries seem to manage.

Maybe these farmers really have no choice, which would be a purely political problem. They are definitely picking the wrong solution, though.

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by amitagrawal »

kwis wrote: post #138
amitagrawal wrote: post #33

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Actually, it will. What if a 1000 customers like you who own 10 domains do it at the same day? They sure HAVE to notice it. I've already transferred my domains and I'll make sure I won't buy any from GoDaddy again. GoDaddy already has one of the scammiest UIs I've ever come across (with a possible exception of, maybe, MySpace) and the recent elephant killing was the last straw!

It's a private company, run by a very opinionated individual with a demonstrated lack of concern for the feelings of others. He might notice, but he's making so much money that I really doubt he cares.

Well, you're right - he might not care but next time he'd think a million times before killing yet another helpless creature and posting a shameless video of it.

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by malvim »

andre wrote: post #83
dpcan wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you. Agreed. He fed a village (or more), saved the crop, and it looks like the people there find this to be a noble act. Our U.S. grocery stores have stock piles of meat stacked in open refrigerators, butchered behind closed doors. Animals are fed and bred to be slaughtered so we can have a juicy burger and fries. Out of sight out of mind I guess. Now... MAYBE the CEO of a hugely popular brand should not have p…

And there are already too many elephants in South Africa: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7700606

That might well be true, but is it not Zimbabwe we're talking about here? I know they're neighbors, but that doesn't mean they face the same exact problems.

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by rdl »

This isn't something I'd do, but doesn't really seem like the biggest outrage ever.

There is one rifle shot which would remove a clear threat to everyone in Zimbabwe and the region. If the CEO of someone like Xe flew in and took that shot, I'd be happy to transfer all my domains to his company. (Mugabe, obviously)

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by lukeschlather »

chc wrote: post #154
adolph wrote: post #109

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Dumbo = innocent; Elsie = delicious;

I don't understand your point. You're just restating the hypocrisy that randallsquared pointed out.

There's nothing hypocritical or even illogical about special casing every single species with varying levels of concern. At some point you have a set of purely irrational axioms about some qualities, be they kingdom, phylum, family, genus, species, or some other subjective criteria for what makes a living creature worthy of consideration when its life is in danger.
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