Am I evil if I vote up this post so it counteracts the consultant job of hiding the pepper spray event from the internet?
UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper spray references from Internet
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Re: UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper spray references from Internet
#22Well, few things give more attention to something than attempts to bury it. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
I wonder how many more years until large bodies (used in a company/regulatory sense) understand this.
Unless their attempt is to gain coverage on something - trying to hide it is going to have the opposite effect due to social media...it seems like so many people are aware of the Streisand effect except everyone in a PR position.
Re: UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper spray references from Internet
#23Things like this is why I consider the PR people to be the worst of the worst scum.
Re: UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper spray references from Internet
#24I'm surprised the chancellor hasn't been forced to resign yet. Beyond authorizing the pepper spray incident, she's made many more questionable decisions. 1. Serving on the DeVry board without permission from the UC President, and receiving a generous paycheck. All while DeVry is under federal investigation. 2. Serving on the board of a company selling textbooks to students and receiving stock-based compensation total…
Apparently now spending tens of thousands of dollars to scrub her previous mistakes from the Internet.
Upwards of $175,000, according to the Sacramento Bee article.
Re: UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper spray references from Internet
#25Well, few things give more attention to something than attempts to bury it. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
A search with bing for 'uc davis' highlights three recent articles written about their coverup. Streisand's effect indeed!
why would you mention a specific search engine?
Re: UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper spray references from Internet
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
A search with bing for 'uc davis' highlights three recent articles written about their coverup. Streisand's effect indeed!
why would you mention a specific search engine?
In case someone searched "UC Davis" and didn't find 3 articles in the results on Google or DuckDuckGo or some other search engine.
I didn't find that specification particularly odd, personally.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
A search with bing for 'uc davis' highlights three recent articles written about their coverup. Streisand's effect indeed!
...with Bing?
Yeah come on get with the program. The consultants told us we have to use Google services so their search engine will like us.
Re: UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper spray references from Internet
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
A search with bing for 'uc davis' highlights three recent articles written about their coverup. Streisand's effect indeed!
why would you mention a specific search engine?
If a tester entered a bug and you can't repro because the bug doesn't specify the environment, you'd rip 'em a new one. But someone uses two measly words to describe their test environment in this case, and now you question them about their eloquence?
Or maybe I have you wrong, so I'll ask: why would you ask why someone mentioned a specific search engine?
Re: UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper spray references from Internet
#29I'm surprised the chancellor hasn't been forced to resign yet. Beyond authorizing the pepper spray incident, she's made many more questionable decisions. 1. Serving on the DeVry board without permission from the UC President, and receiving a generous paycheck. All while DeVry is under federal investigation. 2. Serving on the board of a company selling textbooks to students and receiving stock-based compensation total…
I'm surprised that the chancellor wasn't forced to resign after the release of the Kroll and Reynoso reports about the pepper spray incident. The police action against the protestors was illegal and the police department knew it. They only went forward because of Katehi's mistaken insistence that the occupiers were not members of the campus community and needed to be removed before the weekend lest these outsiders ra…
There's only one reason they ever remove a UC Chancellor: they stop raising money for the University. Donor cash is job one. Obviously, she's good at her job if she makes money, even if she moonlights in jobs that actively harm students.
The only solution is to stop donating to UC Davis -- and UC in general. If the Annual Fund calls you, ask them "Has Katehi resigned yet?" That's what I do. If you really want to help students at UCD, give to ASUCD or CalPIRG or something, not to a slush fund of a Chancellor who spends student fees on her own image.
Disclaimer: UCD alumnus here.
Edit: Although five lawmakers calling for her resignation might also decrease donations to the UC: http://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/the-public-eye/art...
Re: UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper spray references from Internet
#30It's been a while since I've looked into these "reputation" services. Do they actually work, when not hit by the Streisand effect, or is it just snake oil?
The reputation services are actually rather entertaining to watch. I write a lot online, and a couple years ago, my older posts started attracting dozens of comments from a couple people who seemed to be in a frenzied hurry to get visible. At first I couldn't figure out what was going on. Why would someone be writing "Great post!" on 20 of my stories at 11:30 p.m.? Then I did a little checking on the names of the pos…
And you didn't reply to their comments with, "Thanks for the compliment. Oh, BTW, that doesn't mean I've forgotten about http://newsite.com/StoryAboutBadThingsYouDid.html" to skew the Google stats?
Of course you didn't, because that would be mean, yet oddly satisfying.