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

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Post by stellar678 » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 3:22 AM UTC

dpcan wrote: post #152

dr_ wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not so much about slaughtering the elephant as it is exploitation of the villagers to promote his company. It's like he's saying to them "Fine. I'll help you. I'll get rid of this elephant and save your crops and even feed you for a day or two, but you will have to wear my hats when you slaughter it". If this is more a philanthropic gesture, are the hats necessary? Should Bill Gates require every kid who is save…

Really? You think that's how it went down? Isn't it more likely that he handed out the hats as a nice gesture to the locals, and he had no idea those same people would soon attack the dead carcass and start handing out its flesh?

Yeah, well somebody definitely made the editing decision to include that nice shiny, well-framed shot of the guy wearing a GoDaddy hat. So whether the decision came before or after, they seem to be happy about it...

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

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Post by juddlyon » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 3:34 AM UTC

How can you damage a trashy, publicity-stunt-driven brand by shooting an elephant?

You can't.

GoDaddy is light-years ahead of the competition in terms of marketing.

He may have lost several thousand bucks do to some discerning geeks, which is not the GoDaddy customer anyway.

Nothing to see here.

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

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Post by raganwald » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 3:41 AM UTC

  It's not a crime to kill an elephant.
  It's bigger than all that.
  It's a sin to kill an elephant.     
  Do you understand? It's a sin.    
  It's the only sin that you can buy
  a license and go out and commit.
  That's why I want to do it before
  I do anything else in this world.
  Do you understand me?
  Of course you don't.
  How could you?
  I don't understand myself.

Clint Eastwood, "White Hunter Black Heart"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100928/

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

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Post by nas » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 3:51 AM UTC

ErrantX wrote: post #86

elliottcarlson wrote: post #62

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Transfer to: Gandi: https://www.gandi.net/domain/transfer 1and1: http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/DomaininfoMove NameCheap: http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/ Basically go to any registrars home page and either search for "Transfer" on the page itself or in their search box if provided. They will all offer it together with easy how to steps - and I am sure their support team will help as well.…

I happily recommend Gandi myself; ben switching all my domains there for the past year or so and couldn't be happier.

Another vote for Gandi. I've been using them for about 6 years. No bullshit.

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

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Post by Gaussian » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 3:56 AM UTC

So, Bob, how many customers is one dead elephant worth? Next time you could leave the film crew at home maybe? Or would that subvert your whole point?

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

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Post by karolisd » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 3:57 AM UTC

It's not April Fools?

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

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Post by damoncali » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 4:13 AM UTC

It's brilliant. They just drove away hordes of geeks - you know those pesky techies who only buy the loss leaders without loading up on the profitable stuff?

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

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 4:38 AM UTC

wakeboarder3780 wrote: post #279

alexqgb wrote: post #255

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I neither missed nor ignored the segment you cite (though I do appreciate your reading it). The point is that commercial big game hunting remains a very problematic issue, in that it fuels a man vs. beast mythos that gives trophies a value which encourages more hunting in areas where populations remain truly endangered. And again, it creates a legitimate source for ivory which has the nasty effect of providing cover…

>The point is that commercial big game hunting remains a very problematic issue, in that it fuels a man vs. beast mythos that gives trophies a value which encourages more hunting in areas where populations remain truly endangered This is not a commercial big game hunt. >It comes down to this: there are some areas where profit seeking tendencies are toxic This was not profit seeking. Last I checked the guy who shot th…

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

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Post by Travis » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 4:42 AM UTC

alexqgb wrote: post #271

Travis wrote: post #263

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Seems to me like it would be much more reasonable to blame the poachers and the systems that allow poaching versus one man who legally killed an animal. An animal that was going to be destroyed anyways. In my opinion, Bob Parsons did nothing wrong, even if I wouldn't have posted a video about it. Heck, I also wouldn't have killed the animal. But to attempt to blame him to poaching and historical racism (the great whi…

There's nothing reasonable about blaming one agent instead of another when it's their partnership that's doing the damage. Indeed, and in a very small way, advocacy for this kind of buck-passing you makes you part of the problem, not the solution. The problems of trophy hunting, poaching, black-market animal parts, and wholesale extinction are all connected. They're all part of an outlook that reflexively sees wildli…

You seem a lot more comfortable telling other people what they ought to do than I am.

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

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Post by xiaoma » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 4:43 AM UTC

wheels wrote: post #212

c2 wrote: post #50

I guess I'll be the lone discenting voice and say I don't think it's that bad. Bob Parsons has always run his company the way he wants, and he has particular freedom to do so since he has zero investors and is the sole owner. He does certain things for shock value, such as the super bowl commercials, which by the way caused outage with a completely different demographic of people. Slaughtering an elephant might offen…

I have no problems with killing and eating animals. There are 1.5 billion cattle on this planet. Elephants, however, have been hunted from a population of 5-10 million a century ago to around 600,000 today and are now a threatened species. Do you really not see the difference between one and the other?

No, I'm not sure if I do. The pain cattle feels is no less pleasant than that elephants experience. The lives they lead in captivity so that we may eat them are almost certainly hellish compared to those that elephants live. In essence not only are they killed, but they're bred and forced to live torturous lives just for the purpose of being killed.

How exactly does a greater world-wide population of one's species lower the value of one's life? Is it based on some cutoff beyond which extinction is assured? Or is it linear?Does maximizing the number of species on the planet really trump all concerns of suffering?

If so, this logic would also somewhat weaken the value of the life of a dog (300 million) in comparison to that of a cat (200 million)? And what about the value of your life or mine? There are 6 billion of our species.

Personally, I find it very hard to justify both eating animal flesh and outrage at animal killing. On occasion, I have an uneasy feeling that centuries from now humanity will look upon our current practices in a similar way as we look upon slavery... or cannibalism.