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Remeber when there were people opposing SOPA and newspapers (yes, old media) going batshit over the matter? I bet do you also remember how well GoDaddy managed

Remeber when there were people opposing SOPA and newspapers (yes, old media) going batshit over the matter? I bet do you also remember how well GoDaddy managed the situation, I bet you remember how they said that their business wouldn't be affected by those few disgruntled users. I know that I remember how quickly they were to retract their support when people started actually migrating from their service. And we're talking of an old, well-established and profitable business. Imagine what bad PR would do to a budding startup.

jlgreco 13y ago
GoDaddy had their customers pissed at them. Why would Pure be worried about a bunch of people plainly not in their target audience being mad at them? They wouldn't be worried, if they are smart. That'd be like Smirnoff being worried what Mormons think of them.
- cliveowen 13y ago
  The customers were informed of the matter by the media and fueled by the media in days after. If the NYT or whatever newspaper does a story on these guys and points out their badly worded PR blurb alleging that they maybe have a vested interest in ruining marriages (again, this might be not the case, but it's what I get from the quote above) suddenly everyone and their mother will be "not in their target audience" because everyone would stear clear of them for the bad rep.
  - jlgreco 13y ago
    So what is going to happen here. What is the hypothesizes sequence of events? CNN informs me that people are using this companies service to have sex with strangers, I, after finishing having sex with a stranger, become socked and outraged, call them up, and tell them that I will no longer be using their service? I'm going to no longer use this service because my mother disapproves? Seems plausible, that is exactly why I never look at pictures of naked people either! Yeah, that would be a real problem for them. They better be careful that they don't offend old people.
    - cliveowen 13y ago
      What would happen is that people read the whole long-term partner thing, assume it's favoring cheating and Pure would become "that app that ruins marriages" and a whole slew of people who'd rather not being associated with the whole "ruined marriages" thing would stop using/avoid it.
      - jlgreco 13y ago
        Do you think that you get their logo tattooed on your forehead when you use it or something? Pornography gets the same rap from the same people; no grave problems for their industry there... Why would I possibly care that CNN thinks it is a homewrecker? Why would I care if my boss thinks that? Hell, why would I care if my own mother thinks that? I'd use it anyway.
        cliveowen 13y ago
        I'm not spreading gospel here and everyone is entitled to his own opinion, I'm just saying it happen before it can happen again. Now, as much as I enjoy being ridiculed on the internet, I'm going to sleep, night.

jlgreco 13y ago

GoDaddy had their customers pissed at them. Why would Pure be worried about a bunch of people plainly not in their target audience being mad at them? They wouldn't be worried, if they are smart. That'd be like Smirnoff being worried what Mormons think of them.

cliveowen 13y ago
The customers were informed of the matter by the media and fueled by the media in days after. If the NYT or whatever newspaper does a story on these guys and points out their badly worded PR blurb alleging that they maybe have a vested interest in ruining marriages (again, this might be not the case, but it's what I get from the quote above) suddenly everyone and their mother will be "not in their target audience" because everyone would stear clear of them for the bad rep.
- jlgreco 13y ago
  So what is going to happen here. What is the hypothesizes sequence of events? CNN informs me that people are using this companies service to have sex with strangers, I, after finishing having sex with a stranger, become socked and outraged, call them up, and tell them that I will no longer be using their service? I'm going to no longer use this service because my mother disapproves? Seems plausible, that is exactly why I never look at pictures of naked people either! Yeah, that would be a real problem for them. They better be careful that they don't offend old people.
  - cliveowen 13y ago
    What would happen is that people read the whole long-term partner thing, assume it's favoring cheating and Pure would become "that app that ruins marriages" and a whole slew of people who'd rather not being associated with the whole "ruined marriages" thing would stop using/avoid it.
    - jlgreco 13y ago
      Do you think that you get their logo tattooed on your forehead when you use it or something? Pornography gets the same rap from the same people; no grave problems for their industry there... Why would I possibly care that CNN thinks it is a homewrecker? Why would I care if my boss thinks that? Hell, why would I care if my own mother thinks that? I'd use it anyway.
      - cliveowen 13y ago
        I'm not spreading gospel here and everyone is entitled to his own opinion, I'm just saying it happen before it can happen again. Now, as much as I enjoy being ridiculed on the internet, I'm going to sleep, night.