Date: March 4th, 2007 6:14 PM Author: Aromatic voyeur
Predict the headline and the lede.
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Date: March 3rd, 2007 11:20 PM
Author: Great Teacher Onizuka
I don't think you realize just how much I have to deal with IRL because of things people do on this board. Let's look at what happened just this week:
1) Several law school deans think I'm behind T14 Talent and begin to contact Penn's dean trying to get me suspended / screwed for character and fitness / threatening to contact my firm / etc., causing me to spend several hours explaining to everyone that it was not run by me but by some other guy.
2) Some girls from the T14 Talent contest hired ReputationDefender, who also contacted law school deans, media, etc. about the whole thing, and is now demanding that many threads referencing these people be deleted.
3) Speaking of the media, I'm told there's going to be a hit piece in a major newspaper sometime next week attacking both this site and me personally.
4) I discovered that a certain professor contacted faculty at a school where I had an LRev article accepted trying to... well, you can figure out the rest.
Given all that, can you understand why I might not have enjoyed being attacked by the board over something like this?
Yeah, but you definitely fanned the flames by connecting the T14 site to XOXO.
Just remember that running XOXO gives you considerable leverage--when you post things, it will be widely read. If people are fucking up your life, you can definitely hit back. Just don't do it in a manner that will earn you backlash.
Doesn't matter. People assumed that XOXO was behind the contest, so when XOXO mysteriously and officially shut the contest down, it confirmed their suspicions.
You underestimate the stupidity of the media and the general public. If anything, the article should be praising xoxo for shutting the thing down and putting pauliewallnuts out of commission.
Date: March 4th, 2007 6:18 PM Author: Appetizing space jew
GTO is delusional. if a major newspaper was going to write an article about him, they would have called him for comment. thus, he would know by now if an article is forthcoming.
Date: March 4th, 2007 6:20 PM Author: bisexual gaping
Not always dood. Sometimes they call you an hour before deadline hoping you won't answer so they can put in a line about trying to contact you, but you not returning their calls. They love to do this in hatchet pieces.
Date: March 4th, 2007 6:37 PM Author: Appetizing space jew
obviously it'll make xoxo look bad. but maybe they'd take a kinder view towards its effete proprietor, a man so dedicated to the unfettered flow of ideas, WGWAG, diarrhea, etc. that he's willing to risk his professional career to protect his anarchistic vision. also, it's hard not to respect someone whose title is "Chief Education Director."
Date: March 4th, 2007 6:41 PM Author: Glassy antidepressant drug den
Hey, everyone's gotta earn a living. If they can make money from sending threatening letters to websites, more power to them.
I'm not quite sure how going after xo in the media helps their client though. People were able to easily figure out who she was from the ABC article. If anything it's taking something that would have died off on its own and ensuring that it becomes something people are going to remember for a while.
Date: March 5th, 2007 12:05 AM Author: cerebral avocado half-breed
you know, when I was in 5th grade, the girls passed around these spiral notebooks called "slambooks". there was a page in the slambook for every girl. girls left anonymous critical comments for every other girl. Sometimes the girls said really damaging things, like how ugly one girl's hair looks when it's curly. They scrutinized each girl on every level and, if you were going through puberty, it's been really damaging for your self-esteem.
From which I conclude that yls busty girl has the same emotional fragility and self-esteem as a pubescent girl.
Date: March 4th, 2007 6:27 PM Author: Aromatic voyeur
could you tell us a litte more about the newspaper, is it a major city paper? large or small circulation? is it an online or print article? is the writer someone big or just an intern? will this boost traffic?
Date: March 4th, 2007 6:25 PM Author: Underhanded gold nursing home
an attack on XO is an attack on us all, whether you like GTO personally or not. we should be ready with a response for any such media outlets running a shit piece against this site.
When the article comes out, xoxo gets surge of hits from "rubberneckers." These rubberneckers will drive up the hit-counts of threads mentioning RepDef's clients--especially if they're bumped to page 1 on the day the article comes out (hint, hint). The increased hit-counts of these threads makes sure they'll scale up to #1 in a google-search.
Date: March 4th, 2007 6:39 PM Author: trip hell mexican
I agree with him. If GTO stays the course, continues to get published, has a successful site, and gets a job that suits him, the old school opponents get shown up. It will take time, but the tide of history is on GTO's side.
Date: March 4th, 2007 6:45 PM Author: trip hell mexican
No, not like that. More like this generation of law students and the next one either "get" this site or won't don't really give a damn about it. The profs who are shocked are outdated. Any prof who's skulking around trying to trash GTO is beyond pathetic.
Date: March 4th, 2007 6:49 PM Author: Transparent stirring private investor generalized bond
Consider the profs who have discussed xoxo online. The old school profs, like leiter, come across as giant pricks. The more modren type of law prof, like the ones on Volokh, recognize what xoxo really is.
Date: March 4th, 2007 7:12 PM Author: trip hell mexican
Leiter, not GTO, is the analogy to George Bush. He's the old school, doesn't get it, stuck in his mental categories, unable to change guy. Leiter's surge is too little, too late.
the smartest thing for GTO to do would be to stop posting so much. the more he posts, the easier it gets to connect him with stuff like t14talent and the outings that go on here. does rach get any shit for xoxo? hardly. why? because he doesn't megapost like GTO. rather, rach uses different monikers and remains relatively anonymous, making it retarded to accuse him of stupid shit like creating t14talent.
Yeah, no shit. He goes out of his way to associate himself with the site and takes credit for it at every opportunity. Then he acts shocked and persecuted when he takes criticism.
i don't get why people are so riled up over that thread. threads worse than that pop up all the time on other discussion boards, and there's no holy crusade against those boards for not deleting them.
Date: March 4th, 2007 7:11 PM Author: fuchsia heaven
I will reiterate that you were sternly warned with regards to discussing this matter - specifically on this forum. Rest assured that the appropriate threads/responses have been logged.
Date: March 4th, 2007 7:14 PM Author: Aromatic voyeur
Right now that the SS Big Changes is sinking, do you think the mariachi band that GTO hired to play as he drinks his coronas off the coast of San Diego in the warm warm sun will play on?
Date: March 4th, 2007 7:26 PM Author: Turquoise Adulterous Community Account
This isn't a surprise. GTO/site owners ran this place with no regards to how it will impact their reputation in real life. For the most part, it didn't really bite them in the ass in the past.
However, now that the site owners are profiting via google ads this place is a BUSINESS thus it is a whole new ballgame as they will be under scrutiny in how they run it. In business, reputation is a pretty big deal.
I sure hope the Google ad money is worth the reputational damage GTO stands to risk in real life. Business wise, I don't think he knows what he is getting himself into. This place started out as law board just to shoot the shit. At some point it evolved into a business but GTO doesn't seem to know what the fuck he is doing aside from knowing how to monetize the site with google revenue.