Internet Brands playing the victim

So for those of you talking about tin foil hats, I just notice that of all the things Bob Brisco could put on Twitter, he felt compelled to continuously tweet about vBulletin the victim. Look at his page and you'd never guess anything else is going on:

Bob Brisco (BobBrisco) on Twitter

"@BrandonSheley thanks, we were both victims of the hoax, but i truly appreciate your care #vbulletin "

@denverhunter thanks for support and ignoring disinformation...the new vB series will be very strong

@brandonsheley thanks! any info appreciated, pretexting is a very serious issue

@vBSetup that must be a spoofer/pretexter ... we have NOT sent a DMCA

Everything with these guys is about marketing an image and some of you will never realize this. Looking at his page you'd see that, of the few that exists, 4 of the last 9 or 10 are about poor Internet Brands and vbulletin. You'd never guess that anything else is going on but their victimization and maniac growth. Doubtless someone will report my post here to them and they will remedy the problem by making sure Bob isn't as obvious next time. This entire issue should have been handled privately with Brandon but why do so when you can publicize you're the victim and in desperate need of generating SOME sympathy.

 

really?????

You're really stretching it with the whole thing. Most of us (well myself and a few that I've talked to anyway) don't think that internet brands is the devil, we just don't enjoy how things are going at the moment. I wouldn't go as far as to say they're using twitter to plot an evil way to make us all feel bad for them. Granted their twitter is a bit weird (@vBulletin4 talking about itself) but you're making ridiculous stretches to try to fit into your mold of how they're out to trick us all.

 

Playing the victim? good grief.....

 

This is why Haltech called most of you sheep. What trick? I just read Bob Brisco's twitter page and quoted it - Bob himself is calling vBulletin a victim! Considering there are tons of company issues he could talk about, why are 4 out of 5 of the handful of posts about the victimization of vBulletin? Anyone going to see his page sees this.

Now with regard to "tricks" - you guys don't even accept the obvious. Do you know what the PR department does in and for many public companies? They and third parties specialize in making sure that public company brands and their executives have a certain image in public.

Do you think Apple has doughy, bright eyed smart younger people working in the Apple store because none of the average adults ages 40-50 were available to hire? It's a marketing plan designed to make you think things are just the way they are. The good companies pull this off without any of you realizing it's even in place. Internet Brands thinks they can pull this off themselves. It's not a trick, it's a science. You'll learn if you want to.

 

You really are trying hard, but lets break this down for you.

Because Bob Brisco says that both he and Brandon are victims from this fake DMCA, he's doing something wrong? Not at all. You're just trying to find faults for no damn reason. He wasn't saying anything about vBulletin at all, just himself and what happened on twitter and websites after this news leaked out. Bob Brisco was saying that because of all the negative press that came from the incident. How is that so hard to understand? You're one of those conspiracy theorists, I can tell.

I know how marketing and PR works, I'm not an idiot and I'd love for you to explain how this DMCA would really work well towards helping the view of vBulletin and InternetBrands?

Maybe I'm part of InternetBrands conspiracy to take your brain and make it love vBulletin????? :rofl::rofl:

 

Ohhh... I get it, this is a personal blog, not a company blog (is that a list of IB companies on the left?) So he has nothing else happening in his life or in any other IB company except for a series of messages about allegedly spoofed DMCA notice that no CEO would care about... Bob doesn't seem to post much of anything personal but, on the rare occasion he does, all he seems to talk about is vBulletin the victim and this stupid notice. Welcome to Marketing 101. Whether or not they were behind it, it's still very bizarre and coincidental - but the point is about his making vBulletin now the "victim" of all these bad customers.

You're trying so hard to love vBulletin you can't even accept the main issue in the subject - that most of us can't stomach seeing vBulletin paint itself as the victim.

 

I have to admit, its hard to argue with incompetence.

IF THERE WAS A FALSE DMCA THAT PEOPLE THOUGHT THEY REALLY SENT OUT, IT HURTS THEIR REPUTATION WITH THE COMMUNITY. Therefore they are the "victim" of this, just like Brandon was the "victim" I'm not sure how its that hard to grasp onto. They aren't playing anything. You really are stretching for any type of complaints you can get your hands on and it makes you look foolish. Brisco didn't say only he was the victim, and not brandon, he said they both are. Still not getting it?

I can't argue with you anymore to preserve my own sanity.

 

No theory. Hotwheels mentioned the blog. I looked and found it hilarious (not necessarily totally planned) that of all the things Bob B had to say it was about his lamenting that vBulletin is a victim.

 

*yawn*

 

I do know how PR depts work i should after having worked for various multinationals including GE (and they don't come bigger than that), yes its a science / art etc whatever you want to call it but its also governed by a set of rules which can get very stringent...yes IB made horrendous mistakes yes its affected a lot of people but to look for a conspiracy or try to look for a meaning behind their every act is illogical.

I have tried very hard to not participate in any of these discussions but i couldn't resist this one....:devil: ohhh well back to work.......

 

Exactly. This thread has run its course and really serves no purpose. It's just unnecessary and unfounded speculation.