Comments on: When user generated content goes bad http://cuinnovators.com/blog/when-user-generated-content-goes-bad/ At CU Innovators, we help credit unions, CUSO's, and service providers create meaningful products and services for their members and clients. Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:53:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Denise Wymore http://cuinnovators.com/blog/when-user-generated-content-goes-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-430 Denise Wymore Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:51:49 +0000 http://blog.cuemployee.com/2008/01/30/when-user-generated-content-goes-bad/#comment-430 Lawyers. They ruin everything. I'm so sick of this politically correct world we live in. It's a sandwich for god's sake. I love Quizno's not only for their spunk (remember those little blobby urchins they used to use?) but for their meat. I hope this does NOT chase credit union marketers back into the cold-dark-shiny-happy-people-pun-marketing-safe corner we've been for years. Larissa!!! Help!!!! Make another video!!!! Lawyers.

They ruin everything. I’m so sick of this politically correct world we live in. It’s a sandwich for god’s sake. I love Quizno’s not only for their spunk (remember those little blobby urchins they used to use?) but for their meat.

I hope this does NOT chase credit union marketers back into the cold-dark-shiny-happy-people-pun-marketing-safe corner we’ve been for years. Larissa!!! Help!!!! Make another video!!!!

]]> By: Tim McAlpine http://cuinnovators.com/blog/when-user-generated-content-goes-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-429 Tim McAlpine Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:02:48 +0000 http://blog.cuemployee.com/2008/01/30/when-user-generated-content-goes-bad/#comment-429 Ron Shevlin pointed me to this article. Very interesting indeed. Technically speaking, Larissa is a paid employee of Common Wealth Credit Union. So, if she does something offside that causes a lawsuit, Common Wealth is even more connected than a renegade third party. I think this works in Common Wealth's favour though, in that she is less likely to do something that would jeopardize her employer. It takes a brave organization to embrace this stuff. You really have to weigh each piece of content and be prepared to pull it if it gives you that bad feeling in your gut. Luckily, there has not been anything like that yet! Ron Shevlin pointed me to this article. Very interesting indeed. Technically speaking, Larissa is a paid employee of Common Wealth Credit Union. So, if she does something offside that causes a lawsuit, Common Wealth is even more connected than a renegade third party. I think this works in Common Wealth’s favour though, in that she is less likely to do something that would jeopardize her employer.

It takes a brave organization to embrace this stuff. You really have to weigh each piece of content and be prepared to pull it if it gives you that bad feeling in your gut. Luckily, there has not been anything like that yet!

]]> By: Morriss Partee http://cuinnovators.com/blog/when-user-generated-content-goes-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-428 Morriss Partee Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:27:53 +0000 http://blog.cuemployee.com/2008/01/30/when-user-generated-content-goes-bad/#comment-428 Robbie, this article does indeed raise some very interesting legal questions about who is responsible for UGC. However, I don't think this particular lawsuit is going to go very far since I think it's simply factual that Quizno's subs have more meat than Subway. Don't you think? I just love the hilarious and creative ways that their fans came up with to get the point across. It's only libel if it's not true. Robbie, this article does indeed raise some very interesting legal questions about who is responsible for UGC. However, I don’t think this particular lawsuit is going to go very far since I think it’s simply factual that Quizno’s subs have more meat than Subway. Don’t you think? I just love the hilarious and creative ways that their fans came up with to get the point across. It’s only libel if it’s not true.

]]> By: Trey Reeme http://cuinnovators.com/blog/when-user-generated-content-goes-bad/comment-page-1/#comment-427 Trey Reeme Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:19:06 +0000 http://blog.cuemployee.com/2008/01/30/when-user-generated-content-goes-bad/#comment-427 My favorite part of the NYT article: "One of the videos showed a Subway sandwich running to a Quiznos store to find more meat. Another showed two submarines fashioned as sandwiches, with the one representing Subway being obliterated because it did not have enough meat, according to the suit." Ummm. Technically that's a false claim, I guess. Lighten up, Subway. My favorite part of the NYT article:

“One of the videos showed a Subway sandwich running to a Quiznos store to find more meat. Another showed two submarines fashioned as sandwiches, with the one representing Subway being obliterated because it did not have enough meat, according to the suit.”

Ummm. Technically that’s a false claim, I guess.

Lighten up, Subway.

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