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Comment on What I Hate About Media Temple by brettbum

brettbum — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:18:48 +0000

I did a search on the keywords:
media temple is a pain in the ass
and found your article. I was just typing in the words venting my frustration with Media Temple. I have had 3 or 4 clients over the last year that had set up brand new Media Temple accounts, and then asked me to work on their site.
I constantly find working within the mediatemple environment to be well, a pain in the ass. In fact, as I write this, I’m thinking about setting a Media Temple hourly rate premium for future clients of $50 an hour. Then again, maybe I should just decline all client work that wants to use Media Temple, there are things more important than money after all, such as sanity!

Comment on Create a Slideshow, Not Frustration by Nick Dumitru

Nick Dumitru — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:57:57 +0000

Great points Rebecca. This was a very good read.

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Comment on What I Hate About Media Temple by Nick Dumitru

Nick Dumitru — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:31:57 +0000

Wow! Scott gave me a call directly to talk about all these issues shortly after posting this. That’s really amazing customer service.

I’m not sure anything will move on the transfer of the sites issue but I can honestly say that I feel like my comments were heard and listened to. Great job on responding (mt). I’ve never seen that from any other company as far as online dialogue is concerned.

Comment on What I Hate About Media Temple by Scott DeSmet

Scott DeSmet — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:13:59 +0000

Hi Nick, Our sincerest apologies for the frustrating experience with (mt). If you have a few minutes, I’d love to speak with you and address your concerns as well as clarify some of the miscommunications you seem to have experienced in the support process.

Comment on Domino’s Twitter Feed Falls Flat by Jason

Jason — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:25:45 +0000

Hi Tim-
So "Amused by the #newpizza Twitter feed failure on the domino's site" is deemed profane? I can understand not wanting profanity on a corporate website, though you'd have to imagine if this is really how it worked then there wouldn't be a mention of "shitty pizza" at the top of this screenshot of the feed.
Also, from checking back a few different times, it was obvious there was more content being filtered than just comments containing profanity. It looks like a bit more might be getting pulled through now that you've gotten a bit of criticism from numerous websites, but this definitely seems like a case of learning as you go in a medium you didn't really understand.

Comment on Domino’s Twitter Feed Falls Flat by Nick Dumitru

Nick Dumitru — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:45:10 +0000

Well Tim, anyway you want to spell censorship, it still sounds the same. Since you’re admitting to filtering out certain things, we have no way of knowing where you will stop. And since multiple people have access to your Twitter account within the company, I suspect you may not be 100% certain of what exactly is being censored. If you’re going to engage in social media, you should be prepared to take the good with the bad and adjust your corporate policy based on the feedback you get. Not silencing your customers.

Just because you stuff cotton in your ears doesn’t mean the noise has stopped. This type of behaviour will only make it worse for Domino’s.

Comment on Domino’s Twitter Feed Falls Flat by Tim

Tim — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:05:28 +0000

I work for Domino’s corporate. The only thing the company is trying to filter is profanity, such as the example above. We are not filtering out negative comments.

Comment on Domino’s Twitter Feed Falls Flat by Jason

Jason — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:05:29 +0000

Hi Anon-
Thanks for the comment. Your assurance that it's not hand picked seems like you must have some additional insight to share. There was actually a similar anonymous comment on a post over at 10e20.
From looking at #newpizza throughout the day on Twitter and also checking the Domino's feed at Pizza Turnaround it's clear there are some things being omitted and the majority of the Tweets being cut are fairly unkind to Domino's. So...what is the conclusion we should be drawing?
Whether hand picked, automatically filtered, or arbitrarily selected based on some other criteria, the whole thing seems pretty shady. Especially considering the original version didn't seem to be filtering any of the results.
If you know something we don't, please share. I assure you, I'm not the only one who's jumping to what seems like an obvious conclusion based on all the evidence we have at the moment.