Last March I took issue with the RNC’s MyGOP tool for it’s overly senstive obscenity filter. As I was writing the previous post about the AdWeek article, I stumbled upon a mention of McCain’s very creative “MySite” tool. It allows you to create your own site on the McCain teams page.
Sensing a knock-off of the RNC’s MyGOP tool, I clicked through to start building my page. Sure enough, the tool is an almost exact replica of the GOP tool. To be fair, the tool should probably get much better traction on a candidate site than it did with the committee. People are more inclined to gravitate toward a campaign.
The one problem I have is the fact that McCain ported the entire application with warts and all. The biggest wart, as I pointed out last year, is the timid obscenity filter. I plugged in KungFuQuip.ExploreMcCain.com as my url. They rejected me, quite literally, for the fuq of it.
What the fuq is this world coming to when I can’t use my fuqing url because some fuqing bonehead is concerned that other fuqing people have nothing better to do than fuqing dream up ways I might misspell fuqing obscenities?
LOL!
[...] It is pretty clear that the McCain campaign is closely watching everything that happens with these sites. Mike Turk was rejected when he attempted to set up a site at kungfuquip.exploremccain.com (because the “fuq” part is too close to another word we all know too well). On my own mini site, I tried to customize my intro text and got a message that said my changes had been saved and would be available shortly, the clear implication being that they would be reviewing my revised intro text. [...]
[...] I wrote a few days back about how no campaign had yet achieved the right balance in their use of peer-to-peer campaign features. At first blush, the Obama campaign has. The tool gives volunteers the ability to express themselves uncensored while also providing pretty clear direction as to what they would like you to do. It achieves the right balance between McCain’s “raise money for me or go away” approach and the chaos of Edward’s blog network. [...]
[...] The Biving’s Report declares that Obama’s site is the first to achieve the right balance of peer-to-peer campaign elements, "It achieves the right balance between McCain’s "raise money for me or go away" approach and the chaos of Edward’s blog network." I would agree that it is appears a bit more slick than the Edward’s site, but would stop way short of describing the Edward’s site as chaotic. [...]