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msongs

(74,167 posts) Sun May 3, 2015, 11:42 PM May 2015

berniesanders.com has no content really... [View all]

data mining email addresses and a pitch for money. no issue information, bio, media contact. thought there might be some nice graphics to make a bernie shirt (like there was for Howard Dean). well they got the email address

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berniesanders.com has no content really... [View all] msongs May 2015 OP

Try his senate page Koinos May 2015 #1

okthks.was at a dem convention yesterday and wanted to make a shirt with official looking stuff msongs May 2015 #2

I find a lot of content on there... Cheese Sandwich May 2015 #3

did you give money already then? those are NOT available after giving email address which leads to msongs May 2015 #5

yep Cheese Sandwich May 2015 #14

That's a good web strategy alcibiades_mystery May 2015 #17

Unnecessary. joshcryer May 2015 #21

I think they disabled it on purpose temporarily to reduce the traffic Cheese Sandwich May 2015 #22

It looks like the footer on the main page is broken. joshcryer May 2015 #15

On a hunch, I found some content there by adding "/issues" to the url. greyl May 2015 #4

There IS content...it's just not linked to the home page... brooklynite May 2015 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author Bjorn Against May 2015 #7

It's likely an oversight. joshcryer May 2015 #16

But why should they expect people would contribute before acquainting themselves pnwmom May 2015 #24

I've never been to a political site that didn't spam that. joshcryer May 2015 #25

You can get into Hillary's site by giving an email address, and see content pnwmom May 2015 #28

You don't even need to give an email. joshcryer May 2015 #30

You can see her content, but there is no substance there. morningfog May 2015 #40

He has a Senate site also Cheese Sandwich May 2015 #27

What a hypocritical thing to say. morningfog May 2015 #39

I had this discussion with others in another thread. TM99 May 2015 #8

it doesn't work for me. This morning it was domain suspended and now it's a 403 error. n/t lumberjack_jeff May 2015 #9

It is up currently. TM99 May 2015 #10

Third time's a charm - now it's working lumberjack_jeff May 2015 #11

Glad you got in. TM99 May 2015 #12

For what it's worth they do have "coming 5.26.2015" on there. joshcryer May 2015 #18

True. TM99 May 2015 #23

Um, the home page says "Bernie Sanders for President | Coming 5.26.15 phleshdef May 2015 #13

Hopefully, they have the Bernie White House.gov site up on inauguration day alcibiades_mystery May 2015 #19

Heh, saw that before I saw your post. joshcryer May 2015 #20

It's like that on purpose. They know it's like that. Cheese Sandwich May 2015 #26

Link? joshcryer May 2015 #29

It seems fine to me... Cheese Sandwich May 2015 #31

Can you post the email? joshcryer May 2015 #32

No thanks. Cheese Sandwich May 2015 #33

Please don't think that way. joshcryer May 2015 #34

'Fixing it would be a one line piece of code' Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2015 #35

It's like ten pages. joshcryer May 2015 #36

It's not a matter of 'how many pages', it's a matter of how many people are hitting it. Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2015 #37

Sure. joshcryer May 2015 #38

I know, right? MadrasT May 2015 #41