WTF is this all about then?

cornbb

Someone just started a thread about "boardsies". And being in that sort of mood, I googled the word. And this was the first result that came up:

http://www.*************/

They refer to themselves as "Boards Ireland". Their forum categories and overall appearance are strikingly close to ours. They have forums like Personal Issues, Rip-off Ireland and such. What gives? Is there an affiliation? Is there a boards.ie dark side I wasn't aware of?? :eek:

Firewalkwithme

You're a mod, you should know.

Cartoon_Head.

monkeyfudge

Oh.. there is a story behind this alright...

notice how the url has been added to the swear word filter.

cornbb

Holy crap, there's some sort of conspiracy I was unaware of!

So lemme guess... the first rule of ************* is do not talk about *************... And I can't tell anyone what the *s mean?

/shuts the f up in case of midnight beatings...

Karoma

cornbb wrote:

Holy crap, there's some sort of conspiracy I was unaware of!

So lemme guess... the first rule of ************* is do not talk about *************... And I can't tell anyone what the *s mean?

/shuts the f up in case of midnight beatings...

/wanders off to get some rubber bands

patrickc

i started it so what???

Dave

The have a forum especially dedicated to 'collage' Perhaps a suggestion for here. Haha

Rabies

Should we be afraid?

Threads: 7,696, Posts: 15,937, Members: 348

jhegarty

What an ugly site.....

Nevyn

Some people tought they could do it better esp after some of them were site banned.
So Gods bless them they are trying...

SimpleSam06

wut. Even teh goog is letting me down. Can someone tell us whats going on here?

Edit: Bahah, got it. I don't know why it was added to the swear word filter, anyone that feels the need to capitalise Ireland halfway through isn't a threat to anyone except maybe fellow travelling street people and unwary alley cats.

More editing: Its apparently down now, what with the strain on the server of a couple of interested mods and me.

Karl Hungus

Who set it up and why is it on the swear filter?

Tar.Aldarion

http://www.nationstates.net/page=display_region/region=the_boardsies
uh?

kdouglas

wtf? google just gives me threads from boards.ie?

Winters

kdouglas wrote:

wtf? google just gives me threads from boards.ie?

Yea same.

first result = thread from the DCU forum here.

SimpleSam06

cornbb wrote:

They refer to themselves as "Boards Ireland". Their forum categories and overall appearance are strikingly close to ours.

Copyright infringement warning, they actually use the same O_o eyes as boards when you bookmark them!

kdouglas

ah, found it.... load of rubbish tbh...

***hugs boards.ie***
I could never leave you

timmywex

its rubbish, just looked through it, anyone wanting it, look up boards ireland in google.

the address is www.b-o-a-r-d-s-i-e.com

(delete the -'s, theyre there to avoide the filter)

jimi_t

timmywex wrote:

its rubbish, just looked through it, anyone wanting it, look up boards ireland in google.

the address is www.b-o-a-r-d-s-i-e.com

(delete the -'s, theyre there to avoide the filter)

Not only is it an aesthetic disgrace, it also seems to want to try and shut itself down

Fake DeVore wrote:

With the implementation of vBulletin 3-6-6 come more possabilities.
We are considering adding a downloads/sharing database that would allow users to upload/download & share files with others.
For this to work & prevent leeching this area of the site would be limited to certain users. For this purpose & to cover the additional charge we are suggesting a small subscription (say €10 a year)
We are meerly covering addition hosting memory that this will require.
I promise this will be well worth it for what will be available.

A completel non-entity. Don't give it any more advertising.

cornbb

Rabies wrote:

Should we be afraid?

Threads: 7,696, Posts: 15,937, Members: 348

Some of their people have eight stars though.

http://www.board#sie.com/forum/member.php?u=1

[remove the #]

Eight. Thats right! Count em! Eight!!

Be afraid, be very afraid

:rolleyes:

Binomate

Lets invade.

Karoma

The promised blackjack and hookers! ...lying bastards.

patrickolee

Most of the posts look fake, were they scraped from another site? As far as the look and feel goes though, I have to disagree. It looks better than boards, with the exception of the see through menu... but it will never succeed, too hard to get the url known. Does show you how easy it to set up a discussion forum though. Register the domain, install the free s/w and bobs your uncle... Not so easy to get people to visit.

faceman

do they have a pigman?

byte

patrickolee wrote:

Register the domain, install the free s/w and bobs your uncle... Not so easy to get people to visit.

vBulletin isn't free. It's anything from $85 upwards depending on licence. Not that expensive though.

Getting the visitors though is as you say, not as easy.

woop

could just people who were told about boards and got lost along the way.......... or boards of a parallel dimension, much more likely:)

Earthhorse

faceman wrote:

do they have a pigman?

I hear they have a Pigman III.

Fighting Irish

cornbb wrote:

Someone just started a thread about "boardsies". And being in that sort of mood, I googled the word. And this was the first result that came up:

http://www.*************/

They refer to themselves as "Boards Ireland". Their forum categories and overall appearance are strikingly close to ours. They have forums like Personal Issues, Rip-off Ireland and such. What gives? Is there an affiliation? Is there a boards.ie dark side I wasn't aware of?? :eek:

I don't know why anyone would want to copy this crock of sh1t website

Fremen

Anyone else find it a little offensive that the swear filter blocks the address?

Maybe offensive isn't the word I'm looking for, but it doesn't seem right to me.

mike65

Holy crap! It really must be an alternative universe where the vBulletin software works always. oh no - I'm wrong!

http://www.boards-ie.com/forum/showthread.php?t=636 remove the - damn filters

Mike.

drdre

its a load of crap.this site is the best

seamus

It was started by someone much like Fighting Irish, who believed that boards.ie wasn't catering sufficiently for their class of discussion, and so set that up in protest.

Rb

Rabies wrote:

Should we be afraid?

Threads: 7,696, Posts: 15,937, Members: 348

Oh no!They're getting stronger by the day!

Threads: 7,707, Posts: 15,954, Members:350

:eek:

FX Meister

It looks as similar to boards.ie as boards.ie does to rte.ie. FACT.
Let them at it, they will just dwindle off and die I would imagine. Binomate seems into his invasions though, didn't he also want to "invade" thumped.com a while back? Live and let live. If the site offers something that boards.ie doesn't then whats wrong with that? Be happy with what you have, it takes nothing from this site.

Binomate

FX Meister wrote:

It looks as similar to boards.ie as boards.ie does to rte.ie. FACT.
Let them at it, they will just dwindle off and die I would imagine. Binomate seems into his invasions though, didn't he also want to "invade" thumped.com a while back? Live and let live. If the site offers something that boards.ie doesn't then whats wrong with that? Be happy with what you have, it takes nothing from this site.

I don't recall wanting to invade thumped.com. This site is pretty old. I remember seeing threads about it before, and the only reason it looks marginally different now is because they were aware of the thread on boards.ie pointing out that it was a blatant copy of boards, and they don't have the development funds that boards.ie has to improve their website.

Gone West

Fighting Irish wrote:

I don't know why anyone would want to copy this crock of sh1t website

Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Ireland
Posts: 1,373

:rolleyes:

ballooba

faceman wrote:

do they have a pigman?

More importantly, do they have a Pighead?

Pighead is the bomb.

Fighting Irish

seamus wrote:

It was started by someone much like Fighting Irish, who believed that boards.ie wasn't catering sufficiently for their class of discussion, and so set that up in protest.

blah blah blah

i think boards is great, i just think it has waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many sub forums, its gotten to the point where every thread in AH could be posted in a different sub forum

Fighting Irish

FuzzyLogic wrote:

Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Ireland
Posts: 1,373

:rolleyes:

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=53282124&postcount=38