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As owners of boards, what do they want?
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like omg, no need to be such a biatch about it... :pac:Flamed Diving wrote: »Yes, but that is only because gheyness is ever present in you mind.
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the way I see it, it's either one of two things. Either the admins want to raise money to keep the site going and expanding, or they want to expand the site to raise money. Which do you reckon it is? And, really, when it all comes down to it, does it make a difference?
I'd go for option B bosco. As you get older you somehow debate with yourself and previously held ideologies lose their worth as you debate with yourself.
Who wouldn't go for the money? When you are about 20-30 the world is your oyster! When you are 30-40 it is a different story
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It's been registered as a limited company since early 2000.
I assume no one starts a Limited share company unless they have business interests going forward.
In that respect and with no information available to me other than whats been posted it's taken a few years for this particular development I for one welcome our new Ant overloads.
Whatever, the changes, if any, will be very apparent to the community as it stands, but I'll take Devore's word for it that nothing community detrimental will change. Detrimental, I suppose is open to interpretation. The hardcore for example get upset at main page feature changes. I still am none the wiser to the difference between smods cmods and whatever mods but it makes no odds to me.
Anyways, it's not business savvy to excommunicate your base, rather, to expand upon it. These lads know their stuff at this stage. I assume they've investigated all avenues.0 -
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I still am none the wiser to the difference between smods cmods and whatever mods but it makes no odds to me.
Mods moderate a forum or more. See that list of forums under my username, that's the forums I mod. I can ban people from those forums and do other shít there too. On forums I don't moderate I can't do any moderatery stuff. I can't people etc. Cmods are like mods but moderate categories e.g. rec, sports etc. Smods are like mods but they moderate the whole site. They can ban your ass from the whole site as well as other stuff (They're the guys you shouldn't piss off). Normal mods and cmods can't siteban users. 0 -
AlmightyCushion wrote: »Mods moderate a forum or more. See that list of forums under my username, that's the forums I mod. I can ban people from those forums and do other shít there too. On forums I don't moderate I can't do any moderatery stuff.I can't people etc. Cmods are like mods but moderate categories e.g. rec, sports etc. Smods are like mods but they moderate the whole site. They can ban your ass from the whole site as well as other stuff (They're the guys you shouldn't piss off). Normal mods and cmods can't siteban users.
Well fair play because, I read about three posts into moaning feedback threads at the time, when it all changed, and the care factor was zero.
It was alot of reading for a pass the time sort of hobby.
I work in a hierarchical environment and boards.ie is there to leave that all behind.
It's whole lot of layered cake, that I don't care to eat, just incase there's peanuts in it and I may be alergic to peanuts, and I don't eat cake anyways. But appreciate you taking the time. 0 -
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Daft have a bigger tech team then us by far! We only have Cult
We may use part of the cash for another clone of Cult but we arent sure yet. The only thing we are agreed upon is that we all like Boards more or less as it is and that our core values of high user involvement in the site and that Boards will remain free to use. There was no arguement about those sorts of things, the Daft guys were very keen on those from the start.
From there, we havent yet planned where we go from here but it will be more then click throughs.
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So why invest then?
Greater exposure? unlikely if they already have 90% of the market.
Advertising revenue? I hope not, I wouldn't like boards to turn into a a big flash site with the content being obscured by the neon lights.
As a subscriber, I consider myself to have invested in boards and my return is the enjoyment of using it - as stepbar said, I don't see how daft is going to gain though..
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So why invest then?
Greater exposure? unlikely if they already have 90% of the market.
Advertising revenue? I hope not, I wouldn't like boards to turn into a a big flash site with the content being obscured by the neon lights.
As a subscriber, I consider myself to have invested in boards and my return is the enjoyment of using it - as stepbar said, I don't see how daft is going to gain though..
i don't think boards is gonna change much
i think boards is big and full of ideas and that daft have decided to diversify their internet holdings
both sites make money (if any) from advertising and the hope that this kind of targeted made for measure advertising will be more valuable in the future
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Yarrrg fire and forget business models, pumping companies up in the hopes they will be more attractive to buyers, should have died with the eighties.stepbar wrote:I would say the ultimate goal of Boards.ie (correct me here) is ultimatly a trade sale to an organisation like Google or the like.
They don't. They have a lot of traffic, which no doubt has taken a severe beating with the property collapse. What they are doing is wisely investing their gains in a diversified portfolio so they don't get dragged down with it, and I would call boards a fairly solid investment.Greater exposure? unlikely if they already have 90% of the market.
If boards can afford to employ a developer for 35k a year plus enough to keep the lights on, they are doing a hell of a lot better than almost every other website out there.
If you are really interested you can request the boards public accounts from the CRO for a fiver.
A bold ambition, but if you manage to pull it off, you'll be the first anywhere.I would prefer to build this site into the central site for Irish people online.
Stick to what you're best at, otherwise proceed with caution - you don't have media here, you aren't delivering a message, you have people, which ain't the same thing. 0 -
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Yes but the big questions are:
- When is the merchandising coming out, the "boards.ie" tea cup/tee-shirt/calculator/mp3player/nappy/tampon/shampoo?
- Where can we buy shares and for how much?
(seriously my life won't be complete without my "boards.ie" shampoo. I even have a slogan "Mmm. Smells of troll."0 -
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It's right up there with sustainability.:mad:DublinWriter wrote:...btw I'm still waiting for the first person to use the word 'synergy' on this thread for the epic fail!...and even better would be 'synergistic'.
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I'll be right behind you too!!gollyitsolly wrote: »Sorry folks, but I havent read all the stuff about this merger. My only worry is, and I love Boards, is...............at the end of the day if my page is filled with ads and pop ups and offersof this that and the other I wont be sticking around here. I mean its like watching a film on bbc1 or sky. BBC no ads, Sky every 9 minutes. Thats my simplistic view:)
I think the Daft guys got the idea that popups and interstitials are simply not on the cards here. If they didnt get that idea before now, they CERTAINLY have the message loud and clear now hahah...
Honestly, I've met all the DAFT buggers (I'm going to call them that from now on) and they are very much aware of what they are getting themselves into. We are all tied together as far as shares go, we have all signed contracts to say that anyone selling has to have a form of permission from the others and also offer the shares back to us first. There is no corporate raiding going on here, nor an attempt to "get in on the ground floor". They are good guys, they just want to lasso our rocket and come for a ride with us!
I've no problem with Boards making money, I'd like nothing MORE then to be sitting somewhere warm with a cocktail making a living from watching Boards grow, and thats not completely unlikely; the real point is that we arent willing to sacrafice the community to speed that along a few years. I'm still sitting in Arbour Hill with the rain p*ssing down...
We've been doing this for a decade, we've turned down about 18 offers before this to maintain that approach so do you reeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllly think we would just roll over now?
We're not the "rolling over" types
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I'll be right behind you too!!
I think the Daft guys got the idea that popups and interstitials are simply not on the cards here. If they didnt get that idea before now, they CERTAINLY have the message loud and clear now hahah...
Honestly, I've met all the DAFT buggers (I'm going to call them that from now on) and they are very much aware of what they are getting themselves into. We are all tied together as far as shares go, we have all signed contracts to say that anyone selling has to have a form of permission from the others and also offer the shares back to us first. There is no corporate raiding going on here, nor an attempt to "get in on the ground floor".
I've no problem with Boards making money, I'd like nothing MORE then to be sitting somewhere warm with a cocktail making a living from watching Boards grow, and thats not completely unlikely; the real point is that we arent willing to sacrafice the community to speed that along a few years.
We've been doing that for a decade, we've turned down about 18 offers before this to maintain that approach so do you reeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllly think we would just roll over now?
We're not the "rolling over" types
DeV.
dude, lets not kid outselves, if you were sitting somewhere warm with a cocktail you'd either be thinking about boards or actually on boards, telling us you're sitting somewhere warm with a cocktail. You can't run anymore DeV 0 -
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I'm still sitting in Arbour Hill with the rain p*ssing down...
We've been doing this for a decade, we've turned down about 18 offers before this to maintain that approach so do you reeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllly think we would just roll over now?
We're not the "rolling over" types
DeV.
Inspirational Tom. Inspirational. I for one am ready to man the barricades!! :P0 -
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