Riddle me this, DeVore!

monkeyfudge

Another interview with DeV is scheduled in to be recorded next week.

So I'm going ask again for your questions. Ha... promise we'll do a better job of getting to all the questions this time around.

mike65

Just stop him rambling on!

My question - has the Daft.ie stake changed the way he and the other admins think about boards.ie and thier place in it? Is it less 'thier baby' now?

monkeyfudge

mike65 wrote: »

Just stop him rambling on!

Oh I plan on being very strict. I may even employ the use of an egg timer.

Shiminay

That DeVore guy's such a media whore...

monkeyfudge

Kharn wrote: »

That DeVore guy's such a media whore...

You don't know the half of it. This is also being filmed for da telly!

mike65

DCTV - Community (care) Channel?

I knew I got rid of NTL for a reason!

monkeyfudge

mike65 wrote: »

DCTV - Community (care) Channel?

Hey! Don't knock that channel.... you get to see Blitzkrieg on it all the time!

It's for RTÉ so I plan on having naked Brian Cowen t-shirt printed up to wear on the day.

javaboy

Your tagline is
Oppressing. Please wait.
[XXXXXXXX--------]

Have you ever changed that progress bar to reflect a greater or lesser level of oppression? Similar to the DEFCON system.

Doctor DooM

Are you enjoying delegating to the ComMas? Or finding it difficult passing the reins to them?

Where do you see boards going from here? Do you think it may be about to hit a critical mass in Ireland where there physically isn't any more internet savvy people to join (besides the banees etc obviously)?

Do you tihnk the subdivision of boards into small sub communities as opposed to one is a good thing or bad?

Doctor DooM

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Hey! Don't knock that channel.... you get to see Blitzkrieg on it all the time!

It's for RTÉ so I plan on having naked Brian Cowen t-shirt printed up to wear on the day.

If it's going on tv you HAVE to wear gynolamp.

Dades

If I loan you my Atheist Bus t-shirt - will you wear it?

It's only mildly soiled.

6th

You wear a PIG t-shirt and thats the end of it. Seriously.

monkeyfudge

I can do a slow strip tease and remove a T-shirt after each question.

javaboy

monkeyfudge wrote: »

I can do a slow strip tease and remove a T-shirt after each question.

Ron DMC

Now that the CommMans etc are all on board, are we gonna see an expansion from the current community produced podcasts to encompass more media outlets such as this magazine idea he was interested in before?

I'm still very interested in helping out with such a project, and I reckon it could be quite good indeed with the pool of talent from across the site.

feylya

Why don't you ever return my calls?

eVeNtInE

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Karl Hungus

DeNiro or Pacino?

Esel

Is dental work cheaper and better in Malta than in Eastern Europe?

nkay1985

Being the founder of Boards, you've seen an enormous amount of threads over the years.

Does any thread stick in your memory from your time here? If so, what is it and why?

Also, are there any forums that you thought would be more successful than they have been?

Xavi6

What do your parents make of all this? Obviously they would be proud etc, but do they 'get' whole internet forum thing? Did you ever need a dig out form them in the early days for bandwidth or the like?

Are they boardsies themselves?

Jazzy

Do you still play Quake?

If not, why not ?

Quazzie

Who do you think would win in a boxing match: Bernard Dunne or Paul O' Connell?

RobertFoster

What future plans for boards are you keeping under your fez? When are we all moving into the commune in Carlow?

Sherifu

Mustard or Hoff?

monkeyfudge

Some good questions in here.

Keep them coming. I'll try to get to as many as possible.

Doctor DooM

Whats your favourite spin off of boards? I mean like Bordeaux, the podcasts, tweet.ie, social.ie etc?

faceman

What do you think are the greatest challenges that boards.ie as a community faces in the future?

monkeyfudge

I have a fez at home.. I should totally bring it along.

Mr.Applepie

What is your favourite forum:

1. After Hours
2. BGRH
3. Feedback
4. The Ladies Lounge
5. Atari Jaguar

meditraitor

Have you ever used your position as supreme lord mod to get laid?

Terry

How much time do the founders (heh) now spend on the site, given that the site now has employees?
Do the founders still enjoy it as much as they did ten years ago?

What are DeV and cloud's personal visions for the future of the site?

Have you ever put any serious thought into moving the servers to another country to avoid certain legal issues?

Do you feel the site has become less manageable with its continued growth?

Do you feel that the expansion of social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo have had a positive or negative effect on this site?

Seeing as how bus companies do not offer a 24 hours bus service, would you say that the words to the song the wheels on the bus are completely inaccurate?

Ickle Magoo

What's your favourite/least favourite aspects of boards?

What's your most memorable boards moment?

Why you set boards up & how big you envisioned things would get - how much bigger you think it'll get & how...

If you could just press a button & oppress someone, who would you choose - boardsie & IRL?! :pac:

Doodee

When the gay hair goes does he plan on getting a gay wig?

A-Trak

Have/do you ever post under different names a la Lizardfudge?

Devore,
Eevore
Fevore etc?

What about boards has kept you up all night - (Both good and bad.)

LuckyLloyd

If someone would have told you in March 1998 that the site would end up here - with a portion of the business sold off, an ongoing legal case, hundreds of thousands of users and a small core of fulltime employees - would you have believed them? It wouldn't surprise me if a 'no' to that question is because you actually envisaged it being further down the road!


Is any part of you uncomfortable with the wave of professionalism that is creeping up the shore towards boards.ie (Community managers, legal support for mods, streamlined procedures, etc)? How far down this road is too far?


Are you still playing poker?


Why did it require so much drama and noise before Adam's (Amp's) mod powers were finally clicked off and he left in peace? (understand if you have no interest in answering that question of course!)

Sparks

Can you tell the fight club story on RTE?

Terry

What is your opinion on the current defamation laws in this country?
Do you feel that we, as a nation, are being unfairly cencored by the government in regards to this law? The recent apology from RTÉ to An Taoiseach springs to mind in relation to this. Are you of the opinion that RTÉ were pressured into making that apology due to the fact that they are the national broadcaster?
Continuing on from that, is it your opinion that the users of this site are being unfairly punished due to the current laws and would you like to see those laws changed to allow people to openly criticise public figures, public representatives and businesses without fear of being sued? Whether that be on this site, in newspapers, on blogs, in letters or in any currently prohibitative form?

loloray

Will you consider replacing Pat on the Late Late?

Sparks

Terry wrote: »

is it your opinion that the users of this site are being unfairly punished due to the current laws and would you like to see those laws changed to allow people to openly criticise public figures, public representatives and businesses without fear of being sued?

Or at least that the law be changed so that defamation has to be proven in court rather than the current setup where defamation has to be defended against; or even just to introduce anti-SLAPP legislation?


Actually, the fight club story's more entertaining

Zaph

Gerry's departure - your views on it or is it too sensitive a subject to discuss?
If you could close any one forum on Boards, what would it be?
Will you be doing any more stand-up?

Terry

Sparks wrote: »

Or at least that the law be changed so that defamation has to be proven in court rather than the current setup where defamation has to be defended against; or even just to introduce anti-SLAPP legislation?


Actually, the fight club story's more entertaining

Zaph wrote: »

Gerry's departure - your views on it or is it too sensitive a subject to discuss?

I'd like to hear both those answered too.
I don't know what SLAPP is though. That's filed under weekend reading, so I'll look into it tomorrow or Sunday.

Sparks

SLAPP = gits sueing for libel without merit just to shut someone up because they couldn't afford to defend against the charge in court. (More or less)

Orion

Sparks wrote: »

Or at least that the law be changed so that defamation has to be proven in court rather than the current setup where defamation has to be defended against; or even just to introduce anti-SLAPP legislation?

That's there to protect people from being defamed by mass media who have bigger legal budgets. But how about laws protecting publishers from comments made by non-related people. And allowing apologies to be made without conceding liability - one of the main reasons papers don't apologise until they have to.

What originally gave you the idea for SSF and did you expect it to be so successful in such a short time?

Orion

I recall you saying in the past that if boards ever became a pay-for you would walk away. Bearing in mind the daft investment and the financial load of such a large site is there any danger of any content being subscription only (Subscribers forum aside)?

Gaspode

Question: Boards is best known as a discussion forum, and opinions are plenty and hugely varied among its users. In the many discussions you've had on boards, has another user completely changed or reversed your opinion on anything?

Terry

hullaballoo wrote: »

I reckon it might be an idea to link in with other social networking sites to give us more of an edge. A lot of the changes that came in with the big vB upgrade could be integrated with other sites a lot more. I think that would be exciting.

From the thread in feedback.

Do you think this would be a good idea?
We can already digg, stumbleupon and google threads. Do you think it would be a good idea to link them to social networking sites?

I do.

entropi

What is your view on LoLcats?

Who would be your most memorable boardsie? current user or banned long ago:pac:

Diabhal Beag

Lost or Prison Break?

randylonghorn

loloray wrote: »

Will you consider replacing Pat on the Late Late?

Deffo wouldn't need too many guests then!!


Q: What has most changed in your view of the world in the years since pinning Iv. B. to the Campanile by the ears was the top item on your "to do" list?

Red Sleeping Beauty

Jazzy wrote: »

Do you still play Quake?

If not, why not ?

I asked him that before and he said no, I think. Thread I started in F/Back titled "administrators of the site.."

SDooM wrote: »

Whats your favourite spin off of boards? I mean like Bordeaux, the podcasts, tweet.ie, social.ie etc?

or Adverts.ie