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thescore.ie comments section

  • 27-05-2014 3:41pm
    #1
    uggybear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭


    Does anyone else think the comments section at the end of the articles on the website reeks of unintelligence and begrudgery? IMO they don't even half represent the views of the many sports fans in the country. :rolleyes:


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  • #2
    MeIsGod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭MeIsGod


    Spot on, most of the football comments sections are hijacked by liverpool and man utd fans giving it the old "my english team is better than your english team" ,poor stuff really.


  • #3
    uggybear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭uggybear


    Agreed, also the comments on the rugby stories aren't much better with people arguing and fighting over their provinces, trying to give the impression that they know everything about the rules and tactics of rugby (they don't!) which is why I stopped reading them and joined boards to have a proper, civilised and organised discussion about Irish rugby


  • #4
    Hotfail.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Hotfail.com


    If you haven't discovered the fun of trolling thescore.ie's comments section yet you're really missing out. :P


  • #5
    uggybear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭uggybear


    Hotfail.com wrote: »
    If you haven't discovered the fun of trolling thescore.ie's comments section yet you're really missing out. :P

    Haha they're so easy to wind up but could get myself banned for doing that though, reading comments from grown men arguing over a meaningless issue or incident which took place during a match really is riveting :D


  • #6
    Hotfail.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Hotfail.com


    uggybear wrote: »
    Haha they're so easy to wind up but could get myself banned for doing that though, reading comments from grown men arguing over a meaningless issue or incident which took place during a match really is riveting :D

    Can you get banned? :eek:


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  • #7
    Nib
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,088 ✭✭✭Nib


    MeIsGod wrote: »
    Spot on, most of the football comments sections are hijacked by liverpool and man utd fans giving it the old "my english team is better than your english team" ,poor stuff really.
    Similar to here then.


  • #8
    uggybear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭uggybear


    Hotfail.com wrote: »
    Can you get banned? :eek:

    Think the comments policy (three deleted comments in a row and you're out sort of thing) on the journal (or lack of due to poor moderation) has the same rules as the score (ridiculous I know!) where they obviously forgot to include "no Hillsborough or Munich disaster jibes/jokes"


  • #9
    uggybear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭uggybear


    I've stopped reading thescore.ie and have even deleted their app, couldn't be happier not having to read their biased articles and get slightly angry reading the begrudging comments!


  • #10
    Hotfail.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Hotfail.com


    I've recently taken to trolling the place in the most blatantly obvious ways possible, and people are actually agreeing with me more than when I actually try to give well thought-out opinions :pac:

    You could give 15 reasons why United aren't as good this season as they were five years ago and you'd get 200 downvotes and 10 upvotes, then you could just say "Liverpool are scum" and get 500 upvotes.

    It's a bit of a joke. :p


  • #11
    uggybear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭uggybear


    I'm glad this thread has raised the issue, theJournal is not the only one with the bad comments section on it's website! Anytime I check twitter (or the web even!) there's no mention or criticism of thescore's comments at all, yet thejournal gets most of the attention for the poor quality of a comments section


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  • #12
    Hotfail.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Hotfail.com


    uggybear wrote: »
    I'm glad this thread has raised the issue, theJournal is not the only one with the bad comments section on it's website! Anytime I check twitter (or the web even!) there's no mention or criticism of thescore's comments at all, yet thejournal gets most of the attention for the poor quality of a comments section

    You expect a level of immature nonsense when people talk about sports though. TheJournal just attracts fools who use every single story to publicly declare their hatred for foreigners/the dole/travellers etc. :o


  • #13
    uggybear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭uggybear


    Hotfail.com wrote: »
    You expect a level of immature nonsense when people talk about sports though. TheJournal just attracts fools who use every single story to publicly declare their hatred for foreigners/the dole/travellers etc. :o

    Yeah, it's quite worrying to to witness the casually racist comments made in thejournal's comments section aimed at not only members of the Travelling community but also the anti-English bile that's been spouted in the comments section on that site throughout England's disastrous World Cup Campaign!
    (Sorry for the graphic description)


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