Thumbs down on the journal ie

realistic anorak

Whats the deal with the thumbs down button on the journal .ie ? If a story is about a missing 6 year old girl and someone comments I hope she is found safe and well, about 20 people will give that comment a thumbs down

BoJack Horseman

TheJournal is the mittens-wearing 'special' cousin of boards.ie

Its an angry place these days.

super_furry

Journal commentators are barely a step above Youtube commentators. The site itself is an awful mess too - their stories are either clickbait or ripped off from proper news outlets.

Mr. CooL ICE

Fat fingers on mobile devices

ReefBreak

I agree, it also seems to be jam packed with "Gerry Adams is kewl" Shinnerbots these days.

efb

Boards is better because of the tighter moderation

whisky_galore

Because...some people just like to be dicks online.

Chunners

whisky_galore wrote: »

Because...some people just like to be dicks online.

Mostly this ^^^, it's a sad fact now a days that if you give people a way to take anonymous pot shots at a stranger online like the option to thumbs them down then 7 people out of 10 will abuse it just to be a dick and to see if they can get a reaction

RayM

The Journal comments section is the internet equivalent of the pub that serves all the people who are barred from all the other pubs in the area.

Diabhal Beag

I like that people get as far as the comments reading thejournal. The articles are Joe.ie pretty much.

The Backwards Man

RayM wrote: »

The Journal comments section is the internet equivalent of the pub that serves all the people who are barred from all the other pubs in the area.

And all the optics have Buckfast on them.

Thrill

Some people are probably giving a thumbs down because they are reacting to the story that a girl is missing. You dont give a thumbs up when you hear a 6 year old is missing.

Others are giving a thumbs up in reaction to the OPs comment that he/she hopes the girl is found.

Phonehead

The Journal just frustrates me, from the poor standard of writing (when they don't just copy and paste from other sites & change a few words here and there) while the comments section is a complete and utter mess of hardliners or fake accounts set up to milk reactions.

frenchmartini

Phonehead wrote: »

The Journal just frustrates me, from the poor standard of writing (when they don't just copy and paste from other sites & change a few words here and there) while the comments section is a complete and utter mess of hardliners or fake accounts set up to milk reactions.

Here here! It's awful.

hfallada

The people that comment on the journal are a "special type of people" that should keep their comments to themselves. Their arguments are generally everything is corrupt, job bridge or the stats are lying

cletus van damme

super_furry wrote: »

Journal commentators are barely a step above Youtube commentators. The site itself is an awful mess too - their stories are either clickbait or ripped off from proper news outlets.

or buzzfeed :eek:

mikom

The journal.ie............... the home of twitter accounts that have only ever been used to post troll comments on The journal.ie

Birneybau

All those Irish sites, Joe.ie, Her.ie, The Journal are all awful, awful yokes.

mikom

Birneybau wrote: »

All those Irish sites, Joe.ie, Her.ie, The Journal are all awful, awful yokes.

Joe.ie and Her.ie are basically reddit scrapers.

Pinch Flat

I replied to a fairly innocuous piece in the journal about plans for high rises in Dublin. I was expecting a beighing mob outside my door with pitch forks such was the negative response. It was also my Facebook account I used to reply. You just can't be told sure with the amount of knuckle draggers that are out there.

suicide_circus

Bad writing, stolen writing, clickbait, avoid.

Teyla Emmagan

I asked a friend of mine if she'd seen an important news article (on giant siders) on the Daily Mail recently, and she responded that she'd actually given up reading it and was now getting her news content from the journal.ie!!

Personally I think the journal.ie is even more bottom of the bucket scraping than the DM, which at least will always have at least one set of nice pictures of sink holes in the Pacific in the 'science' section.

recylingbin

realistic anorak wrote: »

Whats the deal with the thumbs down button on the journal .ie ? If a story is about a missing 6 year old girl and someone comments I hope she is found safe and well, about 20 people will give that comment a thumbs down

Because no one cares about your hopes, your pointless unhelpful comments or your attempts to score internet kudos.
If you cared, truly, you'd be out looking for the missing 6 year old and not typing a smug comment on a website.
I hope that clears it up.

HamsterFace

What annoys me is when people thumb down true statement just because they don't follow the usual line of name calling politicians and wishing death on Enda Kenny

BoJack Horseman

HamsterFace wrote: »

What annoys me is when people thumb down true statement just because they don't follow the usual line of name calling politicians and wishing death on Enda Kenny

If you only go by theJournal, the next & every election will be a landslide win for DDI/SF & AAA.

You don't have to hate the government to post there.
But it helps.

Red Alert

The journal's so-called journalists really don't like comments that don't agree with their extreme liberal social viewpoint. Not only that, but unlike on Boards.ie, when you are banned there's no indication of it other than that your posts don't come up and also all bans are permanent. Appeals etc are ignored.

HamsterFace

It's also quite childish and pandering to the feeble minded to make such obvious and unintelligent caricatures of all politicians in government whilst placing those politicians who seem to communicate only in hyperbole on pedestals

I want to emigrate when I read it but then remind myself that those people are in no way indicative of general public opinion.

I actually can't wait for the next election and really hope fine Gael get in again just to see the confusion in their little minds

Phonehead

Red Alert wrote: »

The journal's so-called journalists really don't like comments that don't agree with their extreme liberal social viewpoint. Not only that, but unlike on Boards.ie, when you are banned there's no indication of it other than that your posts don't come up and also all bans are permanent. Appeals etc are ignored.

LOL so true, have you ever seen the tantrums the "journalists" throw when someone points out inaccuracies, grammar mistakes or accuses them of copying/pasting and rearranging a few words from some other source. Strangely very few times have I seen a response from the accuser to the tantrum! so the liberal use of banning may be an explanation.

unjedilike

Some of the spelling is atrocious. Nobody proofreads anything. I used to comment on their grammar errors (they're supposed to be journalists) but it happens so frequently there was no point.

Mint Aero

ReefBreak wrote: »

I agree, it also seems to be jam packed with "Gerry Adams is kewl" Shinnerbots these days.

Just go away

Red Alert

unjedilike wrote: »

Some of the spelling is atrocious. Nobody proofreads anything. I used to comment on their grammar errors (they're supposed to be journalists) but it happens so frequently there was no point.

They'll probably ban you for the mental anguish of having it pointed out to them, or throw a hissy fit.

newmug

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

TheJournal is the mittens-wearing 'special' cousin of boards.ie

Its an angry place these days.

And Boards is the fake-tan wearing, arts degree "metrosexual" family member that nobody in the family ever talks about. Boards and the Journal always sit together at Christmas dinner. One is as bad as the other.

SYLT

The problem with the frequent comment posters on the articles on Journal.ie is that they have now become a community, in which most of them don't get along. For example, someones opinion on an article on Ballotellis latest tweet or whatever would be attacked just because they commented on an Irish water article early that week with a controversial statement. People literally follow other people around on that site just to have a go at each other, it's bizarre.

Joe.ie is just a mess. No original content, just different videos and pictures from different websites thrown onto their own site. "Check out this class goal last night..." "Paul Scholes is a legend for doing this..."

Yawn.

Awkward Badger

newmug wrote: »

And Boards is the fake-tan wearing, arts degree "metrosexual" family member that nobody in the family ever talks about. Boards and the Journal always sit together at Christmas dinner. One is as bad as the other.

I think you mean AH.

AH being the crude, ignorant and obnoxious sibling in the Boards family who's living in the family home smoking weed, gaming and having loads of smelly friends around while the rest of the family are secretly wondering when the prick will cop on, grow up, and get his shít together.

The_Valeyard

Journal.ie makes us on boards look like the great intellects of our time.

Victor

super_furry wrote: »

ripped off from proper news outlets.

Do you understand press releases?

newmug

Awkward Badger wrote: »

I think you mean AH.

AH being the crude, ignorant and obnoxious sibling in the Boards family who's living in the family home smoking weed, gaming and having loads of smelly friends around while the rest of the family are secretly wondering when the prick will cop on, grow up, and get his shít together.

Well fair enough, you've identified a second, accurate stereotype. Very true of AH alright.


But Boards in general always reminds me of this fella: Uber smug, gay-in-denial, urban orientated and downright anti-Irish


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Revel_Horwood

BoJack Horseman

newmug wrote: »

But Boards in general always reminds me of......
downright anti-Irish

Boards is anti-Irish?

Flesh that one out.

Phoebas

hfallada wrote: »

The people that comment on the journal are a "special type of people" that should keep their comments to themselves. Their arguments are generally everything is corrupt, job bridge or the stats are lying

Sounds a lot like After Hours.

tobsey

unjedilike wrote: »

Some of the spelling is atrocious. Nobody proofreads anything. I used to comment on their grammar errors (they're supposed to be journalists) but it happens so frequently there was no point.

Admit it, you really really concentrated to get your their and they're correct in that post didn't you.

hidinginthebush

ReefBreak wrote: »

I agree, it also seems to be jam packed with "Gerry Adams is kewl" Shinnerbots these days.

Same as the politics forum so

BoJack Horseman

hidinginthebush wrote: »

Same as the politics forum so

The SF footsoldiers are around alright.

TheJournal seems more extreme though.
Like SF are too middle of the road.

You can see from the FB/twitter profiles associations with more extreme political movements.

Mousewar

realistic anorak wrote: »

If a story is about a missing 6 year old girl and someone comments I hope she is found safe and well, about 20 people will give that comment a thumbs down

Well, it is quite a banal comment.

leakyboots

thejournal.ie isn't great, there's just something very 'amateur' about it. TheScore is hit and miss but they do have great analysts from time to time like Murray Kinsella (rugby). He'll be snapped up in no time by someone else though.

Balls.ie is another woeful one, it's like a bunch of transition year students were asked to run a sports website.

Earl Turner

Do people actually get upset over this stuff?

unjedilike

tobsey wrote: »

Admit it, you really really concentrated to get your their and they're correct in that post didn't you.

Their, they're and there!

chosen1

The thumbs down button happens to be in the exact same line I use to scroll down the page with my thumb.

Noticed I've done it by accident on a couple of occasions.

anncoates

Thumbs down/dislike functionality is the great moron enabler of social media.

uggybear

hfallada wrote: »

The people that comment on the journal are a "special type of people" that should keep their comments to themselves. Their arguments are generally everything is corrupt, job bridge or the stats are lying

That @revolution_IRL twitter account is just the epitome of the mood the regular thejournal commenters on the comments section seem to be in all the time; angry and suppressed, making up conspirisy theories that every state organisation is corrupt etc, etc, and looking for a reaction imo.

I actually quite like TheJournal as a site and as a concept. Yes, the writers there could do with a bit more proof-reading but it's a lot less sensationalist than the tabloids and even the Indo. The comments section is often painful but you do get the odd gems in there too - bit like AH really!

Plus reading The Daily Edge is a fun way to procrastinate.