Does Boards.ie get quoted much in media?

Twitter gets quoted all of the time now in Newspapers - everything from Politics to peoples opinions of TV shows.

But I never see any quotes from Boards.ie in National Newspapers, TV or radio or other online media- any reason for this? I would have thought that Boards.ie was as valid a place to quote from as Twitter or Bookface but obviously not.

Eire Go Brach

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Twitter gets quoted all of the time now in Newspapers - everything from Politics to peoples opinions of TV shows.

But I never see any quotes from Boards.ie in National Newspapers or other online media- any reason for this? I would have thought that Boards.ie was as valid a place to quite from as Twitter or Bookface but obviously not.

Have not heard it in awhile. Mostly DJs and comedians slagging it in the past. About moaners. But that’s all these sites.

Fred Swanson

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Tommy Ferguson

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Link?

RiderOnTheStorm

I regularly quote & discuss it in work. But I am surprised by the number of tech-savy ppl who have never heard of Boards.ie

Fred Swanson

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Mutant z

Comparing Boards.is to Twitter is like comparing apples and oranges the two simply arnt comparable to each other, Twitter is an international organization with a magnetic pull while Boards.is most certainly isn't.

Sleeper12

I've had PMs from several journalists over the years asking if I'd be willing to be interviewed. The last time was on a thread about the extra bus lanes on Dublin city quays. I had said that I was turning down appliance repair jobs in the city centre due to the restrictions on traffic.

They might not quote directly from boards but they certainly get ideas and stories from boards.ie

scudzilla

A few years back there was a thread on BA about wenger luggage that was on offer in Tesco, cheap if you have tokens.

Now in work we used to be given Wenger backpacks, and they really are the dogs bollocks of bags, loved mine, so i posted on thread that Wenger produce the best backpacks i've ever had, or words to that effect

Move forward a few days and someone posts on the thread that i'm famous, and posted a pic of an ad in that days national newspaper, was an advert for the bags and tesco, with a quote underneath....."The best backpacks i've ever had - Boards.ie"

Utterly wounded that Tesco had used my quote without permission i wrote an email to the CEO of Tesco Ireland (don't mess about with the monkeys, straight to organ grinder) saying how upset and distraught i was that they had used my quote without my permission

Received a phone call the next day, apologising and offering me any of the bags/suitcases as a gift, i chose the large suitcase, which is still great to this day, just about over the upset and trauma of it all now :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: :pac:

somefeen

scudzilla wrote: »

A few years back there was a thread on BA about wenger luggage that was on offer in Tesco, cheap if you have tokens.

Now in work we used to be given Wenger backpacks, and they really are the dogs bollocks of bags, loved mine, so i posted on thread that Wenger produce the best backpacks i've ever had, or words to that effect

Move forward a few days and someone posts on the thread that i'm famous, and posted a pic of an ad in that days national newspaper, was an advert for the bags and tesco, with a quote underneath....."The best backpacks i've ever had - Boards.ie"

Utterly wounded that Tesco had used my quote without permission i wrote an email to the CEO of Tesco Ireland (don't mess about with the monkeys, straight to organ grinder) saying how upset and distraught i was that they had used my quote without my permission

Received a phone call the next day, apologising and offering me any of the bags/suitcases as a gift, i chose the large suitcase, which is still great to this day, just about over the upset and trauma of it all now :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: :pac:

That's a brilliant story but also incredibly bizzare.

scudzilla

somefeen wrote: »

That's a brilliant story but also incredibly bizzare.

Here ya go, bizarre but true, always looking for an angle for a freebie, worked well this time

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=80101519

BBDBB

I certainly hope so, how else are my insights into what I ate for lunch to reach the worldwide audience they so richly deserve?

Harry Palmr

Boards.ie big around the time of the great MCD debacle (not sure if this is still in place as I never look at the Gigs forum) and when UTV Internet came into our lives (ask your parents!)

As the online world has expanded exponentially boards.ie has become an ever small component of it so it's hardly a shocker if it gets overlooked.

BBDBB

BBDBB wrote: »

I certainly hope so, how else are my insights into what I ate for lunch to reach the worldwide audience they so richly deserve?

Well I’ve no doubt your masticatations are legendary and I’m sure many here will testify to them with the appropriate level of reverence they deserve, but wasn’t quite what I had in mind.

branie2

There's a Wikipedia article about it.

Duckworth_Luas

Used to share an apartment with a redtop journalist who freely admitted he scanned Boards as a source for articles. The one I think I recall was a woman selling used underware?

somefeen

scudzilla wrote: »

Here ya go, bizarre but true, always looking for an angle for a freebie, worked well this time

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=80101519

Ah Jesus. That's mental.
It really was as if the whole of boards.is was endorsing their product. Wonder were there any posts saying the cases were pure ****e?

Tommy Ferguson

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Used to share an apartment with a redtop journalist who freely admitted he scanned Boards as a source for articles. The one I think I recall was a woman selling used underware?

Was it washed at a minimum 60 degree wash?

Mutant z

Mutant z wrote: »

Comparing Boards.is to Twitter is like comparing apples and oranges the two simply arnt comparable to each other, Twitter is an international organization with a magnetic pull while Boards.is most certainly isn't.

I didn't "compare" it to twitter. But for Irish related stories, I would have thought that Boards.ie would be a go-to place for quotes and reactions.

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

I regularly quote & discuss it in work. But I am surprised by the number of tech-savy ppl who have never heard of Boards.ie

So am I, hence my thread.

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Sleeper12 wrote: »

I've had PMs from several journalists over the years asking if I'd be willing to be interviewed. The last time was on a thread about the extra bus lanes on Dublin city quays. I had said that I was turning down appliance repair jobs in the city centre due to the restrictions on traffic.

They might not quote directly from boards but they certainly get ideas and stories from boards.ie

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Used to share an apartment with a redtop journalist who freely admitted he scanned Boards as a source for articles. The one I think I recall was a woman selling used underware?

So it's possibly accessed offline by journalists for inspiration but never/rarely quoted- I wonder why.

Bambi985

They might not quote it but I've often noticed that some of the more infamous threads end up being discussed on national radio shows from time to time - threads like stingiest things you've seen someone do, etc. "There's a long discussion on the Irish chat site boards.ie at the moment about the stingiest thing you've seen someone do, so we thought we'd put the question to our viewers..." etc

I'd have no doubt that AH at least is being scanned regularly by tabloid hacks and radio researchers

Turtyturd

Boards is a day or two behind Reddit so any lazy journalist would have his ‘work’ done over there.

Bambi985

Bambi985 wrote: »

They might not quote it but I've often noticed that some of the more infamous threads end up being discussed on national radio shows from time to time - threads like stingiest things you've seen someone do, etc. "There's a long discussion on the Irish chat site boards.ie at the moment about the stingiest thing you've seen someone do, so we thought we'd put the question to our viewers..." etc

I'd have no doubt that AH at least is being scanned regularly by tabloid hacks and radio researchers

So again, looked at by people in the media who generate stories but never referenced. It's starting to look like Boards.ie is a nice little library of ideas for failed journalists who are too lazy to think of original topics to write about and don't bother listing their references.

BrokenArrows

Deleted User wrote: »

Twitter gets quoted all of the time now in Newspapers - everything from Politics to peoples opinions of TV shows.

But I never see any quotes from Boards.ie in National Newspapers, TV or radio or other online media- any reason for this? I would have thought that Boards.ie was as valid a place to quote from as Twitter or Bookface but obviously not.

Mostly twitter is linked to a real persons name or at least a picture of them. Where as boards is totally anonymous which is why it wouldnt be used for quotes.

Besides why would any paper want to quote "blast him with piss"??:D

BrokenArrows

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Mostly twitter is linked to a real persons name or at least a picture of them. Where as boards is totally anonymous which is why it wouldnt be used for quotes.

Besides why would any paper want to quote "blast him with piss"??:D

It might make them, three-fiddy?:P

wakka12

Sleeper12 wrote: »

I've had PMs from several journalists over the years asking if I'd be willing to be interviewed. The last time was on a thread about the extra bus lanes on Dublin city quays. I had said that I was turning down appliance repair jobs in the city centre due to the restrictions on traffic.

They might not quote directly from boards but they certainly get ideas and stories from boards.ie

Several journalists messaged you?
Lol that makes me feel like my posts are really dumb and uninteresting

wakka12

wakka12 wrote: »

Several journalists messaged you?
Lol that makes me feel like my posts are really dumb and uninteresting

Pure poetry this- reckon it will be a feature in the Mayo News any day now

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=105247363&postcount=156

And yes while I did post this for the craic, after re-reading it, it actually is a great introduction statement to the town of Westport- and hence my thread on why don't people quote boards.ie more?

tomwaterford

Dunno do they count as journalists.....but the morning show on beat fm basically consists of everything on boards

tomwaterford

tomwaterford wrote: »

Dunno do they count as journalists.....but the morning show on beat fm basically consists of everything on boards

Ah right, have never listened to them but that's good to know. So there's some media entity out there who refers to boards.ie Thank Tomwaterford.

Rubberlegs

tomwaterford wrote: »

Dunno do they count as journalists.....but the morning show on beat fm basically consists of everything on boards

I was just about to post the same. One of the local papers used to quote from Waterford threads too, not sure if it still does.

tomwaterford

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Ah right, have never listened to them but that's good to know. So there's some media entity out there who refers to boards.ie Thank Tomwaterford.

Being honest they don't reference it
....but all main interesting to their target audience stuff gets discussed....could be coincide like

Guessing same happens on reddit ireland section?

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

If this counts. It was RTE who posted on here, but they did use my story live on air.

Link to the thread.

Hi RTÉ Today Show, I signed up to the Setanta Sports for €1 offer in December. I assumed it was for a month so rang them to cancel the other day as we had it for 29 days at that stage. They told me I should have read the T&C's properly as it stated anyone who doesn't cancel the €1 offer by the 31st of December would be automatically signed up with them for a minimum of 2 months at full price.

So what I thought looked like a nice €1 offer before Christmas has now turned into a minimum of €45. I said to them I don't want the channels for the next 2 months and I want to cancel, they refused to cancel my subscription unless I pay the full €45 first which puts me in the strange position of having a service we don't want! In a subsequent email I reiterated I don't want the channels but again they refused to cancel. So I'm going to owe them another €22 each month unless I clear what I 'owe' them. Reckon I'll owe them about €300 by the end of the year.

Terrible way for a company to do business in my opinion.

Looking back it worked out pretty funny. When I rang to cancel Setanta initially I spoke with a Scottish lady who refused to cancel my account. I distinctly remember saying in a non aggressive/threatening way that there is absolutely no chance I will be paying the bill, she said I would have to, and in a very relaxed voice I said I guarantee that wont happen.
It was by pure coincidence the next day I spotted the RTÉ Today Show - Free Consumer Help thread, and posted the above quoted message on it.
RTE person rang me, and then Setanta on my behalf. Got a call the next day from the same Scottish lady at Setanta profusely apologising to me about the terrible error they had made, and how the system must have got my account mixed up, and offered to clear my outstanding balance and offer something as a goodwill gesture. I was just happy to be done with them.

So it seemed to them like I had the 'pull' and 'connections' to have my grievance with Setanta sorted out by getting the issue spoken about on national television, when in reality all I did was post on boards to that thread. I still think that Scottish lady was amazed and frightened by my 'powers'.

Duckworth_Luas

Tommy Ferguson wrote: »

Was it washed at a minimum 60 degree wash?

No, which apparently is the attraction. My memory is sketchy, but the forum wasn't After Hours where she admitted it. They guy would go through certain forums, see something interesting or bizarre, pm the poster and instant, easy content.

JupiterKid

Yes, that boards, and AH in particular is populated by weirdos, angry young men, feminists who feel they have something to prove and general people who need to get out more...;)

deandean

One thing that intrigues me about boards.ie is that I reckon there are plenty of sleepers, like Michael O'Leary or Leo varadkar or Bono and people like that with lots of power and Influence who are posting, perhaps trolling, under relative anonymity.
And then there's me....

languagenerd

I've often heard topics on mid-morning/ daytime radio shows and thought "that's a boards thread from last night...". They don't always credit it though, just use the questions ("What's the stingiest thing you've seen?", "What trivial things annoy you?" Etc).

Newspapers rarely use quotes from boards uses because we're all essentially anonymous - not a good source, because as far as the reader's concerned, the journalist could've posted it themselves. I have seen threads quoted on content sites before though.

Hammer89

I'd say Irish journalists definitely monitor Boards. I started a thread about an Irish porn video and a day later The Star ran a story on it - the video, not the thread. If it was a new video then you could chalk it down to coincidence, but the video had been online for a year.

Skid X

The Offaly Independent know where the real stories are.

I think it's the only time I've been quoted by the Press.

RayM

I've seen AH referenced in academic journals.

Hammer89

Skid X wrote: »

The Offaly Independent know where the real stories are.

I think it's the only time I've been quoted by the Press.

Did you find her?

server down

Turtyturd wrote: »

Boards is a day or two behind Reddit so any lazy journalist would have his ‘work’ done over there.

Is that a time zone thing? Or time travel?

Skid X

Hammer89 wrote: »

Did you find her?

No, it was Jimbob who was looking for action, I just posted and told him to get off his arse and find her.

I don't think he ever did, alas.

Wibbs

RayM wrote: »

I've seen AH referenced in academic journals.

You may laugh R, but years back now I wrote a few of my usual longwinded posts on a particular subject on another Boards forum hereabouts and found out later that the general premise and drift of my contention(some bits word for word) had been lifted by some student in the US for some university paper or other and was to be found on the college website(the most they did was hunt down some of the points and names I dropped and added citations. And added more waffle, if this were even possible). Clearly they were on the ganja if they were copying me... But anyway, I contacted said university to point out the plagiarism and could I have a diploma at the very least. I got an effusive apology by return of email and it was removed. But no diploma. They did ask if I was in the field, but I pointed out I'd never gone to university, so no.

The_Valeyard

RayM wrote: »

I've seen AH referenced in academic journals.

Yes. In sections on how to fail.

AndrewJRenko

deandean wrote: »

One thing that intrigues me about boards.ie is that I reckon there are plenty of sleepers, like Michael O'Leary or Leo varadkar or Bono and people like that with lots of power and Influence who are posting, perhaps trolling, under relative anonymity.
And then there's me....

After David Bowie's death, there was a great story in the Irish Times about an Irish fan who had very strong evidence that Bowie himself was posting regularly on one of his own fan forums.

Omackeral

Speaking of the Irish Times, I started a fairly scathing thread on Gin **** on 18 Oct and two days later someone posted and said they saw a piece on the Irish Times website that was a toned down rip off of it. I dunno if it's a coincidence but gin **** are bad people so the more people that know it the better as far as I'm concerned

Gin wanker thread

The point on thread where the Times article is mentioned and linked to.

scudzilla

somefeen wrote: »

Ah Jesus. That's mental.
It really was as if the whole of boards.is was endorsing their product. Wonder were there any posts saying the cases were pure ****e?

And it was The Sunday Times no less, not a scummy rag

Jim Bob Scratcher

Skid X wrote: »

The Offaly Independent know where the real stories are.

I think it's the only time I've been quoted by the Press.

I found her and I got my oats :pac: