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steveland?

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BoardsBeep
Your mobile phone number! (must be irish, leave blank to opt out)

What is?

Kevin_rc_ie

No idea. Good question. Is it a boards sms newsletter?

Creamy Goodness

aye i noticed this today aswell, maybe it's too alert you of your subscriptions?

Tar.Aldarion

i think tyhey store it for perverted reasons and so as to call their favourite members.

Chong

Yeah it must be a new thing.

Creamy Goodness

holy crap four replies at the same time

TerrorFirmer

Yeah, I just noticed this myself today actually...

Tar.Aldarion

we are good.typing.yes.

seamus

It appears in one's public profile, so I will opt out for the mo....

(Actually, scratch that. It appears for me, but I'm special.) Can anyone else see steveland's number in his public profile?

ecksor

This is a little experiment by Regi (this time it does have have money grubbing motives) to provide a new service for boards members, but it's just at the "what if" stage right now so you can safely ignore it

(I don't want to elaborate since it's not my baby and nothing might come of it).

Kevin_rc_ie

no i can't but i did see his date of birth. TEENAGER!

Tar.Aldarion

ecksor
A chrome nine jolly
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Dublin
Posts: 1
oh. my. god. and no our numbers are safely in you and your ilks special hands

edit ..aww back to 0

steveland?

:eek:

seamus has my mobile number...

Time to remove it... also if it's going to cost me money......

Tar.Aldarion

''this time it does have have money grubbing motives''

seamus

steveland? wrote:

seamus has my mobile number...

Don't worry, the only ones we'd torment are the ones who set out to get banned, but for whatever reason put their mobile number in the profile. There's always one.

Seriously though, whenever Regi goes live with this, I suspect he will restrict access to the info further, "need to know", etc. So don't worry.

DeVore

I've no idea what this is. Hmmmm...you'd think I would wouldnt you.

DeV.

Sparky

DeVore wrote:

I've no idea what this is. Hmmmm...you'd think I would wouldnt you.

DeV.

yeah sure you dont, trying to cover up your ideas are ya

steveland?

DeVore wrote:

I've no idea what this is. Hmmmm...you'd think I would wouldnt you.

DeV.

Maybe he told you before a trip to meet up with some... ladies of the night in Vegas

regi

Its something I'm playing with at the moment. That profile field is private - no one can view it bar you. You would sign up for it by popping your number in there. Then you can send an sms to a user on boards (provided they've put their number in there too), whilst keeping your number and their number private.

You'd type something like 'msg steveland? how's it going?'. Steveland would then get an SMS saying 'msg from regi: how's it going?'. Both sides would need to be in for it to work.

Anyway, as ecksor says, its really in the 'what if' phase. I'm just checking it out to see if its a viable thing to do.

Fobia

That sounds pretty damn cool.

RuggieBear

well if you need any volunteers....bloody curiosity
/me sticks hand up

WizZard

Me too..

Beruthiel

RuggieBear wrote:

bloody curiosity

ruggie
I can really see you in curlers, gossiping across the fence to your neighbour

RuggieBear

Beruthiel wrote:

ruggie
I can really see you in curlers, gossiping across the fence to your neighbour

That's my aspiration.

Tar.Aldarion

damn i like it...now i can stop pmng people my number;)

steveland?

I'll help beta test it if it doesn't cost anything... regi's already proven to me he doesn't want my money

Kevin_rc_ie

regi /ano

how would you send the sms?

Sparky

incorporating a webtext based program, quite like what i use for my o2 sms a plugin for office outlook that sends sms messages over the internet to mobile phones and your number pops up.

Kevin_rc_ie

so we'd send them using our own accounts? sounds like a clever plugin he's putting together.

i thought he would have got some "free" web text thingy

KdjaCL

Costs 25p to send a message and 7p goes to boards if thats the system they using.

http://www.bbgossip.com/donations.asp

This place has it up and running in a sad Big Brother sense

kdjac

ecksor

steveland? wrote:

I'll help beta test it if it doesn't cost anything... regi's already proven to me he doesn't want my money

We do want your money, we're just very confusing about how we try to get it out of you.

Victor

DeVore wrote:

I've no idea what this is. Hmmmm...you'd think I would wouldnt you.

It'll make Glenstalling noobs so much quicker and more fun.

Gone West

Well, ICQ offer a free text service to IRL mobiles, perhaps boards could incorporate something like this into the site?
Where the sender can only send a message to people who have them listed as a buddy, and neither party actually gets to see each others phone number.
Or something.
/me throws hat into ring-of-unknown-sexy-betatesting.

The Corinthian

FuzzyLogic wrote:

Well, ICQ offer a free text service to IRL mobiles, perhaps boards could incorporate something like this into the site?

What is it about the phrase “doing it for the money” that people have difficulty comprehending?

masteroftherealm

I second that that sounds lik it could turn into somethin deadly

Fobia

I don't think we want a plugin to kill people....


Though the admins do have strange agendas.

Sleepy

Brilliant idea Regi! I'm in

If this could be rigged to work from mobile to mobile via the boards network, it'd be brilliant for Boards Beers, the For Sale forums etc.

One feature that would be needed though is to make sure it takes account of your ignore lists.

And you might need to Bubbles-proof it!

Draupnir

Would this not have the huge side effect of allowing Boards population of muppets, of which I may be a part , to set themselves up for the service and then send wide ranging abusive texts to pretty much anyone else signed up for it?

Maybe Ive missed a part of the concept, and forgive me if you have already thought of this, but the system will probably need an "allowed list" of users that I am willing to take SMS's from? Rather than just being open season.

ecksor

I think the law takes a dim view of sending abusive text messages.

Draupnir

Yup, Im sure it does, to a degree. But of course, I could also go into town, but a SIM card for 15 quid and use it as my number on Boards. Use said number to then spam the arse of someone or else abuse/threaten/stalk someone.

Just a concern and I thought it might be useful of me to point it out.

This seems like a fantastic idea to me though and would extend Boards community to a completely different medium. I think you would just need to be careful since it has moderation issues.

Gone West

Eh. You can sign up with any number of free web services and send all the abusive SMS'es that you like, If thats your thing.
In my opinion, this system would leave the users far more accountable for their actions than any of these free www sites. I assume payment would have to be made by paypal/cc/etc. This would mean that any abuse would be almost immediately traced back to the actual person, not just a username.
Tbh, I think abuse of the system will be *almost* a non-issue.

Draupnir

Like I say, just pointing it out. I agree that its more than likely a non issue.

The Corinthian

How can anyone point anything out if you don't have a bog's notion what it is in actuality?

DeVore

CHOOO CHOOOO.... This threads next stop: Derailment!

DeV.

Chalk

will you text me when someone replies to my threads?
ill pay you to....

RuggieBear

Chalk wrote:

will you text me when someone replies to my threads?
ill pay you to....

if you have a 3g phone and money to burn you could read the email alerts for posts on the phone...not sure how many lines of a post comes up in the email tho...