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Does Boards.ie get quoted much in media?

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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, 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.

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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?

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?

branie2

There's a Wikipedia article about it.

[Deleted User]

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.

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

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

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

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

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:

[Deleted User]

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

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.

Fred Swanson

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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

Tommy Ferguson

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Link?

Fred Swanson

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Eire Go Brach

[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 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.