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Does Boards.ie get quoted much in media?

[Deleted User]

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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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.

[Deleted User]

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.

[Deleted User]

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: