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  • #1712
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,460 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123654537#Comment_123654537

    Agreed. There's one member here who uses the site as his own personal shop and has been doing so for years. They don't engage in any discussions so why would they not pay? In fact they shouldn't even be allowed to sell here but maybe that's something that could be explored further.



  • #1713
    con747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 10,919 ✭✭✭✭con747


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123654609#Comment_123654609

    The resident magpie. 😂

    Don't expect anything from life, just be grateful to be alive.

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  • #1714
    _BAA_RAM_EWE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 844 ✭✭✭_BAA_RAM_EWE


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123654609#Comment_123654609

    popular demand if it's padraig ye are on about.

    Be careful trying to sterilise the place further.



  • #1715
    The Rooster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,535 ✭✭✭The Rooster


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123654609#Comment_123654609

    Christ almighty that’s none of your business!

    I have no clue who you are talking about, nor do i care, nor should you care, nor should boards care. If it drives traffic then it’s good.

    Boards faciliates people talking to each other. If that results in any buy/sells, then good luck to those people, but buyer beware. Dont come crying to boards if you get fooked over - but do let us know who to avoid!

    If boards wanted to take a commission, then thats a whole new enterprise, they would need to hire lawyers and all sorts, and then work out VAT and much more. Fantastic example above about selling a gun. Abolsutely fine between two private individuals who can take on their own risks on their own dime. Literal minefield for boards to get involved in.

    Also, people need to remember what Odhran and Mike have said. If this all shuts down, it’s purely because it’s not making enough money for the investors/owners. There is no bank or third party creditor banging down the door, this is a proper going concern and all third parties are being paid in full. The ‘crisis’ is ‘not enough profits’. it is not ‘no profits’.



  • #1716
    con747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 10,919 ✭✭✭✭con747


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123654774#Comment_123654774

    I brought the subject up so I think we should leave it up to Mike & Odhran to decide either way because there's no point dragging this on here.

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  • #1717
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123654573#Comment_123654573

    I’m pretty sure Adverts.ie is not related to boards anymore and hasn’t been for a very long time.



  • #1718
    SharpCoder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 422 ✭✭SharpCoder


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123653144#Comment_123653144

    Would imagine most those "words" should be added to a word filter, shouldn't be a concern for moderation until purposely circumvented.



  • #1719
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,460 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123654774#Comment_123654774

    Very much my business and the business of every other member here who has been asked to donate.

    But this isnt the thread for discussing the matter any further.



  • #1720
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,541 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    I'll probably end up subscribing, been here quite a while (2007 before this current username) but I want to see if there's any response to others questions about paying for it with phone carrier billing first.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • #1721
    eightieschewbaccy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,616 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123654911#Comment_123654911

    Except discussions do happen in relation to people who are rapists, pedophiles etc. So adding them to a word filter would not really make a lot of sense.



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  • #1722
    MisterAnarchy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,380 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123655063#Comment_123655063

    As someone who likes to repeatedly label what other posters mention as conspiracy theories you have no hesitation in engaging in them yourself.

    Calling Trump a Pedo or Child Rapist or Child Sex Pervert is mere speculation at this stage.

    They are very strong allegations.



  • #1723
    eightieschewbaccy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,616 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123655079#Comment_123655079

    I was responding to a poster in relation to filtering certain words.



  • #1724
    Esse85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,479 ✭✭✭Esse85


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123654372#Comment_123654372

    Yeah why are they allowed to flog stuff?

    Can the rest of us members start selling stuff too instead of setting up a legitimate business and accruing expenses and paying tax on the profits?



  • #1725
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,448 ✭✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    I thought with for example the cycling forum or the airsoft forum, you had to ba a regular, known, 'respected' poster before you were allowed sell stuff on here, is that not the case?



  • #1726
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 55,468 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    You don't have to be a 'regular' poster to sell stuff on the cycling ads forum; too hard to police what regular would mean. We have seen people over the years whose activity on boards would almost be solely limited to that forum.

    There are other rules though, one of the main ones being that if you list something for sale on it, it cannot also be on sale elsewhere, e.g. adverts.

    As per Esse85's point about profit and tax, it's 99.99% stuff that people are selling secondhand or at a loss. So not exactly profitable or within the radar of the tax man.



  • #1727
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,243 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Apparently shilling is now allowed, which kinda covers people selling stuff. There is no option to report the post below.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058419917/where-can-i-find-clothes-for-my-newborn

    Don't know how long this has been changed but given the lack of time/energy etc to change or post other stuff its strange that time has been found to change the report form.



  • #1728
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,746 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123655333#Comment_123655333

    It's down to changes Vanilla did in the background. If they had added "Other - please specify", it would cover a multitude of sins.



  • #1729
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 33,183 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123655333#Comment_123655333

    I reported that one, without specifying a reason, and it seems to have been removed.....



  • #1730
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,412 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    I'm surprised so many people are asking about paying using phone credit - assuming this is with Three? I thought most people would have moved to the likes of GoMo 48 etc. My elderly parents still use credit but only because they never access mobile data.

    Put your money where yer mouth is... Subscribe and Save Boards!

    https://subscriptions.boards.ie/



  • #1731
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 55,468 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123655333#Comment_123655333

    Don't know how long this has been changed but given the lack of time/energy etc to change or post other stuff its strange that time has been found to change the report form.

    i suspect that's vanilla themselves removing customisations, that what you're seeing now is the default with vanilla, so is not a change that Mike or Odhran themselves made.



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  • #1732
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,118 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123655387#Comment_123655387

    Some of us are still on legacy Three Mobile. We pay 20 per month but get to spend the 20 on carrier billing - it's like have a phone for free



  • #1733
    Esse85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,479 ✭✭✭Esse85


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123655333#Comment_123655333

    The poster has been selling here almost 10 years.

    Can the rest of us start making some sort of homebrew from our home, and advertise on here to acquire hundreds of customers?

    We could all do with a few extra quid given the rising living costs.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057732087/fragrance-splits-september-2022


  • #1734
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,412 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123655419#Comment_123655419

    fair enough, I think I was on that plan years ago.

    Put your money where yer mouth is... Subscribe and Save Boards!

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  • #1735
    _BAA_RAM_EWE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 844 ✭✭✭_BAA_RAM_EWE


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123655122#Comment_123655122

    Nothing stopping you selling your jumpers.



  • #1736
    BrianD3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,011 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123654076#Comment_123654076

    There needs to be very clear and direct assurance from Mike/Odhran that it is legally or physically impossible for bank card names associated with usernames to end up in a boards database, disclosed to mods, admins or posters or hacked.

    "shur why would Mike disseminate that info" doesn't cut it.

    I guarantee that there are posters on here who would only subscribe with a high level of anonymity (with the highest being cash or postal order) but won't say that publicly because they won't want to be sneered at for being a luddite or tinfoil hatter.

    No offence to Mike or Odhran but the boards office has a track record of bumbling and poor communication. There has been more of it with how this subscription has been handled. When I saw the subscription page asking for an email address, with the way it was worded, I predicted that there would be issues with people entering email addresses other than those they signed up with. if I could predict that why couldn't Mike/Odhran?



  • #1737
    corkie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,432 ✭✭✭corkie


    @BrianD3 Why are you harping on about swipe again, it was the weekend when you raised the (non) issue and I have tagged Mike/Odhran already on it. Give them a chance to get back to us on it? Open the below post of mine that has information on what information the merchant receives.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123654370#Comment_123654370

    "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
    "But that's balanced out by the fact that it's a mandate not to do very much." ~ Prof. Eoin O'Malley



  • #1738
    Genghis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,448 ✭✭✭Genghis


    I wonder are people conflating the right to post anonymously with a right to be completely anonymous? I think one is offered by boards.ie (anonymous or maybe better phrased pseudonymous posting).

    To post you need an email, which is verified. When you are logged in each session has a captured IP address, which may be useful in identifying you. Other data points (like details in your posts) may undermine your anonymity.

    Boards.ie may use these details to stop you logging in, posting, and if required can be used in legal situations or if requested by Gardai, etc.

    Yes, of course there is scope to try be completely anonymous by using a burner / temp email to register and always use a VPN, and being very careful what you post etc etc. You may even opt to have a specific device, with say a PAYG plan, etc to be belt n braces.

    But therein anonymity arises from the user taking extraordinary measures to ensure their own anonymity, it's not something boards.ie is offering or doing for you. I don't believe they could legally guarantee total anonymity.

    Perhaps you accept all this but are concerned if paying by card might change this.

    1. Payment, unlike registering your email or disclosing an IP is completely voluntary. You are not required to provide payment details. So don't.
    2. If you still want to pay, just like burner email addresses and VPNs, the amounts are small so you could purchase a prepaid debit card (like swirl) and use that. I believe there may be crypto linked cards too that could offer similar anonymity (may be wrong).


  • #1739
    Cloud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,053 ✭✭✭Cloud


    Hi all -

    I saw a comment about my lack of posting on this thread - just to clarify, nothing deliberate or damning here…

    …I am simply out of the country on my annual holidays, so I just came across the financial difficulties news for the first time today (quite belatedly I know) when I was checking into my work email about something else.

    I am very sorry to hear about this: it is really frustrating to be knocked sideways by recently imposed changes to Google, etc.

    I fully support the subscription drive, and have just signed up myself. Thank you to the always amazing team for your efforts.

    John.



  • #1740
    corkie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,432 ✭✭✭corkie


    @Cloud Did you use the same email as your boards account? Because your not showing as paid member yet? PM 'Boards.ie Mike' if you used a different email!

    When your sorted with it your going to knock me out of the top 5 Oldest members subbed.

    "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
    "But that's balanced out by the fact that it's a mandate not to do very much." ~ Prof. Eoin O'Malley



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  • #1741
    Cloud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,053 ✭✭✭Cloud


    Exactly @corkie - I was just messaging Mike the story - when Ed Curry and I set up the Irish Games Network (including quake.ie) with Telecom Internet, we were given email addresses "for life". My old one stopped working last year as I couldn't justify paying for it, so I have a disconnect between my subscribed email and email here. (Or maybe I never subscribed in the first place, aha!)



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