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The Journal.ie is Obsessed with numbers

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  • #32
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,305 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Shoutcast Ireland wrote: »
    did any one see the spat on twitter between them and the irish mirror,the irish mirror ended up getting mad and post the person number of the person that owns/runs the journal and calling them thieves for robbing all the stories.

    Yeah, sites robbing stories can get seriously juicy, serious twitter spats.

    Photographers are the real deal though, they'd serial kill to get back their copyright to a photo.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • #33
    shamtastic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 145 ✭✭shamtastic


    The Journal is all about the comments section! I regularly skip the article to get a quick laugh :)


  • #34
    neaideabh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 534 ✭✭✭neaideabh


    shamtastic wrote: »
    The Journal is all about the comments section! I regularly skip the article to get a quick laugh :)

    That's the truth! and that was my point earlier... The Irish Independent are trying to go that direction on their website, however, as one poster pointed out earlier, they censor the shiite out of the comments!

    I go to the journal for the the comments.... I see a headline.... click on it and scroll straight down to the comments! A quick fix for a bit of banter and a trollers haven! The comments can also give a general viewpoint on how people feel about certain issues.

    The Journal, have done their research... well, they know what the people want anyways! To highlight the days news and to remind people of school, their youth, the toys the played with, the music they listened and everything retro basically!

    And it works, it gets you the news, but it brings nostalgia to the older thirty sometings who would know how to go on an trip down memory lane via the internet!


  • #35
    Armani Bewildered Topcoat
    Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭ Armani Bewildered Topcoat


    The comments sections are the only reason I go to news sites, except for RT, I actually read their stuff. Their comment sections are also terrific reading, particularly when the topic is Obama, or George Dubya.


  • #36
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    It's like some of you guys know all the websites.
    I just know boards, facebook and porn.com :o


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  • #37
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,484 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    neaideabh wrote: »
    That's the truth! and that was my point earlier... The Irish Independent are trying to go that direction on their website, however, as one poster pointed out earlier, they censor the shiite out of the comments!

    I go to the journal for the the comments.... I see a headline.... click on it and scroll straight down to the comments! A quick fix for a bit of banter and a trollers haven! The comments can also give a general viewpoint on how people feel about certain issues.

    It is in its arse, their 'poll' before the last GE showed Sinn Fein winning an overall majority. The comments section is like a cross between Indymedia and An Poblacht.


  • #38
    Kenny Logins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭Kenny Logins


    Seedy Arling wrote: »
    Nine out of ten people like lists.

    How many like surveys?


  • #39
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,598 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Liccle trinity wrote: »
    Im sick of seeing useless articles on the Journal.ie/Daily Edge about "Top 7 things to know about ....." or "9 most annoying things about...." or some other random Dos & Donts of sleeping. Really inane articles. Its a pity as the rest of their news is just fine but these articles smack of scrapping the barrel. Surely they have find something of more use and interest than these

    Haha, was just thinking that today. People love lists I guess.


  • #40
    Christ the Redeemer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭Christ the Redeemer


    "top 10 things we stole from reddit this week"


  • #41
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Hey I know right! Go to Listverse, it will provide the antithesis for what you're looking for. Don't be thrown off by the title either, that's just their sense of irony.


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  • #42
    TINA1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 372 ✭✭TINA1984


    5 THINGS YOU'VE DONE ON BOARDS.IE*

    Board.ie, a popular irish website is in the news this week with it being NAMA'd due to its sister site going belly up. Sure haven't we all done time on boards? We've put together a list that every person you know* has encountered whilst browsing the legendary Irish website.

    -pic of cat-

    1. Get a mod warning

    c'mon we've all done it!

    -Pic of cat at computer-

    2. Browsed their obscure forums!

    "wow they've a forum about mustard" they so crazy!

    -Gif of a cat on a dinner table pawing a jar of mustard-

    3. Thanked a post!

    Y'know like someone has said exactly what you said, amazing! you can thank them for typing what you wanted them to type VIRTUALLY!

    -meme of cat looking in mirror-

    4. Got banned from a boards.ie forum

    Who knew calling a sports team manager a Spanish Waiter would see your access denied!

    -Hitler Cat Pic-

    5. Read the Personal Issues forum

    You thought you were weird until you read the problems people post here, sometime's you read things that are eerily familiar. Wow that guy who beats his wife sounds like my uncle Seamus!

    -Pic of cat with beer bottle


    *Provided you're a college educated middle class 20/30 something

    VIEW COMMENTS BY POPULARITY

    Yeah Face Kickers a Legund!!


  • #43
    itsnotmyname
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 204 ✭✭itsnotmyname


    Wheres the "thumbs down" icon Boards ??


  • #44
    neaideabh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 534 ✭✭✭neaideabh


    Christ the Redeemer wrote: »
    "top 10 things we stole from reddit this week"

    Yeah but the Journal does a good job at bringing these items to those who wouldn't know that reddit, stumble upon (even boards.ie for that matter) existed!


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