Thumbs down on the journal ie

realistic anorak · 10-11-2014 03:52PM #1

Whats the deal with the thumbs down button on the journal .ie ? If a story is about a missing 6 year old girl and someone comments I hope she is found safe and well, about 20 people will give that comment a thumbs down

BoJack Horseman · 10-11-2014 03:54PM

TheJournal is the mittens-wearing 'special' cousin of boards.ie

Its an angry place these days.

super_furry · 10-11-2014 03:55PM

Journal commentators are barely a step above Youtube commentators. The site itself is an awful mess too - their stories are either clickbait or ripped off from proper news outlets.

Mr. CooL ICE · 10-11-2014 03:57PM

Fat fingers on mobile devices

ReefBreak · 10-11-2014 03:58PM

I agree, it also seems to be jam packed with "Gerry Adams is kewl" Shinnerbots these days.

efb · 10-11-2014 03:59PM

Boards is better because of the tighter moderation

whisky_galore · 10-11-2014 04:15PM

Because...some people just like to be dicks online.

Chunners · 10-11-2014 04:32PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Because...some people just like to be dicks online.

Mostly this ^^^, it's a sad fact now a days that if you give people a way to take anonymous pot shots at a stranger online like the option to thumbs them down then 7 people out of 10 will abuse it just to be a dick and to see if they can get a reaction

RayM · 10-11-2014 04:35PM

The Journal comments section is the internet equivalent of the pub that serves all the people who are barred from all the other pubs in the area.

Diabhal Beag · 10-11-2014 04:41PM

I like that people get as far as the comments reading thejournal. The articles are Joe.ie pretty much.

The Backwards Man · 10-11-2014 04:42PM

RayM wrote: »

The Journal comments section is the internet equivalent of the pub that serves all the people who are barred from all the other pubs in the area.

And all the optics have Buckfast on them.

Thrill · 10-11-2014 04:43PM

Some people are probably giving a thumbs down because they are reacting to the story that a girl is missing. You dont give a thumbs up when you hear a 6 year old is missing.

Others are giving a thumbs up in reaction to the OPs comment that he/she hopes the girl is found.

Phonehead · 10-11-2014 04:58PM

The Journal just frustrates me, from the poor standard of writing (when they don't just copy and paste from other sites & change a few words here and there) while the comments section is a complete and utter mess of hardliners or fake accounts set up to milk reactions.

frenchmartini · 10-11-2014 05:08PM

Phonehead wrote: »

The Journal just frustrates me, from the poor standard of writing (when they don't just copy and paste from other sites & change a few words here and there) while the comments section is a complete and utter mess of hardliners or fake accounts set up to milk reactions.

Here here! It's awful.

hfallada · 10-11-2014 05:12PM

The people that comment on the journal are a "special type of people" that should keep their comments to themselves. Their arguments are generally everything is corrupt, job bridge or the stats are lying

cletus van damme · 10-11-2014 05:26PM

super_furry wrote: »

Journal commentators are barely a step above Youtube commentators. The site itself is an awful mess too - their stories are either clickbait or ripped off from proper news outlets.

or buzzfeed :eek:

mikom · 10-11-2014 05:29PM

The journal.ie............... the home of twitter accounts that have only ever been used to post troll comments on The journal.ie

Birneybau · 10-11-2014 05:33PM

All those Irish sites, Joe.ie, Her.ie, The Journal are all awful, awful yokes.

mikom · 10-11-2014 05:35PM

Birneybau wrote: »

All those Irish sites, Joe.ie, Her.ie, The Journal are all awful, awful yokes.

Joe.ie and Her.ie are basically reddit scrapers.

Pinch Flat · 10-11-2014 05:36PM

I replied to a fairly innocuous piece in the journal about plans for high rises in Dublin. I was expecting a beighing mob outside my door with pitch forks such was the negative response. It was also my Facebook account I used to reply. You just can't be told sure with the amount of knuckle draggers that are out there.

suicide_circus · 10-11-2014 05:39PM

Bad writing, stolen writing, clickbait, avoid.

Teyla Emmagan · 10-11-2014 05:46PM

I asked a friend of mine if she'd seen an important news article (on giant siders) on the Daily Mail recently, and she responded that she'd actually given up reading it and was now getting her news content from the journal.ie!!

Personally I think the journal.ie is even more bottom of the bucket scraping than the DM, which at least will always have at least one set of nice pictures of sink holes in the Pacific in the 'science' section.

recylingbin · 10-11-2014 06:19PM

realistic anorak wrote: »

Whats the deal with the thumbs down button on the journal .ie ? If a story is about a missing 6 year old girl and someone comments I hope she is found safe and well, about 20 people will give that comment a thumbs down

Because no one cares about your hopes, your pointless unhelpful comments or your attempts to score internet kudos.
If you cared, truly, you'd be out looking for the missing 6 year old and not typing a smug comment on a website.
I hope that clears it up.

HamsterFace · 10-11-2014 06:22PM

What annoys me is when people thumb down true statement just because they don't follow the usual line of name calling politicians and wishing death on Enda Kenny

BoJack Horseman · 10-11-2014 06:26PM

HamsterFace wrote: »

What annoys me is when people thumb down true statement just because they don't follow the usual line of name calling politicians and wishing death on Enda Kenny

If you only go by theJournal, the next & every election will be a landslide win for DDI/SF & AAA.

You don't have to hate the government to post there.
But it helps.

Red Alert · 10-11-2014 08:05PM

The journal's so-called journalists really don't like comments that don't agree with their extreme liberal social viewpoint. Not only that, but unlike on Boards.ie, when you are banned there's no indication of it other than that your posts don't come up and also all bans are permanent. Appeals etc are ignored.

HamsterFace · 10-11-2014 08:14PM

It's also quite childish and pandering to the feeble minded to make such obvious and unintelligent caricatures of all politicians in government whilst placing those politicians who seem to communicate only in hyperbole on pedestals

I want to emigrate when I read it but then remind myself that those people are in no way indicative of general public opinion.

I actually can't wait for the next election and really hope fine Gael get in again just to see the confusion in their little minds

Phonehead · 10-11-2014 08:25PM

Red Alert wrote: »

The journal's so-called journalists really don't like comments that don't agree with their extreme liberal social viewpoint. Not only that, but unlike on Boards.ie, when you are banned there's no indication of it other than that your posts don't come up and also all bans are permanent. Appeals etc are ignored.

LOL so true, have you ever seen the tantrums the "journalists" throw when someone points out inaccuracies, grammar mistakes or accuses them of copying/pasting and rearranging a few words from some other source. Strangely very few times have I seen a response from the accuser to the tantrum! so the liberal use of banning may be an explanation.

unjedilike · 10-11-2014 08:32PM

Some of the spelling is atrocious. Nobody proofreads anything. I used to comment on their grammar errors (they're supposed to be journalists) but it happens so frequently there was no point.

Mint Aero · 10-11-2014 09:47PM

ReefBreak wrote: »

I agree, it also seems to be jam packed with "Gerry Adams is kewl" Shinnerbots these days.

Just go away

Red Alert · 10-11-2014 11:24PM

unjedilike wrote: »

Some of the spelling is atrocious. Nobody proofreads anything. I used to comment on their grammar errors (they're supposed to be journalists) but it happens so frequently there was no point.

They'll probably ban you for the mental anguish of having it pointed out to them, or throw a hissy fit.

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