Dunph can you delete dubliner2’s account and lock registration?
Also would anyone be interested in doing an aul church gate collection this weekend for Liam, just to help him out of the gutter so he can see the stars properly.
His forthright views would be very welcome.
the message board is now gone :lol: Mr "20,000"posts SLR must be having a nervous breakdown this morning, any reaction on provoview?
Jesus, what a fucking baby.
€15k a year me bollox.
The fact that his site did not use open source probably contributed to some cost.
It also made the site look ridiculously old and barring a massive overhaul that look couldn’t be fixed.
It had no search, no ability to embed, no PMs, no IM etc…
Rocko, does this place pay for itself?
Patrick Bateman has been viewing this topic for hours…
Laughter and tears
fuck him, the dirty old pervert. hopefully he has stashed enough pictures of womens football and camogie to keep himself occupied for the winter months. €15k, me fucking hole. if he did indeed pay anything like that over its 10 years or so, never mind annually, then whoever took the money off him made a complete mug of him.
[quote=“Pikeman, post: 430877”]
No way does it cost 15k to run, what is the most basic of sites out there. He’s crying out for someone to sponsor the site and “keep it running”.
Haven’t been on there in years but know a few lads that are on there every single day posting away.[/quote]
I recall reading an interview with him in the paper where he mentioned what he paid for the design and upkeep of the site and it’s ridiculous. He even had a go at us once for buying an off the shelf package and not getting an Irish person to build it.
I cant believe AFR is gone. It had gone weird in recent days.
Means I have to come back here with you loons.
[quote=“cluaindiuic, post: 430885”]Jesus, what a fucking baby.
€15k a year me bollox.
The fact that his site did not use open source probably contributed to some cost.
It also made the site look ridiculously old and barring a massive overhaul that look couldn’t be fixed.
It had no search, no ability to embed, no PMs, no IM etc…
Rocko, does this place pay for itself?[/quote]
He was too stubborn to just get standard software but that’s still crazy money to pay.
After the license fees, $150 I think, this site costs $9 a quarter I think. Could make that back in ads but don’t use adwords, partly because of lovely ladies and partly because it’s hassle and partly because nobody ever bothers clicking on our ads.
The football club and merchandising brings in about $500k a quarter.
:lol:
How real is the libel threat anyway? People send in warnings kind of thing not to mention their name or what?
The stuff puke is saying is true alright. The communications expert that he is he allegedly invested up to 100k in promoting the site and he was advertising everywhere. Before I ever knew about the site I remember reading those ‘articles’ in match programs and they were fucking dreadful.
The closure notice is hilarious, especially the quip about ‘entitlement’ which is reminiscent of many a rant about immigrants and the unemployed over there.
I’m looking forward to one of Runt’s famous poems on this whole episode.
You should pick up the domain name Rocko and use your proven merchandising skills to turn it around.
entitlement! after that prick robbed all the users from Matt Purcell and clarehurlers to begin with, he didn’t even have the dignity to change the name, you really could not make it up at this stage, in a quite corner of the internet, a certain DT is laughing away
This is the full fógra:
Closure Notice
Exactly twelve years ago this month I set up An Fear Rua-The GAA Unplugged! I have now decided to discontinue it. I have immediately closed the ‘Speak Out!’ forum but the Content Zone will continue for the moment.
An anonymous internet forum is an anachronism. It has been overtaken by the arrival of ‘open identity’ forums such as Twitter and Facebook. This model of internet comment is no longer viable, if the comment is to be within the law at all times as well as the bounds of good taste.
This has been a labour of love. In hard cash it has cost me more than €150,000 over the years. If I costed the time I’ve spent managing it – at even the average industrial wage – the total cost or investment would be the best part of €500,000. I have never made more than €10,000 a year on average in advertising revenue, despite trying the services of five or six ad selling agencies. It is simply not possible to make this site a paying proposition.
In that context, my decision is also influenced by the unreasonable sense of entitlement displayed by a growing minority of Registered Users. There is a sense that they can just register under a pseudonym, pay nothing towards the upkeep of the site or towards an insurance against libel matched by a total lack of any attempt to even understand – let alone accept – that I have a right, and a duty, to administer this site in accordance with the law and in the interests of everyone who used it.
I thank all the decent people who supported the site over the years. I regret that it has come to this and I wish you well in the future.
Anonymous forums are ‘an anachronism’ apparently :lol:
He still has these in the Leinster programmes I think. Pays for the Ad space but makes it up as an article, looking as if the GAA were using him for copy.
FFS