Fucking hell... ..I was just checking out a documentary on RTE about farming in Ireland.
Jesus fuck, but farmers really are the most base humans you'll ever meet.
I'd say Val's even worse - mostly because he's just bovinely stupid himself.
I shouldn't really watch any shows coming out of Ireland, they just make me loathe the place even more.
https://www.rte.ie/player/movie/rté-investigates-dairy-s-dirty-secret/418643496038
It was watching the oireachtas live grilling earlier on that brought me there, but I had a nosy around the titles listed for viewing.
It's one thing setting up a website...but a forum is nothing without its writers and posters.
I've never done anything like build a site, unless of course it was setting up a page/group on an existing site.
I learned a lot about coding using myspace years ago, but a lot's changed since then and I'd be out of my league trying.
On the other hand, with regular social media, people build all kinds of sites for different reasons and purposes. The BBBB was established by a local historian in Ballyfermot who wanted to set me up to ensure I would continue writing material because I'd been too much for a number of other community pages who had subsequently blocked me. Loads of the locals got pissed off and so they joined this news page built by a man they knew and a local writer they knew and liked. Then he seconded me and as soon as I wrote the first article, he stood down was only ever a regular member after that.
The difference with that kind of social media set-up is that it isn't about the members - it's about the main writers and they material they/we/I create. They hop onto the page, read whatever they like, comment if they want. Argue too, which I relish. All the articles I ever wrote for it are all still there. So when I look at the provided stats available to admin, I can see which threads/articles are still getting views. The public can and are very welcome to write things too, and I try to keep it light and and a bit off-colour. Local language kind of thing.
A blog needs
members creating material.
A social media community requires one or more writers and a specific audience to write
for; and that's what I do.
Anybody can set up a site, but well over 90% of them fail. Isle has historically been very lucky to attract some of the best posters around, it makes the effort worth while.
I reckon the thing with the BBBB is that some of my neighbours might be intimidated about their written English. They read mine and loads of them think I can't be from Ballyer. I remind them that I went to the same schools they and their kids did, and are. So I get lots of private mail from them instead. I reply to all of them and try my best to point them in the right direction.
Salt of the earth people have big problems too.
It's also why I think a forum set up by a few unmentionable individuals would fail, aka. they'd just ban anyone with different views to themselves. A site owner needs to consider xyz, otherwise his/ her forum will just be another failed entity in an ocean of a million other failed websites. I think I'll go with the 48 month option in future as well as it's much less hassle.
Exactly what Jambo did in reply to the first comment on his very first 'self-modded' thread.
That's just Jambo though - he has to try to distract from his tiny penis and massive personality problems.
