Boards.ie being sold to Eircom! wtf?

Dathai

Netwhizkid...you are an utter legend , you know that?

FranknFurter

hehe
(A site where the word "eircoN" is mentioned in OVER 500 threads, theres somthing they would like to buy allright :P )

Nice try (almost).

Karoma

I was right all along...

Oh dear.

asset stripping

mmmmm....assets....mmmmm

My company Dark Side (With added hyperlink and all!)...

Naughty spammer. go sit on the naughty step.

the honk forum

Who told you about the honky forum? Did they tell of the secret song? Someone has to keep whitey down,damnit!

I promise to eliminate hang times and downtimes and the 3.am backup will be no longer a problem.

Wow! "No backups. No problem."
You,sir,are nothing short of a gehenius!

The word wetpisskid will warrant instant site banning and IP lockdown.

What about netpisskid? netwhizkiddyfiddler? And so on?

I am board’s future.

I've called a meeting of all those who agree and wish to hear more from you...

tba

I for one welcome Wetpisskid as our new dictator.

danniemcq

Demeant0r wrote:

Oh my, but if this is true and we do get paid for moderating, then... happy days!!

mods gettin paid for doin the work they do???

sure they all might as well join the council

Shabadu

netwhizkid wrote:

I was right all along, Boards is a valuable commodity. I have been in contact with Babcock & Brown and as this acquisition of boards.ie is currently been undertaken by the soon to be retired Eircom management it may again be sold if any asset stripping goes ahead. My company Dark Side will definitely be bidding if it goes ahead. I intend to alleviate the burden on Subscribers by making the honk forum free but on an invitation basis only. All new members will get a free t-shirt on subscribing and 8 new servers will be installed. Regi I will employ you full time to look after the technical side of things. I also shall ban all IP's from certain Telephone exchanges in an attempt to keep Bubbles at bay. I shall also hire him as a security consultant to test the new site. I shall take boards.ie into the top 20 on big boards. There will be changes Christian Neo Cons and Japanese Gamers will become slightly more prevalent as time goes on. I intend to spend over €6million on the project and realise the profits before doing an Float on the stock exchange, all members with over 2,000 posts will get free stock and be represented on the boards.ie board of management. I expect to reserve 33.33% of the stock for board’s member during the IPO. I am board’s future. I promise to eliminate hang times and downtimes and the 3.am backup will be no longer a problem.

The word wetpisskid will warrant instant site banning and IP lockdown.

Netwhizkid; why haven't you subscribed? I mean, surely you must have a credit card, what with being such a millionaire entrepeneur and 1337 internet whiz guru and stuff?

stevenmu

**Timbuk2** wrote:

The only details about this in the moderator forum is the plan to fool everyone because its 1st April

You've obviously never seen the mod forum. We couldn't collectively organise a pi** up in a brewery (and I mean that literally)

BuffyBot

I've called a meeting of all those who agree and wish to hear more from you...

That room is way too busy to accuarately represent the number of people who want to hear more from him..

Hugh Hefner

Someone should put this on that April Fools list on Wikipedia.


P.s. I am not willing to take a pay cut just because Juggling is in "Hosted". :cool:

YeatsCounty

Psst lads, it's past midday now. Time to wrap it up.

DaBreno wrote:

I, for one, welcome our new Insect Overlords. And I'd like to remind them, that as a trusted celebrity, I can be useful in rounding up slaves to toil in their underground sugar mines.

Karoma

Hugh Hefner wrote:

P.s. I am not willing to take a pay cut just because Juggling is in "Hosted".

pffft! you'll have to start paying for the privilege.

flogen

Shabadu wrote:

Netwhizkid; why haven't you subscribed? I mean, surely you must have a credit card, what with being such a millionaire entrepeneur and 1337 internet whiz guru and stuff?

Do you think millionaire entrepeneurs make big bucks by giving money to places like boards.ie??? I mean, if it had charity status he could write it off as tax-refundable, but it doesn't even have that!

mad m

I believe.....

Hugh Hefner

Karoma wrote:

pffft! you'll have to start paying for the privilege.

Shhh, don't give them ideas. See, you have to bring out your "game face". That way they know they're not dealing with a sucker! Then I ride the money train all the way to Otisville and beyond... eh, back to the future, excelsior.


Edit: So it's midnight. Time for the big reveal?

Talliesin

stevenmu wrote:

You've obviously never seen the mod forum. We couldn't collectively organise a pi** up in a brewery (and I mean that literally)

That's unfair.

So far we've only failed to collectively organise pіss ups in pubs and clubs.

The OP

Hobbes wrote:

you can get to the forum from the first post at the very top of every forum.

No you can't. Show me a screenshot of where this mysterious link is!

Tar.Aldarion

How much did it go for in the end?

**Timbuk2**

The OP wrote:

No you can't. Show me a screenshot of where this mysterious link is!

Its not there now because they stopped the announcement. Aprils Fool's is over, so why keep it up

/)rakai

K-TRIC wrote:

You're going to site-ban me for using the term "Eircon" !!!!. To the best of my knowledge there isn't a company called "Eircon", so its not a defamatory term.

Plus the N key is like, so close to the M key.
Easy to make that mistake, probably wouldn't be a very good publicity stunt for Eircom if it was revealed members of THEIR forums were banned for typos.

MrVestek

WHAT?! Noooo!!!!!!!

That's like.... that's like.... just the...

NOOO!!!! And I have to find out about this on my weekend down to Cork too :-(

Could have been worse though... they could have been bought by Microsoft.

MrVestek

****e that reminds me... I forgot all about my own website's april fools... ahh well.

Sparky

I seen a hack on vB.org, that if you select a certain user, you can preform an aprils fool on them.

It reverses their posts, adds |_337 and generally makes it look broken, im sure if we tried that, many users would be going WTF is wrong with my posts.

muckwarrior

Talliesin wrote:

K-TRIC, persist in using the term "Eircon" and you will be site-banned.

What about €ircυnt? Thats my personal fav.

Talliesin

muckwarrior wrote:

What about €ircυnt? Thats my personal fav.

LOL. If you'd actually said that on the day I would have found it hard to resist sitebanning you, just for the day, to keep the joke going

MrVestek

I prefer Eircommunists myself but that doesn't seem to be catching on :P

Talliesin

Achilles wrote:

I prefer Eircommunists myself but that doesn't seem to be catching on :P

That would have made sense before they were privatised. Now we have a situation that combines the worse parts of public-ownership with the worse parts of open competition.

MrVestek

I wasn't really thinking about it that in depthly, it just always sounded right to me, regardless or weather it was comparable or not.

Ivan

I think Eircommunists gives communists a bad name!

FX Meister

So when is the deal going through? What's in it for me?

DeVore

Please, please stop...

DeV.