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Now Ye're Talking - to a Boards.ie Community Manager
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About 28-30%How much of boards.ie active membership is from outside of Ireland?
Do you think boards.ie plays any role in keeping the Irish diaspora connected with home?
One more. What's the best perk of the job?
(Or freebie you may have gotten over the years..)
Some for sure, but less so with the proliferation of more individual centric platforms like Facebook - they're simply better at doing the sorts of things people might want to do in terms of connecting with friends and family in a more personal way, but for general discussion, we're still relevant. As a "what's the pulse of the nation" sort of site, we're really good though.
I've been rather fortunate with perks - I got a couple of free phone out of Meteor and Vodafone who were having some manner of press event and everyone in attendance got one. Getting to meet and interview the 2 founders of Bioware was a real treat (video) and meeting Terry Gilliam, it was difficult to keep the fanboi in check (video). I did get him to autograph my "The Animator" card from my copy of Monty Python Fluxx which pleases me greatly
I have a list, yea. I rarely have to reference it cause the rest of the team all the way up to the board level are well aware of what will and won't fly on the site anyway.Do you have a list of things which the company side get told No! about, like ads between every post?
What is the strangest thing which has happened to you because of boards.ie?
The strangest thing that's happened...
I'll give a few answers cause I'm not sure I could pick. These ones are before I started working here
In no particular order:- I ended up playing poker in Graham Linehan's house one night and got to see an early version of an episode of season 2 of the IT Crowd
- I met and had a great chat and some drinks with Ram Vaswani and Ross Boatman of the Hendon Mob.
- The first Boards Beers
Meeting people and getting an "OMG you're Dav from Boards!!" sort of reaction - I promise you all this is a real thing and I have no idea how or why. It happened just this week after the discussion I was involved in at the Innovation Academy - a person from the audience insisted in having a picture with me. That's fking weird to me, I'm just a fat nerd who works on a website.Rachel_Ann wrote: »Rachel_Ann checking in!
Cadburys or Nestlé?
Chrome or Firefox?
Converse or Vans?
Rain or Sunshine?
Greatest captain of Star Trek?
Preferred OS?
Favourite 'guilty pleasure' song?
First console?
Favourite crisps?
Will it snow this Christmas?
Would you be opposed to a Konami Code on Boards.ie?
Are all your base are belonging to us?- Cadburys
- Chrome
- Vans
- Rain
- Captain Benjamin Sisko
- Windows 8.1
- Dragonforce - Through the Fire and the Flames
- Atari 2600
- Tayto Cheesy Onions, although a strong new challenger has appeared recently in the form of the Keogh's Farm Cheese & Onion offering.
- Yes - somewhere
- Not even slightly
- No, they are belong to CATS.
It's a good job I don't work in IT anymoreYou've mentioned girlfriends twice on this thread - are we to seriously believe IT guys get girlfriends?
I was away extolling the virtues of Shadows of Mordor to one of my friends last night and breaking him of his GTA V habit, but thank you for the offerGenuine gesture, no evil trap. I'm in the bath pub. Stall it?
erm, I do still have my original Feb '98 personal accountIf you didn't have Dav as your username, what would you choose? But the "work" username needs to be my name so there's no confusion when I'm dealing with people.
I changed it some years agoKharn maybe?
I love both equally.Cookie_Monster wrote: »Star Trek or Star Wars?
I think it was mike65.Who has the most postsWhere do you want to be in life in 5 years.
What angers you in real life.
Do you have a party piece.
Can you touch your nose with your tongue.- Not much further from where I am now tbh. I'd like to still be involved with Boards, heading up a hopefully expanded Community Team (cause we've had an influx of 30,000 more active members every week and there's loads to do).
- Almost every single aspect of "modern" Ireland makes me angry. A legal system that only works if you're rich, a health system that just does not work, a political system that is built with corruption and small minded thinking in mind at its core, essential services being the first thing that gets targeted for the chop, an organisation that cares more for the reputation of paedophiles than children being our "moral compass," our front-line civil service staff (Gardaí, Teachers, Nurses, etc) being asked to do more and more for less and less but most of all, the total lack of options and appetite for actually fixing any of it.
- I can play the guitar (badly) and sing and have been known to drop the odd metallized rendition of Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive on occasion.
- I can not.
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Yes... we just sit here waiting...AlanS181824 wrote: »What do you actually do all day?
Do yourself and Niamh just sit at computers all day willing a bug to pop up and give ye something to do?
Also, do you still see yourself working for Boards in say, 5 or 10 years time?
Does it ever get boring?
We have about 300 emails a week, Feedback, Admins, Mods, Site Dev, Help Desk, Prison forums to keep an eye on, Talk To forums to moderate, project meetings, sales meetings, client training, mod training, new user training,
I'm not really sure what you mean in that first part? Are there any famous Boards members? I know that at one stage Conor McGregor had an account as did WWE's Seamus.Is there any annomus user that is famous or maybe infamous for something?
Do you know the usernames of any politicians? I know some do post here.
I'm sure there are plenty more people of note, but I don't go looking for them - everyone's entitled to and should have their privacy respected. I don't even know the usernames of the people who work in this building.
It's Dav (as in have) which is short for Davitt. Michael Davitt is an ancestor of mine which is where the name comes from. It is a pain in the arse having a surname that everyone mispronounces or misspellsIs it Dave without an "e" or pronounced like have?
See Mr Doyle's post below.Why cant we have nice things?
I post on a few other forums around the tubes, usually speciality subjects for things that aren't already covered on Boards (almost all gaming support forums now that I think on it).Do you post on any other forums? Do you like any functions that other sites have that you could "borrow" to make boards better?
I use Twitter a lot and I recently rejoined Facebook after an almost 5 year absence. Man was that a confusing interface to get used to. I was properly baffled by what I was being shown on the screen. I also read quite a bit of Reddit which is probably the closest platform to what we offer - topic based communities. Their options for customising sub-reddits is something I definitely want to steal pay homage to.
That's exactly what I immediately said when I saw the question too.darraghdoyle wrote: »B______ Y__ T____ Y_______ A_ N_____
I just had to explain that thread to Seán this morningWhy has this thread been allowed to remain on the site? I thought that Boards wanted to be better than the rest of the internet.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055626095
It's whatever metaphor you'd like to describe a place where people gather to talk - pub, water fountain, back of the church at mass, etcC.K Dexter Haven wrote: »Hey Dav.
What do you think Boards.ie contributes to society? Is it the new local shop/pub?
*reason for the question is that every major news story over the last few years I've clicked on boards.ie to see what the developments were*
Thanks Dav:) That's exactly what we want it to be too - we just want it to be bigger and to allow you to not only talk about the day's events with people in general, but to find out what's on in your locality or what issues are affecting your neighbours so that you might, as a group, get together and get them sorted. 200 individual people sending an email to a county council, for example, can easily be ignored when none of them know the others are mailing in too, but you let those 200 people get organised and make an exponentially bigger noise and request of their council, then they're a lot more likely to get results.
I never knew the guy.Do you miss the poster Biggins?
Very rarely, the days of competitive 1v1 FPS games seems to have passed unfortunately. The only 1 v 1 competitive games these days are Fighting games of course (Street Fighter, Marvel vs Capcom, Smash Bros, etc), Hearthstone and Starcraft 2. LoL and DotA are the biggest e-Sports games at the moment by a long way. CoD has some tournaments too, but that's only consoles, so I'd have about as much interest in that as watching paint dry. CS:GO has had quite a few scandals this last couple of weeks, I hope it won't affect its numbers, they're regularly getting near to the 500k viewers for the bigger events now which is great.Do you still play Quake?
When I come home from work, I have no TV in my flat, just my PC, so I stick Twitch on and watch whatever StarCraft 2 is on (I'm really bad that the game, but it's my favourite one to watch).0 -
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Because you touch yourself at night. A bit of an office in-joke to be fair from when Darragh, Ross & Conor were here and Tom was filling in the role of "Boss.". It was the most frequent answer to *any* question asked. No, it's not big or clever or even appropriate for an office, but there you have it 0
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Because you touch yourself at night. A bit of an office in-joke to be fair from when Darragh, Ross & Conor were here and Tom was filling in the role of "Boss.". It was the most frequent answer to *any* question asked. No, it's not big or clever or even appropriate for an office, but there you have it
Ah...
We have a similarly inappropriate bunch of phrases (and objects, up to and including a whacking stick) in the office i work in too.0 -
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The other one is Niamh. She was promoted to the title of Community Manager recently and I'm delighted because she's been a part of the team since Boards Deals and she's a whole lot better at a whole lot of the more business admin side of things than I am. Niamh also has a different outlook (I would say far more positive!) on life to me, so we each approach a problem from a very different point of view which often means 2 very different potential solutions to any given issue.
What happened to Nicola?
It took me long enough to cop on
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We have several weapons or weapon like items. I play softball and often have my bat at the desk too for good measure.knucklehead6 wrote: »Ah...
We have a similarly inappropriate bunch of phrases (and objects, up to and including a whacking stick) in the office i work in too.
The PC I use is a basic Dell Optiplex, try and all as I might, I cannot convince the company to spend €1000 on high end components. If only they realised I'd probably never leave if there was a gaming PC at my desk (I'd also never get any work done of course!).What's the work PC setup you use?
Can/do/should you work remotely, or is it easy to be on boards out of working hours as a consumer as against an employee?
Any chance of some photos of the boards office?
Couple of photos for you all, first of all, a shot of all of our desks (except Matt and Chris who life with the Sales and Sys Admins respectively on the third floor).
Second is my POV from my desk Shout out to SW for my first Christmas card of the year too (yes, the card with The Devil on it ). You can also see Chris had made a visit, that's his head sticking out over the top of my left monitor. The art stuck to the side of my PC comes from my good friend and starving artist, Mr Killian Dunne.
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Some how, the images weren't showing up for everyone else, sorry about that.
Nicola left us over a year ago. She has recently started as Community Manager with Zomato who have just opened in Ireland.What happened to Nicola?
It took me long enough to cop on
Right, I'm calling it a day there, I've got someone lined up for a new AMA after lunch.
Thank you everyone for your questions, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did 0
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