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Joe.ie goes Bang!!

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    #2
    da_miser
    Registered Users Posts: 640 ✭✭✭da_miser


    And nothing of value was lost...


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    #3
    RocketRaccoon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,461 ✭✭✭RocketRaccoon


    da_miser wrote: »
    And nothing of value was lost...

    Peoples jobs?


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    da_miser
    Registered Users Posts: 640 ✭✭✭da_miser


    RocketRaccoon wrote: »
    Peoples jobs?

    They are "journalists" they can learn to code, thats what the journalist told the rest of us to do when we lost our jobs


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    sasta le
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,586 ✭✭✭sasta le


    Heard they were crap to work for except the few there at the very start..yound media folk wanted to be involved but not as good as expected


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    q85dw7osi4lebg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,502 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    "In court documents, BPC said that, under a 2018 loan agreement, it has advanced some €6.02 million to Maximum Media with monthly interests repayments of some €68,000. The current loan balance is €6.1 million, it said."




    How, what, why.... That is incredible debt for a clickbait site.


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    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,529 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    I dunno, I feel sorry for people who have lost work, but they didn't create anything of worth themselves and piggybacked off other people's content to get those clicks.


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    radiotrickster
    Registered Users Posts: 883 ✭✭✭radiotrickster


    For the most part, Joe.ie has been a bit clickbaity but it’s also brought some great talent to the forefront. An example is Carl Kinsella, a great writer with a large following on Twitter.

    I’m not sure how Joe has retained its credibility with advertisers after the click-farming scandal. Massive job losses and debt were always inevitable, imo.


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    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Why does a site like joe.ie need €6m? That’s ridiculous


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    GT89
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭GT89


    Absolute crap the lot of it. It was all either click bait or virtue signalling


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I only ever really saw adds for it, but I won't miss them..


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    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    godtabh wrote: »
    Why does a site like joe.ie need €6m? That’s ridiculous

    Reading that article it alludes evidence of financial mismanagement and unpaid taxes.

    6 million is a lot, reads similar to events at the FAI.


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    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Get Woke, Go Broke


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    #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Joe.ie, the thinking man's diversion. Especially after a lobotomy. In this week's quiz, what colour is blue? And did you hear the McDonald's drive thru is reopening, queue up today and you will receive service tomorrow.

    It hardly registered. No loss then.


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    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 18,483 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    10 Reasons why Buzzfeed if failing, you wont believe number 6

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users Posts: 18,018 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Will miss the GAA hour with Wolly Parkinson. Hopefully starts something separately.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



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    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 16,349 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    RocketRaccoon wrote: »
    Peoples jobs?

    A child can copy and paste.


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    AndyBoBandy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,573 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    Would occasionally check the desktop website as they usually do a daily 'what movies are on tonight' feature, which was mildly useful.
    Although even that became more and more troublesome lately as it would take ages for the page to load because of all the ads the page contained.

    Also very cringy was the weekly Late Late show 'stories' (that were clearly sponsored by RTÉ);
    Started off with a piece on a Friday saying who was on the Late Late that night, then shortly afterwards they also started saying who was on Graham Norton (I guess to not make the RTÉ ad look so obvious), but for the Late Late preview it was a paragraph for each of the RTÉ staff that was on that night, and for the Graham Norton preview, it was simply named what Hollywood superstars were on that night's show.

    Then you could be guaranteed that from Saturday to Monday, there were usually 2-3 stories a day about the 'mad gas craic' that was had on the previous nights Late Late show, with customary clips of said 'banter'. Isn't Ryan Tubridy brilliant........

    Joe.ie, will not be missed.


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    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    The quizzes were the only half decent part of the site.


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    Lemsiper
    Registered Users Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Lemsiper


    https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Overview/Working-at-Maximum-Media-EI_IE1276804.11,24.htm


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    ChelseaRentBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 474 ✭✭ChelseaRentBoy


    GT89 wrote: »
    Absolute crap the lot of it. It was all either click bait or virtue signalling

    Much like the TheJournal.ie. so.


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    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    This is what they deserve. Started as a site for sports and banter for lads, ended up becoming lefty clickbait and stoking falsehoods to further their advertisers agenda.


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    #23
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,182 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    JOE.IE was NOT woke! Please.

    And your politics don't sink you ...lack of talent will lack of original content will..lack of creativity will.

    JOE was basic.


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    Silentcorner
    Registered Users Posts: 6,505 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    JOE.IE was NOT woke! Please.

    And your politics don't sink you ...lack of talent will lack of original content will..lack of creativity will.

    JOE was basic.

    That is what makes them woke, the culture itself is devoid of any creativity....

    Look at the state of the BBC or Channel 4....

    Woke Culture or politics or whatever you want to call it is commercial suicide.


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    Muscles Schultz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 302 ✭✭Muscles Schultz


    radiotrickster wrote: »
    For the most part, Joe.ie has been a bit clickbaity but it’s also brought some great talent to the forefront. An example is Carl Kinsella, a great writer with a large following on Twitter.

    I’m not sure how Joe has retained its credibility with advertisers after the click-farming scandal. Massive job losses and debt were always inevitable, imo.

    What was the click farming scandal?


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    MoonUnit75
    Registered Users Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭MoonUnit75


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    JOE.IE was NOT woke! Please.

    And your politics don't sink you ...lack of talent will lack of original content will..lack of creativity will.

    JOE was basic.

    You're right, they were so not woke. I thought they were stunning and brave.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Mantis Toboggan wrote: »
    Will miss the GAA hour with Wolly Parkinson. Hopefully starts something separately.

    Yeah that was my first thought too.


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    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,182 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    MoonUnit75 wrote: »
    You're right, they were so not woke. I thought they were stunning and brave.
    I thought they were annoying and clickbaity.


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    silver2020
    Registered Users Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭silver2020


    Junior Purple Moisture wrote: »
    "In court documents, BPC said that, under a 2018 loan agreement, it has advanced some €6.02 million to Maximum Media with monthly interests repayments of some €68,000. The current loan balance is €6.1 million, it said."




    How, what, why.... That is incredible debt for a clickbait site.

    fools and their money....



    But once they were caught blatantly cheating using a click farm, the writing was on the wall.


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    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,182 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    I don't know why i hated joe.ie
    But i am experiencing schadenfraude.


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    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    radiotrickster wrote: »
    For the most part, Joe.ie has been a bit clickbaity but it’s also brought some great talent to the forefront. An example is Carl Kinsella, a great writer with a large following on Twitter.

    I’m not sure how Joe has retained its credibility with advertisers after the click-farming scandal. Massive job losses and debt were always inevitable, imo.

    what is kinsella other than an uber WOKE PC merchant ?


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