Call for boycott of stores

by literate Wed Mar 05, 2003 13:21

from above link
He added: "Some of my best friends are Irish - Michael Smurfit, Dermot Desmond, JP McManus".

by Mark O 'Hehir Wed Mar 05, 2003 14:04

It almost sounds like a piss-take. I wish I shopped in these places so i could boycott them.

by Brian Cahill - SP Wed Mar 05, 2003 16:07

Most of the krusties on Indymedia are semi-literate at best. Paul Kinsella obviously never finished Primary School.

by Ray Wed Mar 05, 2003 16:29

Post under your own name, or at least your own nickname.

by (not) Ray Wed Mar 05, 2003 16:32

You are just boring at this stage.

***the difference is that as the real Ray, I know the administrator passwords for this site, and so come in and change your author name, and add messages like this one. Now grow up or go away***

by Ray Wed Mar 05, 2003 17:00

Grow up. This sort of shit is pointless and childish. Its also fixable, in that the indymedia collective could, if we decided to, create 'locked' user identities, so that you'd need a password to post under certain user names, or would have to confirm your identity in e-mail.
We _could_ do this, but it would mean one of the people who helps run this site would have to put some time into developing the code. It would also mean extra hassle for all of the sites users, as they'd have to log in each time they post, or some shit like that. But every time an idiot like you posts under someone else's name we get that bit closer to deciding its necessary.
So, the question you have to ask yourself is, is the joke _that_ funny, and do you care _that little_ about the other users of this site, that you're going to continue with these (completely transparent) attempts to imitate other posters? Are you really that immature?

by AntiRay Wed Mar 05, 2003 17:05

No sense of humour. Likes showing off his power.

by Gaillimhed Wed Mar 05, 2003 17:14

Dont you think that the idiot would just go away if we all just ignored his bullshit, he loves this, all of us wailing and bleating and gnashing our teeth over his moronic amusements...ITS ATTENTION FOR THE SAD BASTARD, just ignore him, give it no attention and i bet'ya he'll fuck off and annoy some other site as soon as he gets bored.

by Ms Selfridge Wed Mar 05, 2003 17:14

Its not safe to stick to 1 name because some idiot may well imitate it.

by Ray Wed Mar 05, 2003 17:15

If you want to criticise the SP's position, do it under your own name.
If that's too daring for you, do it under an obviously false or 'humourous' name, like 'SPclone'.
Don't post under the name of a regular indymedia poster. Its stupid and childish.

by Pat C Wed Mar 05, 2003 17:22

Critical though I have been of IMC in the past, Rays Doomsday Option has some merit. I also think the impersonation ceases to be funny after a certain stage. ( Sometimes I am unsure which posts are mine!)

How can you have a proper row with the SP if neither side is sure whether the post is genuine? (They are not all as obvious as the ones here.)

by Eoin O'M Wed Mar 05, 2003 17:47

does ANYONE have anything to say about the bhs ceo comments?

Ignore Ray
Get on with the issues
Fuck the begrudgers

I'm off to a forum which takes my requests seriously.

by Daithi Wed Mar 05, 2003 22:11

Eoin - unfortunately it's in the nature of an Indymedia site that procedure/irrelevant stuff crops up. Best thing to do is to try and steer the 'conversation' back to what you're after. We do delete blatant trolling/irrelevant comments though. More importantly, though, Indymedia is most certainly not a forum, rather, it's a newswire. The function of comments is peer review - further information such as links - corrections - the most important content is in the stories and uploaded multimedia. There are plenty of discussion fora available on the web - we talked before about having separate wire and discussion areas but it didn't get off the ground. Also, the debates that result from posts are useful and do provide information that wouldn't emerge. However, sometimes the comments come to dominate the news-producing function of the site, when users approach the site as if it is Boards.ie or p45.net - the total opposite of credibility and 'media', no matter how you define it.

by barry Wed Mar 05, 2003 23:40

I've spent most of today trawling other IMCs looking to see what nice functions and features they have, preliminary to suggesting that indymedia.ie might change codebase to pick up on some of them. Things like logins to prevent identity theft, things like threading of comments so the lunatics can have their own line to slag each other and things like rating of articles and comments so that the real news and relevant contributions don't always get buried under the shite.

Thing is, whilst all of these features are used in different places, none of them seem to be very necessary. This is by far the most chaotic and vitriolic newswire in the IMC network.

So, in harmony with all the many Rays ;o) GROW THE FUCK UP PEOPLE.

If this is what Irish politics has always been like, no wonder its taken 800 years to get rid of the brits and looks like taking as long to get rid of FF.

by Avi Harari Thu Mar 06, 2003 09:36

Phillip Green is obviously just an idiot.

by Ray - (as editor) Thu Mar 06, 2003 09:42

Philip Green
by Seanin - Not great at the best of times Thu, Mar 6 2003, 1:12am
Racist remarks about the Irish
I live in London so this bothers me more than most.

Anyone want to expend their energies on boycotting this guy in Ireland? I have experienced a certain amount of low level racism in my 12 years here in London, although it is confined very much to the older generation.
I'd like to see Irish people hit this guy in the pocket.
Apologies to Indymedia if this doesn't constitute journalism, feel free to pull it if you want.

Slán,
Seanín.

related link: www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,907762,00.html

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by Seanin Thu, Mar 6 2003, 4:01am

Cover my shame please IMC :-)

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by Brian Cahill Wed Jun 18, 2003 18:25

The above comments attributed to me are not in fact mine. Someone has been deliberately posting up misleading comments under my name.