A prime example of their "quality" is one of the front=page stories at the moment that claims Bradley Walsh has exposed The Chase as a fixed, simply because he told Anne Heggerty off for answering a question before he'd finished reading the answers. They really do seem to get a kick out of making mountains out of molehills.
That's just how advertising works. They need visitors to click on those ads to make them money. So they publish articles to get people to come to the site. Human nature means people want to hear secrets, outrageous stories, and hear their ideas reinforced. So the best stories to attract people to click their ads are those which take two minutes, have a bit of "ooh", a bit of "aah", and a bit of "see! I knew that was the case". Facts, sense, logic and compassion is all wasted when you're just trying to get clicks, and often work against your aims.
As someone said the other day "Being right or wrong doesn't matter on the internet".
*see also Mail Online. There's a lot of stuff posted on there which wouldn't be allowed on print, but it gets a lot of attention before being removed when the lawyers hear about it. They don't care, they've already made their money from the adverts.
The editorial is no different to the Daily Star who'll exaggerate a story from a quote in an interview which is barely related to the interview given and then splash with it.
Clickbait nonsense, but we're not DS's target audience.
I would predict Xenforo as the platform considering it has the old vBulletin developers working on it, and no doubt they'll be helping out behind the scenes. Should be a fairly simple migration as they'll no doubt have done a full test on a recent backup of the live data anyway, it'll just be taking forever!
I would predict Xenforo as the platform considering it has the old vBulletin developers working on it, and no doubt they'll be helping out behind the scenes. Should be a fairly simple migration as they'll no doubt have done a full test on a recent backup of the live data anyway, it'll just be taking forever!
I've dug around and I have reason to believe they've gone with Vanilla Forums for their software.
I would predict Xenforo as the platform considering it has the old vBulletin developers working on it, and no doubt they'll be helping out behind the scenes. Should be a fairly simple migration as they'll no doubt have done a full test on a recent backup of the live data anyway, it'll just be taking forever!
I've dug around and I have reason to believe they've gone with Vanilla Forums for their software.
I hope it runs smoother than the last board. When they started having adverts here there and everywhere the forums slowed down dramatically on Internet Explorer for me.
I understand the ads were the cause of the slowdown, after the upgrade, the ads will still be sourced from the same place, so they will still be slow and cause slowdown. One would think.
Last edited by John Koenig on 15 December 2016 10:21pm
I understand the ad's were the cause of the slowdown, after the upgrade, the ad's will still be sourced from the same place, so they will still be slow and cause slowdown. One would think.
