Kildare GAA Official Forum Closed?!?

Its pretty much a glossed up and updated version of the last website. Doesnt look like the "Consultant" put much effort into any new design.

Its an obvious improvement but the trick is to keep it updated.

Cant find the forum Stonecold?

inexile wrote:

www.kildaregaa.ie

this fixures weeks not even on it . looks good .

nah - don't like it...

So was there a draw last night for the next round of the championships?

Its on tonight at 7pm live on KFM apparently.

http://forum.kildaregaa.ie/

Thats the forum, I like the penalties............. not, plus bans for posting pictures (think we would all get de bullet there)

Looks ok but as Sam has pointed out the key to it is keeping it updated. Time will tell how that goes.

Yes buts its clear that they don't want a forum, so why did they bother? The penalties and rules are draconian plus who are the Kildare GAA IT Committee hmmmmmmmm

Their forum should not be used until Kildare run in the Championship is over - The county board pulled the plug on the old forum, without so much as a warning. I hope their new forum has no new posts over the next month or so. It has taken a few weeks and great effort from JME to get this site up and running - it has served us well all year and will serve me just the same until our journey ends on the 19.09.2010 (please God).

New website my arse - not so much as 1 picture, 1 video of our great journey this year, no fixtures no results - whats the point ??

"While all involved have put considerable time and effort into the project, it is important to acknowledge that the project is still very much a work in progress "

Would certainly have to agree with the above, websites in which I have to scroll down to the bottom of the page to see that latest news drive me nuts. The design really is not great a lot of our club websites have a better design than this.

As for the forum lets stick with what we've got, JME has done a great job. We abide by most of the rules they've laid down anyway but just through sheer common sense. Might be fun for a few of us to try and join using our current usernames to see how we get on.

Hi All,

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Guys,

I am a member of the IT committee and just reading some of your comments about the site. Like the positive ones... and of course there are going to be some negatives.

There seems to be a huge disconnect in terms of the forum. Are the rules that bad? What is unreasonable about them?

We are not taking away from the work the guys done on getting this up and running. This is just a genuine attempt to get all Kildare fans on one forum.

fionnmccool wrote:

Its on tonight at 7pm live on KFM apparently.

that's not mentioned on the website?

Quote :

Guys,

I am a member of the IT committee and just reading some of your comments about the site. Like the positive ones... and of course there are going to be some negatives.

There seems to be a huge disconnect in terms of the forum. Are the rules that bad? What is unreasonable about them?

We are not taking away from the work the guys done on getting this up and running. This is just a genuine attempt to get all Kildare fans on one forum.

All Kildare fans were on the one forum 3-4 months ago - then without warning and totally unreasonably the County Board shut the forum down.

This forum has served loyal Kildare Gaa fans through the summer with an avenue to chat about games, debate topics, provide updates through the summer. Something I have enjoyed and contributed to all Summer.

I have no intention of jumping ship now back to a place from where we were all unceramoniously kicked away from 3-4 months ago.

flourman you got there before me. Fully agree with you.

shortgrass wrote:

fionnmccool wrote:

Its on tonight at 7pm live on KFM apparently.

that's not mentioned on the website?

it is shortgrass under news

flourman wrote:

Quote :

Guys,

I am a member of the IT committee and just reading some of your comments about the site. Like the positive ones... and of course there are going to be some negatives.

There seems to be a huge disconnect in terms of the forum. Are the rules that bad? What is unreasonable about them?

We are not taking away from the work the guys done on getting this up and running. This is just a genuine attempt to get all Kildare fans on one forum.

All Kildare fans were on the one forum 3-4 months ago - then without warning and totally unreasonably the County Board shut the forum down.

This forum has served loyal Kildare Gaa fans through the summer with an avenue to chat about games, debate topics, provide updates through the summer. Something I have enjoyed and contributed to all Summer.

I have no intention of jumping ship now back to a place from where we were all unceramoniously kicked away from 3-4 months ago.

Here here, well said.

I was a reader (but not poster on the old forum). I thought it was quite good, but from my uderstanding (and I have looked into it a good bit since I came onto the IT committee in April or May). The county board did not "take the old forum down".

My understanding is that there were some inappropriate personal comments made by someone and that the account was disabled by proboards following a complaint. Proboards were the provider of the old forum.

Ideally we would have loved to have exported the old posts from that board onto our new one.

I will state again guys, it is not county board against the real fans. I am a real fan and genuine that the forum should be run correctly, even moderated by high posters.

not moving from this forum

Stonecold wrote:

http://forum.kildaregaa.ie/

Thats the forum, I like the penalties............. not, plus bans for posting pictures (think we would all get de bullet there)

This is not tru Stonecold. We just don't want inappropriate pictures posted as people use this in work etc.

flourman wrote:

New website my arse - not so much as 1 picture, 1 video of our great journey this year, no fixtures no results - whats the point ??

The fixtures and results section is actually quite good. Take a little "get to know" but once you have it, you should be impressed. We are still updating results and fixtures but I think most of the adult senior football results are there. Check out the "fixture and results" link on the left hand side of the front page and play around with the interface. You can filter by club/competition etc.

fone wrote:

not moving from this forum

I totally understand. We are not trying to do away with this forum. From a google search it is obvious this was the only forum for the past few months. Listen the decision has been made from the commitee to allow a forum be uplaoded for use.


I don't want to be confrotational or patronising coming on here, telling the members that they should do this and that. I just came on to acknowledge this forum and hopefulyl answer some questions.

You really are trying to sell this website to us!!!

I joke, best of Luck with the New Site.

But this is my new home...

decbuck wrote:

Stonecold wrote:

http://forum.kildaregaa.ie/

Thats the forum, I like the penalties............. not, plus bans for posting pictures (think we would all get de bullet there)

This is not tru Stonecold. We just don't want inappropriate pictures posted as people use this in work etc.

The fixtures and results section is actually quite good. Take a little "get to know" but once you have it, you should be impressed. We are still updating results and fixtures but I think most of the adult senior football results are there. Check out the "fixture and results" link on the left hand side of the front page and play around with the interface. You can filter by club/competition etc.

Most of the pictures on this forum are pretty harmless and so won't cause a problem at work. I think it's better for the county board if we stick with this forum anyway because then we can post what we like and the county board don't have to worry about protecting itself against allegations of libel.

In this day and age, many more people are becoming aware of the existance of boards such as this. While this is generally a good thing, it also means that the posts are more likely to be read by a casual visitor to the site. In these circumstances, the board must protect itself against allegations of libel, or defamation and so any posts which make derogatory remarks about a named, or clearly implied, individual, are a serious breach of the rules, and dangerous to the board itself.

fionnmccool wrote:

You really are trying to sell this website to us!!!

I joke, best of Luck with the New Site.

But this is my new home...

Thanks. Look I will continue to read this forum as there is good stuff on it. Please do provide feedback on the site though (by e-mail or whatever). We want the site to improve and improve, but the main way is by feedback from the users on what they want.

gaaweb wrote:

decbuck wrote:

Stonecold wrote:

http://forum.kildaregaa.ie/

Thats the forum, I like the penalties............. not, plus bans for posting pictures (think we would all get de bullet there)

This is not tru Stonecold. We just don't want inappropriate pictures posted as people use this in work etc.

The fixtures and results section is actually quite good. Take a little "get to know" but once you have it, you should be impressed. We are still updating results and fixtures but I think most of the adult senior football results are there. Check out the "fixture and results" link on the left hand side of the front page and play around with the interface. You can filter by club/competition etc.

Most of the pictures on this forum are pretty harmless and so won't cause a problem at work. I think it's better for the county board if we stick with this forum anyway because then we can post what we like and the county board don't have to worry about protecting itself against allegations of libel.

In this day and age, many more people are becoming aware of the existance of boards such as this. While this is generally a good thing, it also means that the posts are more likely to be read by a casual visitor to the site. In these circumstances, the board must protect itself against allegations of libel, or defamation and so any posts which make derogatory remarks about a named, or clearly implied, individual, are a serious breach of the rules, and dangerous to the board itself.

Harmless pictures are fine. We are not banning pictures, just inappropriate ones.

I

decbuck wrote:

fionnmccool wrote:

You really are trying to sell this website to us!!!

I joke, best of Luck with the New Site.

But this is my new home...

Thanks. Look I will continue to read this forum as there is good stuff on it. Please do provide feedback on the site though (by e-mail or whatever). We want the site to improve and improve, but the main way is by feedback from the users on what they want.

Only feedback I would have is to move the forum, fixtures & results and Healthy eating buttons/links to the side panels and make the image holder a little smaller at the top of the page, allowing the latest news articles to appear on screen without having to scroll down. I like the use of google calendar for the fixtures we use this on our website and I find it works well.

But at the end of the day the format doesn't really matter that much once we're kept up to date with the latest news, results and fixtures.

Good Luck