www.UpTheDeise.com
- For all your Waterford Wants and Deise Desires
UpTheDeise.com is offering
all of its message board members a chance to win a hurley signed by the
Waterford Senior Hurling team.
Let me tell you a little bit about message boards before I tell you more about
the draw...
Message boards are at the heart of Internet communities. Imagine being able to
discuss topics regarding Waterford with other like minded people such as the GAA,
Soccer, Politics, Religion, Jokes, History etc. whenever you wish? Say you get
home from a GAA match and you are bursting to discuss an incident with others to
find out what happened exactly, with message boards you can do just this.
To use message boards is simple, generally you must sign up or register to join
a discussion, but you may view discussions by just visiting the board and
clicking on the topic of interest to you. If you wish to input your own thoughts
you must sign up with a username and password. Your username on a message board
is part of what is called an avatar or a character that represents you online.
Generally you would not post using your real name but you might use a nick name
or something that means something to you. On some Waterford sites there are
people called Deise Girl, Korean Blaas and Large Bottles, to name just a few.
Once you have signed up they are simple to use. When you wish to post you just
visit the website and log-in. Once you are logged in you simply browse to the
board you wish to view and at any stage you can respond to existing posts or
start new topics. In general if you wish to respond to a topic you would click
the option “Post Reply” and if you want to start a new topic you could click the
option “New Post”. In either case a new screen will be presented to you with the
option to enter a subject heading and a message body, just as if you were
writing an E-Mail. Once you have written your piece you then simply click on
“Submit” and your message will be posted. If you wish to change your message
afterwards you can go back in and edit your post.
When you sign up to a message board it is important that you obey the policy of
the site as there would normally be active moderators checking for bad posts
that contain racist comments, explicit language or content unsuitable for the
general public. Members that post such content have their posts removed and are
notified by the moderating team and if they continue to post such content they
can be barred from posting. The comments posted by users is considered their own
content so posts of a libelous nature from members cannot be attributed to the
website hosting the board, especially if an active team of moderators police the
board and delete such content whenever they come across it.
UpTheDeise.com has a message board for all Waterford people including Waterford
United fans, Waterford Hurling fans, people who like chatting about the things
to do in Waterford City and County and the history we have here. In fact several
letters posted to politicians, businesses and papers have come directly from
discussion on the board. If you love Waterford and would like to get things off
your chest or let people know about something amazing in Waterford that not many
people know about you have to come online and tell us all. There is a community
of almost 600 people on the site waiting to hear what you have to say. The board
has almost 10,000 posts a month and more than 10 times as many views.
As a special way of giving back to the community, UpTheDeise.com is running a free
draw for all active members. Once a month, a random active member is selected
from the board to win a prize. Prizes such as UpTheDeise.com merchadise & DVDs are up for grabs
and as a special prize this summer a Hurley signed by the Senior Hurling team is
up for grabs.
Every month a winner will be randomly selected by our computers and posted on
the board.
So what is an active member says you, and how do I make sure I am in with a chance to win?
All you have to do is simply sign up to the board and make more than 5 posts in that month and you will be automatically entered into the draw...
The current month's prize and winners can be seen on the
All
Things Waterford board
Sher what have ye got to lose?
Lookin forward to seein ye online,
Sign up to the
board here
All de best,
Wellboy
www.UpTheDeise.com - For all your
Waterford Wants and Deise Desires