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Post by winston on Jan 23, 2012 14:36:40 GMT 1
This can only end in tears for them.
I fail to see how this subscription idea will increase their income. Anyone previously reading online for free is unlikely to miss the Tele that much that they will start paying. Anyone paying 40p per day for the Tele may think that they are getting a 'bargain' at £4 a month and sign up and as stated, if site visit numbers fall and advertising income falls.
Either way, overall Tele revenues plummet.
What they should do is start a 'Digger' section based on that Glasgow paper. That certainly seems to ruffle a few feathers and would certainly worry a fair few people in the toon and surrounding villages down here.
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Post by samfregreenock on Jan 23, 2012 14:44:20 GMT 1
This can only end in tears for them. I fail to see how this subscription idea will increase their income. Anyone previously reading online for free is unlikely to miss the Tele that much that they will start paying. Anyone paying 40p per day for the Tele may think that they are getting a 'bargain' at £4 a month and sign up and as stated, if site visit numbers fall and advertising income falls. Either way, overall Tele revenues plummet. What they should do is start a 'Digger' section based on that Glasgow paper. That certainly seems to ruffle a few feathers and would certainly worry a fair few people in the toon and surrounding villages down here. ha i mentioned that paper before too winston - somehow I can't see the Tele doing that -  |
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Post by rod2mc on Jan 23, 2012 15:00:38 GMT 1
Tele = bog roll
and if I could wife my arse with the online version I would, but buying a new monitor every day is not cost efficient
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Post by mivi on Jan 23, 2012 15:05:23 GMT 1
I've just been informed by Himself, that a broadsheet he takes online charges £1.99 per month and the Tele wants double that.
CheeriotyTeletime.
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Post by rod2mc on Jan 23, 2012 15:10:21 GMT 1
i think we will make up our own stories and talk about them Can I get the job of Chief Shit stirr.......hack |
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Post by tiddles on Jan 23, 2012 15:43:32 GMT 1
Hopefully we'll see a migration over to here.
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Post by tiddles on Jan 23, 2012 16:23:01 GMT 1
A VERY PECULIAR THINGI looked in on the Tele's site and find that my profile has been swapped with that of Selkie. It includes her password, email etc.. I wonder who has mine?  I think a well email to them is called for and after that another one to the Data Commissioner.
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Post by Wee Jock on Jan 23, 2012 16:39:56 GMT 1
Strange indeed tidds, checked my details and they are OK. Take a screen shot of the page and include it in your email, that way they cant deny what's happened
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Post by tiddles on Jan 23, 2012 16:48:30 GMT 1
I have saved them both as .pdfs using Acrobat
I wonder what they are up to or is it sheer incompetence. They are breaking the law anyway.
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Post by samfregreenock on Jan 23, 2012 16:50:56 GMT 1
I have saved them both as .pdfs using Acrobat I wonder what they are up to or is it sheer incompetence. They are breaking the law anyway. you want to google that person's name - shockerooni........  |
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Post by samfregreenock on Jan 23, 2012 16:55:21 GMT 1
Merciful Christ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! think we're gonnae need a bigger billboard |
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Post by tiddles on Jan 23, 2012 16:55:56 GMT 1
I think she is on here but with a different name. Perhaps they want me to re-register so that I can get banned. They tried something odd with you didn't they Sammy?
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Post by samfregreenock on Jan 23, 2012 17:12:29 GMT 1
I think she is on here but with a different name. Perhaps they want me to re-register so that I can get banned. They tried something odd with you didn't they Sammy? yes my original name "locked up" saying it couldn't be accessed |
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Post by tiddles on Jan 23, 2012 17:15:27 GMT 1
I smell................shite! It's just as well I have a load of old gibberish on my profile.
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Post by Wee Jock on Jan 23, 2012 17:16:32 GMT 1
I kept getting locked out despite putting in the correct details, in the end I had to change my password and that was a process and a half.
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Post by tiddles on Jan 23, 2012 17:19:33 GMT 1
She has nothing on her profile apart from her email address and real name but she might have. Thank goodness she is, 'one of us' otherwise I'd be worried what might be posted using my profile. Mind you, that is assuming she has my profile. Eeek! It could be robert65!!!!!!!
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 23, 2012 17:49:43 GMT 1
many years ago the tel was good and when you look back and i mean years ago the way the journalist put it was fantastic....full of atmosphere, nowadays you just dont get that.......i wont miss it....i even passed it in the corner shop this morning and didnt give it a second glance
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Post by rod2mc on Jan 23, 2012 17:54:07 GMT 1
Jock, get rigth in aboot the keywords on this site, every conceivable keyword that realtes to the tele.
Oh and make sure the bots/spiders (google etc) can access the baords, that way you ranking should improve and start stealing the tele's thunder (ok thunder is kinda guff, squeak perhaps)
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 23, 2012 18:01:28 GMT 1
tiddles it could be worse you could be PROUDTOBELABOUR
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Post by Wee Jock on Jan 23, 2012 18:06:42 GMT 1
A quick google search produced this, should have left more links in the bloody tele. |
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Post by tiddles on Jan 23, 2012 18:12:18 GMT 1
Oh it's ok Jock. The only thing that you might want to add to is the banner at the top. When people arrive at the site, there's not really any indication what the site is about.
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Post by tiddles on Jan 23, 2012 18:17:06 GMT 1
I have no profile at all now and I notice that they have locked up their cached pages. What stupid arseholes they are.
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Post by selkie on Jan 23, 2012 19:12:35 GMT 1
lol I guess anyone that did google me got a bit of a shock  Thank you for letting me know Tiddles, have sent them a harshly worded e-mail letting them know I am "Displeased". Slightly understated way of describing what I put in the e-mail, but there you go! I am so glad that I am suspicious enough of websites that I didn't include all the information asked for therein, but still a little worried all the same. Tiddles may I ask very nicely, if i need the screenshots that you have taken that I may have access to them? and thank you so much again for letting me know it had happened. When I logged on I got, well........ me. |
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Post by bleach on Jan 23, 2012 19:20:59 GMT 1
Nice one selkie ;p - those at the Tele really are an incompetent bunch of idiots.
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Post by myfindhorn on Jan 23, 2012 19:21:16 GMT 1
They have locked us out and you can only read the crap pages..................does the lock on the stories mean they are better crap stories, oh ! well I have been thrown out of better places
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Post by rod2mc on Jan 23, 2012 19:58:32 GMT 1
I remember seeing the web admin job in the tele, TBH the coding on their site is dire, think they got a first year student to do it.
Login form on Chrome looks a bit dodgy and IE runs it in compatibility mode badly!
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Post by linda wallace on Jan 23, 2012 20:07:20 GMT 1
anyone good at hacking....oh could you imagine one of us hacking the tele and putting our own story up....
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Post by Wee Jock on Jan 23, 2012 20:23:17 GMT 1
Oh it's ok Jock. The only thing that you might want to add to is the banner at the top. When people arrive at the site, there's not really any indication what the site is about. New banner added as well as message at login |
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Post by rod2mc on Jan 23, 2012 20:31:29 GMT 1
anyone good at hacking....oh could you imagine one of us hacking the tele and putting our own story up.... TBH, I think that would be quite easy |
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Post by tiddles on Jan 23, 2012 21:00:57 GMT 1
The thick plottens:
From me to Tele:-
I checked onto the Tele site and found that my profile has been substituted for that of, 'selkie' (**************). I do not know this person but I feel certain that he/she would not like to discover that her personal email address has been made available to third parties. Equally, I am rather concerned as to where my profile has gone and who has access to it. Please attend to this immediately.
Please note that Acrobat images have been created of these pages lest the matter needs to be taken further.
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Tiddles
From the Tele to me:-
Good afternoon,
Apologies for the problems you having using the system.
Firstly, I can confirm your own account is still available and you should be able to log in using your standard email/password combination that you have previously used. We do not store password in an unencrypted format and so you may need to reset your password.
With regards to the profile for a different user showing up, this is not something that should happen unless you are accessing the site from a computer which has not logged out of a specific user. I haven't been able to replicate your problem on any other machine within the office here.
Can you give us some more information please?
Did you click a link to the site, are you using a public computer etc?
There are no issues that I am aware of that could cause a user to log in to the site as a different user. Could you also send me the screen captures that you have taken?
Regards,
Hugh, Web Team
And me to them:-
Well Hugh, here's a screenshot of what greeted me when I visited your site today plus an Acrobat image of *********** profile. I have my username and password stored so login is automatic. I was astounded to discover that I was no longer me.
I am sure you are already aware that *********** is most displeased about all this and who can blame her. Before you go off on flights of fancy about me our any of my friends on, 'Not The Tele' being involved in this, be aware that I am a General Practitioner, NOT Alan Turing!
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Iain Tiddles
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I think a well email to them is called for and after that another one to the Data Commissioner.
