Comments on: YourCar.ie ‘Silly Stuff’ – More Like ‘Incredibly Offensive Stuff’

By: jobs (ivan)

jobs (ivan) — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:52:00 +0000

What did I miss!? What did I miss!?

By: Killian

Killian — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:42:12 +0000

Im getting this from it now…

ADODB.Field error ’800a0bcd’

Either BOF or EOF is True, or the current record has been deleted. Requested operation requires a current record.

/page.asp, line 30

No ASP error handling!

By: Pearce

Pearce — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:47:12 +0000

On return from holiday I was horrified to see the developments to our silly stuf section. This was bad management on our part as too many people have had access to the content without proper direction. I have to take responsibility for this which I do. This matter has now been addressed. Mea Culpa. Apologies to anyone that may have been offended, that was certainly not our attention.

By: Brian O Connell

Brian O Connell — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:59:40 +0000

I think its quite good, personally I cannot see what the problem is. I do object to people voluntarily appointing themselves as moral guardians. The authorities are there for that. Thats my opinion anyway.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:47:23 +0000

[UPDATE]

@John

My apologies but I just checked the page in question and they seem to have removed quite a lot of content.

Most especially they have removed the image that previously was positioned at the top of the page which was the one that most people found offensive.

I will spare you the detail but I do have a cached version of their site that I spidered when writting this piece.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:44:02 +0000

@John

Would you be happy for children to see that Simpsons image that was displayed at the top of the page?

TBH If your site is for the corprate market then it should be appropriate. I am all in favour of bringing laughter into business, but not at the expense of offending some of your customers.

I’m quite sure my mother wouldn’t want to see that Simpsons image and, considering she would be part of the demograhic many of those car dealers are targeting, I would have to consider that content inappropriate.

I wonder would all those nice Ford dealers share your views?

By: John Lepayes

John Lepayes — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:31:27 +0000

I thought this to be extremely funny; Good jokes, a differing approach to corporate life; Well done to people at yourcar for bringing some laughter into business, maybe some newer jokes though!

By: Louie

Louie — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:53:50 +0000

That is sick, sorry but that’s the true.

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