Requiem for a dead site
Grandad January 10th, 2008
I see a great site has disappeared from the Interweb, without so much as a murmur.
KICK.IE is no more.
I was very sorry to see it go, as it was an Irish site that catered well for the Irish market. It was the Irish Digg.
Of course, the reason it was closed was because it was abused. It was spammed by every two-bit yokel who thought he had something to advertise.
I shall miss Kick. It used to be one of my first ports of call, until the spammers started.
I can’t let it pass without a mention.
Thank you Gavin.
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Grr.. Spam. Hate it but some people must clicking on the damn things to say that it just keeps on coming.
I actually saw an advertisement on the television last night for Spam! The poor b*st*rds are trying to revive it as a food. They must curse Monty Python
Spam glorious Spam!
In keeping with a Monty Python theme, head on over to Donncha’s site and have a look at the video he has on todays entry. West African scammers acting out the dead parrot sketch. Brilliant!
I saw that!
Poor old kick.ie, that’s very sad, they were doing commendable work and it could have become a good service. I had noticed, er, just one or two spammers in there alright. At least I think that’s what you call people promising to make your penis bigger.
Or are they called strippers. I’m all confused now.
It was a mecca for spam, drove me mad but the theory was good!
It was great in the earlier days, before the spammers found it. You’ll find a lot of my earlier posts had ‘Kick’ buttons.
I used to get a lot of referral traffic from it too.