Lt. Boon wrote: Reebok Trotter wrote: Lt. Boon wrote:Burnden Aces is a fan site, if BTID posted on our main page that Messi had signed for Bolton, would you believe it?
I'm in the believe it when I see it camp.
What has Burnden Aces got to do with the transfer window?
Boggers posted a link to a news story on that site claiming we'd officially signed Medo.
Just to clear things up a bit about Burnden Aces.
Burnden Aces (BA) is just another forum like ours BUT unlike us the owner is in it to make money for himself - this is done by having advertisements and attracting sponsors.
He therefore needs to have people visiting the site and posting - so as that in turn brings other people in to read and hopefully click on the adverts and earn him more money.
What the owner does is to 'capture' information from other sources - and that probably includes this site as well - and rewrites it and passes it off as his 'news story' and 'advertises' it via news collating sites, such as 'newsnow' or 'aggrobot', to attract people to his forum (and hopefully get them clicking the adverts!).
For instance only the club can officially say if we've signed someone or not - and in this instance BA's owner has quickly used the official notification to do his 'story'.
It's obviously a free world and people can go and look on any site they want for news on the club but I can guarantee you that very few news stories (if any at all!) will be original source ones on Burnden Aces.
If you doubt me check out any future 'news' story's from BA, then look at other sources such as the clubs official news, or the Bolton News site, etc and you will always find that someone else as 'broke' the news before they have.
In short the owner of BA is out to make money from his readers (otherwise he wouldn't bother rewriting something that is as already broken already and simply post the source link as we do on here).
We may be many things on here but one thing we are not is trying to 'play you' to simply make money for ourselves!