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  • 09-11-2015 11:19am
    #1
    Dozen Wicked Words
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭


    Not working, at all.

    There are ideas that have been green-lit for months, haven't happened yet, ideas that have reached the criteria as set out in the charter, haven't been reviewed yet, ideas that have sat there for months on end haven't been closed yet.

    I appreciate the new site is taking up all the energy, but if the site is in effect ignoring the Forum Requests, why keep the forum open.

    Just be honest that nothing is getting done with all requests and temporarily close the forum. If the criteria for new forums is no longer the one you want to use, say so.
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    #2
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    How come this, and the threads in the forum requests forum, are being ignored?


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    Shield
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 9,644 CMod ✭✭✭✭Shield


    This is in no way to be taken as an official answer. I'm just posting this as a boards.ie user.

    At a guess, it's probably because the #1 priority is to get the new layout off the ground as quick as possible. The office has a list of stuff to do, and this changes daily. It can range from the company being sued to how to prevent the recent DDoS attacks.

    Again - this is all just guesswork. Unless you actually work in a place, it can be hard to understand why certain things receive higher priority than others, which, from the outside looking in, don't appear to be that important.

    -Shield.


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    #4
    Dozen Wicked Words
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    That's the problem though Shield, its all guesswork because no one who actually knows has felt the urge to tell anyone. One line at top of forum request front page in a bold sticky stating there would be a delay or cancellation or under attack from aliens. One line. That'd be it. Bit of honestly wouldn't go amiss.


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    _Tombstone_
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    Shield wrote: »
    This is in no way to be taken as an official answer. I'm just posting this as a boards.ie user.

    At a guess, it's probably because the #1 priority is to get the new layout off the ground as quick as possible. The office has a list of stuff to do, and this changes daily. It can range from the company being sued to how to prevent the recent DDoS attacks.

    Again - this is all just guesswork. Unless you actually work in a place, it can be hard to understand why certain things receive higher priority than others, which, from the outside looking in, don't appear to be that important.

    -Shield.
    AMA Forum put back for over two years waiting on a new layout.

    Two Years!!!

    Boards has other problems.


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    #6
    Dozen Wicked Words
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Terminal illness forum request has its first birthday on the 22nd. Time flies eh.


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    Tom Dunne
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    Update: This is something we will be looking at in the next couple of days.

    Changes are afoot, bear with us.


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    Dozen Wicked Words
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    Tom Dunne wrote: »
    Update: This is something we will be looking at in the next couple of days.

    Changes are afoot, bear with us.

    About the Forum Request forum? Good to know.


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    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,053 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »
    About the Forum Request forum? Good to know.

    Re-read his user group and you'll have your answer.


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    Dozen Wicked Words
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Spear wrote: »
    Re-read his user group and you'll have your answer.

    Thanks but I think you're giving me more credit than I deserve if you presume I know what his user group is, or how to read it.
    As in The Traveling Wilburys?
    Could you dumb it down, say 100%


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    Spear
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    Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »
    Thanks but I think you're giving me more credit than I deserve if you presume I know what his user group is, or how to read it.
    As in The Traveling Wilburys?
    Could you dumb it down, say 100%

    He's back to being an admin once more.


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    Dozen Wicked Words
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Spear wrote: »
    He's back to being an admin once more.

    Ah, got it. Thanks.


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    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Ha.

    In my original post, I was being witty and had an arrow pointing to my new stars, showing I was back as an Admin.

    But I thought that might be a tad pretentious, so I deleted it. :D

    Sorry for the confusion.


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    #14
    Dozen Wicked Words
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    I think I was probably being dense! Put it down to post night shift idiocy, or just my normal level of idiocy. Good news the stars back where they belong.


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    _Tombstone_
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    The Traveling Wilburys?


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    Dozen Wicked Words
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    Tom Dunne mods Travelling Wilburys forum. I got wrong end of stick, in fact didn't get hold of said stick at all.


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    _Tombstone_
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    OOps, didn't think I'd posted that. What is that Forum?

    Theirs alot of private Forums with weird names knocking around.


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    Dozen Wicked Words
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    _Tombstone_ wrote: »
    OOps, didn't think I'd posted that. What is that Forum?

    Theirs alot of private Forums with weird names knocking around.

    Yeah, dunno, some kind of masonic deelies I reckon.


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    #19
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,274 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    It's a forum for Wilburys. Who travel.

    Crap, I've said too much already...


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    _Tombstone_
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    The Traveling Wilburys were an English-American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty. The band recorded two albums in 1988 and 1990, though Orbison died before the second was recorded.

    Never heard of 'em


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    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    _Tombstone_ wrote: »
    The Traveling Wilburys?

    Savage band. Check them and how they came together out.


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    _Tombstone_
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    If someone wants to make me an admin so that I can access all those odd Forums and make sure theirs nothing untoward going on in them...I'll take one for the team and do it.


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    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    MugMugs wrote: »
    Savage band. Check them and how they came together out.
    <3 The Wilburys. We'll never see the like of them again.

    If some studio head ever tries to reboot the Wilburys for the 2000's with Justin Bieber and 4 other destroyers of culture, I will end them.


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    #24
    Tom Dunne
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    The first rule of the Travelling Wilburys forum - you don't talk about the Travelling Wilburys forum.

    Zaph, you're up for a paddling at our next meeting in Newgrange on the 21st.


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    Beasty
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    Tom Dunne wrote: »
    Zaph, you're up for a paddling at our next meeting in Newgrange on the 21st.
    Well if that's the extent of your travels I'm not interested....


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    #26
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Beasty wrote: »
    Well if that's the extent of your travels I'm not interested....

    Newgrange is the, um, departure point.


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    #27
    Dozen Wicked Words
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    Tom Dunne wrote: »
    Newgrange is the, um, departure point.

    tumblr_nm4db7P9hc1tszwcio1_540.png

    I await the leaders intervention in Forum Requests.


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    Melodeon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,264 ✭✭✭Melodeon


    Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »
    I await the leaders intervention in Forum Requests.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=593

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    #29
    Dozen Wicked Words
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Credit where it's due, they have done a brilliant job of tidying up that forum. Now if the 2 forums in limbo appear we'll be cooking with gas.


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