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Where have all the old boardsies gone?

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  • #102
    bucks73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭bucks73


    Never left...just dont post much. :D


  • #103
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    As the years have gone on, I find that I browse more and post less.
    Still check in most days.


  • #104
    amen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭amen


    less time to post


  • #105
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    I remember when the Cuckoo's Nest was funny and the Thunderdome had no rules and Hagar was still around, those were the days.


  • #106
    Supercell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,483 ✭✭✭✭Supercell


    Whats a gold account ?
    https://www.loughlinstown.ie/

    Have a weather station?, why not join the Ireland Weather Network - http://irelandweather.eu/



  • #107
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    woah this thread is a lurker magnet :D


  • #108
    Johro
    Registered Users Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    MrMatisse wrote: »
    Where have all the 1999-2005 joiners gone?

    Seems most posters nowadays are 2008+ joiners?

    Alien abduction?

    Wimmin?

    Berties fault?

    Atari Jaguar?

    Quake rehab?
    Soylent Green is Boardsies!


  • #109
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    just had one of the busiest weeks of my life so wasnt really on at all for the last week, its only going to get busier so i may end up closing my account

    Why would you close you're account here just because things are busy ? when things are not so busy you will obviously want to banter and associate yourself to the community, and if you closed you're account you would have to start a new one again. I cannot understand why people close their accounts with sites like this because they will use them again as is a fact.


  • #110
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    zenno wrote: »
    Why would you close you're account here just because things are busy ? when things are not so busy you will obviously want to banter and associate yourself to the community, and if you closed you're account you would have to start a new one again. I cannot understand why people close their accounts with sites like this because they will use them again as is a fact.

    Not really, if you stop posting, never log on you will forget about it in a week.


  • #111
    hickorydock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭hickorydock


    I think you should report a post if it is ott completely and is not picked up on by the moderator and someone is being targeted on the thread. That said, you have to take it with a pinch of salt or just ignore anyone who you simply disagree with. Sometimes it is easier said than done but it is better than spoiling a thread with an argument. It is a new thing to have the close account feature. I think it is good to be able to close the account if you just can't find the time to go on threads but it is only rarely that someone has to be so definite about closing an account. Just my own opinion. What do ye think?


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  • #112
    hickorydock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭hickorydock


    If you subscribe you can change your identity and not have to close your account.


  • #113
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    hondasam wrote: »
    Not really, if you stop posting, never log on you will forget about it in a week.

    But my question is the immensity of boards.ie in all relations to the amount of different threads and interconnection to information from here is excellent so I can't imagine a long term poster quiting. it also keeps communication close for every person no matter what country they are in. well unless thay are mods and just need a break from the job, I can understand that but for a user, this site is and has many many interactions of all kinds of topics which is amazing and which is also used in a very extreme way (as in the amount of members).


  • #114
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    zenno wrote: »
    But my question is the immensity of boards.ie in all relations to the amount of different threads and interconnection to information from here is excellent so I can't imagine a long term poster quiting. it also keeps communication close for every person no matter what country they are in. well unless thay are mods and just need a break from the job, I can understand that but for a user, this site is and has many many interactions of all kinds of topics which is amazing and which is also used in a very extreme way (as in the amount of members).

    People get bored or they simply have other things in their life that does not include posting on line. Quite a few long term posters have left.


  • #115
    Savman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,323 ✭✭✭Savman


    Anseo.


  • #116
    drive3331
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭drive3331


    oh...a roll call... mise anseo!


  • #117
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    I caught a fierce dose of the leprosy.


  • #118
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    Just don't post much anymore,really. Still read quite a lot though.


  • #119
    Yakuza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    Still here...


  • #120
    regi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,280 ✭✭✭regi


    I wonder how many of us Feb 1998ers still log on regularly...

    Feb 1998 was the date Cloud imported the users from the last software in (I think!), so the first 300 or so of us date from then.


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  • #121
    cosanostra
    Registered Users Posts: 880 ✭✭✭cosanostra


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y2SIIeqy34


  • #122
    karma_
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,798 ✭✭✭karma_


    Thrill wrote: »
    As someone who lurks the prison forum a little I noticed quite a few older members getting banned over the past year.

    Boards started perma banning people who had a lot of infractions and a lot of the older members who had picked up infractions and temp bans over the years got the boot.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056423660



    Example


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056455070

    I've been here from around '04, I lost my account in the great hacking scandal, however, that kind of attitude to posters makes me just want to pack this place in for good, although it may be taken out of my own hands as my infraction list is fairly long.


  • #123
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    hondasam wrote: »
    People get bored or they simply have other things in their life that does not include posting on line. Quite a few long term posters have left.

    I would say a lot re-reg'd or lurk. I know of 5 posters, big posters in the relevant forums who've closed their accounts and started new ones.

    You never really leave boards..... EVAR!!! :eek:


  • #124
    fenris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭fenris


    You Rang?


  • #125
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    Who is the oldest boardsie?


  • #126
    ROFLcopter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 138 ✭✭ROFLcopter


    This is my third account, the first was created on 9/11, when I wanted to respond to the thread that day. The second was created a few years later when I couldn't remember the password for the original one. I then closed that one last October and started this one.


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  • #127
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    ROFLcopter wrote: »
    This is my third account, the first was created on 9/11, when I wanted to respond to the thread that day. The second was created a few years later when I couldn't remember the password for the original one. I then closed that one last October and started this one.

    Why do some people close their accounts and start new ones? Just curious. Apart from the forgetting password reason?


  • #128
    ROFLcopter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 138 ✭✭ROFLcopter


    aaronjumper wrote: »
    Why do some people close their accounts and start new ones? Just curious. Apart from the forgetting password reason?

    It's like when your mother told you not to touch something and you did it any way.

    The button was there calling me.....PRESS MEEEE!!!!!!


  • #129
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    Fair enough, sorry to bombard you with questions my nosey side sometimes gets out of control.


  • #130
    ROFLcopter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 138 ✭✭ROFLcopter


    aaronjumper wrote: »
    Fair enough, sorry to bombard you with questions my nosey side sometimes gets out of control.

    It was an impulse thing. The button was there and I pressed it.


  • #131
    Born to Die
    Closed Accounts Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Born to Die


    aaronjumper wrote: »
    Who is the oldest boardsie?

    Me


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  • #132
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    Born to Die wrote: »
    Me

    I see. What do you think of the price of tea these days? :D


  • #133
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,946 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    I'm only posting to see what my join date is.

    EDIT: 7 years! :eek: I know after joining initially, I left my account idle for a couple of years so I didn't really see the Boards of Old-ish.


  • #134
    Boards.ie: Neil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 503 ✭✭✭Boards.ie: Neil


    i'm an oldie despite what this account says, my other account is from 2001


  • #135
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    2006, guess that makes me middle-aged :o

    These threads always seem to bring out a few pre-2000 regs with no more than a few dozen posts between them. In stark contrast to the newbies of less than 6 months, well on their way to 10k + posts.

    Quality over quantity


  • #136
    Joko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 126 ✭✭Joko


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    I think it was 04-06 when it all started to fall apart, for some reason it suddenly got kinda popular among college students and then more noobs followed. There was a time when making 40 posts in one day wasn't common and was lightly discouraged as spam, now you see users who registered 10 months ago with post counts in the high thousands. ****'s crazy wack.

    You're making 44leto uncomfortable :o


  • #137
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,585 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    I'm still here. I actually opened an account in 1999 used it maybe twice. Forgot my username and password so just re-regged in 2002. Nearly 10 years here. I hope I get a prize for being here 10 years. A small gift if you will


  • #138
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,316 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    I'm still here


  • #139
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    I just posted this to see when i joined.


  • #140
    Doc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Doc


    Most post when we have somthing to say not to just add to our post count.


  • #141
    Gavin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,676 ✭✭✭Gavin


    N00bs !!


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  • #142
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,395 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Doc wrote: »
    Most post when we have somthing to say not to just add to our post count.

    +1


  • #143
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    ANXIOUS wrote: »
    I suppose most people here don't remember face kicker, thaedydal, being banned for mentioning a certain shakesphere play. I think when daft bought a stake, the admins lost power to do random things.

    Ahhh I remember facekicker. the lovable scamp :D


  • #144
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,585 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Please refrain from mentioning any MCD events. Any further posters discussing any such events will receive a site ban.


  • #145
    MrMatisse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭MrMatisse


    Ah those were the days, many will find the above post baffling


  • #146
    FTGFOP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭FTGFOP


    bluewolf wrote: »
    i'm not old, i'm temporally challenged

    Mmm... tempora.


  • #147
    entropi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    aaronjumper wrote: »
    Who is the oldest boardsie?
    Oldest registered I believe, would be Cloud's trial account. Oldest user? I've heard of someone aged close enough to 80 posting...this was a few years ago though.
    antodeco wrote: »
    I'm still here. I actually opened an account in 1999 used it maybe twice. Forgot my username and password so just re-regged in 2002. Nearly 10 years here. I hope I get a prize for being here 10 years. A small gift if you will
    Coke & hookers. Old skool treats for old skool posters ;)


  • #148
    Born to Die
    Closed Accounts Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Born to Die


    aaronjumper wrote: »
    I see. What do you think of the price of tea these days? :D

    Shocking


  • #149
    joolsveer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭joolsveer


    I wish I had joined in 1998!


  • #150
    ROAAAR
    Registered Users Posts: 316 ✭✭ROAAAR


    I just got my account back running!!!!! I have a new one I made in 2010 but now I should be able to merge them, right??!?!?!?!?!:D:D:D:D


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  • #151
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Anyone else have this in their heads?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iovcnjuf2WU


    Edit - Just realised it's coming on 10 years. For nostalgia, I looked up my first post.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=479676

    About dial up. And littered with misspellings. I can only assume I used to type with my face back then.


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