Slight minority taking over boards

biko

Now, according to this Dubs make up just about half of Boards population. Is this why they keep taking over any other forum with questions like "Late Night Bars in Town Thursday Nights?", "flashing in the sky", "Tied Shoes thrown over ESB wires", "Headset in Town: Where to Buy?". If most other people post their local questions in their local fora, why do Dubs feel free to post in AH or other main foras with questions like this? Other than "it gets more atention from there frends"? Just asking like...

Example http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054954075

Doodee

they are simply smarter as AH will generate more replies :P

I dont see the harm.

John

Also bear in mind that the next biggest group is "Leinster but not in Dublin" and that a lot of people within that region would go for nights out in Dublin quite regularly. So that's pretty much most of boards.

If you really didn't like these threads, post in them and suggest places to go in Galway or London or whatever.

Gazza22

Taking over?.....your mistaken, we already rule! :cool:

Edit: just kidding by the way folks, incase i get abused!

Hobbes

Doodee wrote:

they are simply smarter as AH will generate more replies :P

I dont see the harm.

Well you get banned for intentionally doing that.

Goodshape

biko wrote:

Now, according to this Dubs make up just about half of Boards population.

Half the population does not a slight minority make.

Black Swan

Dub is the "big city." Los Angeles is ours, although 40 miles away. We don't always like LA's impact on OC. But they do, like big cities elsewhere. Inspite of this, I've found boards.ie to be a cyberplace that allows you to visit many things and places in Ireland while being overseas. This is a good thing. I sometimes ignore Dub only posts while I surf boards.ie, other times find them interesting. I have a choice. So does everyone.:cool:

BoozyBabe

Doodee wrote:

they are simply smarter as AH will generate more replies :P

I dont see the harm.

Actually, that's a very good point made my the OP.

They are not smarter Doodee. Several times us country folk post a similar type question in AH or whatever, because it'll get more views / replies, & the thread immediately gets moved by a mod to the relevant region section.

SO, though never having thought about it, I agree with the OP, & those type threads in general forums like AH, should be moved to regional sections.

FillSpectre

Isn't a huge portion of the population actually in Dublin?
The broadband coverage covers more of Dublin?

It just makes simple sense.

Gone West

Wheres the best place to grab lunch in Letterkenny?

petes

FuzzyLogic wrote:

Wheres the best place to grab lunch in Letterkenney?

Letterkenney.

biko

So which town is this OP talking about? I assume Galway but experience says Dublin http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054955430
No mentioning of location anywhere, not even in posters info.

Is it urgent? No.
Is it local? Yes.
Am I ranting? Yes.

Cactus Col

biko wrote:

Now, according to this "Tied Shoes thrown over ESB wires",

is that the pair in crumlin village?

Nalz

tis a bit annoyin when ppl say " wheres the best X in town". Dublin the only town in Ireland??? Not that difficult to type Dublin instead is it? It reminds me when I started college in Carlow ther was a guy in my class from Dublin, and he asked me if I was goin down to the village for a coffee. ah felt like smackin him one...village my hole! There is more than one town in Ireland, and even though most of people on here now what is meant by town in this context, it is a tad annoyin

Naked Lepper

biko wrote:

Now, according to this Dubs make up just about half of Boards population. Is this why they keep taking over any other forum with questions like "Late Night Bars in Town Thursday Nights?", "flashing in the sky", "Tied Shoes thrown over ESB wires", "Headset in Town: Where to Buy?". If most other people post their local questions in their local fora, why do Dubs feel free to post in AH or other main foras with questions like this? Other than "it gets more atention from there frends"? Just asking like...

Example http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054954075

youre not making much sense.

ps where abouts is the town hall in galway? need to go there next week.

Dub13

I don't want all these nut jobs in the Dublin City forum.

po0k

Doodee wrote:

they are simply smarter as AH will generate more replies :P

I dont see the harm.

AH is a fupping joke. Full of sh1te bandied about by people who just fell off the digital banana boat and haven't a clue.

OMFG! TEH KITTENZ R TEH CUTESTEST!

po0k

Naked Lepper wrote:

youre not making much sense.

ps where abouts is the town hall in galway? need to go there next week.

Google
If you need directions when you're on the streets of Galway, try asking someone.

No-one buy's maps anymore no? What if the batteries in your PDA die?

Caliden

The Dubs 'think' they control boards.

however it is another form of control

*dramatic music*

Naked Lepper

SyxPak wrote:

Google
If you need directions when you're on the streets of Galway, try asking someone.

No-one buy's maps anymore no? What if the batteries in your PDA die?

for the energy you spend typing that you could have told me.
galways meant to be a nice wee town tho , shud be too hard 2 find eh?

Gordon

If there are Dublin specific threads here then report the thread and the mod will probably move it to the Dublin forum.

Sheesh you non-Dubs are moany aren't you?!

Naked Lepper

Gordon wrote:

If there are Dublin specific threads here then report the thread and the mod will probably move it to the Dublin forum.

Sheesh you non-Dubs are moany aren't you?!

alot of country people feel hard done by because dublin gets everything and if they want to do anything exciting they have to come here for it, they also seem to feel inferiour alot of the time, hence this deep set resentment for all things dublin, imho of course.

Dub13

Naked Lepper wrote:

alot of country people feel hard done by because dublin gets everything and if they want to do anything exciting they have to come here for it, they also seem to feel inferiour alot of the time, hence this deep set resentment for all things dublin, imho of course.

Then move to Dublin.

1huge1

from what ive seen on it, the limerick ppl seem to be everywere, evertytime some slags us of we come out of the shadows and start defending preety funny really

FillSpectre

For us to be a minority wouldn't there need to be less of us than other people? In other words we aren't a minority but the majority.

LovelyHurling

If you dont like it just dont reply. I dont get why people complain when something's in the wrong place, just get over it and read on! Anyway Id say more than 'just about half' are actually living in Dublin. I said on that survery that I am from Ulster... which I am... but I havent lived - lived there for over 5 years now. Im turning into a Dub:eek: :eek: :eek:

Sleipnir

The majority of people who use boards are from Leinster.
The majority of people in Leinster are in Dublin.

Total population: 3,917,203
Population of Leinster: 2,105,579

Of course you're going to see bias towards Dublin, There are more people from there on boards then the rest of the country!

andrew163

I live right next to Blanchardstown. The nearest "town" is Blanchardstown Village. (nobody point out that its just a suburb of Dublin by now... rows and rows of houses may as well be vast fields when it comes to the facilities they provide to those who don't live in them). Yet when I say "town" I mean Dublin City Centre (because it's just a better place for most things tbh).

It's the same as if I say "the centre". I'm always talking about the big Blanchardstown Shopping Centre if I say that - despite there being at least three other shopping centres nearer to me (one of them only about 10 feet from my house).

Angels

People, is there a huge wall built around Dublin, so it makes it the only county in Ireland???

(Don't get me wrong i have no problem with Dublin or anything like that, but you sometimes feel in here that its the only county in AH)

biko

Gordon wrote:

If there are Dublin specific threads here then report the thread and the mod will probably move it to the Dublin forum.

Sheesh you non-Dubs are moany aren't you?!

No, we are not. When is the last time you saw a "where in town" or "did you see that" thread in AH or other forum and it referred to Cork, Limerick, Belfast, ...? I don't recall other posters doing this, at leaqst not nearly as often.

I know a lot of posters just stick to AH and pretty much vent all their opinions and queries in here.

This is not an anti-Dub thread, there's plenty of them anyway.
It's a post-in-your-effing-regional-forum-Dubs thread. Everyone else is doing it, why can't you?

Dyr

Look on it this way RTE news don't turn around and say "Now, in Dublin news" because news that occurs in dublin is generally in the main news. However they do have the regional reports or the redneck roundup for stuff that happens down in the sticks but isnt really that important. They really just include it because it makes the spudgobblers feel good seeing it on their telly


Same with AH really.

TomCo

Angels wrote:

People, is there a huge wall built around Dublin, so it makes it the only county in Ireland???

Not yet, construction is scheduled to begin after completion of the port tunnel.

Adam

Get over it tbh. You're just picking a fight over something pointless...

Move the Dublin related threads to make way for more ridiculous sh1te in AH? Why bother??

Sleipnir

Angels wrote:

People, is there a huge wall built around Dublin, so it makes it the only county in Ireland???

(Don't get me wrong i have no problem with Dublin or anything like that, but you sometimes feel in here that its the only county in AH)

As far as I can see, there are no counties in After Hours. It's a forum with threads created and contributed to by the members. That most of those members are from Dublin is hardly anyone's "fault"

r3nu4l

It's not just Dublin threads!

Are Cavan people stingy?
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054955228

Also, I seem to recall a thread about three "country lads" who were in Dublin for the weekend and wanted to know where they could score. They were not Dubs! So proportionally I would say there are no more Dubs posting these queries than people from other parts of the country.

Besides, most of these posts are generally non-sensical rubbish which is why I guess they are placed in AH as most threads here are meant for a bit of fun or just weird discussion! Most of the regional forums seem to focus on real issues for that region and I don't think they would appreciate it. Get over it!

That said, I have noticed that in general, biko is usually one of the first to post in threads telling people that their choice of forum is inappropriate (without adding an opinion on the OPs thread) so I guess it is something that bugs him a lot anyway, Dubs or not.

Dyr

maybe we should have a sub AH forum just for culchies? call it copper face jacks or something..

Angels

Bambi wrote:

maybe we should have a sub AH forum just for culchies? call it copper face jacks or something..

Very mature comment

biko

r3nu4l wrote:

That said, I have noticed that in general, biko is usually one of the first to post in threads telling people that their choice of forum is inappropriate (without adding an opinion on the OPs thread) so I guess it is something that bugs him a lot anyway, Dubs or not.

Well, that's just in AH. It does p:ss me off when I see that people post in AH just because they can't be arsed to post in TV, Politics or another correct forum. Probably they just want more attention.

I used to have a sig that said something like "If you ask where in town something is and you don't state your location or which town you refer to it shall be assumed you mean Galway". Implicitly: If you don't tell us where you are located or where you need to find a dentist (or whatnot) we can't tell you!

My guess is that most of the "where in town" threads are by kids that never left the big city and cannot understand that "town" is lots of places, not just Dublin. The mystery is that kids in Limerick or Cork don't do it.

mikedragon32

biko wrote:

Well, that's just in AH. It does p:ss me off when I see that people post in AH just because they can't be arsed to post in TV, Politics or another correct forum. Probably they just want more attention.

Biko,

shouldn't this be in the Feedback Forum?

r3nu4l

biko wrote:

...cannot understand that "town" is lots of places, not just Dublin.

Now, that I understand. I studied at NUIM and I remember one of my classmates telling me one Friday after Biology practical in first year that he was "going into town to buy a litre of milk" :eek: I couldn't understand why he would get the 66 into the city centre just to buy some milk when he could buy it in Maynooth :eek:

It took me about a minute to realise that "town" in this context meant Maynooth town/village and not the city centre! I guess it's just that Dublin kids have always called the city centre "town" as it adds to the feeling of a unified cty rather than the country feel where every place with a pub, shop and post-office is a "town". :shrugs:

I'm pretty sure that kids living in Cork/Galway city would call the city "town", wouldn't they??

Nalz

r3nu4l wrote:

I'm pretty sure that kids living in Cork/Galway city would call the city "town", wouldn't they??

Probably. But would they come on to AH or another forum and used it? I doubt it v much. Its just a small thing, but its enough to make people feel at a small. can be easily rectified. I dont mind people now and again askin "where is the best place to X in <location>", as long as its clearly stated. Imagine how people reacted (especially Dublin people) if the person was talking about Cork,Galway, Belfast or Kilkenny when he said "town". Id say there would be alot of replies like "why didn ya say so bud"

And as for being called culchies cas we're outside Dublin....ah not even gonna bother comment on that.

biko

r3nu4l wrote:

Now, that I understand. I studied at NUIM and I remember one of my classmates telling me one Friday after Biology practical in first year that he was "going into town to buy a litre of milk" :eek: I couldn't understand why he would get the 66 into the city centre just to buy some milk when he could buy it in Maynooth :eek:

It took me about a minute to realise that "town" in this context meant Maynooth town/village and not the city centre! I guess it's just that Dublin kids have always called the city centre "town" as it adds to the feeling of a unified cty rather than the country feel where every place with a pub, shop and post-office is a "town". :shrugs:

I'm pretty sure that kids living in Cork/Galway city would call the city "town", wouldn't they??

Yes, we do. I think everyone does. That's not the issue here.

The issue here is: Why do kids from Dublin assume that everyone equals town with Dublin whereas kids in Limerick or Cork don't?

If you see the example above this poster assumes everyone else reading his post also are in Dublin. If fact about every second reader would be working/living in Dublin, the rest are outside.

r3nu4l

As I say, it's probably an age/experience thing! I didn't know anyone form the country until I went to college at the tender age of 17 and three months so it took me a while to realise that places outside the Dublin area actually really existed...not just on the telly (joking :rolleyes: )

I got very used to referring to Dublin as "Dublin" during my time in college as most of my friends were from other counties. Took a little while but I got used to it.

I understand why you are annoyed that most of these posters seem to assume that everyone will think "Dublin" for "town" but that's life!

And I never use the word 'culchie', it is a derogatory phrase for an agricultural worker and I became aware long ago that not everyone outside Dublin wears Welly boots and drives a Massy Ferguson, my own gf is a fine townie lass from a "town" in Co. Tipp

Dyr

biko wrote:

The issue here is: Why do kids from Dublin assume that everyone equals town with Dublin whereas kids in Limerick or Cork don't?

Because kids from cork and limerick now in their heart's that cork and limerick are not "town". Dublin kids however know that the capital city doesnt need to qualify any statements referring to it. It is the default

look on it this way, dublin is the capital of boards.ie. If you made up a user map of boards, its land mass would probably 80-90% covered by dublin. thats the way it is. Next customer.

Nalz

Bambi wrote:

Because kids from cork and limerick now in their heart's that cork and limerick are not "town". Dublin kids however know that the capital city doesnt need to qualify any statements referring to it. It is the default

look on it this way, dublin is the capital of boards.ie. If you made up a user map of boards, its land mass would probably 80-90% covered by dublin. thats the way it is. Next customer.

I'm sorry cant tell if your being serious or not?!? Wtf Dublin is "town" now is it? Without tryin to be offensive here but it sounds like you need to get out of your box and get over it a bit. Its not a major problem, but its fairly arrogant, unfair and tbh stupid what you have just stated. Dublin is the capital of boards...

Say if you were to go on to Manchester Uniteds/Liverpool website/forums...There is cities around the globe with more fans than their own cities, and in turn most people that use these forums are not from those areas. So for example purposes if the majority of Man Utd/Liverpool fans or whatever club were from Tokoyo, would that make it the capital of that site???

Dyr

Trilla wrote:

I'm sorry cant tell if your being serious or not?!? Wtf Dublin is "town" now is it? Without tryin to be offensive here but it sounds like you need to get out of your box and get over it a bit. Its not a major problem, but its fairly arrogant, unfair and tbh stupid what you have just stated. Dublin is the capital of boards...

Say if you were to go on to Manchester Uniteds/Liverpool website/forums...There is cities around the globe with more fans than their own cities, and in turn most people that use these forums are not from those areas. So for example purposes if the majority of Man Utd/Liverpool fans or whatever club were from Tokoyo, would that make it the capital of that site???

The majority of boards users reside in dublin therefore dublin is the capital of boards. When someone refer's to oconnell street at 3 am in AH everyone knows this is not oconnell street in limerick or somewhere. Such is life

Nalz

Bambi wrote:

The majority of boards users reside in dublin therefore dublin is the capital of boards. When someone refer's to oconnell street at 3 am in AH everyone knows this is not oconnell street in limerick or somewhere. Such is life

big difference between sayin "O Connell st" and "town"....No website/forum has a Capital city. Gotta agree to disagree I suppose

biko

Bambi wrote:

The majority of boards users reside in dublin therefore dublin is the capital of boards.

Er, the majority of board user do not reside in county Dublin, strickly not even half of the users do. 70% of boards users live in one of Leinsters 13 counties.
Leinster is not Dublin.

The majority of boards users live in another county than county Dublin, do you understand?

Therefore Galway is boards DC (default city), as we have Cloud, the boards uber-lord.

Nalz

biko your dead right but I think we're all gettin on our high horse a little too much about it, especially me! If people were to say Dublin as apposed to town or nothing at all it would be great...There is people out there that think there is nothin outside of Dubllin in Ireland, hence the culchie comments etc. What can ya do

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Galweh Ftw

fly_agaric

biko wrote:

The issue here is: Why do kids from Dublin assume that everyone equals town with Dublin whereas kids in Limerick or Cork don't?

More insular than people living elsewhere in the country?

Maybe you would call it the early onset of a "Dublin Mindset"?:D

Is that the kind of answer you are looking for?

Anyway, can we exclude that fellow who was looking urgently for the best place to "score" in "town" and posted a load of threads a day or two ago from this?

He bumped up the number of biko-offending threads quite alot!