What do you hate/like about boards.ie?

Sgt. Politeness

Good:
For sale forums. Bought alot of good cheap stuff off it.
Always something worth reading when youre bored
Bad:
Secret forums. If you ask me, being in a 'secret society' on an internet message board is akin to being in the chess club in school. It might seem cool to you, but everyone else thinks youre a twat.
The 'fad' forums. "oooh david hasselhoff is so hot right now! Lets make a forum! Ohh Chuck norris is so hot right now! lets make a forum!" and so on and so forth.

oRlyYaRly

Dislike:

The server is horrible
There are two many stupid forums. A forum about frisbee? :rolleyes: Why can't the few topics there will be about frisbee just be posted in the sport forum?
People who don't put in any effort whatsoever into their posts. Push the shift button every now and again people!

Like:

There's a huge volume of posts to search through. I can find answers to tons of questions here!

Degsy

evad_lhorg wrote:

I dont like that some of the mods seem to live a pathetic existance and seem to believe that they have a meaningful life moderating forums. Some of them take it waaaayyyyy too seriously and need to just BACK AWAY FROM THE KEYBOARD!


EDIT: lookin back up one post..... WHO GIVES TWO SH1TS ABOUT CAPITALS AT THE START OF A SENTENCE? why do people on postboards think they are 1 upping people by correcting grammar? it doesnt make you better than anyone.


WHAM DOUBLE EDIT: the nerd terminology..... ie troll, flame ......

Have you just had a hit of cristal meth?

evad_lhorg

yes.... of course I have :rolleyes:

ShiverinEskimo

Love:
Sense of community
Adverts.ie
Most Moderators

Loathe:
People who slate newbies.
People who put no effort into their posts - its not hard to throw a full stop in here and there.
Righteous bastards who take the moral high ground when someone describes a law they broke, or a bad deed they did - get real - no one is perfect.
People who choose to meet a request for help with a smart arse useless insult instead of either A) helping or not replying.

Hugh_C

Love:
some of the techie fora
myself

Hate:
Slow-ass server or is it just me?
The agonising wait till the jaysus pages load up
Self-righteous and pompous mods

Pigman II

Day-wanna-wonga wrote:

and Pigman's 'talk in the 3rd person' gimmick. Lametard.

I hate it (not really) when people get Pigman and Pighead mixed up.

Strangely enough whilst I've seen him being called "Pigman" lots and lots of times I don't think I've ever been called "pighead" by mistake by anyone, which (considering how much he likes to promote his own name) is quite surprising (yet somehow reassuring).

ninebeanrows

Like

?? em im not sure

Loathe

The rigthteous, arrogant and nerdy moderators.
The slowness of the board.
The lack of actual snowfall in the weather forums:rolleyes:
The fact that i used to have 2000+ posts but they disappeared for some unknown reason.

Terry

i hate when people complain about stuff, without reading the stickies.

Ruu_Old

Weathercheck wrote:

Like

?? em im not sure

Loathe

The rigthteous, arrogant and nerdy moderators.
The slowness of the board.
The lack of actual snowfall in the weather forums:rolleyes:
The fact that i used to have 2000+ posts but they disappeared for some unknown reason.

The schticky at the top of the AH forum and thread in Feedback would be to blame for that. You are not your postcount.

edit: Sorry Ollie.

Collie D

Like:

Some intelligent arguments amongst the crap, always like to see someone's opinion even if I don't agree with it.

The humour, some very funny posters on here.

Dislike:

One I've noticed in a couple of posts over the last few days. Some people seem to think it's a sin to be proud of your nationality and that this pride makes the person in question an anti-Brit or a racist.

WhiteWashMan

Weathercheck wrote:

Like

?? em im not sure

Loathe

The rigthteous, arrogant and nerdy moderators.
The slowness of the board.
The lack of actual snowfall in the weather forums:rolleyes:
The fact that i used to have 2000+ posts but they disappeared for some unknown reason.

you call moderators derds and yet you have the temperature in your sig for a day that happened a year ago?

and if you dont like anything here, why bnother posting.

poh, hold on, you were whinging again.

just like fighting irish and degsy and one or two others.

you know, its people like you that make me happy. becuase i know as long as you people are pissed off, everyone else is happy. and thats important. becuase they are the people that add to this website, not you.

dr.bollocko

WhiteWashMan, I would direct you to the charter.

Flaming
- Posts containing personal attacks on another user will be edited/deleted.
Off Topic
- Posts that stray off topic will be edited/deleted, depending on their relevance to the topic at hand. People who ignore a moderator's request to stay on topic will be banned for a week

Personal Abuse
- Posters who abuse others on here will be banned. Permanent bans will be handed out on a first offence if a moderator feels it is warranted. There is no argument on this one. Abuse someone and you will be banned. Calling someone an idiot is abuse. Don't attack the poster, attack the post. Posting PM's publicly without consent could be met with harsh consequences, especially if they do not have any place in the discussion.

Making the natives restless
- This is a catch-all rule for general trolling, bitching and similar. Certain posters have an ability to piss off large quanties of regulars on here. If a moderator feels that said poster is doing this intentionally or is the cause of the mess, then the poster can and will be banned. If this poster was being goaded by others, then they'll be the ones getting banned. This rule will hopefully put an end to the bitching going on in here of late.

... Pfft!!

Day-wanna-wonga

dr.bollocko wrote:

WhiteWashMan, I would direct you to the charter.

And I'll direct you to my post at the start of this thread....

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=52001626&postcount=7

BEAT

top 5 reasons I love Boards:
1.WWM
2.Beruthiel
3.The cameo's made by Amp & Devore
4.Sarkey
5.WWM and MAJD tagteaming

Ruu_Old

BEAT, no love for your US neighbourino?

BEAT

hehehe *hugs* Ruu,
but tbh there were days when I just logged on for the pure entretainment of above said posters, I love them...I'd eat them if I could, they are too delicious for words
It was even better when they were posting on a reg basis back in the good ol' days , boards has lost some of its zest with the seemingly overnight instatnt monster-like growth but the memories keep me coming back for more

billy the squid

Sgt. Politeness wrote:

Secret forums. If you ask me, being in a 'secret society' on an internet message board is akin to being in the chess club in school. It might seem cool to you, but everyone else thinks youre a twat.

Haven't been invited to any secret forums yet then.

The 'fad' forums. "oooh david hasselhoff is so hot right now! Lets make a forum! Ohh Chuck norris is so hot right now! lets make a forum!" and so on and so forth.

David Hassellhoff forum is alive and well. He's the King of the Internet you know
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-rCOYibg5w

billy the squid

BEAT wrote:

top 5 reasons I love Boards:
1.WWM
2.Beruthiel
3.The cameo's made by Amp & Devore
4.Sarkey
5.WWM and MAJD tagteaming

I shall console myself with the possibility that I could be number 6

Sgt. Politeness

billy the squid wrote:

Haven't been invited to any secret forums yet then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-rCOYibg5w

I would rather gnaw off my own face than accept membership to a...*shudder* secret internet forum society.
I feel like i need a shower just saying that.

Terry

only if you spell it "neighborino".

on the subject of spelling, did i mention that txt spk bugs the **** out of me?
all of it. even the little ones like "ur" instead of you are, your or you're.
it's not big and it's not clever. it's completely retarded. you have a keyboard in front of you. use it.

i also hate when i forget to click the little box at the bottom to quote someone in quick reply.
pretend i did and that Ruu's last post is quoted above.

Day-wanna-wonga

julep wrote:

only if you spell it "neighborino".

on the subject of spelling, did i mention that txt spk bugs the **** out of me?
all of it. even the little ones like "ur" instead of you are, your or you're.
it's not big and it's not clever. it's completely retarded. you have a keyboard in front of you. use it.

i also hate when i forget to click the little box at the bottom to quote someone in quick reply.
pretend i did and that Ruu's last post is quoted above.

Strange the way that pisses you off, but not using any capital letters seems to be totally fine with you. Double standards, no? You either like proper English, or you don't - which is it?

spacecoyote

julep wrote:

on the subject of spelling, did i mention that txt spk bugs the **** out of me?
all of it. even the little ones like "ur" instead of you are, your or you're.
it's not big and it's not clever. it's completely retarded. you have a keyboard in front of you. use it.

Have to agree there. I can't stand when i see that, a pack of retards unable to string together three words of actual english. Should be automatic bans for it really!!!

Terry

Day-wanna-wonga wrote:

Strange the way that pisses you off, but not using any capital letters seems to be totally fine with you. Double standards, no? You either like proper English, or you don't - which is it?

yes, it is a double standard, but my words are readable.
u, ur, sum1 etc. are not readable.

evad_lhorg

eh how isnt it readable? sum....... we all did maths in school we know how to say that.. 1...... now dont get me wrong but this is pronounced the say as the number before 2 isnt it? :rolleyes:

evad_lhorg

dr.bollocko wrote:

WhiteWashMan, I would direct you to the charter.

Flaming
- Posts containing personal attacks on another user will be edited/deleted.
Off Topic
- Posts that stray off topic will be edited/deleted, depending on their relevance to the topic at hand. People who ignore a moderator's request to stay on topic will be banned for a week

Personal Abuse
- Posters who abuse others on here will be banned. Permanent bans will be handed out on a first offence if a moderator feels it is warranted. There is no argument on this one. Abuse someone and you will be banned. Calling someone an idiot is abuse. Don't attack the poster, attack the post. Posting PM's publicly without consent could be met with harsh consequences, especially if they do not have any place in the discussion.

Making the natives restless
- This is a catch-all rule for general trolling, bitching and similar. Certain posters have an ability to piss off large quanties of regulars on here. If a moderator feels that said poster is doing this intentionally or is the cause of the mess, then the poster can and will be banned. If this poster was being goaded by others, then they'll be the ones getting banned. This rule will hopefully put an end to the bitching going on in here of late.

... Pfft!!

ehhhhh like wtf. whats it mater to you? talk about trying to kiss ass in somethiin that matters so lilttle in life.:rolleyes:

Terry

evad_lhorg wrote:

eh how isnt it readable? sum....... we all did maths in school we know how to say that.. 1...... now dont get me wrong but this is pronounced the say as the number before 2 isnt it? :rolleyes:

ne time sum1 uses txt spk teh bby jss cries

evad_lhorg

well bby jss wouldnt be text speak now. n and e would make sense to be "any" as it sounds quite,or exactly,similar. teh is nerd speak anyway. the letter "d" would fit nicely in there:D

Degsy

WhiteWashMan wrote:

you call moderators derds and yet you have the temperature in your sig for a day that happened a year ago?

and if you dont like anything here, why bnother posting.

poh, hold on, you were whinging again.

just like fighting irish and degsy and one or two others.

you know, its people like you that make me happy. becuase i know as long as you people are pissed off, everyone else is happy. and thats important. becuase they are the people that add to this website, not you.

So you're happy when other people are pissed off?

What do you contribute to this site exactly?

Day-wanna-wonga

Degsy wrote:

So you're happy when other people are pissed off?

What do you contribute to this site exactly?

He bans people who don't agree with him, and closes threads when they start becoming fun.