This is Afterhours. There is more to boards.

DeVore

If you have a topic on cars post in Motors. If you have a question about Poker, post there.

The mods have been instructed to move threads to their proper homes as they see fit, to warn persistent offenders and ultimately there will be tears before bedtime.

Thanks.

DeV.

ps: there's a whole load of other forums out there in Boardsland. Just thought you should know, like...

Pighead

Bring it to Feedback buddy.

RasTa

Pighead wrote:

Bring it to Feedback buddy.

LOL, yes..... havent you being around long enough to know how this site works!:p

luckat

Mods - can someone move this thread to Personal Issues, please?

Sparky

Dev forgots the thread lock.....

monkeyfudge

It does always amaze how many posters there are who rarely venture outside of the one forum.

This is actually good opportunity for moderators to publicise the forums they look after.

For my sins I look after:

• Film Production, a place to discuss all aspects of movie making.
• radio, kind of like television but without the pictures.
• Transformers for the discussion of all things robotic and shape changing.

feylya

I look after the place where we talk about how to spend all our money making loud things louder.

biko

I qm sooo drunk ritgh now, I can onlyn post in AH

Zillah

Spam. Reported.

melekalikimaka

gosh...haven't hit this place in a while...its the nursury for young boardies... you can escape from here...its them 'other forums'...they lure you in with detailed discussions on topics you have interest in...ALL THE TIME... its 5.32....I thought AH could save me from it...it hasn't[/desperate attempt to escape boards]

Cabaal

Sticky and lock thread tbh

Terry

monkeyfudge wrote:

It does always amaze how many posters there are who rarely venture outside of the one forum.

This is actually good opportunity for moderators to publicise the forums they look after.

For my sins I look after:

• Film Production, a place to discuss all aspects of movie making.
• radio, kind of like television but without the pictures.
• Transformers for the discussion of all things robotic and shape changing.

for my sins i look after

After Hours: the place where all the crap goes. you should visit some time.

joe_chicken

monkeyfudge wrote:

• ....robotic and shape changing.

So does that include Go-Bots?

I'm intrigued by this [bunny-rabbit-ears]TRANSFORUM[/bunny-rabbit-ears]

Maybe I'll go there!... probably not though

Kingsize

Sometimes i'd rather read what the AFter Hours opinion on things are though....
No need to move posts that are attracting the right response is there?
e.g. discussion of a political point in after hours is a whole lot more fun (& just as relevant) as in the politics forum.

Zillah

Kingsize wrote:

No need to move posts that are attracting the right response is there?
e.g. discussion of a political point in after hours is a whole lot more fun (& just as relevant) as in the politics forum.

Its not just as relevant, politics isn't relevant in After Hours.

Terry

sometimes you just want to rant and the politics forum is a lot stricter than after hours. therefore AH comes in handy for thaty type of thing.

Beruthiel

DeVore wrote:

ps: there's a whole load of other forums out there in Boardsland. Just thought you should know, like...

In fairness Tom, we really didn't want most of them to know this

r3nu4l

Pighead wrote:

Bring it to Feedback buddy.

Hey Ceannmuca, this thread was posted in response to something that arose in Feedback, I thought you'd know that since you've been spending some time there recently...oh yes, Pighead has been seen posting in Feedback...it's his dirty little secret but I've outed him now

ScumLord

you can escape from here...its them 'other forums'...they lure you in with detailed discussions on topics you have interest in...ALL THE TIME...

That's what makes them so boring!

Car lover1: I've a car does anyone else have a car
Carmadman: I've a car too, what colour is your car? My cars blue
Car lover1: Wow that's so cool my cars green, does your car have a radio?
Carmadman: Yeah! I've got a cd player to what about you?
Car lover: No I hate you, cd are stupid...

6 years later..

Car lover1: Just got a cd player in my car, cd's are so cool!
Carmadman: Anyone got a stearing wheel in their car?
Carwhore23: Ya dude I've got a stearing wheel, how's everyone doing I'm new here.
Car lover1: Who's this fool, I bet he doesn't have a car atall.

Zillah

Beruthiel wrote:

In fairness Tom, we really didn't want most of them to know this

Nalz

the cornflakes talk is out again!

melekalikimaka

ScumLord wrote:

That's what makes them so boring!

Car lover1: I've a car does anyone else have a car
Carmadman: I've a car too, what colour is your car? My cars blue
Car lover1: Wow that's so cool my cars green, does your car have a radio?
Carmadman: Yeah! I've got a cd player to what about you?
Car lover: No I hate you, cd are stupid...

6 years later..

Car lover1: Just got a cd player in my car, cd's are so cool!
Carmadman: Anyone got a stearing wheel in their car?
Carwhore23: Ya dude I've got a stearing wheel, how's everyone doing I'm new here.
Car lover1: Who's this fool, I bet he doesn't have a car atall.

hahaha true...but if thats what your passion is, ya could talk that all day

scojones

Haven't we been saying that forever Tom? You have to wonder how better of boards would be if After Hours, TCN and The Thunderdome were all closed. All the blabbering and nonsense would be confined to the private forums. No more postcount++, and the majority of threads would be where they are supposed to.

I still think repeat offenders of posting the wrong thread in the wrong forum should be banned.

6th

sjones wrote:

Haven't we been saying that forever Tom? You have to wonder how better of boards would be if After Hours, TCN and The Thunderdome were all closed. All the blabbering and nonsense would be confined to the private forums. No more postcount++, and the majority of forums would be where they are supposed to.

I'd love to see them closed for a week, and when someone clicks on them they get sent to a random forum.

aidan_walsh

6th wrote:

I'd love to see them closed for a week, and when someone clicks on them they get sent to a random forum.

Nah. Then you'll only have random forums flooded with "WTF doodz" threads. Better to send them all to one forum. Recycle Bin, perhaps.

Dyr

Why with all these forums to choose from it's too much to expect us modern irish people who lead hectic lifestyles to post in the right one. I think its best just to post everything in AH and let the assistants (i believe they're called "mods") move it off to the relevent forum if needs be.

aidan_walsh

Remove any reference to After Hours from the front page. That should stop the newbies finding it, and force them to look harder to find the proper place to post.

gerire

Should make this the boards homepage then people will be forced to see the alternatives out there?

Dragan

Ah come on guys. After Hours is what it is. Just there for random garbage. I post occasionally in after hours, a lot in fitness and some in martial arts. I also occasionally venture into PI to offer people the wisdom i have learned through all my fcuk ups.

The simple fact is, that in the specific forums the Mods could not really allow the type of carry on that happens in AH and there would most likely be an increase in bannings.

After Hours is the play ground for the little tykes of boards.ie.....take it away and they won't sleep at nap time.

Rb

sjones wrote:

Haven't we been saying that forever Tom? You have to wonder how better of boards would be if After Hours, TCN and The Thunderdome were all closed.

Boards would be absolutely shíte if those forums were removed.
I don't feel like having dead serious completely factual discussions the whole time and I certainly have no interest in the crappy themed private forums where some people like to spam.

Dragan wrote:

After Hours is the play ground for the little tykes of boards.ie

Says the man whos been here one whole year. Lol.

Nalz

rb_ie wrote:

Says the man whos been here one whole year. Lol.

hmmm....I wonder

r3nu4l

sjones wrote:

I still think repeat offenders of posting the wrong thread in the wrong forum should be banned.

Start with moving to correct forum, thread locking/binning then move to banning, then sitebanning, [STRIKE]then sending vigilantes to their houses[/Strike]? Seems fairer, at that stage you can't whine in feedback saying you weren't warned.

Have to agree with the others, AH etc are necessary fora and allow users to post tongue-in-cheek

EDIT:

rb_ie wrote:

Says the man whos been here one whole year. Lol.

Says the guy who's been here two years. Lol...youarenotyourjoindate

BuffyBot

Amen

Dragan

rb_ie wrote:

Says the man whos been here one whole year. Lol.

Merely an expression mate!! But your right, you'd been here for two years, well done. Have a medal.

Heisenberg.

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Hobbes

Kingsize wrote:

discussion of a political point in after hours is a whole lot more fun (& just as relevant) as in the politics forum.

By fun you mean people can post any old crap they like without ever having to back any of it up. Then yea.

ScumLord wrote:

That's what makes them so boring!

You have never read the motors forum I take it.

After Hours is the play ground for the little tykes of boards.ie

Actually we have other forums for that already.

After Hours exists for legacy reasons only. It was created to pull all the offtopic stuff from the Quake forums back before boards had the volume or system it has now.

Agamemnon

sjones wrote:

I still think repeat offenders of posting the wrong thread in the wrong forum should be banned.

Banning those people who post Dublin threads in After Hours would be a good start.

Dragan

Hobbes wrote:

It was created to pull all the offtopic stuff from the Quake forums back before boards had the volume or system it has now.

Doesn't really matter. The genesis of something is not really whats in question here....it seems to be that After Hours is drawing traffic from other forums and giving mods extra work?

You can only really consider what it is, not what it was.

Rb

Dragan wrote:

Merely an expression mate!! But your right, you'd been here for two years, well done. Have a medal.

No, I'd still consider myself a bit of a newb and my point was only that I find it amusing that someone who has only been here a year is calling the AH users "little tykes" or implying that it is some sort of Boards playground for the newer users, when you're relatively new yourself.

Every forum has a "General" or "Off Topic" forum, AH is Boards.ie's one and I would consider these General/OT forums a necessary part of most forums that I've used/I use. They're also not just where the newbies post, on most forums I visit anyone posts in the general forum and its not considered the newbies hangout or whatever.

rb_ie

rb_ie wrote:

Boards would be absolutely shíte if those forums were removed.
I don't feel like having dead serious completely factual discussions the whole time and I certainly have no interest in the crappy themed private forums where some people like to spam.

Exactly, people need to realise this also
it's all a bit of craic

ScumLord

You need somewhere where you can talk ****e, otherwise you'd have a build up of ****e in the general population. People that are full of ****e band together and form uncontrollable mobs lead, more than likely by super ****e talkers the likes Jerry Ryan or Joe Duffy. Is that what you want a super dictatorship run by those two muppets!

scojones

agamemnon wrote:

Banning those people who post Dublin threads in After Hours would be a good start.

Damn right brother!

Dragan

rb_ie wrote:

No, I'd still consider myself a bit of a newb and my point was only that I find it amusing that someone who has only been here a year is calling the AH users "little tykes" or implying that it is some sort of Boards playground for the newer users, when you're relatively new yourself.

I hate having to explain myself, because it's the kind of thing that never really happens when you talk face to face, which i have been assured still happens!!!

Anyway, i was not implying that After Hours is for boards newbs, nor that everyone who posts here is a newb. I was merely making reference to the fact that After Hours users normally have that certain sense of humour the might not always go down the best in other forums.

For example, we sometimes have threads about world incidents, and you can be just a little funny about things while discussing it. After Hours being what it is people let it happen, the PC brigade does not come out and say " You can't say that....blah blah blah".....generally speaking it is for me the right blend of humour and seriousness that you need to have somewhere i.e at least one public forum on a site.

I think if you shut down AH, the people who normally post the very After Hours flavoured posted will merely do the same in other forums where it might not go down so well?

I hope thats coming across okay? To be honest i hadn't even thought of the whole "little tykes" thing as coming across to imply i thought people were newbs....i guess i don't really apply every word of someones post to some invisible graph of what some users might think of as a "hierarchy"?

Last time i checked everyone is just a poster, and whether it's Cloud or someone else first post i will give that persons post the same weight, provided there not just talking crap.

Hobbes

Just the fact that AH keeps CSG away from other forums is a reason for it to stay.

scojones

Hobbes wrote:

Just the fact that AH keeps CSG away from other forums is a reason for it to stay.

Haha, this is true I guess. Never thought of it like that. Imagine if we let the likes of her into the meaningful forums on here. Her antics in Sex & Sexuality are bad enough.

/me boots his ignorance filter.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

my joindate pwnz all of yours

cept Hobbes... bastard

sjones

sjones wrote:

Haha, this is true I guess. Never thought of it like that. Imagine if we let the likes of her into the meaningful forums on here. Her antics in Sex & Sexuality are bad enough.

/me boots his ignorance filter.

I have been known to venture out of AH once in a while

I don't have to explain myself to you lot !
I mostly just read board's and barely bother to contribute when I have to time in work..like if i read politic's or humanites and don't contribute it's none of your ****ing business

Jesus if your expecting people to actually put effort into it

It won't be fun anymore:)

scojones

coolsmileygirl wrote:

I have been known to venture out of AH once in a while

I don't have to explain myself to you lot !
I mostly just read board's and barely bother to contribute when I have to time in work..like if i read politic's or humanites and don't contribute it's none of your ****ing business

Jesus if your expecting people to actually put effort into it

It won't be fun anymore:)

It's hard to understand what you're on about most of the time.

Hobbes

1998 join dates are not real dates though (just no records before then). Members go back further then that. Think I was 1994/1995.

sjones

sjones wrote:

It's hard to understand what you're on about most of the time.

Ok fair enough but realise I feel exactly the same way too! (about me that is):)

The_Minister

If CSG ends up in the Economics form, because she are trying to prove that she isn't a narrow-visioned spam-whore (not calling her a whore), then I will be mad.:mad:
I don't want to come in tomorrow, and find a thread on "Which famous economist have you slept with"? or "we need more kids, so single mothers are a good thing. For the economy. Right? Right?!!".
Not to mention all her little stalkers that will follow to slag her off. I don't think we need people giggling about the shape of our cost-curves.