This is Afterhours. There is more to boards.

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

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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.

Congrat's you made me giggle on a somewhat unfunny friday

thank's

yes your right you don't want me as a poster in your forum but your happy enough with me floating through it having a browse!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

csg = the new bubbles?

r3nu4l

The_Minister wrote:

cost-curves.

tee hee, he said 'cost-curves', tee-hee...:rolleyes:

Yep, this be AH, tread carefully all ye who enter here:D

sioda

To add my few cents I find that AH is the heart of Boards.ie to the non subscriber. Due to the volume on members posting here and the sig linkage available you get a much better insight into other forums and the people therein.

As a previous post said this is the general for for here and ok a lot of sh!te does get posted and has to be cleaned up by the janitoral Mods but I have often got introduced to new forums by following moved threads.

So thank god for AH and all who sail in her whether that is crew or passengers

The_Minister

r3nu4l wrote:

tee hee, he said 'cost-curves', tee-hee...:rolleyes:

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the_syco

Cabaal wrote:

Sticky and lock thread tbh

Hush you. Don't you have somewhere to mod?

=-=

Other forums. Like one where you can post porn? Excellent :cool:

Exit

I'd guess part of the problem is the name of the forum. Calling it something like "Everything Else" might make people realise that there are other forums out there. Anyway, the description line that the forum has is "All things non-work related" which many people would take to mean that pretty much everything is acceptable to talk about here.

NeoSlicerZ

Venture into other forums?! Hmm, when did boards get so many forums... o.O

/shifts back into lurker mode

Capt'n Midnight

If ya have a problem with a microsoft operating systems then stick it in the computers forum like everyone else does. Newbies just use the windows forum for questions about printer ink and computers with dead power supplies. Of course if you have a problem with windows then this is the place to go.

Oh and if you haven't been to TCN now's a good time.

Tar.Aldarion

NeoSlicerZ wrote:

/shifts back into lurker mode

Yes, back to stalking my posts in labs with you. Oh and asking what my latest troll was. Good boy.



Use these forums.