Ever wanted to ask a question about here?

DeVore

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055521267&page=2

RTE are doing a very short piece on Boards. As part of that i'm doing a podcast which will be film (yeah, I dont know why either).

The podcast is one of Boards own podcasts with Monkey Fudge and he's canvassing for questions in that thread.

So far most of them are pretty "odd"!

DeV.

cHaTbOx

I don't know whether to ask here or there :-/
Move if necessary.

How many hobbies have you pursued as a result of boards?

What does boards mean to you , is it more business or pleasure?

Have you ever wanted to give it all up ? If so what kept you going?

How big a part has boards played in your life?

What changes do you see for boards in the foreseeable future?

How has boards changed you as a person ? More mature , opened your mind /views etc?

What do you like/dislike about the way the way boards has changed?

AckwelFoley

Where do you see boards in 10 years time?

Diabhal Beag

What is the craziest thing you have ever done for or after reading something on Boards.ie (E.g strip in front of the spire)

GuanYin

snyper wrote: »

Where do you see boards in 10 years time?

Don't say doing you wife. Don't say doing your wife.

ehh...Doing your, uh, son...

Varkov

Why the **** is RTE doing a piece on boards? Dont they have anything better to write about?

AlmightyCushion

Varkov wrote: »

Dont they have anything better to write about?

Right back at you.

Varkov

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Right back at you.

http://www.random-good-stuff.com/2007/03/15/motorized-rollerblades/

Sparks

Varkov wrote: »

Why the **** is RTE doing a piece on boards? Dont they have anything better to write about?

It's surprising that they're doing a piece on boards rather than lifting stuff off it allright...

The_Minister

How do you feel about the children that have been born as a result of Boards meetups, and do you feel anything towards them? Does it sometimes scare you that Boards so often crosses over into real-life?

Sharpshooter

It really is a hard site to top now.
So,what's next in the pipeline?
Will you keep on improving and/or go off in another direction?

RoundyMooney

Are there plan for adverts? Do you intend to expend employee/admin time on developing the sister site at a future juncture?

AckwelFoley

The_Minister wrote: »

How do you feel about the children that have been born as a result of Boards meetups, and do you feel anything towards them? Does it sometimes scare you that Boards so often crosses over into real-life?

how do i feel?

disturbed.

hullaballoo

I reckon it might be an idea to link in with other social networking sites to give us more of an edge. A lot of the changes that came in with the big vB upgrade could be integrated with other sites a lot more. I think that would be exciting.

Sparks

+1 to that idea for shooting - I mean, right now I'm getting twitter reports from the Clay Pigeon high performance team who are kicking ass all round them in a training camp in Italy. That kind of thing would be of great interest to most of our target shooters. And we would find it far easier to twitter from competitions because of the mobile phone interface (we were doing that from a vintage rifle shoot last weekend, and again, of interest to lots of our shooters).

javaboy

snyper wrote: »

The_Minister wrote: »

How do you feel about the children that have been born as a result of Boards meetups, and do you feel anything towards them?

how do i feel?

disturbed responsible.

FYP

Hobbes

Can you cite examples of where boards.ie has impacted the real world with changes to Irish culture?

Kinetic^

Going back to the very very very very very start.......who initiated the thought of the website and what were the pros and cons that were discussed (if any) at the time?

DeVore

Kinetic^ wrote: »

Going back to the very very very very very start.......who initiated the thought of the website and what were the pros and cons that were discussed (if any) at the time?

I dont want to answer the questions here but I did think to point out this link to Kinetic:
http://wiki.boards.ie/wiki/Pre-History

On that is the log of the actual discussion between me and Cloud when we mooted the idea for the first time.

DeV.

AckwelFoley

DeVore wrote: »

I dont want to answer the questions here but I did think to point out this link to Kinetic:
http://wiki.boards.ie/wiki/Pre-History

On that is the log of the actual discussion between me and Cloud when we mooted the idea for the first time.

DeV.

in a college lab somewhere in ireland...

dev- wot we goin to do today cloud?

cloud- same thing we do everyday dev, try to take over the world!

..enter pinky and the brain theme tune..

AlmightyCushion

snyper wrote: »

in a college lab somewhere in ireland...

dev- wot we goin to do today cloud?

cloud- same thing we do everyday dev, try to take over the world!

..enter pinky and the brain theme tune..

Comparing DeV to an intellectually retarded mouse is never gonna end happily.

AckwelFoley

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Comparing DeV to an intellectually retarded mouse is never gonna end happily.

pinky > that guy who invented playstation

..besides, i have teh AIDS, i have nothing to fear only death itself. (mind you, account deletion would put a dampner on my day)

Red Sleeping Beauty

+1 on the Adverts mention.

It wasn't me!

Sparks wrote: »

It's surprising that they're doing a piece on boards rather than lifting stuff off it allright...

Think of it as "meet the sources."

monkeyfudge

Jaysus guys... Didn't any of you actually click the link in the opening post? You were supposed to put your questions there.

Just love making things complicated for me, don't you?

Anyway. This is in the can now. Have to do a little bit of editing as RTÉ stopped us once or twice, mostly tell me to stop drifting across the room in my chair.

Terry

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Jaysus guys... Didn't any of you actually click the link in the opening post? You were supposed to put your questions there.

Just love making things complicated for me, don't you?

Anyway. This is in the can now. Have to do a little bit of editing as RTÉ stopped us once or twice, mostly tell me to stop drifting across the room in my chair.

I demand answers.

Or I just hope that some of my questions were broached.

monkeyfudge

Terry wrote: »

I demand answers.

Or I just hope that some of my questions were broached.

We mentioned you getting nude at the Spire. I remember that much anyway.

javaboy

monkeyfudge wrote: »

We mentioned you getting nude at the Spire. I remember that much anyway.

Did you pass on the pic to them? I was going to go hang it in the national gallery but some bugger robbed my idea and now I'll just look like a copy cat. Plus security is tighter now.

monkeyfudge

Should have this up in the next half hour or so.

Haven't had a chance to listen back to it myself though... other than to make an edit or two.

Dades

Get a shift on... I want to listen to this on the way home!

Sparks

Yeah!

monkeyfudge

Dades wrote: »

Get a shift on... I want to listen to this on the way home!

Cheeky. It's uploaded now. Should already be on iTunes.

Composing the podcast page for boards right now.

monkeyfudge

The content management system for the podcast seems to be on the fritz.

Here's the iTunes link:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=283680109

The link to the file itself:
Boardscast

Terry

monkeyfudge wrote: »

We mentioned you getting nude at the Spire. I remember that much anyway.

listening to that now. DeVore then segues into talking about the photography exhibit and my face just dropped.

RoundyMooney

Nice work monkeyd00d, and DeV.

Informative and engaging stuff.

Terry

RoundyMooney wrote: »

Nice work monkeyd00d, and DeV.

Informative and engaging stuff.

You're only saying that because he answered your question.

None of mine were answered and I'm really pissed off. Damn censorship. I blame monkeyfudge and his awesome interview skills.

The last bit is fact.

Terry

Any idea when this will be aired on RTÉ?

boards.

It is a world incased in itself.

Say we, instead of I.

The members made it, not you

RoundyMooney

Troll, troll, troll your boat.

Anyway.

Boards was and is based upon the critical mass of the users, but the vision behind it has, consistently, been DeV's. I'm deliberately not throwing out the oft used phrase "teh_admins" here, because although others have come and gone for varying reasons-mostly the latter) DeV has been omnipresent (in fact he's the only flippin' one here these days), sometimes enthusing about ideas that are doomed to obscurity, sometimes prioritising that which later gets, well, unprioritised, sometimes putting down trolls (heard of 'em?) with indefatigable logic, but always with a clear and concise train of thought for where things are in relation to boards., and where they are going.

So, um, "boards.", what have you done to make "it"?

The_Minister

DeV's comments about boards affecting politics are interesting, but I'd love to know why he thinks, considering AH, that thats a good thing?
Just read the average AH thread, and you will find incredible ignorance there.

EDIT: Woohoo, my question got asked!!
And I meant how you felt about the fact that boards ended up creating children, not if you feel ownership. (Although there are a suspicious number of babies called Tom).

RoundyMooney

The_Minister wrote: »

DeV's comments about boards affecting politics are interesting, but I'd love to know why he thinks, considering AH, that thats a good thing?
Just read the average AH thread, and you will find incredible ignorance there.

EDIT: Woohoo, my question got asked!!
And I meant how you felt about the fact that boards ended up creating children, not if you feel ownership. (Although there are a suspicious number of babies called Tom).

Yes, many with gay hair.

As regards boards affecting politics, I rather think it's the other way around. Common societal trends will make themselves apparent on a forum like boards, and more precisely, when non specific topics are concerned, like AH.

I know you don't mean to T_M, but AH bashing can at times seem to me rather elitist. As I say speaking generally, it's something I've noticed (along with moans that the site isn't what it used to be etc.).

At the end of the day, many people are pissed of with feckless skangers and nigerian economic "refugees" giving the two fingers to our system, the lack of hot Polish barmaids recently, the concept of recession (a new phenomenon to most of AH's boards' majority demographic), and white dog poo. Ergo, such things are what, on the largest general topic internet discussion forum in Ireland, will get talked about.

The_Minister

Don't get me wrong. I love AH. I really do.

It just pisses me off at the same time, and I can't help feeling that if the more unsavory positions of AH (the blatent racism etc) are espoused often enough, then things like racism and authoritarianism will re-enter acceptable public debate.

Its just hard to stomach at times.

So often really, really, stupid, sometimes untrue things are said, and they aren't rebutted, or are only rebutted five pages later.

Terry

The_Minister wrote: »

Don't get me wrong. I love AH. I really do.

It just pisses me off at the same time, and I can't help feeling that if the more unsavory positions of AH (the blatent racism etc) are espoused often enough, then things like racism and authoritarianism will re-enter acceptable public debate.

Its just hard to stomach at times.

So often really, really, stupid, sometimes untrue things are said, and they aren't rebutted, or are only rebutted five pages later.

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055487388
Edit: We pionered the user interaction thread.
Also, I typed most of this without looking. Yay me.
Edit 2: **** it. I pioneered the user interaction thread. I just didn't post it because it was up to the Cmod. All credit goes to me.

javaboy

RoundyMooney wrote: »

I know you don't mean to T_M, but AH bashing can at times seem to me rather elitist.

+1. You don't have to like it but you don't have to make a point of letting everyone know you don't like it. There are plenty of forums I think are full of very immature people but I don't go telling everyone because... get this... I'm mature enough not to.

As I say speaking generally, it's something I've noticed (along with moans that the site isn't what it used to be etc.).

I also speak generally and this is most definitely not aimed at The Minister. In fact it's not really aimed at anybody in particular. I'm just venting.

The_Minister wrote: »

Don't get me wrong. I love AH. I really do.

It just pisses me off at the same time, and I can't help feeling that if the more unsavory positions of AH (the blatent racism etc) are espoused often enough, then things like racism and authoritarianism will re-enter acceptable public debate.

Its just hard to stomach at times.

So often really, really, stupid, sometimes untrue things are said, and they aren't rebutted, or are only rebutted five pages later.

AH replicates public opinions and pub conversations to a certain extent. In fact it mirrors society in general in many ways. Leaving out the obvious nonsense threads and the trolls, it's probably a better barometer of public opinion on general topics than any other forum here.

So if the general public has racists, you can bet AH will have racists. Blatant racism is not allowed obviously but some people are better at voicing racialistical opinions while not exactly breaking the letter of the law. Those cases are harder to police.

I'm happy to say that AH reflects society warts and all. That society contains some ****ty people is society's problem. The nastier elements of AH are just a symptom.


As for the rebuttal thing, look at it this way: If a bunch of lads said something inaccurate to each other down the pub and nobody who knew better was there to correct them, then they'll never get corrected. On Boards, there will always be someone there to correct them even if they do come late to the party. 5 pages late is better than never.

In fact we sometimes get necro threads dragged up so someone can refute a particular point.


Anyway I've rambled long enough. What the hell does this have to do with the Boardscast? Nothing. That's what. But thanks for the feedback.

P.S. My question which was probably the most trivial and stupid of them all got asked. \o/ Also I want royalties for that Nice 4 thing.

Sharpshooter

Well said javaboy.
Well said.

/you do know there are wimminzs here though.
\0/

/bunch of lads.
pfft.

javaboy

javaboy wrote: »

On Boards, there will always be someone there to correct them even if they do come late to the party.

Sharpshooter wrote: »

Well said javaboy.
Well said.

/you do know there are wimminzs here though.
\0/

/bunch of lads.
pfft.

I think I acknowledged the women of Boards in the bolded part. :pac:

/scarpers

Sharpshooter

After the fact though, so it's full of holes.
Don't you dare!
That holds about as much water as a colander.

monkeyfudge

I got it working at last.

http://podcasts.boards.ie/index.php?id=40

And discussion thread here:

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=59642337

(turns out the podcast CMS doesn't like my RSS feed anymore. Had to upload the file else where.)

Sharpshooter

Thanks monkeyfudge,I enjoyed listening to that.
Pity it wasn't longer.
I wish I could have seen you all in the Matrix outfits and Santa hats delivering those presents to the hospital, must have put the poor security guards heart crossways.

monkeyfudge

Sharpshooter wrote: »

Pity it wasn't longer.

Yeah. Sorry about that. I was pressed for time as I had a meeting in town to get to afterward.

Sharpshooter

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Yeah. Sorry about that. I was pressed for time as I had a meeting in town to get to afterward.

No bother, I enjoyed it so much I didn't notice the time go by.
I really should have worded that a bit better.:o