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Maybe if cruiser went abit lighter on the modding but thats about it. Sorry cruiser, i like ya and all but Im always seeing these big BOLD posts in nearly every thread :P.
Dont fire him though!!! :eek: Hes a good mod like. 0 -
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homerjay2005 wrote: »more boobies?
Yes while some may sneer and say you are childish and immature I think we should all just stop and think about it for a second (close your eyes if need be) becasue at the end of the day you can never have too much of the boobiesMore colour, like GAA pics or something y'know!
There is a sticky for this already0 -
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you don't like boobies soccy?
...:p
On a more serious note is there any way at all to get certain posters to tone down the arrogance and ignorance in some of the thread...a few people might know what I'm referring to! :rolleyes: Fair enough there opinions are valued but when certain counties and individuals resort to insults it can become infuriating!
Quality forum and modding though...usually a good chat that beats what can be heard of people who debate on the barstool talking pure silage! 0 -
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Why don't we have a GAA fantasy football and hurling team? That's be mad!
There was an idea like that in a thread months ago but it didn't really get that much activity as in points weren't updated too often and player values and team rosters were seriously outdated!
Good idea here however if someone was willing??? 0 -
soccymonster wrote: »i dont get it
You don't get boobies Soccy? Oh dear, let me set you straight, so there were these bees...
The GAA forum is perfect, a shining light to all internet forums.
However, I would like to see a cull of all Kilkenny, Kerry and Tipperary posters - anyone in favour?0 -
You don't get boobies Soccy? Oh dear, let me set you straight, so there were these bees...
The GAA forum is perfect, a shining light to all internet forums.
However, I would like to see a cull of all Kilkenny, Kerry and Tipperary posters - anyone in favour?
I think we should make you a mod.:):)0 -
You don't get boobies Soccy? Oh dear, let me set you straight, so there were these bees...
The GAA forum is perfect, a shining light to all internet forums.
However, I would like to see a cull of all Kilkenny, Kerry and Tipperary posters - anyone in favour?
Im in favour. When can this be implemented?
Oh very funny! I just dont get what it has to do with...GAA? 0 -
You don't get boobies Soccy? Oh dear, let me set you straight, so there were these bees...
The GAA forum is perfect, a shining light to all internet forums.
However, I would like to see a cull of all Kilkenny, Kerry and Tipperary posters - anyone in favour?
...if that was the case then we should see off the other county in the final in the 2 codes...
...that is IF kerry do defeat meath! 0 -
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Add Cork to that list and i'll back you to the hilt. Although on second thoughts, you boys have been abnormally quiet this summer so i'll leave you off it
Yes what with us only getting to the four All-Ireland finals this year, it has indeed been a barren, barren 12 months for Cork GAA (by Limerick's eternally frugal standards of course). 0 -
Ah come on now, are you counting camogie and ladies football too?!!Yes what with us only getting to the four All-Ireland finals this year, it has indeed been a barren, barren 12 months for Cork GAA (by Limerick's eternally frugal standards of course).
Sure isn't hurling the only game in Cork ye care about, and if ye don't do well in this then the year is deemed a failure. ''Football is only for bad hurlers'' they keep telling me down here (Not that i for one minute agree of course)
I love Tipp fans. Especially when they're beatenAh some of us tipp posters are lovely:) but less of the kilkenny i can agree with!!
Some of the backbiting against the counties can go too far at times but aside from that i think it's all good. 0 -
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Yes to cruiserweight, orizio and the rest, keep up the good work!
*And to you orizio, from my own financial point of view i'll ask you to continue to downplay Cork, its worked so far
Thanks Grenache, I'm glad my work here over the past decade or so as GAA king moderator and all round hurling expert is appreciated. :pac: 0 -
The forum is fantastic. Was not sure when I joined first. Would like some sort of ongoing thread where the official guide or peoples understanding of rules could be discussed.
There has been some great discussions and squabbling, and thats how it should be. I enjoy reading posts from people like ORIZO, PREMIERSTONE, CRUISERWEIGHT, BLACKBELT, GRENACHE, CITEOG and 1 or 2 of the Dublin lads. It would be great over a few pints.
Ya dont need T.V to "Feel the Passion" and I dont mean boobies
Long may it continue.
Up the G.A.A
Much thanks Leo, enjoy your always informed posts as well. 0 -
Ah come on now, are you counting camogie and ladies football too?!!
Sure isn't hurling the only game in Cork ye care about, and if ye don't do well in this then the year is deemed a failure. ''Football is only for bad hurlers'' they keep telling me down here (Not that i for one minute agree of course)
I love Tipp fans. Especially when they're beaten
Ahem - 2009 Junior Football All-Ireland Champions, 2009 Under-21 Football All-Ireland Champions, 2009 Intermediate Hurling All-Ireland Finalists and 2009 Cork Senior Football All-Ireland Finalists.
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Kev pretty much took the words out of my mouth. Apart from maybe the Dublin Kerry thread this has probably been the best year on the forum since I joined in terms of the numbers of troll-fests. I remember a few years ago we had threads hundreds of posts long slagging off Dublin because of their "antics" against Mayo in 07 or others going all out against the Dub posters because of the actions of a minority on the Hill, but there's been almost none of that this time.
I know you can probably say that's because of a lack of action or whatever this year but the mods shold still take a lot of credit for keeping things under control, especially Cruiser who does a lot of good work on match days imo. He let me take control of the hurling pools this year, which I've really enjoyed doing
Speaking of mods, do any of you know where Yavvy/Alan's been? Hasn't logged on for nearly a month now, and it's been even longer since I've since him post. I presume he's ok, just curious that's all.
If I was to make a suggestion, I'd like to see more done improving the whole "community" aspect of the forum. A lot of us know each other fairly well at this stage, and I genuinely think there's no regular poster here that I don't get on with (yes, even you Orizio :P). But once the Championship finishes there's going to be the usual dip in traffic until next year league kicks off, or even next summer.
While I know there's nothing getting away from the fact that these dips are going to happen, it might be good to think of ideas to keep the forum ticking over during the winter while still holding a fairly high number of posts p/day. The summer is also the time we see the most number of new users join so it'll good to try keep them visiting here even when there's not a high amount of GAA action to discuss. I'm open to suggestions about what we could do here. I could try another crack at the off topic thread, but that really didn't take off the first time.
Basically what we should aim for is that some posters shouldn't feel the need to only post on the matchday of their local county. If that can be achieved you'll get more traffic and even better interaction between the posters on the forum.
Just a thought.0 -
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Hi Cruiserweight,
Firstly thanks for the feedback.
The cynic in me sees the following happening:cruiserweight wrote: »If people use it then it is good, if they don't it will probably be scraped.
- Some one starts a new thread on equipment.
- Mod moves it to catch-all thread.
- OP's query doesn't receive the feedback it would if it was in its own thread.
or
- user posts a query in the catch-all thread
- OP's query doesn't receive the feedback it would if it was in its own thread.
So then you have a situation where the thread is being used but people aren't getting the feedback (or the level of feedback) they want or could have! As an example look at the amount of views so far on the sticky compared to other threads (even go to page 2 for equipment threads to compare to if you like).
That's obviously what I meant there as it's obviously not something the GAA mods can do on their own but it might be a way to make users think twice before posting on a forum they don't mind getting banned from.No currently these people are only banned from one forum. This is not just an issue for the GAA forum, but more of a boards wide thing. Maybe it is something that can be brought up and discussed with other moderators. Thanks for the input
And finally, I must echo the opinions of others, ye mods here are doing a fine job as can be seen be the lack of 'proper' feedback 0 -
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The GAA forum is a good forum and one of the ones of Boards.ie that I most visit. We get the occasional troll, but the majority here are here for the love of the games. Like fans you meet at games, there is a lot of slagging amongst us, but we can all get along fairly well most of the time.If I was to make a suggestion, I'd like to see more done improving the whole "community" aspect of the forum. A lot of us know each other fairly well at this stage, and I genuinely think there's no regular poster here that I don't get on with (yes, even you Orizio :P). But once the Championship finishes there's going to be the usual dip in traffic until next year league kicks off, or even next summer.
Basically what we should aim for is that some posters shouldn't feel the need to only post on the matchday of their local county. If that can be achieved you'll get more traffic and even better interaction between the posters on the forum.
Just a thought.
Well there are a lot of us here all year round. It is the nature of the subject this board is based on for their to be high and low points for activity during the year. I started a thread earlier this year paying tribute to everyone who is here all year round (which for some inexplicable reason was locked) and it is important to recognise the contribution and dedication they have to here.
As Blackbelt has said, there are some of us who have met up occasionally, and some of us a lot more often than that. We have often opened the invitation to others to join us, and while some do, the response is usually disappointing. Apart from us, we never seem to hear of posters from here that don't know each other meeting up for matches. I am sure there are a lot of people here who would like to sit down and discuss our common interest, but never get to do so, and yet may be standing just across from each other on many occasions watching the same game. (The dream of a Flukey - Daysha love-in lives on) Many of us chat with each other here all summer, attend the same matches, and yet never meet up. That would be a good element of the community aspect of the board to extend, in many parts of the country.
Tribute has to be paid to the moderators here. This year has been a bit quieter than previous years, as Daysha said, but it can boil over at any time. It seems to have been controlled well this year. Some of the topics we've come to expect did appear, but not as many. We've had 125 years of the GAA, a bit less of the Boards.ie GAA forum, but long may they both continue.0 -
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Don't get me wrong I understand why the threads were there but I still don't see the need for it. I'm not in Ireland and this year with the setanta story it's hard/impossible to watch games. I still find Radio 1 even quicker than boardsJust regarding the score update thread, and if I can't get watch/listen I find Aertel/rte fast enough!
If people want to give updates that's fine but why not make them part of the discussion thread!
I guess i'd prefer not to see it happen that someone who missed the weekend comes in here on a monday morning and the front page could have 2 threads for each match at the weekend, one on Joe Brolly, one about Pat Spillane, another about Ger Canning and then a couple about counties needing new managers and another about how super/**** Dublin/Kerry actually are! :pac: 0 -
I don't post as much at all since passing the reigns.
Really glad to see the positive feedback for the lads in their first seasonI've also met former mod of the GAA forum Kaimera who has to be one of the funniest person I've met off boards.
Aww shucks
Pints at christmas when I'm home! and thats an open invite to the forum btw (i wont be buying pints for everyone this time however :pac:)
srs again tho; pld guys.0 -
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I don't think we should split the Hurling and Football into separate forums. A lot of threads involve both sports, like when we are talking about a certain county or county boards and a a range of other things that cross both of them, so it would be a bad idea to split GAA and Hurling.
Fruedian slip I hope
We could just ban all football related topics all together, no wait that would be what Killkenny would do :P0 -
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Yes, I meant to type Gaelic Football. As to Kilkenny Football, they actually have more senior football provincial titles than 9 other counties, so they are not as bad as you think and would be a lot better if their county board got their finger out. If they did, they would be targeting the likes of Joe Kernan to manage their footballers, not Galway. I'd genuinely love to see Mick O'Dwyer managing the Kilkenny football team. I think that in the past he has said he would have liked to have managed Tipperary too.
And Tipp have more senior football AI's than Armagh and Tyrone combined 0 -
Just wanted to run a couple of things past you guys and see what you think. I have been thinking about a couple of changes to the forum charter, and as it is your forum I would like some feedback.
This first is to make it a bannable or infractable offence to thank posts that are blatantly offensive and/or abusive. An example of this would be someone thanking "Cruiserweight is a ****", even if you agree with the sentiment
Another change would be to make it an infractable offensive to accuse someone of being a troll or wum. When people post things like this it can drag the thread off topic. Sometimes it happens because people disgree with a poster, because you disgaree with someone does not make them a troll.
Well what do ye think? Good, bad, have anything you would like to change yourselves?0 -
cruiserweight wrote: »Just wanted to run a couple of things past you guys and see what you think. I have been thinking about a couple of changes to the forum charter, and as it is your forum I would like some feedback.
This first is to make it a bannable or infractable offence to thank posts that are blatantly offensive and/or abusive. An example of this would be someone thanking "Cruiserweight is a ****", even if you agree with the sentiment
Another change would be to make it an infractable offensive to accuse someone of being a troll or wum. When people post things like this it can drag the thread off topic. Sometimes it happens because people disgree with a poster, because you disgaree with someone does not make them a troll.
Well what do ye think? Good, bad, have anything you would like to change yourselves?
I think Crusierweight is a ****!:D
Nah, I agree with both of the above. Some people on here are way too sensitive and love to pull out the troll card whenever someone says something mildly negative about their county/players.0 -
I think a good idea is access requests like they run on soccer. To gain access you need fifty posts before you can post and you have to put in a request to join.cruiserweight wrote: »Just wanted to run a couple of things past you guys and see what you think. I have been thinking about a couple of changes to the forum charter, and as it is your forum I would like some feedback.
This first is to make it a bannable or infractable offence to thank posts that are blatantly offensive and/or abusive. An example of this would be someone thanking "Cruiserweight is a ****", even if you agree with the sentiment
Another change would be to make it an infractable offensive to accuse someone of being a troll or wum. When people post things like this it can drag the thread off topic. Sometimes it happens because people disgree with a poster, because you disgaree with someone does not make them a troll.
Well what do ye think? Good, bad, have anything you would like to change yourselves?
I think bating where it can be proved should carry a tempory ban of two or three days. That way the thread is allowed to flow and stay on topic.0 -
cruiserweight wrote: »This first is to make it a bannable or infractable offence to thank posts that are blatantly offensive and/or abusive. An example of this would be someone thanking "Cruiserweight is a ****", even if you agree with the sentiment
That can be fairly tricky to enforce imo. I remember a while ago someone posted a funny, sarcastic comment on the soccer forum. It was probably borderline breaking the charter, but most assumed given the half-hearted nature of the comment it would all be fine. One of the mods obviously didn't and subsequently banned the OP and the 14-15 users that thanked the post. A good 650+ post thread on feedback with soccer users effin' and blindin' about the decision followed.
I'm not saying it's guaranteed to happen again, but it's worth thinking about. It would also mean every user needing to be even more clear on what constitutes a ban or not. I'd imagine a few people will thank posts without even realising the original post was against the charter.bayviewclose wrote: »I think a good idea is access requests like they run on soccer. To gain access you need fifty posts before you can post and you have to put in a request to join.
Definitely not needed. That was implemented in the soccer forum over 5 years ago due to the repercusions of a fairly serious issue that lead to the closure of the entire forum for a period. That place was in the gutter with trolls before the access request came in, far more than we've ever seen here before.
Plus, we want to be bringing in more new users, not scare them away.0 -
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