Will Boards.ie ever die ?

robbie_998

i know i know.

its not exactly bebo or facebook now but Boards has being around more than 10 years now ! :eek:

will there be a day when people will stop joining ?

will there be a day the spam bots will get too much and run the site ?

thoughts please.

pikachucheeks

Shhhh! Don't upset the nerds, man!

3hn2givr7mx1sc

We'll Never Die, We'll Never Die, We'll keep the Boards flag flyin' high!

Ghost Train

I'm sure the name will last

GLaDOS

The real threat is whether boards becomes sentiant, it knows so much about us, if it were to develop an identity, it would be unstoppable

Jumpy

You would have to get at the admins. But they are locked in their tower of steel and have many guards.

Professey Chin

Only if I get my hands on the servers

meditraitor

Not in my lifetime

Turd Ferguson

If I have anything to do with it...yes

Degsy

Boards may never die but the users,eventually will..in many cases painfully.

Just thought i'd cheer everybody up a bit.

Overheal

The Hamster oft dies but the Wheel remains

BOHtox

we are boards and we'll never die

My name is URL

I don't think it will die as in just be gone some day, my guess is that it'll need to develop so much to suit the increasing number of people using it that it will become either diluted in bureaucracy and commercialism or slowly split itself into smaller factions because people aren't happy with whatever direction it goes in.

Latchy

As long as the rent is payed on time it will stay

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

In fairness, the developments tend to keep it reasonably fresh. More of a danger of people getting pissed off with the tendency to over-moderate.

dsmythy

Everything's got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Boards is in the middle for now.

It'll never die and will eventually just replace the Dáil..

Brummytom for Taoiseach!

pikachucheeks

Deleted User wrote: »

Brummytom for Taoiseach!

... An English man boy in power?

Degsy

pikachucheeks wrote: »

... An English man boy in power?

Hush with your dissparging remarks..didnt the english build the pyramids or something?

Takk

Boards.ie is the origins of Skynet. It will try to kill us all.

pikachucheeks

pikachucheeks wrote: »

... An English man boy in power?

Hmm.. Was unaware of this.

Ads by Google for Taoiseach!

DublinWriter

Sites like this always reach a critical mass and either evolve into something completely different and better, or die.

I'm racking my brain to think of any major site still around from say, ten years' ago.

spoofilyj

All things die but hopefully Boards will live for a long time yet, it hasent even gone into its teens yes, all full of angst and rebellion, the best is yet to come IMO....

CreepingDeath

If the AH mods delete any more funny posts in the name of political correctness then the site should be renamed to www.boring.ie

pikachucheeks

Deleted User wrote: »

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:pac:

FlutterinBantam

Only way it will die is if the owners allow it to be taken over by spotty faced, lank haired,pierced geeks with pallors like slugs who have been living under slates for two decades


:eek:jaysus!!


We are on the way out.:cool:

Saibh

If nerds ever go extinct, then maybe..

Jumpy

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Only way it will die is if the owners allow it to be taken over by spotty faced, lank haired,pierced geeks with pallors like slugs who have been living under slates for two decades


:eek:jaysus!!


We are on the way out.:cool:

What are you talking about? They have tans... oh wait no thats cheeto dust.

Nevyn

Saibh wrote: »

If nerds ever go extinct, then maybe..

Didn't you know the whole site was set up to make sure that gamers breed?
The boards.ie gamer/nerd mating program is well on it's way with kids being born at quiet a rate these days.

Saibh

Thaedydal wrote: »

Didn't you know the whole site was set up to make sure that gamers breed?
The boards.ie gamer/nerd mating program is well on it's way with kids being born at quiet a rate these days.

Good to hear, that means it will never die

Riddle101

lol at the people on here bashing nerds, not knowing they're nerds themselves.:mad:

Boards.ie is the origins of Skynet. It will try to kill us all.

That's what this one said and look what happened to her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycf4Y1Gv6gA

Senna

It could fizzle out if a few smaller, more specific forums, take members away from the popular boards forums e.g Soccer, AH etc. We already seen a forum on here "died a death" after one user left boards and set up his own.

Nevyn

Noting unusuall about private hosted forums having thier day and dying off and the same with someother forums. The pitch and flow always changes but boards keeps growing.

Overheal

Thaedydal wrote: »

Didn't you know the whole site was set up to make sure that gamers breed?
The boards.ie gamer/nerd mating program is well on it's way with kids being born at quiet a rate these days.

Teaching the younglings about Klingons and Atari 2600s then?

Nevyn

They want 3 keyboardcat moon tshirts for christmas....

PFJSplitter

Currently active users: 3739 (1260 registered, 2479 guests)

Always more guests?

wudangclan

PFJSplitter wrote: »

Currently active users: 3739 (1260 registered, 2479 guests)

Always more guests?

There always seems to be about twice as many guests as users at any given time.

SarahChambers

robbie_998 wrote: »

i know i know.

its not exactly bebo or facebook now but Boards has being around more than 10 years now ! :eek:

will there be a day when people will stop joining ?

will there be a day the spam bots will get too much and run the site ?

thoughts please.

It will die someday, everything has its life cycle. I think it could already be on the way out due to excessive and very poor moderating.

wudangclan

I think the moderators moderate moderately.

Overheal

wudangclan wrote: »

I think the moderators moderate moderately.

Im moderately confused by this post.

Doctor DooM

wudangclan wrote: »

There always seems to be about twice as many guests as users at any given time.

Always seems to be. Alot of people happen accross boards as part of a google search, read a useful post and then bugger off without ever even realising what boards is.

SarahChambers wrote: »

It will die someday, everything has its life cycle. I think it could already be on the way out due to excessive and very poor moderating.

Yeah, been hearing that since I started taking an interest in boards.

It's twice the size it was then.

wudangclan

Overheal wrote: »

Im moderately confused by this post.

Alliterately illiterate?

Sleepy

For every poster that comes and goes because of 'over-modding' there's ten users still here because of the fact spam, trolling and flaming are rather better managed on these forums than most...

SarahChambers

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Always seems to be. Alot of people happen accross boards as part of a google search, read a useful post and then bugger off without ever even realising what boards is.



Yeah, been hearing that since I started taking an interest in boards.

It's twice the size it was then.

Well it will get rid of the the sensible people, who can account for taste?

Doctor DooM

Sleepy wrote: »

For every poster that comes and goes because of 'over-modding' there's ten users still here because of the fact spam, trolling and flaming are rather better managed on these forums than most...

SarahChambers wrote: »

Well it will get rid of the the sensible people, who can account for taste?

What he said.

By the way, got any examples of my excessive and poor moderation?

Because there's 500 mods. even if there's 10 crappy ones, or 50, it's a tiny proportion.

Cupcake_Crisis

It better not die!! Then what will i do on the rare days i actually go into college??

Mr Benevolent

When FaceButt dies, Boards will die. No doubt Our Great Leader will be able to host the Boards servers in his subconscious. Or something. Then all we have to do is infect him with a virus and BANG, Boards will be gone.

I nominate Flutt to do the infecting, he lives in the sewer anyway.

Takk

SarahChambers wrote: »

I think it could already be on the way out due to excessive and very poor moderating.

The only excessive thing I've seen lately is people bitching about not being allowed to do shit that would get them banned.

loldog

Well are there any good alternatives to boards.ie? I'd be gone like a shot.

I have to hold my nose every time I come to this site, frankly, due to the moronic mods.

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Takk

loldog wrote: »

Well are there any good alternatives to boards.ie? I'd be gone like a shot

Yes. That little x up in the corner.

loldog wrote: »

I have to hold my nose every time I come to this site, frankly, due to the moronic mods

Every time? In the whole, two days you've been a registered user?

Sleepy

Well then leave loldog, go see the Oxegen message boards to see what happens when forums aren't modded... oh, that's right, you can't, it's been shut down.