What is After hours raison d'etre?

BrokenArrows

it should be part of the charter that if a thread is started here that the OP must not take offense when they get a few smart ass responses.

raison d'etre of AH is to have discussions of all topics without taking the particular topic seriously.

Atari Jaguar

brummytom

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Right now things are going well here IMO.

Definitely. I've even noticed an improvement of some sort over the past few days.. I don't know what it is, AH just seems more.. comfortable? I don't know.

I've probably just been less miserable than usual :pac: But yeah, AH is good at the moment - good mods, good posters. (<-- Ooh, that could be a line for you :P)

stovelid

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Oh yeah. The usage of the phrases "bleeding heart, pinko, leftie, liberal" etc whenever anyone disagrees with someone. That's another good one to get rid of.
Hmmm

It's a bit totalitarian but we could just assign profile badges to identify us politically. Pinko commie stars (with a vagina variant), Wehrmacht badges and the like.

deadhead13

BrokenArrows wrote: »

it should be part of the charter that if a thread is started here that the OP must not take offense when they get a few smart ass responses.

raison d'etre of AH is to have discussions of all topics without taking the particular topic seriously.

I would disagree, there is room for serious threads in AH and there have been plently of them. If someone wants a serious discussion let them at it. There are a million and one other things to take the piss out of, if thats what you what to do.

dr.bollocko

stovelid wrote: »

It's a bit totalitarian but we could just assign profile badges to identify us politically. Pinko commie stars (with a vagina variant), Wehrmacht badges and the like.

Now that is genius. I really wish the admins would do this!

jd007

Sheeps wrote: »

You've listed quite a few of the major things that make this forum a unfunny cesspool.

How are epic fails not funny??

Jay P

I think After Hours is about threads like this, where the true AH comes to life, smart arse replies with real life stories
Also the Cork one, that was the right mixture of humour and seriousness.

Suffice to say, I would like AH to be a place of humorous discussion. "News" has no such place in this perfect world :cool:

dr.bollocko

Jay P wrote: »

I think After Hours is about threads like this, where the true AH comes to life, smart arse replies with real life stories
Also the Cork one, that was the right mixture of humour and seriousness.

Suffice to say, I would like AH to be a place of humorous discussion. "News" has no such place in this perfect world :cool:

But current affairs is probably the number one catalyst for AH threads.

stovelid

jd007 wrote: »

How are epic fails not funny??

In the spectacular, anachronistic and ancient sense, mostly.

Takk

Not for discussing things that in other areas of boards would require an Access Request.

Sheeps

jd007 wrote: »

How are epic fails not funny??

The videos or pictures of the event happening may infact be rather funny, but applying some vapid unfunny catchphrase to that event has about the same level of humor and wit in it as a Chuck Norris joke. It actually takes from the humor of the thing it's being said about.

dr.bollocko

Takk wrote: »

Not for discussing things that in other areas of boards would require an Access Request.

It's in there alright.
But lets not mention the war eh

dr.bollocko

Sheeps wrote: »

The videos or pictures of the event happening may infact be rather funny, but applying some vapid unfunny catchphrase to that event has about the same level of humor and wit in it as a Chuck Norris joke. It actually takes from the humor of the thing it's being said about.

One mod once posted the facebook pictures of a racist poster into a new thread and stickied it for a while.
Sometimes epic fails are poetic justice.

brummytom

AH: The place where 30-something yearold men use a children's charity as an excuse for indecent exposure

wudangclan

Sheeps wrote: »

The videos or pictures of the event happening may infact be rather funny, but applying some vapid unfunny catchphrase to that event has about the same level of humor and wit in it as a Chuck Norris joke. It actually takes from the humor of the thing it's being said about.

That sort of thing is self-regulated mostly.Someone puts 'epic fail' ,someone slags them,they don't do it again.Simple.

Abi

Sheeps wrote: »

You've listed quite a few of the major things that make this forum a unfunny cesspool.

Let me show you the door....


*BANG*


Ooops... that might need stitches

Kiera

dr.bollocko wrote: »

One mod once posted the facebook pictures of a racist poster into a new thread and stickied it for a while.
Sometimes epic fails are poetic justice.

And that guy who came onto AH to let everyone know he had sex. Twaz very funny when you lot stickied it

Jay P

dr.bollocko wrote: »

But current affairs is probably the number one catalyst for AH threads.

My comment was a tad tongue in cheek. My own preferences (generally) are for non-serious threads here.

AlmightyCushion

Kiera wrote: »

And that guy who came onto AH to let everyone know he had sex. Twaz very funny when you lot stickied it

I can't remember if that was me or DrB that stickied that one. Good thread though.

Kiera

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I can't remember if that was me or DrB that stickied that one. Good thread though.

It was very very funny. Please keep that kind of lark/fun in AH

CreepingDeath

After Hours should really be renamed "After Hours but before 9pm watershed". Any risqué/non-PC remarks get snipped out.

As for banning "downer" threads... there's a whole range of emotions and a forum is a place for public expression of them.
So I'd be against banning any topic just because of mood.
Unless you want to make everyone post a smiley as the first character of their thread name to warn everyone what the emotional state of the thread is :rolleyes:

AH is generally a light hearted discussion forum for the non-specialist forum users who wants to chat with like-minded individuals.

The threads are usually one of two distinct types
1) threads about topics that are in the publics consciousness due to recent events ( news, local incidents etc )
2) users looking for self validation eg. "How tall are you", "How much do you earn", "What would you do if..." etc...

But it works, and there's plenty of people who want to express themselves there. Over-censorship, thread locking, oppressive rules and pigeon holing every topic into specific forums would be my pet hates.

brummytom

Kiera wrote: »

It was very very funny. Please keep that kind of lark/fun in AH

Definitely.. that was always the thing I loved about AH when I was lurking, I only signed up because it's a laugh here.

Light-heartedness is definitely the core of this forum, without a doubt.

I had my worries about mods being a bit too heavy handed not too long ago, I was worried that general larks & laughs would be stifled/moved to the Cuckoo's Nest, but that seems to have laid off now. Thank the Lord

hooradiation

brummytom wrote: »

AH: The place where 30-something yearold men use a children's charity as an excuse for indecent exposure

AH: It's like the Sun but with naked men.

TPD

Takk wrote: »

Not for discussing things that in other areas of boards would require an Access Request.

On that note though, if something big enough happens that everyone in the pub at the lock in would be talking about it anyway, an exception should be made.

Obviously the prime example is the recent match thread; I think a single thread should have been set up immediately for talking about it, rather than waiting until a few hours later after a load of bans had been handed out. Maybe the first one that got deleted should have been made the official one or something instead.

Mods would need the finger on the pulse though.

Doc

After hours to me is a place where you don’t have to take anything too seriously. Where if you post something you have to accept that it might get the piss taken out of it and if you don’t want the piss taken out of it then you should be posted in one of the other forums on the site.

In my opinion that’s why it exists and why you have treads in it that could fit in other forums. The people who post here know or should know what they are letting themselves into when they post here and the charter should reflect that.

I always disagreed with having celebratory RIP threads or any threads in fact in After Hours where the mods say not to take the piss or you will get banned as it always seamed to me to be the point of after hours to be able to take the piss and have a laugh. I understand that people get upset but then the subject shouldn’t be posted in this forum.

Basically a place for general chat with the broadest user base of all the forums..

rizzee

Fapping, felching and fcuking

Kiera

Doc wrote: »

After hours to me is a place where you don’t have to take anything too seriously. Where if you post something you have to accept that it might get the piss taken out of it and if you don’t want the piss taken out of it then you should be posted in one of the other forums on the site.

In my opinion that’s why it exists and why you have treads in it that could fit in other forums. The people who post hear know or should know what they are letting themselves into when they post here and the charter should reflect that.

I always disagreed with having celebratory RIP threads or any threads in fact in After Hours where the mods say not to take the piss or you will get banned as it always seamed to me to be the point of after hours to be able to take the piss and have a laugh. I understand that people get upset but then the subject shouldn’t be posted in this forum.

That said, some of the "jokes" in those threads are sickening and dont belong in here. There is another forum for people and their sick jokes about dead people.

K-9

The Perfect Drug wrote: »

On that note though, if something big enough happens that everyone in the pub at the lock in would be talking about it anyway, an exception should be made.

Obviously the prime example is the recent match thread; I think a single thread should have been set up immediately for talking about it, rather than waiting until a few hours later after a load of bans had been handed out. Maybe the first one that got deleted should have been made the official one or something instead.

Mods would need the finger on the pulse though.

Generally, they do. On Henrygate, yep, it could have been handled better, wouldn't read too much into it. Mods aren't perfect, hell, that is why Terry was popular/unpopular.

I think the abuse rule is way too tight. I know it's applied to strike down hard on any personal abuse, but it seems ridiculous sometimes. Maybe an on thread warning or a PM?

K-9

Kiera wrote: »

That said, some of the "jokes" in those threads are sickening and dont belong in here. There is another forum for people and their sick jokes about dead people.

Then you get to the age old debate about what is sick and should any jokes be allowed. I'm starting to think they should go to the relevant fora.