Why is the Cork City Forum quieter than others?

tommy21

I mean if you compare this sub-forum to others (e.g. various Dublin ones) we are much quieter, but yet we have a massive population. I think the Cork City forum needs a virtual baby boom - who agrees?!

Balmed Out

some people use the proc forums i suppose.

cookie75

I'm putting myself forward to help Cork with the baby boom:):)
The things i do for my city!!

evilivor

tommy21 wrote: »

I mean if you compare this sub-forum to others (e.g. various Dublin ones) we are much quieter, but yet we have a massive population. I think the Cork City forum needs a virtual baby boom - who agrees?!

Too busy watching Come Dine With Me Ireland?

Bodhidharma

PROC. You can say what you want on that, which for local issues is far better.

tommy21

I'd say we have a few double agents on here alright ...

Owen

It's much simpler that that, us Corkonians are a new step in the evolution of the Irish. Unlike outsiders, we don't feel the need to verbalise every thought that comes into our minds, only the ones which have value. It's the quality, not quantity that counts :pac:

overmantle

PaintDoctor wrote: »

It's much simpler that that, us Corkonians are a new step in the evolution of the Irish. Unlike outsiders, we don't feel the need to verbalise every thought that comes into our minds, only the ones which have value. It's the quality, not quantity that counts :pac:

I agree. Many of us prefer to read but don't necessarily contribute to each and every thread.

Show Time

Bodhidharma wrote: »

PROC. You can say what you want on that, which for local issues is far better.

A funny farm which lacks any sort of visible mods and admin which can only lead to lunacy and repetition of old threads and grudges on the site. It also seems to only have a core posting group of between 10-15 posters with about a half dozen handles each.

Chuck Stone

tommy21 wrote: »

we have a massive population.

I think I've seen a sketch with you in it.

Skip to 3:50

Bodhidharma

Show Time wrote: »

A funny farm which lacks any sort of visible mods and admin which can only lead to lunacy and repetition of old threads and grudges on the site. It also seems to only have a core posting group of between 10-15 posters with about a half dozen handles each.

All of this is true, but it still has far more traffic than this forum.

tommy21

God you may be right but that clip just reminded me how much I despise Andrew Maxwell as a comedian!

Cadyboo

It used to be a lot busier as people used to write on it in work. But my understatanding is that a lot of employers have stopped access to internet or certain areas of the internet to cut costs. So that affects our poor little office boardsies!
I only can log on when I am off work as I work 12 hour days and am too tired and lazy to care to log on after work!

tommy21

Cadyboo wrote: »

It used to be a lot busier as people used to write on it in work. But my understatanding is that a lot of employers have stopped access to internet or certain areas of the internet to cut costs. So that affects our poor little office boardsies!
I only can log on when I am off work as I work 12 hour days and am too tired and lazy to care to log on after work!

Jesus, 12 hours a day?! Is that legal? What area do you work in broadly, if you don't mind me asking?

Solair

Cork tends to have its own media infrastructure for this kind of thing and I would say the People's Republic of Cork forums fulfill that purpose.

PROC, Evening Echo, Examiner, 96fm, 103fm, RedFM.

I don't know why Cork doesn't have proper local television too, other than Channel South. I'm sure RTE Cork could pull a sizable audience, given there are UK BBC regions not much bigger.

RTE Cork/South/Munster, covering munster would give an audience not much smaller than BBC NI.

RTE Cork Local Radio was on air for years, and was basically hampered by the fact that it was only on air in Cork City centre on 89.2fm. If it had been broadened out to cover the whole county / region it might have had a chance of viability.

Cadyboo

tommy21 wrote: »

Jesus, 12 hours a day?! Is that legal? What area do you work in broadly, if you don't mind me asking?

Its shift work, not 5, 12 hour days..:p Sorry if it sounded like that.
3 days a week, or 3 nights, 4 days off. Love it!!:D

tommy21

Cadyboo wrote: »

Its shift work, not 5, 12 hour days..:p Sorry if it sounded like that.
3 days a week, or 3 nights, 4 days off. Love it!!:D

Ah I get you - still fairly hefty but you can't beat extended days off either!

Show Time

Show Time wrote: »

It also seems to only have a core posting group of between 10-15 posters .

A few more than here so really.

tommy21

tommy21 wrote: »

Ah I get you - still fairly hefty but you can't beat extended days off either!

I did shift work for my first job out of college, 12 hour nights and days, loved it. Have been on Mon to Fri the last 6 years, I defo preferred shift work. It's fine once you have no bother sleeping during the day when on nights.

Cadyboo

RoverJames wrote: »

I did shift work for my first job out of college, 12 hour nights and days, loved it. Have been on Mon to Fri the last 6 years, I defo preferred shift work. It's fine once you have no bother sleeping during the day when on nights.

Yeah, have no bother sleeping. Sleep better during the day, when its not sunny of course. Lucky I live here really.:p

Show Time

RoverJames wrote: »

I did shift work for my first job out of college, 12 hour nights and days, loved it. Have been on Mon to Fri the last 6 years, I defo preferred shift work. It's fine once you have no bother sleeping during the day when on nights.

It has been nearly ten years since i did shift work and after coming off five years of working nights it was a case of never again for me.:)

Show Time

Show Time wrote: »

A funny farm which lacks any sort of visible mods and admin which can only lead to lunacy and repetition of old threads and grudges on the site. It also seems to only have a core posting group of between 10-15 posters with about a half dozen handles each.

I have just seen the above post on peoplesrepublicofcork:P

Mr Cork Man

Great site without it the INTERNET would be nothing.You can say what's on you're mind and the sports forum is the best sports forum on the INTERNET.There's no power hungry mods and the people that couldn't stand the heat over there just end up as embittered wrecks on here.:)

Show Time

Mr Cork Man wrote: »

Great site without it the INTERNET would be nothing.You can say what's on you're mind and the sports forum is the best sports forum on the INTERNET.There's no power hungry mods and the people that couldn't stand the heat over there just end up as embittered wrecks on here.:)

I post on the sports forum infrequently. The posters in that part of the world seem to be a few points above the average IQ then the rest of the site.

RoyMcC

There must be other reasons. I access the Dublin, Cork & Waterford boards regularly. If anything the Waterford forum is busier than the (pretty busy) Dublin City forum. The level of posting/debate is reasonably good across all the fora.

I'm not sure the PROC crowd would be inclined to post here (horses for courses) if their forum disappeared so there must be other factors.

Knasher

It's because whenever a Dublin post appears outside of the Dublin forum we are very quick to point it back. However we can post where ever the hell we want.

Used be busier before I think.

castie

Guys/Gals please read the charter with regards discussions on PROC

RoyMcC

There was what I thought was a great topic started not so long ago, on 'ghost' signs http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=72067532

The equivalent Dublin topic presently has 418 posts and counting. The Cork one had no response. Now I know that Corkonians are very proud of their city, its history, culture etc and rightly so. It's a great city/county. So it can't be that Dublin folk are more interested.

Is it that, for some reason, a lesser number of Corkonians access Boards? Maybe the supermods have access to the stats?

kart

Owen wrote: »

It's much simpler that that, us Corkonians are a new step in the evolution of the Irish. Unlike outsiders, we don't feel the need to verbalise every thought that comes into our minds, only the ones which have value. It's the quality, not quantity that counts :pac:

EXACTLY!
I personally even think we have too much spam in here lol:P

D'Agger

If this thread has taught me anything it's this....

I fúcking HATE Andrew Maxwell!! :mad:

Duke Leonal Felmet

The ProC used to be a great forum until 'losingmyringtopaddypower' (admin) started banning people he didn't like, and allowed the duplicate accounts to run riot.

It's gone to **** now. So maybe having mods is a good thing, in some sense.

kart

Maybe it's not as busy cos we are smarter:P And actually try to find some solutions or answers ourselves before coming and posting everything that crosses our minds here
And if someone thinks it's too quiet..then spam away:)

Bodhidharma wrote: »

All of this is true, but it still has far more traffic than this forum.

And how exactly do u know how much "traffic" goes through here. As said by previous posters, many of us read the threads here, but don't feel the need to post in every thread.
So the "traffic" and amount of posts are actually two different things.
i personally read through most threads, but don't always find that i have anything more constructive to say than the ones who have already posted. So sometimes i just "thank" the person who already said what i was about to say and leave quietly...

kart

kart wrote: »

...........So sometimes i just "thank" the person who already said what i was about to say and leave quietly...

You've thanked 124 posts in two years, that's a little over one a week :P

kart wrote: »

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And how exactly do u know how much "traffic" goes through here. .............

Number of views per thread is handy for that

ABajaninCork

I'm doing my bit. I've just posted a thread asking about cookery classes!

kart

RoverJames wrote: »

You've thanked 124 posts in two years, that's a little over one a week :P



Number of views per thread is handy for that

In these two years theres been long times of inactivity for meself. But im surely not the only one to make a statistics of:P

I dont think number of views for some threads is too small.. But maybe it's just me. For example this thread has over 1600 views.. Thats alright "traffic", or no?

Mr Magnolia

All, commenting on moderator requests/directions on threads isn't permitted as it only serves to derail a topic, it will result in warnings/infractions and deleted posts.

Please see castie's earlier warning.