AH full of people trying to be funny and failing

cloptrop

Fighting Irish wrote: »

reddit is the new forum type of the future, mark my words!

Which button do I click for marking your words?

Fighting Irish

Owen_S wrote: »

OP, why you mad brah?

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hondasam

Fighting Irish wrote: »

If it was funny. it would be getting "thanks"

It might be funny but not hilarious. Some people rarely use the thanks button.

wilkie2006

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I hated the thanks thing when I joined first but now I can whore myself with the best of them in AH (except Sindri).

Sindri wrote: »

What's that supposed to mean? I thought you likey me?

What's the craic with Sindri getting such a rough time? I think his posts are pretty good.

Logical Fallacy

tunedout wrote: »

what really annoys me is the f*ggots that use 'AH' as an abbreviation for this forum.

It's right up there with people who use "is" instead of "are" tbh.

The King of Moo

I think negative threads where people complain about how bad AH has got without offering any constructive criticism or attempting to make AH better do much more damage to the forum.

FoxT

I really want a thanks button & an 'unthanks' button, and also to be able to see who has thanked & unthanked me. Oh, the hours of fun I'd have, whoring after my thankers, and blasting my unthankers with witty putdowns which are just sufficiently short of being abusive to prevent me from getting banned...

Me & my mates could trawl through users profiles & find thanks & unthanks targets!! Yesss! the capacity for general trollage, clique formation, & mental masturbation would be absolutely endless!

aaronjumper

FoxT wrote: »

I really want a thanks button & an 'unthanks' button, and also to be able to see who has thanked & unthanked me. Oh, the hours of fun I'd have, whoring after my thankers, and blasting my unthankers with witty putdowns which are just sufficiently short of being abusive to prevent me from getting banned...

Me & my mates could trawl through users profiles & find thanks & unthanks targets!! Yesss! the capacity for general trollage, clique formation, & mental masturbation would be absolutely endless!

I'm scared

guitarzero

I think the only solution is to have Mods delete comments that arent funny. If they continue to post unfunny comments then its a warning.

Fighting Irish

cloptrop wrote: »

Which button do I click for marking your words?

In forums like boards, it's so much work to see if someone has quoted or replied to something you've said

Sindri

FoxT wrote: »

I really want a thanks button & an 'unthanks' button, and also to be able to see who has thanked & unthanked me. Oh, the hours of fun I'd have, whoring after my thankers, and blasting my unthankers with witty putdowns which are just sufficiently short of being abusive to prevent me from getting banned...

Me & my mates could trawl through users profiles & find thanks & unthanks targets!! Yesss! the capacity for general trollage, clique formation, & mental masturbation would be absolutely endless!

I like this concept of mental masturbation. Please continue.

catthinkin

i hate this thread the countries fcuked
economy fcuked
euro fcuked
now ah ?

cause it was all so much better when it started like ibiza mannnnnnnn

Fighting Irish

wilkie2006 wrote: »

What's the craic with Sindri getting such a rough time? I think his posts are pretty good.

btw, i only used singri as an example, nothing personal

MickySticks

Fighting Irish wrote: »

In forums like boards, it's so much work to see if someone has quoted or replied to something you've said

And yet 10 years and 5,500+ posts later you're still here whinging.

Fighting Irish

The King of Moo wrote: »

I think negative threads where people complain about how bad AH has got without offering any constructive criticism or attempting to make AH better do much more damage to the forum.

Have i not said it already? have a "no thanks" button, this might stop the wannabe funny people in their tracks and make boards not just AH a better quality forum

Sindri

Fighting Irish wrote: »

btw, i only used singri as an example, nothing personal

Then get my nom de guerre right! I'm not a ****ing cocktail!

You should note I have decided to troll this thread into oblivion, coz that's just how I operate. :cool:

Fighting Irish

catthinkin wrote: »

i hate this thread the countries fcuked
economy fcuked
euro fcuked
now ah ?

cause it was all so much better when it started like ibiza mannnnnnnn

da fook

Fighting Irish

MickySticks wrote: »

And yet 10 years and 5,500+ posts later you're still here whinging.

I've said it before, i'm irish and this is the biggest irish forum, i come here for irishy stuff, for internety stuff, i go elsewhere

Gummy Panda

Who cares what someone else says looking for thanks, sure you're all not real anyway

Fighting Irish

Sindri wrote: »

Then get my nom de guerre right! I'm not a ****ing cocktail!

You should note I have decided to troll this thread into oblivion, coz that's just how I operate. :cool:

Troll away Singri, but try make it funny for once :pac:

saa

If its appropriate then yeah throw in something like that but coming onto Boards just to try and post "funny" comments it is a bit sad.

It doesn't wind me up that much, the thank system is handy as you're scrolling down and see a whole chunk of thanks its usually worth having a look at, otherwise I can easily ignore any lame posts (which we are all entitled to make) but one post was really sad, once I was talking about a friend with an illness, and yes I did get a reply with a really lame "joke" about their aliment basically about them, if it was funny, related, or I said something silly that would be meh what it is, like If I was talking about my mothers illness and someone just replied yor ma it wouldn't phase me.

ToddyDoody

I'd hardly say i'm trying

Logical Fallacy

Fighting Irish wrote: »

Have i not said it already? have a "no thanks" button, this might stop the wannabe funny people in their tracks and make boards not just AH a better quality forum

It really wouldn't. You'd just end up with people who dislike a poster "no thanking" every post they make and it would result in pointless spats breaking out in threads.

I mean, i reckon you'd feel pretty bad if you looked over this thread and noticed that i had effectively given the thumbs down to every post you made, which is pretty much what would have happened.

Fighting Irish

saa wrote: »

If its appropriate then yeah throw in something like that but coming onto Boards just to try and post "funny" comments it is a bit sad.

It doesn't wind me up that much, the thank system is handy as you're scrolling down and see a whole chunk of thanks its usually worth having a look at, otherwise I can easily ignore any lame posts (which we are all entitled to make) but one post was really sad, once I was talking about a friend with an illness, and yes I did get a reply with a really lame "joke" about their aliment basically about them, if it was funny, related, or I said something silly that would be meh what it is, like If I was talking about my mothers illness and someone just replied yor ma it wouldn't phase me.

Ye all right man, chill out!

hondasam

Fighting Irish wrote: »

Have i not said it already? have a "no thanks" button, this might stop the wannabe funny people in their tracks and make boards not just AH a better quality forum

I would like to see this happen for a week just to see if it makes a difference. I would also like to see the thanks button disabled for a week to see what happens.
Is the thank button that important?

Sindri

Fighting Irish wrote: »

Troll away Singri, but try make it funny for once :pac:

Okay. Lets be serious for a second. So what you're advocating is the many many posters posting subjectively should A) either stop or post for your amusement only. Or (and I'm coming from left field here, bare with me) C) you can either deal with it without being a little bitch or you can post somewhere else because either AHs will change or you will change or you'll have to put up with it which appears to be a task beyond you.



Feedback>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> FTW! :pac:

The King of Moo

Fighting Irish wrote: »

Have i not said it already? have a "no thanks" button, this might stop the wannabe funny people in their tracks and make boards not just AH a better quality forum

But I don't think that would work. It would make things too cliquey, with people "no thanking" people they've got a grudge against.

I think it would also be intimidating for people who have an opinion that might be controversial, or something funny, which they worry could lead to them getting lots of "no thanks," so they don't bother posting it.

Personally I don't care about people trying to be funny and failing: I don't mind it in real life, so why should I care about it on the internet?

Gummy Panda

hondasam wrote: »

Fighting Irish wrote: »

Have i not said it already? have a "no thanks" button, this might stop the wannabe funny people in their tracks and make boards not just AH a better quality forum

I would like to see this happen for a week just to see if it makes a difference. I would also like to see the thanks button disabled for a week to see what happens.
Is the thank button that important?

We had a rep system and caused issues. That's why we have a thanks system now

Logical Fallacy

hondasam wrote: »

I would like to see this happen for a week just to see if it makes a difference. I would also like to see the thanks button disabled for a week to see what happens.
Is the thank button that important?

It keeps a load of pointless posts that do nothing but quote other posts and say "+1" off the board, so it's pretty handy in that respect.

Fighting Irish

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

It really wouldn't. You'd just end up with people who dislike a poster "no thanking" every post they make and it would result in pointless spats breaking out in threads.

I mean, i reckon you'd feel pretty bad if you looked over this thread and noticed that i had effectively given the thumbs down to every post you made, which is pretty much what would have happened.

I understand that, but with all this "witty humour" flying about, people who get a lot of "no thanks" would soon give up spamming this place with nonsense