Where have all the old boardsies gone?

Thrill

And Ruu.

Cunning Stunt

After Hours used to be my fav forum but I think the introduction of the ''thanks'' button has messed things up.
Suddenly everyone wants to be the funnyman and many threads just descend into total sh*te because of it.

dr.bollocko

Cunning Stunt wrote: »

After Hours used to be my fav forum but I think the introduction of the ''thanks'' button has messed things up.
Suddenly everyone wants to be the funnyman and many threads just descend into total sh*te because of it.

Nah that was there before thanks.
It's the increase in popularity of the forum that has caused this. There's a clamour to be the first replier to a thread now. Would still be there if thanks wasn't around.

Nothingbetter2d

i reckon bluewolf, mikey dolanz & dr bollocko banned them all :P

Reku

kelle wrote: »

What happened to Thaeds, I remember she changed her username but then disappeared off the radar!

She deleted/closed her account, even PMs to & from her have disappeared (although if I remember right she was not the only recipient of them so probably not the best deletion script there really).
A number of people I used to regularly get into discussions with have also done so, as such a fair portion of the people who I genuinely respected on the site are now gone so I don't particularly feel motivated to post much, just stick to browsing for interesting info.

As to the why, at a simple guess they're sick of the trolls and other BS that's grown ever more commonplace.

Dudess wrote: »

It was better before in that there was a far lower quotient of braindead/knuckledragging/lunatic, but it's better now IMO in the sense that it's more open and inclusive, less cliquey and esoteric.

I agree, though the cliques didn't tend to bother me too much since they weren't as pervasive (IMO) as the "braindead/knuckledragging/lunatic" element now seems to be.

watna wrote: »

I used to post a lot more but it's becoming less and less every time I see how many awful people there is on boards - a lot of posters are just nasty and there's an undercurrent of agression everywhere. It's definitely not the same as it used to be (I know that makes me sound like an oul one).

QFT/+1
Though to be honest I've found it to be the case with most forums, such that I've withdrawn from nearly all of them, sure it means leaving folks behind and sometimes a glut of PMs if I do return but I find I just have to take regular breaks from the less attractive element of humanity that tends to dominate the online world.

Wibbs wrote: »

I see where you're coming from W. I even see it in myself TBH. I'm certainly more edgy, well... less accepting than I used to be on here. I was the caring sharing PI mod who loads thought I was a woman. Doubt they'd think that today. Maybe I'm picking up on the overall vibe, or maybe I'm just becoming a c u next tuesday? Probably the latter.

Maybe we're all just getting old and cranky...
"Get off my lawn you damn kids!":mad:

MrMatisse

This whole thread has gone a bit, in my day we respected our elders:D

frozenfrozen

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oppenheimer1

Wibbs wrote: »

I see where you're coming from W. I even see it in myself TBH. I'm certainly more edgy, well... less accepting than I used to be on here. I was the caring sharing PI mod who loads thought I was a woman. Doubt they'd think that today. Maybe I'm picking up on the overall vibe, or maybe I'm just becoming a c u next tuesday? Probably the latter.

I think it started to change subtly around a couple years ago. Not because of Daft coming in either. That's been a good thing IMHO. I'd pin a lot of it to the whole "Pokergate" incident. It got real serious real quick and a large community at the time upped sticks and walked. That bad/unsettling/WTF feeling trickled around the place. Lines were drawn etc. Add in a wider audience and the oft necessary officialdom/play it safe stuff that comes with a business that's employing folks made it bigger, but more fractured I suppose? Those changes are going to be odd for a lot of longer term posters unless you kinda change with it.

Pokergate, that passed me by... What happened there?

Wibbs

Gummy Panda wrote: »

IIRC some posters used a convo thread to troll other forums. Admins lost the rag, started banning and deleted the thread. Poker mods stepped down in protest and then it really escalated

Happened just before you signed up? My memory's ****e so don't take that to the bank. Water under the bridge and all that. One of those "growing pains" I suppose you could describe it, but there was a before and after vibe to it IMH anyway. Compared to other stuff that might have gone a bit pete tong(as things will) before or since.

Gummy Panda

Wibbs wrote: »

Happened just before you signed up? My memory's ****e so don't take that to the bank. Water under the bridge and all that. One of those "growing pains" I suppose you could describe it, but there was a before and after vibe to it IMH anyway. Compared to other stuff that might have gone a bit pete tong(as things will) before or since.

Nope. Happen around 2008/2009 I think

stovelid

Cunning Stunt wrote: »

After Hours used to be my fav forum but I think the introduction of the ''thanks'' button has messed things up.
Suddenly everyone wants to be the funnyman and many threads just descend into total sh*te because of it.

Or its introduction exposed the fact that the many of the "hilarious' old guard were not actually found funny by the average user despite knowing the right people.

Dudess

Beruthiel wrote: »

Four off the top of my head who I miss:

Whitewashman
amp
Typedef
Ecksor

Two off the top of my head who I miss*

Whitewashman
Amp








*like gangrene

44leto

Dudess wrote: »

Two off the top of my head who I miss*

Whitewashman
Amp








*like gangrene

Yeah I like gangrene as well, hope they return.:(

MrMatisse

44leto wrote: »

Yeah I like gangrene as well, hope they return.:(

Erm, think she means she doesnt like them, like infected rotting flesh i.e. gangrene......

44leto

Its not really a cliquey site I like for that reason, its big enough so you can be quite anonymous.

44leto

MrMatisse wrote: »

Erm, think she means she doesnt like them, like infected rotting flesh i.e. gangrene......

Slaps head how did i miss that (sarcasm):D

Jaden

There is only one join date, Feb98. Everyone else is a Q2 playing n00b.

I miss Bubbles.

Wibbs

Dudess wrote: »

Two off the top of my head who I miss*

Whitewashman
Amp








*like gangrene

While I rarely saw eye to eye with WWM and vice versa, him not being around is the sites loss IMHO. No subterfuge with the guy. You knew where he/you stood. That's rare enough IME. Plus he could surprise and was not boring. Just my take though. Amp I'd little experience of TBH so can't really offer a take on the chap.

Jaden wrote: »

There is only one join date, Feb98. Everyone else is a Q2 playing n00b.

Oulfella....

I miss Bubbles.

I don't I have to say. On sooo many levels.

uberalles

They are all on www.vip.ie now

Irish Wolf

Rabies wrote: »

Back when tCN was cool

Ruu was always snatching the win

He was a big cheater who controlled the switch, and always had a time zone advantage on our drunk asses. Though I'm sure I got at least one or two victories over him.

Miss Ruu greatly on the site.

Dyr

TBH there's a fair few old schoolers who threw the rattle out of the pram and left that I would never miss, basically trenchcoats who couldn't handle the influx of norms bringing about the loss of clique powah, it was just like real life all over again, I guess.

I still crack up when I remember lazers pew pew though..ah good times

Rabies

Irish Wolf wrote: »

He was a big cheater who controlled the switch, and always had a time zone advantage on our drunk asses. Though I'm sure I got at least one or two victories over him.

Miss Ruu greatly on the site.

He had sneaky Admin powers
Boards was going down for me at 3-4pm in the afternoon too. Time zones! ****e time to lose Boards

bring back Ruuuuuuuuuu

I think he is still here in a different form

watna

I miss Ruu too - he was a gentleman and you could tell he was a really nice guy - which on t'internet is becoming rarer and rarer. The place is definitely worse off without him.

The Citizen

I am omni-preset, lurking in the shadows, watching on..... in silence. When the time is right, when the city needs me, I will be back.

:mad:

Sleepy

Hadn't realised monkeyfudge had stopped posting... surprised to see the man behind the original boardscasts stepping back from the site.

Would also miss WhiteWashMan, guy once gave me the kick in the arse I needed to have a chat with a former boss that got me a five grand raise. His wife minesajackdaniels was a great poster too, used to love her blog, genuinely a great writer.

Know some of the others mentioned on here are still posting but under new handles as they wanted to reclaim their anonymity from some of the posters on here. Can definitely understand it for some of the more high-profile posters.

Personally, I've found I spend less time in the general forums and more in the specialist forums of my hobbies.

admiralofthefleet

i miss Ruu-bot

aoifejane

Quality of posters gone downhill... nobody knows how to spell or punctuate anymore...

Dudess

aoifejane wrote: »

Quality of posters gone downhill... nobody knows how to spell or punctuate anymore...

The "n" for nobody should be upper-case.

Pace2008

aoifejane wrote: »

Quality of posters gone downhill... nobody knows how to spell or punctuate anymore...

Are you being ironic by misusing those ellipses there, or has Muphry's Law struck again?

Doc

aoifejane wrote: »

Quality of posters gone downhill... nobody knows how to spell or punctuate anymore...

Yes because spelling and punctuation have always been what makes for great conversation and debate on Boards. :rolleyes:

I genuinely hate this attitude! :mad: Personally I cant spell because of dyslexia and because of this I never liked English as a subject, my punctuation is probably not the best as a result. But if people can understand what I am trying to say and recognise that I have just misspelled a word or two who cares that there are a couple of punctuation or spelling mistakes.

It’s the idea that someone is trying to get across in their post that is the important thing and makes the post interesting or not. As long as I can understand the idea I don’t care if the odd word is wrong, or they haven’t used a comma in the correct place.

I’ve been here a while and spelling is the least of the things that I think has gotten worse here. The main thing that I think has gotten bad is the TLDR attitude of a lot of posters. I mean what is the point of posting on a mainly text based bulletin board if your not going to read something because it has more then two lines in it.