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Where have all the old boardsies gone?
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Jesus man, I'm really sorry. Didn't mean to offend. I'll go away now for another few years...
Not as angry as the little mad face looks
so don’t go disappearing again. It’s just spelling Nazi’s piss me off as they seldom contribute anything to discussions other then telling someone they spelt a word wrong. It really doesn’t help anyone in any way. 0 -
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I've been around since the start, but signed up in 01. I have watched the scandals, seen people come and go, boards memes and huge arguments.
The site has grown, I am older but I still visit every day. Can't say that I have made any impact but, the prolific new posters I tend to ignore.
There are so many of the Facebook generation that have messed up the signal to noise that I confine myself to my subbed forums. I'll post if I think it helps, but usually by the time you have posted and checked on another tab, you are 10 posts behind.
Anyway I miss the call of "AMP TEST" among other things.
Boards has helped me in so many ways as a basic lurker. My join date or my postcount is not a reflection of me or Boards as a whole.
Stay away from the crap and it is as good as I remember, wander into some thread of kids arguing about how something sucks and forget it.
Stop typing ffs. A lurker never involves themselves in a huge useless thread ;(
Boards is a great place, but has a few more dark alleys than it once had.
Thank god for subbed forums.
NN and I'll post again in a few months (and hi Regi
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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.
I don't know what it is with grammar nazis.
Reminds me of the solicitor teaching us law telling us how solictors, who are great on grammar and spelling, generally suck on basic maths.
You don't get the same fanaticism about maths! Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.
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I've been around since the start, but signed up in 01. I have watched the scandals, seen people come and go, boards memes and huge arguments.
The site has grown, I am older but I still visit every day. Can't say that I have made any impact but, the prolific new posters I tend to ignore.
There are so many of the Facebook generation that have messed up the signal to noise that I confine myself to my subbed forums. I'll post if I think it helps, but usually by the time you have posted and checked on another tab, you are 10 posts behind.
Anyway I miss the call of "AMP TEST" among other things.
Boards has helped me in so many ways as a basic lurker. My join date or my postcount is not a reflection of me or Boards as a whole.
Stay away from the crap and it is as good as I remember, wander into some thread of kids arguing about how something sucks and forget it.
Stop typing ffs. A lurker never involves themselves in a huge useless thread ;(
Boards is a great place, but has a few more dark alleys than it once had.
Thank god for subbed forums.
NN and I'll post again in a few months (and hi Regi )
Wise advice dear sage, very, very wise.
Unfortunately most of us don't have that level of self control, hence my double post, and Boards being so popular.
But yeah, I get your point. Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.
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I think it's part & parcel of the problem, tbh.I don't know what it is with grammar nazis.
Not having a pop at you Pace2008, I don't mean to single out your post. I know you didn't mean anything by it, and you were quick to apologies!
Time was you didn't have to be too concerned about someone making a snide comment, or an aggressive retort. Sure it happened, but it wasn't the de-facto norm it appears to have become.
IMHO, it's become more hostile here. It's certainly discouraged me from posting at times, and there are whole forums I don't post in any more because I genuinely don't feel welcome. Usedn't feel like that before. The cliques still exist, they're just different cliques.
That said, clearly that's just my personal take - if it was hostile, or unwelcoming it wouldn't be growing, now would it? Well then; shut up Zulu you clown.
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I dunno Z I don't see it that much. Or don't think it has ramped up. Maybe there's more of a general downer vibe because of the economy? More cynicism perhaps? It seems fairly slight overall, to me anyway.Time was you didn't have to be too concerned about someone making a snide comment, or an aggressive retort. Sure it happened, but it wasn't the de-facto norm it appears to have become.
It's the nature of any community though and in fairness(IMHO), given the size of the place that stuff is a lot less than would be the case in a similar sized "real life" community. But yep there are cliques, but they have a fairly rapid turnover for the most part.The cliques still exist, they're just different cliques.
I dunno, youtube can be downright vicious on it's "forums"/comment section and there are a lot of forums out there that are more than hostile and very popular. Boards is unusually well policed on that score IME.That said, clearly that's just my personal take - if it was hostile, or unwelcoming it wouldn't be growing, now would it? Well then; shut up Zulu you clown.
Maybe you could look at it like the evolution of a city. It starts off like a village where it's more personal in both good and bad ways. In villages, drama is loud, memories are long and cliques can be impenetrable, though there can be a bigger veneer of politeness and it tends to be more easygoing in other ways. Then it grows through the town stage and then the city. The city can make people more brusque, more "wtf", less patient, but it also gives people more neighbourhoods to hang out in to avoid that brusqueness of main street if they so choose. Cliques where they exist are largely localised and don't affect the city overall*. I'd see the boards of today more like the city, rather than the town I joined, which was a different animal again to the village of those who joined in the late 90's early naughties.
*even in the administration layer of the "city". IMHO there are far fewer cliques in the mod layer than before. Even before it really wasn't the one voice clique many seemed to think, but it's lesser again these days.Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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I think it's part & parcel of the problem, tbh.
Not having a pop at you Pace2008, I don't mean to single out your post. I know you didn't mean anything by it, and you were quick to apologies!
Time was you didn't have to be too concerned about someone making a snide comment, or an aggressive retort. Sure it happened, but it wasn't the de-facto norm it appears to have become.
IMHO, it's become more hostile here. It's certainly discouraged me from posting at times, and there are whole forums I don't post in any more because I genuinely don't feel welcome. Usedn't feel like that before. The cliques still exist, they're just different cliques.
That said, clearly that's just my personal take - if it was hostile, or unwelcoming it wouldn't be growing, now would it? Well then; shut up Zulu you clown.
I don't think politics or AH has any more snideness than it had a few years ago and I can remember threads in 07 that had plenty of it. Aggressiveness maybe, with the recession and politics atm, but I think mods are more aware of it and will act if it's a repeated issue. We have to with the increasing numbers.Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.
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A-1 . Like somebody in this thread who did nothing but pick up on everybodys spelling errors , like she was some bastion of grammer perfection and who's main contribution every day was to make people feel uncomfortable when posting .Not as angry as the little mad face looks so don’t go disappearing again. It’s just spelling Nazi’s piss me off as they seldom contribute anything to discussions other then telling someone they spelt a word wrong. It really doesn’t help anyone in any way.0 -
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Hadn't realised monkeyfudge had stopped posting... surprised to see the man behind the original boardscasts stepping back from the site.
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Lets not mention the war. It was terrible what happened to monkeyfudge tbh. But that in itself is part and parcel of the evolution of boards.ie
Back when it started off as a little gamers hippy commune on the internet, when the internet was akin to the wild west of old. It was anything, more or less, goes.
Then a few non hippy gamers joined that commune and fitted in but were not really into the whole tree hugging aspect. Cause a few issues but it was still the wild west.
After awhile more people came and it soon became a village on the internet with little streets and houses. Most people still knew their neighbours and life went on but there were some new people who came with their newfangled ways and upset the old residents but being the internet still being the wild west it still all worked out. People suggested expanding the village a bit with some new streets and estates and there was resistance but it happened.
Eventually it became a town... a society developed. The wild west aspect of the internet was being eradicated by more and more people joining. And so the same was happening on boards. Being a town you didn't always know everyone. Some older residents missed their free lovin hippy ways. They would still says "lol Internet, serious business" when serious stuff happened. They thought it was funny. They never saw the irony that was coming.
Fast forward and you now have a metropolis. You could spend your life in one tenth of it and never know 90% of the people in the other areas.
A lot of the old members are still around. Just you don't see the areas they post in. A lot of them are now in their mid to late 30's with families and stuff and only briefly visit. Some have ditched their old accounts and now have new ones. Some just have changed their names like The Sweeper.
A few have passed on RIP logic_away
I missed Shinji.
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