Long-time posters. Closed accounts.

AskMyChocolate

I dunno. Maybe I'm just getting old, so, I notice it more.

But,it seems, that a lot of people who were here for the last six or seven years are closing their accounts recently.

Has AH lost it's way?

Or, more importantly, has it lost it's sense of humour?

(Tits,bums, yore ma, or a genuinely funny word like Bingo)


Choco.

Canis Lupus

People get tired and move on I guess. They say there's life outside of the boardsvault for those brave enough to go look.

FearDark

Do a search, have a look at AH threads from 6/7 years ago and they're the same as now. The same topics keep coming up. AH is incredibly boring for anyone who has been here a while. Having said that there is a couple of great threads every year.

kneemos

FearDark wrote: »

Do a search, have a look at AH threads from 6/7 years ago and they're the same as now. The same topics keep coming up. AH is incredibly boring for anyone who has been here a while. Having said that there is a couple of great threads every year.

Think I've seen this thread fairly recently,forget who started it though.

Canis Lupus

kneemos wrote: »

Think I've seen this thread fairly recently,forget who started it though.

There has been a thread on this a few times AH is very cyclical.

FearDark

Someone should make a thread on best usernames/how did you choose your username in AH. That would be epic.

Canis Lupus

FearDark wrote: »

Someone should make a thread on best usernames/how did you choose your username in AH. That would be epic.

I think you'll find a thread on why weed should be legalised would be much much better.

seamus

Lots of people are uncomfortable with the amount of personal information they've given out on here and the amount of history they've built up over six or seven years. So they close the account and start again. Only a few of them have actually left.

Duggy747

Dudess is known as Dudessessess and OutlawPete is known as ReformedPete

Dravokivich

A lot of us here still open for business.

LizT

A lot of people leave and come back under a different name. Boards is too addictive to stay away from.

MurdyWurdy

Canis Lupus wrote: »

I think you'll find a thread on why weed should be legalised would be much much better.

or a thread in the spring about how spiders have got so massive this year and are everywhere

gbee

Three things:

One posters are mostly students or transients, once a project, school or college is compete, they see boards in a new and distasteful light.

Boards have increased moderation so it's impossible to have a debate that is even on zillionth above the average intelligence level of the ruling clique of posters.

Boards have released the IP address of posters at the request of certain parties, you are no longer fully anonymous on boards, which is a good thing, I've called for photo ID in the past already.

kneemos

gbee wrote: »

Three things:

One posters are mostly students or transients, once a project, school or college is compete, they see boards in a new and distasteful light.

Boards have increased moderation so it's impossible to have a debate that is even on zillionth above the average intelligence level of the ruling clique of posters.

Boards have released the IP address of posters at the request of certain parties, you are no longer fully anonymous on boards, which is a good thing, I've called for photo ID in the past already.

Who are these certain parties?

ChippingSodbury

kneemos wrote: »

Who are these certain parties?

Fianna Fail, Fine Gael: it's always their fault...

Wibbs

gbee wrote: »

Three things:

One posters are mostly students or transients, once a project, school or college is compete, they see boards in a new and distasteful light.

Distasteful? Meh, more like they get bored, or have simply less time to apply to posting, or they post more in private forums(quite a bit of the latter)

Boards have increased moderation so it's impossible to have a debate that is even on zillionth above the average intelligence level of the ruling clique of posters.

While sometimes I see a thread closed where I go "ahh what was the issue there" and some forums have a low enough standard, other forums have a higher standard than before and often that's down to the moderation. There's less "your ma" guff due to moderation, but I see that as a good thing.

Boards have released the IP address of posters at the request of certain parties, you are no longer fully anonymous on boards, which is a good thing, I've called for photo ID in the past already.

We were never anonymous. Indeed way back in the day ordinary mods could see IP addresses. No longer and not for a long time. Now only admins and boards staff can see them. Privacy has gone up, not down and some of that came from mods themselves. On the releasing of IP addresses by Boards they will only do that if legally and officially requested to do so by the law of the state. They do not hand them out to anyone and have fought a court case over this(MCD). They didn't have to either and it could have gone tits up for them and cost serious money and may have shut the site down.

gbee

ChippingSodbury wrote: »

Fianna Fail, Fine Gael: it's always their fault...

See, one is worried already.

PogMoThoin

This place has seriously gone downhill, there seems to be a lot more assholes now. I blame Facebook, there has been a huge influx of Facebook retards, ie people who wouldn't be on the internet at all if it wasn't for Facebook. They've finally made their way here. I think they are the same annoying fools who bombarded you with sms bullshít 10 years ago, then went on to spam Facebook with bullshít and now they post their bullshít and backward opinions here.

anncoates

They're all losers that couldn't take it anymore.

Move on.

Sugar Free

seamus wrote: »

Lots of people are uncomfortable with the amount of personal information they've given out on here and the amount of history they've built up over six or seven years. So they close the account and start again. Only a few of them have actually left.

I think this is the biggest reason. I unwittingly lost my account in 2010 but it did no harm as looking back at the old username, there was a lot of stuff there I would never post up now.

Mr Benevolent

seamus wrote: »

Lots of people are uncomfortable with the amount of personal information they've given out on here and the amount of history they've built up over six or seven years. So they close the account and start again. Only a few of them have actually left.

Hmmm, might be time for me too. Way too much info in my posts.

Vain

What ever happened to Kiera and sniper?

SEPT 23 1989

Once you hit 10,000 you start to get nervous:D

marketty

Cyber bullying.
Plus public sector workplaces have started to ban the site

4zn76tysfajdxp

Confab wrote: »

Hmmm, might be time for me too. Way too much info in my posts.

Don't be so paranoid, Kevin.

Gummy Panda

I scared them all away

Mr Benevolent

Camilla Moldy Nitrate wrote: »

Don't be so paranoid, Kevin.

I'd be much more worried if you got my name right.

phasers

Some people give out too much personal info over their Boards career and feel the need to start over with a clean slate.

I don't have that problem seeing as I'm a very closed off, unemotional sort of man.

Gummy Panda

phasers wrote: »

Some people give out too much personal info over their Boards career and feel the need to start over with a clean slate.

I don't have that problem seeing as I'm a very closed off, unemotional sort of man.

I thought you were a woman?!?!

Dravokivich

phasers wrote: »

I don't have that problem seeing as I'm a very closed off, unemotional sort of man.

Congrats, hope the er... op was a success. :pac:

phasers

Gummy Panda wrote: »

I thought you were a woman?!?!

Maybe I am, maybe I'm not.


I am

Fighting Irish

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

I dunno. Maybe I'm just getting old, so, I notice it more.

But,it seems, that a lot of people who were here for the last six or seven years are closing their accounts recently.

Has AH lost it's way?

Or, more importantly, has it lost it's sense of humour?

(Tits,bums, yore ma, or a genuinely funny word like Bingo)


Choco.

The thanks system ruined it, now everyone thinks they're funny :pac:

Gummy Panda

I say for the majority it was they couldn't post in peace without someone dragging up something they said in a thread 5 years ago. Also there is people who hold grudges on boards.

Please Kill Me

I know a few are getting tired of thread/posts being OVER-moderated. I understand the need for moderation most of the time, but some of them go too far. People get sick of this, so don't bother any more.

7ofBrian

Gone Drinking

I've came and gone a few times (accounts wise!). I've had three accounts with over a thousand posts each.

I like reading boards but as posters above said, I've seen most threads done a million times. It's a great site for information though and some threads are a good laugh.

My first post on boards was 13 years ago and I can still find it!

Medusa22

I find it sneaky and disconcerting when people close their accounts and open a new one so they can have a clean slate.

If you have a certain reputation on boards then there is a reason for it, you've earned it and now deal with it.

Of course that might just be because there are plenty of posters I don't like and I get annoyed when they re-register and I might accidentally thank one of their posts

Son Of A Vidic

Why anyone would be stupid enough to share personal identifiable information here is beyond me.

HondaSami

Fighting Irish wrote: »

The thanks system ruined it, now everyone thinks they're funny :pac:

I was always funny

gurramok

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Why anyone would be stupid enough to share personal identifiable information here is beyond me.

They should separate Boards usernames from Adverts usernames. Using Adverts exposes the ID of the poster easily to the real world, puts off using Adverts.

Amalgam

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Why anyone would be stupid enough to share personal identifiable information here is beyond me.

Depends what you're here for, After Hours isn't the be all and end all of boards. You find yourself branching out to other sites where things can be a bit more relaxed and specialised, DE Shaving forums, in my case, where members from here would know me by name and whom I've met. My interest started here though.

There are also one or two people who have moved on because of bullying they were subjected to.

Sauve

boneyarsebogman wrote: »

There are also one or two people who have moved on because of bullying they were subjected to.

There are other ways of dealing with it than account-closing surely?
Not referring to any specific cases ere btw, just speaking generally.

Czarcasm

Sauve wrote: »

There are other ways of dealing with it than account-closing surely?
Not referring to any specific cases ere btw, just speaking generally.

There are, certainly, but sometimes I imagine it's easier just close your account. It shouldn't be seen as a bad thing. It might be frustrating for other posters, but at the end of the day you have to put yourself and your online safety first and foremost.

MaxSteele

I'd say the strict moderation and cliques. Offend a certain clique of posters and one click of the sneaky report button and you're banned.

MaxSteele

Deleted User wrote: »

There are also one or two people who have moved on because of bullying they were subjected to.

Not asking for any names or anything, but were they AH posters ? and was the bullying delivered through personal messages or thinly veiled insults on threads ?

anncoates

MaxSteele wrote: »

I'd say the strict moderation and cliques. Offend a certain clique of posters and one click of the sneaky report button and you're banned.

Is that a special type of report button that only cliques can see?

Where To

MaxSteele wrote: »

I'd say the strict moderation and cliques. Offend a certain clique of posters and one click of the sneaky report button and you're banned.

I don't have a sneaky report button, just the normal one

anncoates

Where To wrote: »

I don't have a sneaky report button, just the normal one

Get away from my joke or I'll kick your ass.

/bully

MaxSteele

Where To wrote: »

I don't have a sneaky report button, just the normal one

I mean the use of the report button.

Bit of a childish way to deal with opinions you don't like. Hate the thing.

Big C

MaxSteele wrote: »

I'd say the strict moderation and cliques. Offend a certain clique of posters and one click of the sneaky report button and you're banned.

It's like being in school, mods have favourites, anything goes from them, if u not a fav u get banned for a month. (then u have to log in with ur other account)