Boards unmoderated for a day

IamtheWalrus

I've always found Boards.ie to be well moderated and that most posters are genuine people. With all the talk of internet trolling in the news, I wonder are Boards.ie users just as bad as any social media site. Are Boards.ie users only well behaved because the site is heavily moderated.

I wonder what the outcome of a unmoderated Boards.ie day experiment would tell us.

seamus

Porn. Porn everywhere.

Celly Smunt

Id imagine we'd all be in court the week after.

Mena

The outcome would be around 6500 banned accounts on day 2!

Fluorescence

It'd be like the satanic spawn of youtube comments and 4chan. *shudders*

LOSTfan57

Not too bad really people have a lot of common sense the idiots and trolls dont last long. Thats my experience anyway ha

KeithM89

There was no mod in AH last night and a bunch of ar*eholes completely ruined it for a few hours.

Fr_Dougal

Keith wrote: »

There was no mod in AH last night and a bunch of ar*eholes completely ruined it for a few hours.

What happened?

pharmaton

depends on the time of day, I get on late if I'm working what with eating and breathing and stuff but there's definitely less genuine posts/posters on at that time and a lot more trolling and muppetry. (my guess is average age of posters at that time is 12-15 yr olds)

KeithM89

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

What happened?

Some people thought starting 11 parody threads was a good idea. They were wrong.

LOSTfan57

Keith wrote: »

There was no mod in AH last night and a bunch of ar*eholes completely ruined it for a few hours.

Just dont give them time of day. Ignore them they go it is only attention seeking mixed with stupidity that leads to trolling. Dont give them attention and it shows that Trolls are pathetic little idiots.

Vito Corleone

Keith wrote: »

There was no mod in AH last night and a bunch of ar*eholes completely ruined it for a few hours.

It was hilarious, it only lasted about a half hour.

LOSTfan57

Keith wrote: »

There was no mod in AH last night and a bunch of ar*eholes completely ruined it for a few hours.

Just dont give them time of day. Ignore them they go it is only attention seeking mixed with stupidity that leads to trolling. Dont give them attention and it shows that Trolls are pathetic little idiots.

wil

the place would be torched

Lawrence1895

I would use some inproper language

Ace Attorney

the mayham of unmodded ah would lead to a clusterfcuk of dole threads, racism, religious and jam threads. *shudders*

wil

Keith wrote: »

There was no mod in AH last night and a bunch of ar*eholes completely ruined it for a few hours.

quite the opposite, it was well moderated, no abuse, no trees destroyed and the mods did exactly what they always do, moderate the immoderate.

shopaholic01

Keith wrote: »

There was no mod in AH last night and a bunch of ar*eholes completely ruined it for a few hours.

It was a group of posters with a similar sense of humour having a bit of craic. No one was abusive. It would have just run it's course.

KeithM89

shopaholic01 wrote: »

It was a group of posters with a similar sense of humour having a bit of craic. No one was abusive. It would have just run it's course.

A small group ruining it for the rest.
A bit like the mods :pac:

efb

It's was nonsense

shopaholic01

efb wrote: »

It's was nonsense

For you maybe, some of us found it hilarious.

Nothing wrong with a bit of silliness now and again.

pharmaton

it was a bit like walking into a room full of teenagers on amphetamines, cuckoonest tbh

IvaBigWun

seamus wrote: »

Porn. Porn everywhere.

:pac:

This.

wil

efb wrote: »

It's was nonsense

No less and no more

endacl

In fairness, if it was that serious last night, how come there was only one ban handed out? I ban that has since been lifted, by the way. AFAIK, not even a slap on the wrist for a single other poster. One of the Mods in question was even in on the joke.

Hardly 'ruining it for everybody' now, was it? If I see a thread I'm not interested in, I find the best course of action is to not open it.

efb

shopaholic01 wrote: »

For you maybe, some of us found it hilarious.

Nothing wrong with a bit of silliness now and again.

The cuckoos nest- fill your boots. I think boards are trying to be a little more professional now, what happened last night was rubbish

Vito Corleone

pharmaton wrote: »

it was a bit like walking into a room full of teenagers on amphetamines

It really really wasn't.

darced

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Reamer Fanny

They should unmoderate it for 5 days, it would be hard to keep watch and I'd reckon the place would be torched by the time they return.

pharmaton

Vito Corleone wrote: »

It really really wasn't.

cuckoo's nest/flirtar

endacl

efb wrote: »

The cuckoos nest- fill your boots. I think boards are trying to be a little more professional now, what happened last night was rubbish

I actually suggested moving the thread to the Nest. Twice. The AH Mod who was in on the joke disagreed. And left it where it was. And left it open.

pharmaton

endacl wrote: »

In fairness, if it was that serious last night, how come there was only one ban handed out? I ban that has since been lifted, by the way. AFAIK, not even a slap on the wrist for a single other poster. One of the Mods in question was even in on the joke.

Hardly 'ruining it for everybody' now, was it? If I see a thread I'm not interested in, I find the best course of action is to not open it.

here's the thing, just because a mod decides its fun doesn't make it acceptable to the rest of the users, moderators use their own discretion when deciding what's "dickish" which sometimes leaves the moderators blind to their own dickishness. They're not exactly immune to it. Tbh I just ventured elsewhere because the first page of AH had five seperate threads all with a slight on the same topic because it was hilarious. "where do I go in Dublin to.." etc etc etc x 5

wil

efb wrote: »

The cuckoos nest- fill your boots. I think boards are trying to be a little more professional now, what happened last night was rubbish

I think you missed something. And I dont mean just the humour, which if don't get, then just walk on.

Companies spend hundreds of thousands on market research for information that could be gleamed from that thread accumulated in hours.
Not that that was the impetus, but it was of curiosity.

And on several other levels it probably was far more interesting than some of the cringeworthily boring threads that pass through here, day in, day out,
sometimes I almost beg for an update to the weather thread.
AH isn't just meant to be a information forum, far from it, if I went down the pub and found the citizens advice bureau.....

Right, now I am defending nonsense, with sense, where is the forum for that?

efb

wil wrote: »

I think you missed something. And I dont mean just the humour, which if don't get, then just walk on.

Companies spend hundreds of thousands on market research for information that could be gleamed from that thread accumulated in hours.
Not that that was the impetus, but it was of curiosity.

And on several other levels it probably was far more interesting than some of the cringeworthily boring threads that pass through here, day in, day out,
sometimes I almost beg for an update to the weather thread.
AH isn't just meant to be a information forum, far from it, if I went down the pub and found the citizens advice bureau.....

Right, now I am defending nonsense, with sense, where is the forum for that?

Would it not be more appropriate in the cockoo's nest though?

pharmaton

it's ok lads, humour in Ireland is safe in the hands of the AH comedy geniuses

efb

Some people really here think their humour is like that of the Goonies or Python, when its far from it

The_Valeyard

If you wouldnt say it in public, then dont say it on boards.

People do need mods to be around (not matter how much I despise the power hungry Dark Lords :P )


If we had no mods, things would get pretty out of hand pretty quick and we would be back to the auld 'flame wars' situation.

Freedom to comment, with a light touch of moderation.

endacl

pharmaton wrote: »

here's the thing, just because a mod decides its fun doesn't make it acceptable to the rest of the users, moderators use their own discretion when deciding what's "dickish" which sometimes leaves the moderators blind to their own dickishness. They're not exactly immune to it. Tbh I just ventured elsewhere because the first page of AH had five seperate threads all with a slight on the same topic because it was hilarious. "where do I go in Dublin to.." etc etc etc x 5

The thing is, there isn't a single thread on here that's compulsory. If I might offer an illustrative example... On the mobile version of the site, under the 'Latest' tab, I invariably see 'Airsoft' this that or the other. Now, I've no interest in Airsoft. I actually think Airsoft is a bit daft. Wannabe soldiers and all that. Sometimes my screen shows a huge proportion of Airsoft threads.

My ingenious solution is not to open them, thereby not being annoyed by them.

Try it.

endacl

efb wrote: »

Some people really here think their humour is like that of the Goonies or Python, when its far from it

The Goonies? The 'pirate map' goonies? Were they supposed to be funny?!?

shopaholic01

efb wrote: »

Would it not be more appropriate in the cockoo's nest though?

It was a one off, that was part of the fun. I could read back through 'legendary threads' and think wtf? Sometimes you just have to be involved to appreciate the hilarity of it.

Was it juvenile? Yes, but funny nonetheless.

Kettleson

I'd be interested to know why Volunteer mods do it? I mean Boards.ie would collapse without doubt without the time they put in.

Why do they do it? All the things they have to put up with, around the clock for sweet FA. Whats the deal here? What motivation or reward can they get?

And the other side of the coin, some Mods can be heavy handed, making unreasonable knee jerk reactions and when challenged, make the situation worse for the boards.ie member.

I have a suspicion that Admin don't want to take volunteers too much to task in case they piss them off and the volunteer leaves.

How long before this thread is locked?

wil

efb wrote: »

Would it not be more appropriate in the cockoo's nest though?

Perhaps and that was already pointed out, twice, Are you in on the joke?

But seriously and I did point this out, that the new version of boards is likely to pull more new threads in to AH while the quieter forums get quieter.
And eventually more people assume this is the place to go.
Perhaps it is up to mods perhaps to redirect them immediately if they can, otherwise, you will complain when they end up getting the AH treatment.
Try bringing your work in to a pub and see how long your friends keep to your topic before eventually taking the p, or leading you in to some completely different train of thought. It happens in real life, it'll happen here.

pharmaton

endacl wrote: »

The thing is, there isn't a single thread on here that's compulsory. If I might offer an illustrative example... On the mobile version of the site, under the 'Latest' tab, I invariably see 'Airsoft' this that or the other. Now, I've no interest in Airsoft. I actually think Airsoft is a bit daft. Wannabe soldiers and all that. Sometimes my screen shows a huge proportion of Airsoft threads.

My ingenious solution is not to open them, thereby not being annoyed by them.

Try it.

ok so one thread is not compulsory, maybe two, now extend it to five and what you'e got is a little clique playing with each other at the expense of the entire forum. Ironically all I see here in this thread is the same circle jerk and thanks whores.

efb

wil wrote: »

Perhaps and that was already pointed out, twice, Are you in on the joke?

But seriously and I did point this out, that the new version of boards is likely to pull more new threads in to AH while the quieter forums get quieter.
And eventually more people assume this is the place to go.
Perhaps it is up to mods perhaps to redirect them immediately if they can, otherwise, you will complain when they end up getting the AH treatment.
Try bringing your work in to a pub and see how long your friends keep to your topic before eventually taking the p, or leading you in to some completely different train of thought. It happens in real life, it'll happen here.

I don't think I'd stay in their company for long with juvenile stuff like that

Cee-Jay-Cee

Some forums are very heavily moderated and others the mods seem to have a but more leniency so I could see the heavily modded forums remaining pretty much as they are and the more lenient ones descending into chaos.

shopaholic01

pharmaton wrote: »

ok so one thread is not compulsory, maybe two, now extend it to five and what you'e got is a little clique playing with each other at the expense of the entire forum. Ironically all I see here in this thread is the same circle jerk and thanks whores.

It wasn't a clique, though. I just got involved with the original thread near the end. It was all started by double posts and then a thread that was mistakenly started 3 times. An unusual event that is unlikely to happen again.

CrazyRabbit

I get the impression that trolls, spammers and assholes piss off the mods by giving them a lot of work to do. The mods in turn can be a little over sensitive at times leading to closed threads, infractions, bans etc when not really warranted.

In short, I think all mods could do with the few days off. And all the trolls, spammers & assholes could have a field day & get it out of their system. Then after a week, restored the DB back to the way it was on day 0.

endacl

I blame Chucken. :mad: This is all his fault.

shopaholic01

endacl wrote: »

I blame Chucken. :mad: This is all his fault.

Chucken is a man. :eek:

She'll be shocked to discover that.

pharmaton

shopaholic01 wrote: »

It wasn't a clique, though. I just got involved with the original thread near the end. It was all started by double posts and then a thread that was mistakenly started 3 times. An unusual event that is unlikely to happen again.

Well then. Maybe next time I should just join in and have some fun and let my hair down. silly me.

endacl

shopaholic01 wrote: »

Chucken is a man. :eek:

She'll be shocked to discover that.

Well! Ya live and learn!

Sorry for the unwarranted gender reassignment there Chucken!