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Vito Corleone

One I've seen is occasionally someone will post in the "LETS ALL LAUGH AT PEOPLE WITH DEPRESSION" thread explaining why it's wrong to laugh at people with depression.

What are some massive fails you've seen on boards?

wazky

Someone who went to do a little tiding up around some of the forums and managed to break the whole damn thing.

Frank Lee Midere

Vito Corleone wrote: »

One I've seen is occasionally someone will post in the "LETS ALL LAUGH AT PEOPLE WITH DEPRESSION" thread explaining why it's wrong to laugh at people with depression.

What are some massive fails you've seen on boards?

They probably need to rename it, right enough.

unitedrover

wazky wrote: »

Someone who went to do a little tiding up around some of the forums and managed to break the whole damn thing.

Frank Spencer?

GarIT

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

They probably need to rename it, right enough.

I know someone who suffers from depression and the name of that thread made me seriously angry at times. Even now that I know it's a joke rather than a troll I think it is one of the most idiotic and most offputting things someone trying to help could do.

GLaDOS

When Dav accidentally the whole boards

Menas

The person who left a message for their mum thinking it was a free message service.

Frosty McSnowballs

Sex and sexuality forum........much dissapoint, not so wow.

testicle

unitedrover wrote: »

Frank Spencer?

Yeah, his username on here is Dav though.

Vito Corleone

GarIT wrote: »

I know someone who suffers from depression and the name of that thread made me seriously angry at times. Even now that I know it's a joke rather than a troll I think it is one of the most idiotic and most offputting things someone trying to help could do.

I had thought it was to grab attention? I don't see how anyone could find it offensive at all tbh.

GarIT

The guy that got caught speeding 4 times in a year and was asking how to get out of loosing his licence because 'the man' doesn't always get things right and we need to stop being sheep and following 'the man'.

GarIT

Vito Corleone wrote: »

I had thought it was to grab attention? I don't see how anyone could find it offensive at all tbh.

Not offensive particularly, The first few times I saw it I thought it was a troll.

Super-Rush

GarIT wrote: »

Not offensive particularly, The first few times I saw it I thought it was a troll.

You do know who Dev is right?

Xavi6

The 'Man gets hit by train' stuff in Feedback (I think) was sensational.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

The many people who tried to have the 'Man gets hit by train' video removed.

danniemcq

Xavi6 wrote: »

The 'Man gets hit by train' stuff in Feedback (I think) was sensational.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

The many people who tried to have the 'Man gets hit by train' video removed.

mod

Can people please stop mentioning this? everytime someone mentions it people go searching for it, bump it back up and once again we are plunged into the whole do we leave it up and let people decide if they want to watch it or do we remove it and assume its for their own good.

If people want to find it they will but there are those who don't but have their attention drawn to it for whatever morbid facination, queue complaints that we don't do enough to protect people and "what if kids see it" etc etc

GarIT

GarIT wrote: »

Not offensive particularly, The first few times I saw it I thought it was a troll.

If you had actually read it you would have seen very quickly what it was about. It's specifically there to get attention. I'm fairly sure if it had been titled "depression support thread" it would have fallen off the front page quickly and never to be seen again. Instead, it is one of the most useful threads on this website for those suffering from depression and also for those who are supporting someone suffering from depression. It was written by DeVore, the founder of boards who has long suffered, and spoken out for depression.

If you thought it was a troll and it made you that angry, I'm surprised you didn't go into it, at least in an attempt to report the troll.

lkionm

Will someone post it, I'm too lazy to find it.

irish_goat

Trigger Happy wrote: »

The person who left a message for their mum thinking it was a free message service.

What's this?

Plazaman

Vito Corleone wrote: »

One I've seen is occasionally someone will post in the "LETS ALL LAUGH AT PEOPLE WITH DEPRESSION" thread explaining why it's wrong to laugh at people with depression.

What are some massive fails you've seen on boards?

Not quite sure how the "Lets All Laugh...." is a "Fail" thread. It has 335,838 views, 4,775 replies and has helped people with depression to talk openly about their situations and not feel it's all taboo. While there's the odd idiotic AH comment thrown into the mix, in general I think it's a very informative thread.

If you want fails, go to the Prison forum and read some of the excuses people give when their banned.

Plazaman

Plazaman wrote: »

Not quite sure how the "Lets All Laugh...." is a "Fail" thread.

That's not what he said.

e_e

Plazaman wrote: »

Not quite sure how the "Lets All Laugh...." is a "Fail" thread. It has 335,838 views, 4,775 replies and has helped people with depression to talk openly about their situations and not feel it's all taboo. While there's the odd idiotic AH comment thrown into the mix, in general I think it's a very informative thread.

Pretty sure they were referring to the people who post in that thread arguing against the title without reading the OP.

BillyMitchel

Feeky McGee trying to bone his teacher, epic fail but he failed in a blaze of laughter.

tobsey

Loads of people on this thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055893566

It was a classic though.

Czarcasm

The poster that wandered into a thread to berate Links for making fun of transgendered persons.


As knee-jerk outrage goes, it was a pretty spectacular fail! :pac:


Or in a more recent thread, the poster who told an escort they knew nothing about prostitution...


The posters who jump to ill informed conclusions really, there's a few of those about!

stoneill

Tom_Cruise and his fruitless search for love and acceptance.
I felt sorry for him.

Muise...

Super-Rush wrote: »

You do know who Dev is right?

DeValera, roundy-spectacled independence weasel?

That depression thread can be a good laugh, in fairness.

Skid X

Trigger Happy wrote: »

The person who left a message for their mum thinking it was a free message service.

irish_goat wrote: »

What's this?

Here you go ...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056481820

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056520693

littlelulu

Skid X wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=205648182077

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056520693

Thats hilarious!!!! Bless her cotton socks

Penn

Run_to_da_Hills' Prison Thread

Day before new Pope elected:

Run_to_da_Hills wrote:

I will be 100% correct on my predictions for Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone getting in as next Pope today.

Less than half an hour after being proved wrong:

Run_to_da_Hills wrote:

Request to close my account

As much as I liked RTDH, that was f*cking hilarious.

Links234

Czarcasm wrote: »

The poster that wandered into a thread to berate Links for making fun of transgendered persons.

which one was this?

Plazaman

Deleted User wrote: »

That's not what he said.

e_e wrote: »

Pretty sure they were referring to the people who post in that thread arguing against the title without reading the OP.

Hmm indeed, I therefore submit my first comment as an example of one of them Fails (speed reading will eventually lead to my downfall).

nelly17

ScienceNerd wrote: »

When Dav accidentally ATE the whole boards

FYP

Czarcasm

Links234 wrote: »

which one was this?

Ohh this was waaay way back Links, I did try doing a search, but I think you made a sarcastic comment about something and she picked you up wrong, went on a bit of a this, that and the other. She did apologise in a subsequent post though having felt a bit foolish I guess when she realised her mistake.

nelly17

Deleted User wrote: »

If you had actually read it you would have seen very quickly what it was about. It's specifically there to get attention. I'm fairly sure if it had been titled "depression support thread" it would have fallen off the front page quickly and never to be seen again. Instead, it is one of the most useful threads on this website for those suffering from depression and also for those who are supporting someone suffering from depression. It was written by DeVore, the founder of boards who has long suffered, and spoken out for depression.

If you thought it was a troll and it made you that angry, I'm surprised you didn't go into it, at least in an attempt to report the troll.

I'm not going to speak for DeVore but I think its supposed be ironical like

kowloon

Penncil Dick wrote: »

As much as I liked RTDH, that was f*cking hilarious.

I always assumed RTDH had been permabanned.

danniemcq

kowloon wrote: »

I always assumed RTDH had been permabanned.

he was but when you are banned you can still post in prison. Allows people to appeal the process etc. Requesting to close his account though dunno what the story is there seeing he could do that in his control panel (unless that is blocked too)

BraziliaNZ

EdenHazard talking about women and looks etc. I like him but God he's in his own world. Or when he put his pic in the Know your Lookalikes thread - comedy gold

DeV's "Lets All Laugh At People With Depression" thread title was supposed to be seen as ironic and to get attention - and it worked, it turned into one of the best outlets and support threads for a condition that affects so many people.

There's been soo many. One I remembered earlier is that there was someone that was trolling boards, posting some pretty damned hateful stuff and, I believe, death threats (though this might be wrong?) This was in the days before Data Protection is as it is now and through the user's IP address, they found where the guy logged on (just as it happens, they were using their school's network) and who they were as well. It was probably the best example of anyone being "owned" as I've ever seen on this site.

Akrasia

Every thread in the Motors forum where someone puts up video from a dash-cam in order to rant about someone else's driving where it turns out that their own driving was far worse than anything the other driver did.

DannieHasABrazilian

DannieHasABrazilian wrote: »

mod

Can people please stop mentioning this? everytime someone mentions it people go searching for it, bump it back up and once again we are plunged into the whole do we leave it up and let people decide if they want to watch it or do we remove it and assume its for their own good.

If people want to find it they will but there are those who don't but have their attention drawn to it for whatever morbid facination, queue complaints that we don't do enough to protect people and "what if kids see it" etc etc

Look at what you've caused.

danniemcq

Deleted User wrote: »

Look at what you've caused.

yeah you should see my inbox. i've already got a few angry pm's too. You always get the one claiming to be yer mans family too.

DannieHasABrazilian

DannieHasABrazilian wrote: »

yeah you should see my inbox. i've already got a few angry pm's too. You always get the one claiming to be yer mans family too.

You think that post is bad, wait til you see this one where a whole family gets hit by one!

danniemcq

Deleted User wrote: »

You think that post is bad, wait til you see this one where a whole family gets hit by one!

thanks

has been blocked because sites in the web category "Pornography

well thats me flagged at work

P_1

^You shall not pass this firewall...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=84529967

Total shill fail - Post 4 made me laugh so hard that I still haven't forgotten about it.

Retrovertigo

The entire 'Have you ever had a threesome?' thread is full of fail.

Vito Corleone

I liked Tom Cruise and RTDH! EdenHazard's posts are pretty funny as well.

SpaceCowb0y

Skid X wrote: »

Here you go ...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056481820

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056520693

Hahahahah that is amazing!! How have i never seen that before!

Anyone remember the Racing Tips page??!?!?!?!

Femme_Fatale

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

Hahahahah that is amazing!! How have i never seen that before!

Fecking hell! :eek:

And those threads started on the Newbies & FAQ forum about specialised stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with Boards, e.g. a query about cars, or golf.
I wonder is it a case of them thinking: "I have a question to ask about a specific thing - I'll google FAQ and that'll be enough; it'll automatically be a FAQ in relation to my particular topic of interest."