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    #182
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,054 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    The OP of a thread should have the power to ban anyone who is derailing his/her thread, this function is on the ConnectingSingles forum.

    It's very handy.

    Thats just a recipe for soapboxing drivel

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #183
    Hotfail.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Hotfail.com


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    The OP of a thread should have the power to ban anyone who is derailing his/her thread, this function is on the ConnectingSingles forum.

    It's very handy.

    Could be so easily abused though.


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    #184
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users Posts: 13,109 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    frozenfrozen wrote: »
    I wouldn't change much. Probably be stricter on people dragging threads off topic as anywhere after the 100th post is rarely related to the OP

    This pisses me off sometimes on here u look at the title of a thread go to last half of the thread and there's a bunch of people arguing over totally different subject!


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    #185
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users Posts: 13,109 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    eviltwin wrote: »
    Free access to Sex and Sexuality forum

    It's ****e and dead.


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    #186
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users Posts: 16,510 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    Thats just a recipe for soapboxing drivel

    We already have soapboxing drivel so not much will change there.


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    #187
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users Posts: 16,510 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Hotfail.com wrote: »
    Could be so easily abused though.

    Well if someone was found to be abusing the ban function that's where the Mods would step in, a site ban would be a good deterrant.


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    #188
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,054 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    We already have soapboxing drivel so not much will change there.

    It would make it way way way worse

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #189
    BBDBB
    Registered Users Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    gugleguy wrote: »
    It's fun though to see whether or not I am right or not in guessing whether or not someone is a re- reg. Regardless what re regs think. Think of it as a sport. Personally I don't think I'd successfully pass off as somebody else on boards.ie as a re reg. I'd say there are a small bunch you somehow though.


    I was thinking of it as a business, where the propagation of discussion is key, so much so that you have to deploy sanctions to corale some individuals who cannot or will not stay within the boundaries of reasonable and inoffensive dialogue. The purposes of the sanctions are to


    a) to punish
    b) to educate with sufficient gravity
    c) to persuade the individual to change their behaviour


    to me a longer ban is more likely to seem harsher to the recipient, to them it doesn't fit the crime, they feel wronged and therefore more likely to try to evade the consequences of their actions by re-regging. Im suggesting that shorter bans convey the same message that someone has overstepped the boundary and needs to be brought in line but are more bearable and more likely to be obeyed and seen out.


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    #190
    Cienciano
    Registered Users Posts: 14,262 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    The like button is good. When you go into a thread that may be interesting, you can read the first few posts, then skip through the crap that no one thanked.


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    #191
    EunanMac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 454 ✭✭EunanMac


    Garzard wrote: »
    Allow attacking the poster as well as their post.

    That's already allowed if the mods happen to agree with your opinion


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    #192
    EunanMac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 454 ✭✭EunanMac


    Cienciano wrote: »
    The like button is good. When you go into a thread that may be interesting, you can read the first few posts, then skip through the crap that no one thanked.

    Kinda like voting for FF used to be, as long as it's popular, sure it must be right


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    #193
    Bafucin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 642 ✭✭✭Bafucin


    Porn?


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    #194
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    A vomit smiley.

    And a raised eyebrow smiley.

    One that looks like an extremely quizzical Roger Moore, or a skeptical little fella like this one:

    http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9548/sceptical.png


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    #195
    RealJohn
    Registered Users Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭RealJohn


    I'd allow people to start threads in Irish in any forum they like and people be allowed to answer in Irish without having to provide a translation. Not being allowed to answer threads in Irish if they were started in english is fine but this is supposedly an Irish board yet we can't post in Irish except in the Irish language forum.


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    #196
    Cienciano
    Registered Users Posts: 14,262 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    EunanMac wrote: »
    Kinda like voting for FF used to be, as long as it's popular, it must be right

    Yes. Reading a thread on AH with 200 replies and only bothering to read the ones with a few likes is exactly like voting in the Fianna Fail government.


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    #197
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    Its disconcerting when threads just disappear into the ether. Like the one on AH just did.


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    #198
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    RealJohn wrote: »
    I'd allow people to start threads in Irish in any forum they like and people be allowed to answer in Irish without having to provide a translation. Not being allowed to answer threads in Irish if they were started in english is fine but this is supposedly an Irish board yet we can't post in Irish except in the Irish language forum.

    That would be grand for the ten of ye. Everyone else would be lost.


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    #199
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Has the topic of zombie threads come up yet? What exactly is the problem with bumping old threads. God knows it would stop this constant sense of de javu I keep having on here....


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    #200
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    RealJohn wrote: »
    I'd allow people to start threads in Irish in any forum they like and people be allowed to answer in Irish without having to provide a translation. Not being allowed to answer threads in Irish if they were started in english is fine but this is supposedly an Irish board yet we can't post in Irish except in the Irish language forum.

    I would hate this, and I think most other posters would too. Keep it to the Irish forum, with more like-minded people.


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    #201
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    wazky wrote: »
    I find your post offensive, you racist.

    I'd ban the use of the word 'racist' without very good reason and something concrete to back it up.


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    #202
    Hotfail.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Hotfail.com


    woodoo wrote: »
    I'd ban the use of the word 'racist' without very good reason and something concrete to back it up.

    Racists like you would want that.





    :p


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    #203
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    woodoo wrote: »
    I'd ban the use of the word 'racist' without very good reason and something concrete to back it up.

    Real racists would use euphemisms, such as "more like-minded people" :(


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    #204
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    RealJohn wrote: »
    I'd allow people to start threads in Irish in any forum they like and people be allowed to answer in Irish without having to provide a translation. Not being allowed to answer threads in Irish if they were started in english is fine but this is supposedly an Irish board yet we can't post in Irish except in the Irish language forum.
    Irish is a "foreign" language for the vast majority of Irish people and a second language with varying degrees of fluency for the rest. Grand if you want to exclude your fellow Irish men and women, but I can't see how that adds to your particular personal cause celebre. Oh wait... Not unless you want to actively exclude those you feel aren't "Irish" enough? Sounds about right for many of your Gaelgoiri. Well done. Kick the language when it's down. *slow handclap*.

    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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    #205
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    woodoo wrote: »
    I'd ban the use of the word 'racist' without very good reason and something concrete to back it up.

    You may aswell have started that post with "I'm not racist but...."


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    #206
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Buona Fortuna wrote: »
    Its disconcerting when threads just disappear into the ether. Like the one on AH just did.
    I have to say I'd agree with that. Locking a troll thread yea, damn straight, but disappearing a thread? Not so much. Bit too Soviet for me. Lock it, even delete all the posts, but give an explanation as to why. Fols don't mind that nearly as much as they mind seeing things vanish. Though in fairness and having modded a fast moving forum I can see that being a real bitch practically for a very fast moving forum like AH or Politics etc, but maybe make it a general suggestion if the mods have time to do that?

    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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    #207
    Skid X
    Registered Users Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    I would nuke anyone who writes an OP with a phrase like "can't believe there isn't a thread on this already'

    Just start your thread and stop whining. Nobody else cares.


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    #208
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,486 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    RealJohn wrote: »
    I'd allow people to start threads in Irish in any forum they like and people be allowed to answer in Irish without having to provide a translation. Not being allowed to answer threads in Irish if they were started in english is fine but this is supposedly an Irish board yet we can't post in Irish except in the Irish language forum.

    How about Polish or Chinese? There's probably as many Chinese or.Polish speakers in the country as there are fluent Irish speakers.


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    #209
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    How about Polish or Chinese? There's probably as many Chinese or.Polish speakers in the country as there are fluent Irish speakers.

    I'd say more, and probably many more.

    How would anyone be able to follow a thread with random posts in a language they don't understand? Stoooopid idea.


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    #210
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    I must say that's very closed-minded. What about using a text-translator on each page?


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    #211
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    catallus wrote: »
    I must say that's very closed-minded. What about using a text-translator on each page?

    That's me, I've got a tiny mind.

    Who'd be bothered with a translator? They'd just ignore the thread.


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