1st post: w00t!

Gordon

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What colour are your shoes today?

Gordon

Not wearing any. However, I own black, blue, white and brown shoes, and they tend to stay the same colour every day.

wonderboysam

favourite ice cream flavour?

The Hill Billy

Navy ten-hole Docs.

Timberrrrrrrr

I'll ask the difficult questions


Have you ever been outside and did it blind you


Seriously though

How long have you been with boards and what would you like to see changed?

The Hill Billy

wonderboysam wrote: »

favourite ice cream flavour?

Murphy's rum & raisin.

Gordon

Hmm, didn't expect an ama on myself...

Coffee or Colpi's.

Gloomtastic!

Where do you see this new section going exactly?

Gordon

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

I'll ask the difficult questions


Have you ever been outside and did it blind you


Seriously though

How long have you been with boards and what would you like to see changed?

When I was younger I stared at the sun and burned my retina, and my eyesight was unbelievably acute for a few days after. I do not recommend this.

I believe I've been here since 2000 or early 2001. Not sure what I'd like changed, maybe less re-registering troublemakers...

Birneybau

Are those my feet?

Gordon

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

Where do you see this new section going exactly?

I have no idea! However, Dav is interested in this and may have plans for the forum..

Gordon

Birneybau wrote: »

Are those my feet?

No, you know fine well who's they are, so give them back.

ShaShaBear

When was the last incident where something totally basic and simple escaped your knowledge? Example: Forgetting how to spell a 4-letter word, not being able to add something up, etc.

Miss Demeanour

What question would you least like someone to ask you bar this one?

Gordon

ShaShaBear wrote: »

When was the last incident where something totally basic and simple escaped your knowledge? Example: Forgetting how to spell a 4-letter word, not being able to add something up, etc.

I'm afraid that's happening a lot these days as I get older, I even joked about it with a friend on Friday, saying that I had alzheimers. Then she kept joking about it when I forgot something.

Probably earlier today when I went into a room and thought: 'wait, why did I come in here?'

Sciprio

Weetabix or Porridge?

Gordon

Miss Demeanour wrote: »

What question would you least like someone to ask you bar this one?

What the nurxcrumple data warehouse bot does when it's not auto-banning users from boards, that thing scares me, I don't want to get on its bad side.

Gordon

Sciprio wrote: »

Weetabix or Porridge?

Weetabix if I have to eat breakfast, used to hate porridge as I'm Scottish so we have it with salt...

Zombienosh

oo could this be for guest celebrity type peoples

Gordon

Zombienosh wrote: »

oo could this be for guest celebrity type peoples

I believe it can be for anyone, maybe Dav has ideas on getting his popstar friends on here one day, who knows.

Tilly

How old are you?

Gloomtastic!

Are you going to give the Hill Billy a chance to answer any more questions?

Darkglasses

How much time out of your week do you spend on Adminning matters?

Do you ever see yourself giving up Boards for good - as a poster and as an admin? How do you think that would/will come about?

The Hill Billy

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

Are you going to give the Hill Billy a chance to answer any more questions?

I'm outta here... *runs*

Gordon

Tilly wrote: »

How old are you?

Over 30... I don't like giving my actual age, as I believe people shouldn't do that - this is personal data that stays on the net for ages. But I'm a child of the 70s..!

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

Are you going to give the Hill Billy a chance to answer any more questions?

I'm not stopping him!

Darkglasses wrote: »

How much time out of your week do you spend on Adminning matters?

Do you ever see yourself giving up Boards for good - as a poster and as an admin? How do you think that would/will come about?

I'm giving Adminning less and less time as time goes on. When I started minning I was giving hours a day, and sometimes until late at night if there were serious spammers or trouble makers on a mad bender. Probably only an hour or two a day now.

Yeah definitely, I'm not sure if I'm giving enough time adminning now as it is, so am usually mulling over whether or not I should draw a line. The worry for me is that if I don't stop adminning, I'm taking a slot for someone that will give it as much effort as I put in to it years ago.

kerry4sam

All I want to know is:

Are you ALL Having A Lovely Day?

Tis Beautiful here in Kerry so tis

Gordon

Well I'm off work, so yeah!

Kermit.de.frog

What is all this about?

I'm frightened.

jamesbondings

So strangers ask other strangers (or people they know) questions online......hhhhmmm

Is there any other websites out there where this can be done? Also have you heard of the advantages or disadvantages of such a service? I wonder do you know how long this may last?

Gordon

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

What is all this about?

I'm frightened.

This is an Ask Me Anything forum, anyone can start a thread and invite people to ask them anything. It tends to be more engaging and interesting if the person states their occupation or pastime: "I'm a pilot, ask me anything" for example.

Don't be frightened, here's your friend to pacify you.

jamesbondings wrote: »

So strangers ask other strangers (or people they know) questions online......hhhhmmm

Is there any other websites out there where this can be done? Also have you heard of the advantages or disadvantages of such a service? I wonder do you know how long this may last?

Reddit started it as far as I understand, and there are other fora doing this now.

Advantage: learning about people
Disadvantage: learning about people

It will last for as long as a particular person is alive...

Macavity.

You are approached by an evil warlock. He gives you a choice. Boards.ie will shut down forever, or can be saved, but only by you killing a defenseless chicken with your bare hands. If you choose not to kill the chicken, Boards.ie will be no more.

Please answer the question before reading the part in spoilers.


Outcome 1 - If you chose not to kill the chicken.

The closing down of boards.ie has had a huge effect on a number of people. Thousands can't deal with the loss and decide to emigrate to a chicken slaughterhouse in Rwanda, they go on to kill many many chickens.

Outcome 2 - If you chose to kill the chicken.

The evil warlock has tricked you. The chicken was not just any chicken, but a chicken who had a rare gene which could be manipulated by scientists to cure any illness in the world.

Write a brief story of your life after the encounter with the evil warlock, describe how you deal with the guilt of what happened in either Outcome 1 or 2 (whichever one is applicable).

Tilly

Have you made many real life friends from the site?

Gordon

Macavity. wrote: »

You are approached by an evil warlock. He gives you a choice. Boards.ie will shut down forever, or can be saved, but only by you killing a defenseless chicken with your bare hands. If you choose not to kill the chicken, Boards.ie will be no more.

Please answer the question before reading the part in spoilers.


Outcome 1 - If you chose not to kill the chicken.

The closing down of boards.ie has had a huge effect on a number of people. Thousands can't deal with the loss and decide to emigrate to a chicken slaughterhouse in Rwanda, they go on to kill many many chickens.

Outcome 2 - If you chose to kill the chicken.

The evil warlock has tricked you. The chicken was not just any chicken, but a chicken who had a rare gene which could be manipulated by scientists to cure any illness in the world.

Write a brief story of your life after the encounter with the evil warlock, describe how you deal with the guilt of what happened in either Outcome 1 or 2 (whichever one is applicable).

Well of course it's option 2 - kill the chicken, that's a no brainer.. Chickens get killed every day for food, I'll ensure it's eaten, but I'll get someone else to gut it... yak

My life after the sadness of being tricked by an evil warlock... I'm happy to have inspired many scientists to dissect the chicken and learn from the dead chicken's genes, but unhappy that I haven't being recompensed for my part in stopping illness. Because the clever science people figured out how to cure illness from the chicken genes, you see. I got bitter from not making money, and even more so because I'm not dying from illness, so I decide to make my dream slaughterhouse - 'Meat your maker' in which I kill animals at bargain prices. It makes money for a while, but it's just not a sustainable business idea due to all the healthy people going vegan. Alas, I go to end it all, when suddenly the evil warlock approaches me and offers me evil warlock powers, and a chicken and tells me to get to work...

Gordon

Tilly wrote: »

Have you made many real life friends from the site?

Yes, many. Although I live in Scotland now, so don't see them often.

I went to a number of boards beers a few years ago, and made friends there, and from general boards browsing. I've even had colleagues of boards friends see me in Greece when they went there on a trip, and will meet up with boards folk here in Scotland soon I hope.

Macavity.

Are AMA requests allowed like on Reddit? Or would that be a bit pointless?

Gordon

I'd say until Dav creates a charter, anything is possible...

Inspector Dhar

If I were in a room full of people, how would I know a Boards Administrator from all the 'normal' folk?

Nerdkiller1991

What's it like working as the warden of the Prison forum?

YellowFeather

What item of clothing and / or common household appliance am I thinking of right now?

Gordon

Inspector Dhar wrote: »

If I were in a room full of people, how would I know a Boards Administrator from all the 'normal' folk?

So presumably you're not talking about a boards beer, because nobody is 'normal' there...

I'd say you'd just need to look around for the most raucous group, swilling Blue Nun wine and eating steak. If it's a nice posh establishment, we may not all look that posh, and if it's a dive bar, we won't all look like complete mentallers. We're a mixed bunch..

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

What's it like working as the warden of the Prison forum?

Usually it's pretty tedious, you generally deal with a lot of the same numpties a lot of the time. They'll pretend they aren't the same person, but they are - we both know this, but they still try to keep the charade going. The user may seem very convincing that they're genuine, but they aren't. They are a troublemaker.

And the rest of the people will come across prison for the first time, and will inevitably go through the 6 stages of being banned:

Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
Re-registration

It gets a tad dull sometimes, seeing people think that we don't know they're lying. But there are some occasions that make up for it. Mainly what makes up for it is removing trouble from the site though.

Gordon

YellowFeather wrote: »

What item of clothing and / or common household appliance am I thinking of right now?

A turkey baster.

Nerdkiller1991

Gordon wrote: »

Usually it's pretty tedious, you generally deal with a lot of the same numpties a lot of the time. They'll pretend they aren't the same person, but they are - we both know this, but they still try to keep the charade going. The user may seem very convincing that they're genuine, but they aren't. They are a troublemaker.

And the rest of the people will come across prison for the first time, and will inevitably go through the 6 stages of being banned:

Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
Re-registration

It gets a tad dull sometimes, seeing people think that we don't know they're lying. But there are some occasions that make up for it. Mainly what makes up for it is removing trouble from the site though.

Do they usually use different IP addresses whenever they sign back up?

YellowFeather

Gordon wrote: »

A turkey baster.

Get out of my mind!!! :eek:

Gordon

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

Do they usually use different IP addresses whenever they sign back up?

A lot of them do.

The Moldy Gowl

Who is the boldest admin? Im gonna vote for sparky. he is a bad apple.

Gordon

How do you define bold?! In my circle of friends/work buddys - bold means a mixture of sheer idiocy and brash impropriety.

Nerdkiller1991

Gordon wrote: »

How do you define bold?! In my circle of friends/work buddys - bold means a mixture of sheer idiocy and brash impropriety.

The one who uses the most Bold washing powder?

The Moldy Gowl

just below that, naughty. Like using your admin powers for evil?

Gordon

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

The one who uses the most Bold washing powder?

I imagine that will be the Admins that have children, but if we're talking just for themselves I'd hazard a guess at Mr E - he's clean as a button.

Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »

just below that, naughty. Like using your admin powers for evil?

Ah, the one that needs more Bold washing powder? We don't use our powers for evil, in fact we've all signed a Data Processing Agreement by which we are beholden to, as we have access to certain data.

I'm not sure who the most bold is, some may say me due to my dismissal of various users on Prison, some may say BuffyBot due to his hardline stance on re-registrations, some may say Beruthiel due to her choice in wine, not sure sorry!

Gordon

OSI wrote: »

Why do kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

It stems back to the time when cinnamon was actually shipped packaged in poppy plants. Poppy plants because opium was legal to all at the time, and also cinnamon as we know is easily breakable, so they used to package it up in that to stop it from breaking. And naturally, some of the poppy heroin would seep out into the cinnamon. etc