What's gone wrong with Boards.

Busted Flat.

Boards seems have gone dead, there is nothing exciting happening, is it just the holiday season, or is politics in such state that no one is interested anymore.

ShatterProof

It's busted

SEPT 23 1989

All the drink has rendered posters useless

thelad95

Why does this exact thread seem to appear every few months?

tomwaterford

everyone is clearly watching taken for the 106th time on channel four!!



im super bored

Karl Stein

World goin' one way, people another yo.

Into The Blue

Why does this question only get asked (every two weeks or so) in after hours?

heldel00

Something is gone very wrong with my boards!!!
Occasionally when I click into a link it automatically directs me to a porn page and it's very difficult to log out (and no not because I like it but because when I click X it just brings me to another revolting page!)

Gavlor

Pointless threads like this don't help

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

OP, try the politics forum etc. Plenty going on if you broaden your horizons somewhat.

Senna

Into The Blue wrote: »

Why does this question only get asked (every two weeks or so) in after hours?

Its always been shíte but people only work that out every few weeks.

Micky Dolenz

Boards was way better pre 2010.

harrymagina

High horses are generally ruining boards. Motors forum and others have gone to crap.

phenom

heldel00 wrote: »

Something is gone very wrong with my boards!!!
Occasionally when I click into a link it automatically directs me to a porn page and it's very difficult to log out (and no not because I like it but because when I click X it just brings me to another revolting page!)

When you say revolting , do you really mean extremely enjoyable?

Senna

harrymagina wrote: »

High horses are generally ruining boards.

The old pre-2010 low horses were much better. I remember a pony mod once!

Micky Dolenz

Senna wrote: »

The old pre-2010 low horses were much better. I remember a pony mod once!

Back in our day was better

heldel00

phenom wrote: »

When you say revolting , do you really mean extremely enjoyable?

My husband and I wish but no I mean really foul. Bits no one except a qualified physician should ever have to see. Any idea how I stop this? (Would like to use ipad at school but obviously am afraid of my life!)

Busted Flat.

Busted Flat. wrote: »

Boards seems have gone dead, there is nothing exciting happening, is it just the holiday season, or is politics in such state that no one is interested anymore.

Are you sure that it ins't the posters who have died!

Guy:Incognito

It was great till October 2010 then just seemed to fall off a cliff.

monkeysnapper

tomwaterford wrote: »

everyone is clearly watching taken for the 106th time on channel four!!



im super bored

You serious!!! Ohhhhh I love taken . I was just going to write thread of the year .

It'll have to wait .

Some serious kick ass . Whoooo hooooooo

tomwaterford

monkeysnapper wrote: »

You serious!!! Ohhhhh I love taken . I was just going to write thread of the year .

It'll have to wait .

Some serious kick ass . Whoooo hooooooo

it is my mission to make people happier in this new year:P

Busted Flat.

Deleted User wrote: »

Are you sure that it ins't the posters who have died!

You could be right, or they still full of turkey ham and maybe fluids, lots of fluids. Happy New Year to all, those that are alive and those that are struggling to take on 2015.

monkeysnapper

tomwaterford wrote: »

it is my mission to make people happier in this new year:P

Goooooood luck . ( in a Albanian accent .)

_Kaiser_

harrymagina wrote: »

High horses are generally ruining boards. Motors forum and others have gone to crap.

Very true.. I used to post in Motors a lot and browsed it several times a day - these days though it's become very cliquey. Some of the other forums I do be on here are the same.

I think it's the "chat" threads myself.. it actively encourages these little sub-groups to develop and that then spills over into the rest of the threads which (probably unintentionally to be fair) excludes those who aren't part of the group.

But in general I think the "everything must be ultra-safe and inoffensive so we don't get sued" attitude that Boards has adopted since it became a business kills things too. I'm not advocating muppetry but I think the moderation in general has become over-cautious which puts people off too.

It could also be that Boards is around so long and to an extent it's all been said before.. AH is a prime example but unless the forum relates to something ongoing like say TV then the same topics keep coming up over and over

Is it possible the forum format in general has passed its peak in the age of instant-everything?

_Kaiser_

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

But in general I think the "everything must be ultra-safe and so inoffensive so we don't get sued" attitude that Boards has adopted since it became a business kills things too. I'm not advocating muppetry but I think the moderation in general has become over-cautious which puts people off too.

I don't know, when I signed up a few years ago, there used to be a warning post at the start of every forum stating that no one was to discuss a certain company and their activities.

Anyone who did was banned!

It required an unrelated court judgement relating to accountability to lift the warning. So Boards is probably freer now.

Cantremember

You have to remember that the net has matured: it's been around for consumers 20 years? And Boards since 1998? Kaiser is right too, a lot of it has been said. There are far more competing platforms now as well. And people age and move on. The other thing is that there's been a huge amount of emigration and young people are the life blood of anything. They have their own platforms of choice. Maybe the "golden age" is over. But I wouldn't judge boards too harshly; there's a lot of interesting corners here.

How Soon Is Now

I've hardly had a chance to post on here lately with being back in work but ya I read stuff and I find its gone bit dry on here.

I feel with a lot of the big forums you need to be involved constantly to really enjoy them otherwise everything will drift by.

It's like not going down your local anymore then when you do pop in one night everyone is talking about things you don't have a clue about!!

king size mars bar

heldel00 wrote: »

Something is gone very wrong with my boards!!!
Occasionally when I click into a link it automatically directs me to a porn page and it's very difficult to log out (and no not because I like it but because when I click X it just brings me to another revolting page!)

Happening to me as well, not impressed.

riffmongous

Not enough funny trolls around AH anymore imo, all the trolls are just agenda driven nowadays

Mint Sauce

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Back in our day was better

Pre the great hack?

The days of Biggins, Outlaw Pete, Irish-Stew.

Fr_Dougal

Twitter has had a big impact on Boards imho.

YellowFeather

I miss the old AH posts that had no purpose. They were great. Like 'I had a spring and then I lost it somehow' and hilarity would ensue.

It was the Family Guy of boards. Doesn't happen so much anymore.

Hmmm... I just had an idea...

Sheep Lover

Mixture of over zealous moderation and busy body posters who are as dry as Gandhi's flip flop

Duggy747

AH threads became fairly politicised and silliniess took a sharp decline, rather than someone cracking a joke in a new thread about something silly you get someone immediately saying along the lines of "Oh great, this again!" to piss on it.

There probably should be a term like Godwin where someone mentions the bankers, water charges, the elite, corrupt officials, another anti-US rant, etc, and tries to derail the fúck out of a thread.

There was a thread about dogs a while back and someone, somehow managed to find a way to shoehorn the first thing that popped into their head to vent about water charges.

Red21

Busted Flat. wrote: »

Boards seems have gone dead, there is nothing exciting happening, is it just the holiday season, or is politics in such state that no one is interested anymore.

What used to happen before that found it so alive and exciting?

Macker2001

heldel00 wrote: »

Something is gone very wrong with my boards!!!
Occasionally when I click into a link it automatically directs me to a porn page and it's very difficult to log out (and no not because I like it but because when I click X it just brings me to another revolting page!)

This happens to me too. I just started looking at boards I wonder why this happens and it's just on this website.

Heat_Wave

Anyone know where pighead went?

He made boards for me about 5 years ago

Red21

Red21 wrote: »

What used to happen before that found it so alive and exciting?

Everything that you first discover is "alive and exciting" but after doing it for several years, it eventually becomes "boring".

While at the same time some new posters arrive and find it "alive and exciting", it's all in the mind!

flutered

overzelous mods with political views, plus political party shills, esp from the current gov, on the run up to the last election if a poster was anyway anti fg or pro sf they were hounded, professional posters were given the run of the place, meanwhile the ordinary poster was teased and provoked so as they got banned, in spite of my no of posts i rarely post here any more.

An inbox limit in 2015. No way for bad posts to naturally disappear and good stuff rise. Feedback forum generally results in nothing happening unless you're very well known. Forum requests the same. No images in AH and extremely conservative opinions being the most thanked and thus most popular. Overzealous modding. Classic posters disappearing. Etc.

Like most, I just visit now because AH is one of my links on the bookmarks bar. It's easily the least satisfying site on it now unfortunately after having had like five accounts and probably near 20k posts.

heldel00

Macker2001 wrote: »

This happens to me too. I just started looking at boards I wonder why this happens and it's just on this website.

We are in the wrong thread completely for this complaint and all the aul lads wanna chat about the good old days! We'll move somewhere more appropriate if the old-timers could direct us please?

riffmongous

Red21 wrote: »

What used to happen before that found it so alive and exciting?

Looking back with my rosetinted specs AH used to be the place you came for something to have a chuckle at, now it's just full of outrage and people getting offended and then others in turn getting offended by those people, it's all a bit grim nowadays

Cantremember

flutered wrote: »

overzelous mods with political views, plus political party shills, esp from the current gov, on the run up to the last election if a poster was anyway anti fg or pro sf they were hounded, professional posters were given the run of the place, meanwhile the ordinary poster was teased and provoked so as they got banned, in spite of my no of posts i rarely post here any more.

I think you may have a point: social media has been targeted by various groups to "promote" their "message". It's part of the evolution of it and almost impossible to police. The problem isn't when they stay in their own corner it's when they spill over and try to be "subtle". Politics cafe will mop up a lot of it.

ct5amr2ig1nfhp

Report it here. Others including myself are having the same problem.

heldel00 wrote: »

We are in the wrong thread completely for this complaint and all the aul lads wanna chat about the good old days! We'll move somewhere more appropriate if the old-timers could direct us please?

CrazyRabbit

I don't post much. Either you get yellow/red carded due to made-up-on-the-spot rules, posts get edited or the thread gets closed. Not worth making the effort to contribute, so I just read mostly. Would be nicer if there wasn't a 100 different sets of rules for a 100 different sub-forums, and if moderation was consistent and less heavy handed.

Sheep Lover

The widely varying mod actions, I remember a mod being appointed not that long ago and totally losing the run of himself closing threads left, right and centre. Seems to have settled now though.

Also some rules such as " Don't be a d1ck" are too ambiguous and create situations where an action can be taken on a poster on pretty much the whim of a mod.

kneemos

Humour has left the building.Some of it used to be quite clever with "in jokes"and running gags.
Over cautious modding has resulted in individualism being replaced by bland generic and frankly boring responses.No room for characters anymore,which is what made the site exciting and interesting.

biko

Boards was better in 2012

And by boards I mean AH
And by 2012 I mean 2004

Ruu

I remember when it was all fields. The picture in the background when you login, that was boards when I joined. You had to walk across it with bare feet and like it!

kissmequick

Ah the good ole days. Yes. Remember them with great fondness and affection.


*~R.I.P. Boards2k15~*

DEFTLEFTHAND

No real edge to it anymore, there's a line there now that has to be towed. It used to be really open and mad, a bit like reddit is now, back in the mid to late noughties when I was in school. Great characters and awesome fights.:D