Boards - as good as it used to be?

Robsweezie

looking through old threads from about 2010-2011 and you see a lot of banned posters, messy grammar and people just being pure dicks to each other . all of these are seen at a much lesser extent nowadays it seems. cleaner, more sterilised. a lot of ''trolls'' have been weeded out.

I think the site has grown up a bit and changed, but for the better? is it as good as It used to be? ive only been on 3 years so im not familiar with the early days.

Fr_Dougal

Robsweezie wrote: »

looking through old threads from about 2010-2011 and you see a lot of banned posters, messy grammar and people just being pure dicks to each other . all of these are seen at a much lesser extent nowadays it seems. cleaner, more sterilised. a lot of ''trolls'' have been weeded out.

I think the site has grown up a bit and changed, but for the better? is it as good as It used to be? ive only been on 3 years so im not familiar with the early days.

Prison Forum?

Banjo String

I remember when this whole site was just fields.

The Backwards Man

Tis a bit like me.

I'm not as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was.

That_Guy

It all went downhill when Facekicker and Bubbles were banished.

Washington Irving

It's not as much fun as it used to be (especially AH), but people have been saying that since I can remember so y'know. Rose tinted specs a bit.

Robsweezie

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Prison Forum?

AH actually

Barry Badrinath

Sure beats reading Irelands Own.....barely.

Armchair Andy

They dont make em like Trent anymore thats for sure.

*puffs pipe*

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Robsweezie wrote: »

...you see a lot of banned posters, messy grammar and people just being pure dicks to each other . all of these are seen at a much lesser extent nowadays it seems. cleaner, more sterilised. a lot of ''trolls'' have been weeded out...

You just proved it yourself. Of course it's better.

Edit. And there's so much more to it than AH.

Mr. CooL ICE

It went downhill when people stopped talking about gibbing noobs

MRnotlob606

There's a thread that's explicitly racist from around that time when Ireland lost to France with the infamous hand of God moment .Someone started a thread and called Thierry henry a n##)er and people thanked it.Absolutely disgusting.

Armchair Andy

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

There's a thread that's explicitly racist from around that time when Ireland lost to France with the infamous hand of God moment .Someone started a thread and called Thierry henry a n##)er and people thanked it.Absolutely disgusting.

I think the same fella used to pick his nose too IIRC.


The poster, not Henry.

Menas

No new additions to the Legendary threads sticky in three years.

We are not as good as they used to be in the olden days.

Harry Palmr

You can't even blast yor ma with piss any more.

Cienciano

The same question pops up every few months. It's probably not as good as it used to be, or rather the layout really limits it, especially when you're used to other forums.

Sh1tbag OToole

Robsweezie wrote: »

looking through old threads from about 2010-2011 and you see a lot of banned posters, messy grammar and people just being pure dicks to each other . all of these are seen at a much lesser extent nowadays it seems. cleaner, more sterilised. a lot of ''trolls'' have been weeded out.

I think the site has grown up a bit and changed, but for the better? is it as good as It used to be? ive only been on 3 years so im not familiar with the early days.

Isn't everything gone sterilised now? These days whatever you say there is someone waiting for the chance to get deeply offended over it

Baggy Trousers

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Isn't everything gone sterilised now? These days whatever you say there is someone waiting for the chance to get deeply offended over it

How fcuking dare you! :mad::mad::mad:

tomwaterford

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Isn't everything gone sterilised now? These days whatever you say there is someone waiting for the chance to get deeply offended over it

No no your wrong :P

the evasion_kid

Used to be far funnier/fun,far more sniping on it these days, also a lot of the threads that get started and you might think to yourself this might be interesting get closed and you're left with such riveting threads as "I hate my toes"

Fleawuss

I looked back at a post from 1999. Somebody said OMG and somebody else said DILDO. Or was it the other way around? They were ahead of the curve, ahead of the curve.

Fleawuss

Baggy Trousers wrote: »

How fcuking dare you! :mad::mad::mad:

Yeah, he can fcuk right off.

KilOit

Got a lot worse!
it's all too PC now and so many threads get locked and posters banned if they even fart in the general direction of another poster

Baggy Trousers

Fleawuss wrote: »

Yeah, he can fcuk right off.

The pwrick! :mad:

Baggy Trousers

KilOit wrote: »

Got a lot worse!
it's all too PC now and so many threads get locked and posters banned if they even fart in the general direction of another poster

Cloud computing?

Sh1tbag OToole

KilOit wrote: »

Got a lot worse!
it's all too PC now and so many threads get locked and posters banned if they even fart in the general direction of another poster

Back in the day boards was the preserve of nerds preening into 15" CRT monitors waiting for dial up networking to finish screeching so they could fire up Netscrape Navigator that took 4 hours to download. Twas almost like an an obscure underground subculture, if you tried to explain boards or USENET to a 'normal' person in 1999 they'd look at you funny.

There was far less scrutiny back then, nowadays you have whatsherface in the Dail banging on about people getting raped on the internet. Most people have at least 3 devices they can readily access boards on. If some girlie tops herself in the morning because she didn't like a post on boards.ie then you'll have Joe Duffy trying to direct the blame onto DeV

For the same experience now you'd probably have to go onto Tor-based forums or packet radio

gandalf

Of course it was better in the good old days, now feck off I have to empty my colostomy bag!

...And Justice

Robsweezie wrote: »

looking through old threads from about 2010-2011 and you see a lot of banned posters, messy grammar and people just being pure dicks to each other . all of these are seen at a much lesser extent nowadays it seems. cleaner, more sterilised. a lot of ''trolls'' have been weeded out.

I think the site has grown up a bit and changed, but for the better? is it as good as It used to be? ive only been on 3 years so im not familiar with the early days.

The thunderdome

furiousox

Page 1 of most threads can be interesting but jump to the last page and it's usually gone miles off topic and you're left with 2 posters going "again you failed to answer my question" and "wow, way to miss the point completely" etc.
Tedious.

Barry Badrinath

We lost a lot of fun people with the close account option.

Although, most came back but it's never the same.

Keplar240B

furiousox wrote: »

Page 1 of most threads can be interesting but jump to the last page and it's usually gone miles off topic and you're left with 2 posters going "again you failed to answer my question" and "wow, way to miss the point completely" etc.
Tedious.

Deemed by the government.

Are you going to retract your claim "As soon as you crave out separate groups and give them extra special rights what you are actually doing is taking rights from another group" or back it up anytime soon?

NomadicGray

Nothing on the internet is as good as it used to be

Barry Badrinath

NomadicGray wrote: »

Nothing on the internet is as good as it used to be

Bebo is

Silverbling

the safe cracking thread and the removing of the clampers clamps, funniest live as it happens thread ever, I broke F5

Dozen Wicked Words

This is what the charter looked like for the forum I moderate from 10 years ago, twas seemingly a simpler time but core rules are pretty similar to most forums now too.

The rules such as we have them...

Thou shalt not be a muppet.
Thou shalt not curse excessively or be nasty and offensive to people regularly.
Thou shalt not have multiple registrations.
Thou shalt not f*ck with other peoples mojo, dude.
Thou shalt grow a thick skin or go back to AOL, this is the net and its rough-and-tumble sometimes.
Thou shall be civil at all times or "bad things" will happen.

If you have any questions or want help on anything, please feel free to post on the Admin, Bugs or especially the FAQ section.

Enjoy www.boards.ie. Its what you make of it.

One thing in this forum the admins wont tolerate is blatant personal attacks on anyone. Enjoy your set of six!

Most of its still there, haven't changed it yet.

smash

Wolf Hanssen wrote: »

We lost a lot of fun people with the close account option.

Although, most came back but it's never the same.

When I'm drinking a bottle of something I always pour a bit out for my homies

Barry Badrinath

smash wrote: »

When I'm drinking a bottle of something I always pour a bit out for my homies

Respect, peace!

:pac:

Links234

That_Guy wrote: »

It all went downhill when Facekicker and Bubbles were banished.

Didn't you know? I'm Bubbles

Massimo Cassagrande

Link?


Grrrr. That kills it for me. What happened to good old alf garnet style spouting of the first rubbish that entered your head?

gandalf

Ye feckin pack of noobs!

riffmongous

There's no playful trolls anymore, the majority now are just agenda driven and it just makes the place a bit depressing at times

_Kaiser_

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

This is what the charter looked like for my forum 10 years ago, twas seemingly a simpler time but core rules are pretty similar to most forums now too.


Most of its still there, haven't changed it yet.

Thou shalt grow a thick skin or go back to AOL, this is the net and its rough-and-tumble sometimes.

There's one that seems to have disappeared entirely now from the net/real life in general.

As said above, nowadays between people actively looking to take offence and others looking for the latest campaign to crusade against on social media (and thus gain the approval/validation they crave from other such individuals) the only ones who need to grow a thick skin are those who don't fit with either of the above apparently.

smash

riffmongous wrote: »

There's no playful trolls anymore, the majority now are just agenda driven and it just makes the place a bit depressing at times

But judging by the 'lets all laugh at people with depression' thread, half of AH is depressed anyway! :pac:

Fleawuss

But all the net gets old: people on IRC used to talk about all gathering in one chat room when the Gulf War began. The first. I didn't think IRC even existed. The energy and the bants moved to other social media and even they're stagnating.

The new boards? It's probably unplugged.

Cuban Pete

Back in the day AH was absolutely better. No endless whingefests about immigration and other social issues, people could joke without being inveterate assholes, less agenda-driven posters basically.

There's a reason that over time, mods of other forums took to saying "this isn't AH". Just a reflection of a wider problem, really.

smash

Fleawuss wrote: »

The energy and the bants moved to other social media and even they're stagnating.

have you tried boards.co.uk?

Fr_Dougal

Too many bulsh1t threads in AH now, in my opinion. The likes of word association threads and crap like that. They used to get moved to The Cuckoos Nest, now they clutter the forum.

smash

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Too many bulsh1t threads in AH now, in my opinion. The likes of word association threads and crap like that. They used to get moved to The Cuckoos Nest, now they clutter the forum.

We can't even revive good threads because it's against the rules

hatrickpatrick

I'd say Boards has come a long way. It's still over moderated to f*ck but I still remember the days when you couldn't comment on any event hosted by MCD because they were so terrified of being sued.

That_Guy

Links234 wrote: »

Didn't you know? I'm Bubbles

Still waiting on my CD burner ya know....

TerrorFirmer

Menas wrote: »

No new additions to the Legendary threads sticky in three years.

We are not as good as they used to be in the olden days.

The thread where Lenny allegedly walked in on his mother on her knees in front of his da.

Good times.