Who are Boards top posters

LadyMacBeth_

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

I'll get there eventually.

You are already a top poster for me

Ah Medusa22 was great craic, wonder where she went :pac:

LadyMacBeth_

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

You are already a top poster for me

Ah Medusa22 was great craic, wonder where she went :pac:

Nah she was a pain in the bum.



:pac:

LadyMacBeth_

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

Ah Medusa22 was great craic, wonder where she went :pac:

And good riddance to her! :P

fussyonion

Always enjoyed whoopsadoodles' contributions. And Zaph.
And The HillBilly.
And Candie.
And Oldnotwise.

r93kaey5p2izun

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

mike65 90,082
Victor 69,028
Tar.Aldarion 54,040
Des 43,720 (although he seems to have been purged)
Nevyn 42,696

Sephiroth_dude has over 52000 too. Just noticed him/her there in a thread I was reading.

A Little Pony

A Little Pony wrote: »

Not as many good characters on the forum nowadays. Shame really.

This times a billion.

There's just nowhere near as many interesting people anymore.

KERSPLAT!

[Deleted User] wrote: »

This times a billion.

There's just nowhere near as many interesting people anymore.

That's one part of it. Another is that before the closed account feature it was easy to spot good and bad posters and you could associate them with single accounts. Get to know them, their views and their opinions, etc. that doesn't happen as much anymore now we have disposable accounts. Still plenty of good posters around but some move from account to account so you don't recognise them.

KERSPLAT!

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

That's one part of it. Another is that before the closed account feature it was easy to spot good and bad posters and you could associate them with single accounts. Get to know them, their views and their opinions, etc. that doesn't happen as much anymore now we have disposable accounts. Still plenty of good posters around but some move from account to account so you don't recognise them.

Exactly. In many cases the person that has closed their account and returned changes their posting style/chatting, so as not to be easily identified as being here previously. The account closure lost a lot of good members.

Arghus

I don't really understand why people who seem to be well liked and valued would close an account and start posting again under another.

KERSPLAT!

Arghus wrote: »

I don't really understand why people who seem to be well liked and valued would close an account and start posting again under another.

Multiple reasons. Fresh start. Don't want to be recognised. Too much information posted making them easily identifiable. To try lose the cards or bans attached to previous accounts.

boardsuser1

Colm mcm has about 51000 posts on boards.

I'm about 6000 over 3 different usernames.
Been a boardsie 5 years now.

Lord Chessington as he was called is here 18 years though.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Flutterinbantum was the greatest poster ever on this site.

I would pin point the beginning of the decline of Boards.ie with his perma banning in the Autumn of 2011.

I was first put onto Boards by a fan of his in UL.

The Moldy Gowl

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Multiple reasons. Fresh start. Don't want to be recognised. Too much information posted making them easily identifiable. To try lose the cards or bans attached to previous accounts.

I wear my cards and bans as a badge of honour because im hard.

KERSPLAT!

The Moldy Gowl wrote: »

I wear my cards and bans as a badge of honour because im hard.

Mad as a mad brush.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Depends on how you measure.

You can get far more thanks for going with the flow than you can by being honest sometimes.

Rumpy Pumpy

Solomon Pleasant wrote: »

Anyone remember the poster poa?

He was quite a laugh although I think the mods banned him because he was so controversial and kept winding posters up constantly.

Didn't he get banned by personally abusing Aongus von Bismarck? A poster who wound up poor old poa so much that he flew off the handle.

jamesbere

I am, close thread.


Actually close down boards, no one can beat my brilliance

RayM

I never found Flutterinbantam particularly interesting. There's only so many times you can post about "unleashing a coil of ripe midden" in the facilities of some random establishment before it gets old. He was a one-trick-pony whose views were as foul as his bathroom habits. No great loss to Boards, in my not-so-humble opinion.

JimmyMcGill

RayM wrote: »

I never found Flutterinbantam particularly interesting. There's only so many times you can post about "unleashing a coil of ripe midden" in the facilities of some random establishment before it gets old. He was a one-trick-pony whose views were as foul as his bathroom habits. No great loss to Boards, in my not-so-humble opinion.

He never could relate to dry shiites, it was all about the wet ones with him.

Redfence74

Boards is running out of steam

I find Srameen to be a very knowledgeable and interesting poster. He appears to have had a very interesting working life and seems to be enjoying his retirement with his family.
A well grounded, knowledgeable sensible poster.

Ken.

TheTorment wrote: »

I find Srameen to be a very knowledgeable and interesting poster. He appears to have had a very interesting working life and seems to be enjoying his retirement with his family.
A well grounded, knowledgeable sensible poster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Gvs81E7CE

Matt.ie

Honda Sam was a prolific user. Deleted her account am started up again

Hector Bellend

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Mad as a mad brush.

Mad Jack McMad

Arghus

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Multiple reasons. Fresh start. Don't want to be recognised. Too much information posted making them easily identifiable. To try lose the cards or bans attached to previous accounts.

Ah yeah. I can understand the fresh start approach if someone has built up a load of baggage over a long time. But sometimes you see posters in particular forums who are liked and respected by their peers and who contribute heartily and often and then-poof- next thing you know it reads closed account under their user name. Just makes me wonder sometimes.

andekwarhola

Arghus wrote: »

Ah yeah. I can understand the fresh start approach if someone has built up a load of baggage over a long time. But sometimes you see posters in particular forums who are liked and respected by their peers and who contribute heartily and often and then-poof- next thing you know it reads closed account under their user name. Just makes me wonder sometimes.

You can't ever know the multitude of personal reasons that people decide to ditch their accounts. If they come back, they're still contributing the same worth to the site even if it doesn't add to their specific personality cult. Let it go.

tomwaterford

Some very good and knowledgeable (spelling??) Posters in the farming and in particular intersts to me sheep


Some great craic,low level wind upping...all the while giving good debate/info on individual gaa county treads.... (a lot carried on from old AFR days-showing age now!)



Even on motors/plant forums some very knowledgeable about repairs etc and I do like reading them/learning stuff...particularly on electronics,which I want to get better on

Conspectus

Conspectus wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Gvs81E7CE

Was just being honest....but I'll hold back on my thoughts about you

andekwarhola

tomwaterford wrote: »

Some very good and knowledgeable (spelling??) Posters in the farming and in particular intersts to me sheep

I'm not a farmer (but have some farmers in my family) but sometimes myself read that forum. For all the criticism of the site, that forum seems to be one of its sterling validations. Seems to be a great, tight little forum providing a great resource for people that (you would assume) have a challenging and sometimes lonely profession.

Arghus

andekwarhola wrote: »

You can't ever know the multitude of personal reasons that people decide to ditch their accounts. If they come back, they're still contributing the same worth to the site even if it doesn't add to their specific personality cult. Let it go.

Absolutely, there could be any reason at all for someone to close an account, start a new one etc. It's not a big issue, it's just something I thought of when reading this thread; which is about wondering why and where posters dissapear too.

Omackeral

A thread about posters you can't stand would be miles better than this arse licking. Wouldn't last though.

Arghus

Omackeral wrote: »

A thread about posters you can't stand would be miles better than this arse licking. Wouldn't last though.

Try again at 4AM. Seems you can write whatever you want about then! No guarantee of it still being there come morning time of course!

DEFTLEFTHAND

RayM wrote: »

I never found Flutterinbantam particularly interesting. There's only so many times you can post about "unleashing a coil of ripe midden" in the facilities of some random establishment before it gets old. He was a one-trick-pony whose views were as foul as his bathroom habits. No great loss to Boards, in my not-so-humble opinion.

His politics Ray. The guy was a fountain of truth.

Yes his tales of defecating were amusing but there was much more to him than that.

A lot of depth to the guy. He's the type of chap who I'd love to sink porter with.

whoopsadoodles

Omackeral wrote: »

A thread about posters you can't stand would be miles better than this arse licking. Wouldn't last though.

Be all the same posters listed in fairness :pac:



(Me included)

RayM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

His politics Ray. The guy was a fountain of truth.

A fountain of scour, more like.

Rumpy Pumpy

Frada was a decent poster, before they made him a mod, and he got involved in the whole, 'we aspire to better things around here' methodology.

Never funny, but he sometimes brought a clarity to on-thread discussions.

whoopsadoodles

Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »

Frada was a decent poster, before they made him a mod, and he got involved in the whole, 'we aspire to better things around here' methodology.

Never funny, but he sometimes brought a clarity to on-thread discussions.

Sarcastic prick but.

Rumpy Pumpy

whoopsadoodles wrote: »

Sarcastic prick but.

Sarcasm is the refuge of the dimwit and the drunkard. Good poster though, so I hope he's doing well for himself. Running an internet cafe or the like.

Omackeral

Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »

Sarcasm is the refuge of the dimwit and the drunkard. Good poster though, so I hope he's doing well for himself. Running an internet cafe or the like.

Probably runs the White Moose Cafe.

Galwayguy35

I like Wibbs posts, the guy seems to be an encyclopedia of knowledge on most subjects.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I like Wibbs posts, the guy seems to be an encyclopedia of knowledge on most subjects.

Yeah, Wibbs is like the father of Boards.

God only knows what will happen to this place if he ever decides to leave.

RobbingBandit

Insert imagine a world without lawyers gif, but I'm just too damn laser.