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Future of boards.ie lack of young blood

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    #32
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,635 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    MilesMorales1 wrote: »
    What are you talking about I'm only 24.

    Well LOL and YOLO or whatever the devil it is you kids are saying these days...


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    #33
    boombang
    Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭boombang


    I think the OP makes a very relevant point. I see Boards..ie as a valuable social resource. It helps me keep in touch with other people's perspectives and situations. It would be a shame if it failed to include certain age groups.

    Maybe we should make enticing posts over on the Irish subreadit, possibly about free iPhones and avocado toast for users of boards.

    Anyways, I'm off to the post office to collect my pension; where's my Zimmer frame?


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    #34
    server down
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,613 ✭✭✭server down


    JackTaylorFan wrote: »
    It's not exactly a very welcoming environment - many of the users on here spend their whole time pissing and moaning about "this generation ruining society". Whatever "this generation" means, I don't know exactly. It seems to be a catch-all term for anybody who doesn't agree with their aging worldview entirely, or tells them that "actually, yes, what you just said that is offensive."

    Yeh. That’s how you know it’s an aging demographic. The general belief is if the youngsters stopped buying iPads and posting selfies they’d all be buying mansions in kiliney.


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    #35
    clairewithani
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,270 ✭✭✭clairewithani


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    We need AvB to hook up and have a clatter of chiselers...

    André Villa-Boas runs Boards!!!


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    #36
    Rumpy Pumpy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭Rumpy Pumpy


    Conspectus wrote: »
    The problem is the kids of today never got the face kicking they so richly deserve. If only their was a man to do it.

    Hoary old tropes like facekicker kicking someone in the face, banhammer, and the execrable ‘coke and hookers’ do nothing to attract new posters. It paints a picture of overweight men with glasses doing Monty Python impressions.


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    #37
    Don Kiddick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭Don Kiddick


    clairewithani wrote: »
    André Villa-Boas runs Boards!!!

    Doing the same job he did with spurs!


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    #38
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    This place hasn’t been the same since Denis O’Brien became a major shareholder.


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    #39
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    We'd probably have to make AH a "safe space" for them. You may as well turn off the lights.


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    #40
    Lia_lia
    Registered Users Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    It's a fair point.
    Used to see lots of young uns joining using txtspeak.
    Been a long time since I've seen any...
    Boards.ie could be like a good mass in a few years.

    My first post here involves txt speak. Cringe! I was 14.


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    #41
    Don Kiddick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭Don Kiddick


    Lia_lia wrote: »
    My first post here involves txt speak. Cringe! I was 14.

    Ah but that was almost 2yrs shop m8t
    Bebostunnah


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    #42
    King of Kings
    Registered Users Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭King of Kings


    I occasionally drop in and our of boards
    I'm 40 so not exactly young.
    But I find the place over moderated and speech quite regulated.
    It's less appealing cos of that.


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    #43
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,660 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »
    Hoary old tropes like facekicker kicking someone in the face, banhammer, and the execrable ‘coke and hookers’ do nothing to attract new posters. It paints a picture of overweight men with glasses doing Monty Python impressions.

    Yeah, we should take those tropes and blast them with piss.


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    #44
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,212 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Jawgap wrote: »
    Oh, I very much doubt that......


    .......your spelling and punctuation, and correct use thereof, give you away :D

    I decided a long time ago to give up those things.


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    #45
    somefeen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭somefeen


    Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »
    Hoary old tropes like facekicker kicking someone in the face, banhammer, and the execrable ‘coke and hookers’ do nothing to attract new posters. It paints a picture of overweight men with glasses doing Monty Python impressions.

    Atari Jaguar


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    #46
    Autochange
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭Autochange


    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    We'd probably have to make AH a "safe space" for them. You may as well turn off the lights.

    It is a safe space. In some threads and topics you get warnings and possibly banned for having an opinion different than the herd. This is a well known issue.


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    #47
    leggo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭leggo


    It's gas, the place has gotten so conservative in its pre-dominant views lately, I dunno when it happened but that's generally a sign of ageing. I'd come on here whenever there's an outrage about something ridiculous infecting Twitter to remind myself I'm sane, then run back to Twitter when young people or gender gets discussed, then dash between the two like parents in a broken home when I need something.

    It's mad though, this used to be the place you'd come to for THE progressives opinions well-articulated. Now it's the place you come to hear the progressives debunked, and that's both comforting and concerning to me depending on the discussion.


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    #48
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    The continued traducing of snowflakes is obviously putting off Millennials and Gen Z age cohort. That and fully formed words with correct grammar.


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    #49
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    The continued traducing of snowflakes is obviously putting off Millennials and Gen Z age cohort. That and fully formed words with correct grammar.
    :eek::eek::eek:

    The horror, the horror.......:eek:


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    #50
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    :eek::eek::eek:

    The horror, the horror.......:eek:

    Hey do ya wanna safe space? eh eh? ;)


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    #51
    Gerrup Outta Dat!
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 492 ✭✭Gerrup Outta Dat!


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I'm 25!

    So you’re 1.55x10^25 years old? You’re looking well for it.


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    #52
    Never Say Never Again
    Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭Never Say Never Again


    Why did boards close down the pretty busy politics cafe forum and replace it with the the tumbleweeds members only politics cafe 2.0? That just doesn't seem to make business sense


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    #53
    wakka12
    Registered Users Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Im 22. I think theres plenty of peopple in their 20's on here. I think the site is better without posters aged 15-18


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    #54
    gavindublin
    Registered Users Posts: 307 ✭✭gavindublin


    Moderators are a huge problem.
    Swap them consistently over different forums to moderate.

    They think they own the topics they post in and you can't have an opinion or point out that they're wrong.
    Failing that, blast them with piss.


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    #55
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Two to three to years ago an AH poll gave the age profile as;
    18-24 28.27%
    25-30 28.27%
    31-36 17.30%
    37-40 8.44%
    41-50 13.08%
    50+. 4.64%

    The youngsters are a clear majority. They must just come across as grumpy, conservative, mundane old codgers.


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    #56
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users Posts: 10,918 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    gavindublin wrote: »
    Moderators are a huge problem.
    Swap them consistently over different forums to moderate.

    They think they own the topics they post in and you can't have an opinion or point out that they're wrong.
    Failing that, blast them with piss.

    I don't think mods are the problem but I sort of know what you mean, and some subjects are a bit frustrating to read sometimes but most mods mod because they like the subject they mod in, and I'm not sure disinterested mods would be of any benefit. (too many uses of word mod).

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



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    #57
    NollagShona
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,360 ✭✭✭NollagShona


    Be less rabidly hard right???


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    #58
    NollagShona
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,360 ✭✭✭NollagShona


    Never Say Never Again wrote: »
    Why did boards close down the pretty busy politics cafe forum and replace it with the the tumbleweeds members only politics cafe 2.0? That just doesn't seem to make business sense

    Litigation?


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    #59
    Kivaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    Never Say Never Again wrote: »
    Why did boards close down the pretty busy politics cafe forum and replace it with the the tumbleweeds members only politics cafe 2.0? That just doesn't seem to make business sense

    This factor could be the death knell for Boards.
    A lot of people gave up on boards after they made it a mod/mod-approved-poster forum. Quelling the dissenting voice by making it a members only forum was a very bad idea.

    And on that note: Merry Christmas!


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    #60
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    They are all taking selfies....


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    #61
    monnies
    Site Banned Posts: 39 ✭monnies


    Never Say Never Again wrote: »
    Why did boards close down the pretty busy politics cafe forum and replace it with the the tumbleweeds members only politics cafe 2.0? That just doesn't seem to make business sense
    politics is too divisive nowadays,
    and i suspect most people who are posting here in the evenings are under the influence,
    and as my granny used to say " don't mix beer with politics" :D


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