Did After Hours ever fit the category of 'Social & Fun'

Ronaldinho

Some very heavy topics on here these days. Anyone auld enough to remember a time this wasn't the case?

All would be lost if it wasn't for Donald Trump (the Boardsie) and his witty repartee. #MAHGA

Graces7

Ronaldinho wrote: »

Some very heavy topics on here these days. Anyone auld enough to remember a time this wasn't the case?

All would be lost if it wasn't for Donald Trump (the Boardsie) and his witty repartee. #MAHGA

Is this a popcorn thread?

JohnnyFlash

Place is crawling with fruitcakes, nut jobs, and loopers. Trying to shove their stupid politics into every discussion - left and right both as bad as each other. Get the feeling there’s a lot of angry dudes posting here. Some of them would want to take a chillpill, go outside, find a partner, take up a new hobby etc. Can’t be good for them.

wakka12

I joined on a different account around 2010 and I remember always laughing out loud at lots of after hours posts,some of the wittiest things Ive ever seen on the internet before, after hours is still pretty interesting though I think

ancapailldorcha

In its current form, I would say not. Perhaps a perpetually offended and looking to be constantly upset and outraged category might be in order.

Arghus

It's increasingly becoming no craic: just a bizarro land of people giving out and spouting off half baked nonsense.

Trigger Happy

Make AH great again.

Fr Tod Umptious

I never went to AH in about 14 years of using boards.ie with various usernames, I though I was above it.

I was above AH, it was not the place for any type of serious discussion.

Then I found the thread with the hot women and found myself peeking into AH in general, then I found myself posting on threads about politics etc, the kind of stuff that used to be in Politics or the Politics cafe.

Now it's almost my first port of call. I never post in Politics anymore.

46, married, children.

pleas advice

You have 46 married children?

Skylinehead

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

I though I was above it.

I was above AH, it was not the place for any type of serious discussion.

Then I found the thread with the hot women

:pac:

freshpopcorn

We recently had an excellent thread discussing making sex illegal outside of marriage!

Yer Da sells Avon

It can be a bit po-faced sometimes. It's not healthy to place too much importance in 'winning' arguments that don't ultimately matter.

jamesbere

pleas advice wrote: »

You have 46 married children?

I'm impressed, arranged marriages I'm guessing

JMNolan

Threads back then (actual threads btw)

• How the governement is stopping kids drinking
• Get your mob name here
• Is Gaz a dirt bag???
• Top St. Paddys Day Parties!
• story with the obsession with goths??
• Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About

Threads now

• Is Islam right for Ireland?
• The 8th Amendment Part 2
• Is the new Feminist movement damaging male female relationships?
• US considering Preemptive Strike against North Korea

This place is fair grim these days

megaten

I find it hard to remember but there was definitely time when every thread wasn't a variation of American social issue of the day or who was recently sexually abused.

jamesbere

I used to find AH enjoyable, but now it's gone a way too nuts. There are some interesting topics discussed here but eventually the threads get ruined by posters going on half baked rants and they lead to nowhere.

I think it would be good if we just had a thread where we would just take the piss out of each other but unfortunately there's too many over sensitive types on here that will ruin it.

Boom_Bap

It used to be fun and hilarious and mischievous.

Now people complain about jokes. Seriously, I've seen people complain about light hearted fun jokes in the social and fun catagory.


Boobies.

Red_Wake

People are too serious now. Any joke that's remotely off colour[sexual assault, rape, any variant of diddling kids] gets you banned immediately.

Bunch of babies if you ask me.

boombang

Still one of the more honest places on boards where people don't explode with righteous indignation at the drop of a feather.

clairewithani

I like the fella who has 10 different usernames a month and posts about how any man can learn to be a babe magnet and women only have chore sex.

Agricola

JMNolan wrote: »

Threads back then (actual threads btw)

• How the governement is stopping kids drinking
• Get your mob name here
• Is Gaz a dirt bag???
• Top St. Paddys Day Parties!
• story with the obsession with goths??
• Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About

Threads now

• Is Islam right for Ireland?
• The 8th Amendment Part 2
• Is the new Feminist movement damaging male female relationships?
• US considering Preemptive Strike against North Korea

This place is fair grim these days

If AH was wall to wall threads like the first list, I doubt I'd ever look in. There's having an appropriate level of craic and "bantz" but one shouldn't go overboard.

The Backwards Man

I blame mobile broadband. You can access the internet from any midden or slurry pit nowadays.

Boom_Bap

clairewithani wrote: »

I like the fella who has 10 different usernames a month and posts about how any man can learn to be a babe magnet and women only have chore sex.

10 a day!

ArchXStanton

wakka12 wrote: »

I joined on a different account around 2010 and I remember always laughing out loud at lots of after hours posts,some of the wittiest things Ive ever seen on the internet before, after hours is still pretty interesting though I think

Most of them fellas are banned

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

There's a fair enough mix between Social and Fun. Taking it to mean social items and fun items rather than social items that are fun. Some dingbats get overly hot under the collar on some topics and there's the odd loon who drags threads off topic with the same old ramblings but all in all it turns up some decent discussions, has some fun and light-hearted topics and fills a gap that the other Boards forums don't cater for.

garbo speaks

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Now people complain about jokes. Seriously, I've seen people complain about light hearted fun jokes in the social and fun catagory.

That's because its only online that the loony liberals can express themselves and give out about jokes. If they behaved like that in the real world, they would get a punch in the face.

Boom_Bap

garbo speaks wrote: »

That's because its only online that the loony liberals can express themselves and give out about jokes. If they behaved like that in the real world, they would get a punch in the face.

Well in the balance of fairness, there are loads of sound people in AH.....many of whom in the real world would get a smack for how they behave :pac:

DabllDoYa

I was never into forums like this, I found the interaction was too slow or whatever.
I only found here out of necessity as I work in an office now and Reddit is restricted :D:D

JMNolan

clairewithani wrote: »

I like the fella who has 10 different usernames a month and posts about how any man can learn to be a babe magnet and women only have chore sex.

Is yer man with the agricultural revolution still posting?

Boom_Bap

JMNolan wrote: »

Is yer man with the agricultural revolution still posting?

Surely you could get an antibiotic for that.

Yer Da sells Avon

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Boobies.

Is it appropriate for a mod to use that kind of language?

Boom_Bap

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

Is it appropriate for a mod to use that kind of language?

Double boobies

Danny Donut

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Place is crawling with fruitcakes, nut jobs, and loopers. Trying to shove their stupid politics into every discussion - left and right both as bad as each other. Get the feeling there’s a lot of angry dudes posting here. Some of them would want to take a chillpill, go outside, find a partner, take up a new hobby etc. Can’t be good for them.

Yep. Sitting in their jocks with a big bowl of toritoes.

Outlaw Pete

It's sort of social. Demented and sad, but social.

Irish Guitarist

The trick is to use it after hours. If you look at it before hours it's no fun.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Double boobies

Is that four boobies I wonder. Bit pointless when you've only the two hands.

Fcuk that. Take that back. Post reported. Muslims!!!

hatrickpatrick

Before they banned any hint of the piss taking which once defined AH culture, absolutely.

Boom_Bap

Donovan Powerful Lavender wrote: »

Is that four boobies I wonder. Bit pointless when you've only the two hands.

Fcuk that. Take that back. Post reported. Muslims!!!

You have to improvise when presented with double boobies.

JMNolan

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Surely you could get an antibiotic for that.

Perhaps, we should ask him

wexie

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Before they banned any hint of the piss taking which once defined AH culture, absolutely.

Ha, you clearly didn't see the 'afraid to fly due to escalating world tensions' thread

andekwarhola

I don't think it's restricted to here, albeit the shrinkage in numbers accentuates it. A lot of the Internet is just a lot grimmer and polarized then it was even 6 or 7 years ago.

Also, I'm haven't been a member of any for quite a while but I would assume a lot of more light hearted and interesting stuff on boards is discussed in private forums.

Trigger Happy

Some very poor moderation for a few years did not help things. Killed off some of a lot of the better posters imo.
Moderation is much better now but we still need more characters.

Say Your Number

In fairness those 'What was your favourite chocolate bar in the eighties?' threads usually die on their arse after 3 pages, while the same old sh1te about immigrants, abortion and feminism go round in circles for a million pages.

I noticed there hasn't been one of those classic threads like Duggy's housemate or the found safe in a good while, there was always political stuff but it seems to have increased over the last few years and it seems more angry and not as much fun.

p1akuw47h5r3it

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

I never went to AH in about 14 years of using boards.ie with various usernames, I though I was above it.

I was above AH, it was not the place for any type of serious discussion.

Then I found the thread with the hot women and found myself peeking into AH in general, then I found myself posting on threads about politics etc, the kind of stuff that used to be in Politics or the Politics cafe.

Now it's almost my first port of call. I never post in Politics anymore.

46, married, children.

I never went into AH either. The layout of the politics section is horrendous. I don't know when or why it was changed but it was fine back when I started using boards in 08

Discodog

I have proposed a current affairs forum to take away a lot of the unfunny discussion. Give it a plus 1 if you think it's a good idea.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057860148

Arghus

Say Your Number wrote: »

I noticed there hasn't been one of those classic threads like Duggy's housemate or the found safe in a good while, there was always political stuff but it seems to have increased over the last few years and it seems more angry and not as much fun.

I know what you mean. There hasn't been a new thread of a fairly light hearted kind of nature that's properly taken off in a long, long while: one you'd be dying to get back to after a few hours away, just to see what wit was on display.

Now, it feels like it's all variations of the theme of either the feminists, the travellers, the Muslims, the dole scroungers, the immigrants or Conor Mcgregor are out to get us. Seemingly, they're all out to get us, the only place a person can be free to claim they're all out to get us is the Internet.

Tim Berners-Lee, you have a lot to answer for.

There was always an element of this, but it's wall to wall now. Most of these threads are simply no craic. They're angry and stupid; filled with mutliquote maestros reducing discussion down into an endless and very sad dunderheaded feedback loop.

Muahahaha

JMNolan wrote: »

Threads back then (actual threads btw)

• How the governement is stopping kids drinking
• Get your mob name here
• Is Gaz a dirt bag???
• Top St. Paddys Day Parties!
• story with the obsession with goths??
• Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About

Threads now

• Is Islam right for Ireland?
  
• The 8th Amendment Part 2
• Is the new Feminist movement damaging male female relationships?
• US considering Preemptive Strike against North Korea

This place is fair grim these days

IMO threads like the above should be moved to Politics or the Cafe. I havent read any of them but can only imagine they are full of the same angry people engaging in tit for tat debate using giant multi quote posts. After Hours would be better without these threads.

SimonTemplar

I agree that After Hours shouldn't be a place for current affairs threads. If there is some story in the news, I might drop into its AH thread just to gauge public option on it but I find the threads quickly end up as a left vs right debate, or has some stupid misogynistic or racist remark in an attempt to make a joke.

Red_Wake wrote: »

People are too serious now. Any joke that's remotely off colour[sexual assault, rape, any variant of diddling kids] gets you banned immediately.

Bunch of babies if you ask me.

And this post pretty much sums up why I dislike AH more and more. I wouldn't like spending time with people who would joke about such topics, or see no problem with making those jokes, and the same is true with AH.

Some of the long running threads in AH are great through (Trivial Things, I Bet You Didn't Know, Creepy or Unnerving Things)

Boom_Bap

Something that was said before that resonated with me is that it's the posters that create the content in AH (well any forum), if there is more fun threads needed, it's up to us to make them

wexie

Arghus wrote: »

Tim Berners-Lee, you have a lot to answer for.

Wasn't him, was the Indians apparently....thousands of years ago...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43806078

Mr Deb said that the battle of Kurukshetra in the Mahabharata proved the existence of not just the internet, but also satellite technology in ancient India.He said the fact that one of the characters in the epic, Sanjaya, had been able to give a blow-by-blow account of a battle that was taking place many miles away to his king Dhritarashtra proved India had access to both technologies.

JMNolan

SimonTemplar wrote: »

I agree that After Hours shouldn't be a place for current affairs threads. If there is some story in the news, I might drop into its AH thread just to gauge public option on it but I find the threads quickly end up as a left vs right debate, or has some stupid misogynistic or racist remark in an attempt to make a joke.



And this post pretty much sums up why I dislike AH more and more. I wouldn't like spending time with people who would joke about such topics, or see no problem with making those jokes, and the same is true with AH.

Some of the long running threads in AH are great through (Trivial Things, I Bet You Didn't Know, Creepy or Unnerving Things)

I'd say you need some sort of "safe space (TM)"