Has politics.ie closed down ?

gufdaf

Offline for at least 4 days now and not a word of warning to users

Badly Drunk Boy

gufdaf wrote: »

Offline for at least 4 days now and not a word of warning to users

Indeed! Irish politics does not exist.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Noticed this myself.

Wonder what's going on.

Edgware

Probably giving the Shinnerbots a break so that they can get the party line right for the Presidential election. You cant just brainwash people overnight.

DEFTLEFTHAND

I checked up their Twitter but it hasn't been updated in over a year.

A google news search is showing up nothing.


I wonder have they been hacked again.

DEFTLEFTHAND

It's still like the wild west days of the internet over there.

Practically no moderation.

Trasna1

Every now and then the database breaks. It'll probably be back in a week or so.

Pa8301

The OP opens their account, starts this thread and promptly closes their account after 1 post. Is this a record?

chinwag

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=75319467#post75319467

I came across this post/link on an old Boards thread about Politics.ie being down but link doesn't make sense to me if P.ie is down.

end of the road

their twitter hasn't been updated since may, they would surely say if it had closed? i'd say it will be back soon.

somefeen

Prepare for the influx of lost politics.ie posters

SEPT 23 1989

After Hours could sign The Field Marshall on the cheap if It has gone into administration

hatrickpatrick

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

It's still like the wild west days of the internet over there.

Practically no moderation.

For this reason it's far more fun than Boards for political discussion (no "this thread has run its course, closed" even when users are still up for a debate) but Boards still has an edge by having a much broader range of forums.

James Brown

Edgware wrote: »

Probably giving the Shinnerbots a break so that they can get the party line right for the Presidential election. You cant just brainwash people overnight.

And yet you beat them to it here

cdeb

Pa8301 wrote: »

The OP opens their account, starts this thread and promptly closes their account after 1 post. Is this a record?

Have you tried asking the Irish Times' letters to the editor page?

Pa8301

cdeb wrote: »

Have you tried asking the Irish Times' letters to the editor page?

Good idea. I better fetch my quill.

Sal Butamol

No moderation...the horror...the horror...

JohnnyFlash

Place is crawling with lunatics. They have real-life communists over there for example. Ones who think Stalin wasn’t bad. Proper nutters.

Mutant z

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

It's still like the wild west days of the internet over there.

Practically no moderation.

That's what good about it you don't have debates constantly broken down by incessant ott modding conversation is generally allowed to flow more freely over there it ain't perfect but its better than what you get on most places which are becoming increasingly echo chambers for certain pc group thinks, Politics.ie is a decent alternative to that.

Turnipman

Matt Barrett wrote: »

And yet you beat them to it here

It's pretty easy to beat the politics.ie shinnerbots. Most of them are still riding tricycles.

Turnipman

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

After Hours could sign The Field Marshall on the cheap if It has gone into administration

Jesus no! :eek: That buffoon shouldn't be let near this site - he is seriously raving. Appears genuinely to believe that the current pope isn't religious enough!

WoollyRedHat

Pa8301 wrote: »

The OP opens their account, starts this thread and promptly closes their account after 1 post. Is this a record?

He knew too much, we did what we had to and that's all there is it to it.

Anyway what is it they say, one account closes, another one opens.

biko

Welcome to AH, the helpdesk for other sites...

You can keep an eye on https://twitter.com/politicsie

Berserker

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

It's still like the wild west days of the internet over there.

Practically no moderation.

Read it once of two and it made me appreciate the posters on here, even the ones I don't agree with. Some right tulips active on that forum.

Edgware wrote: »

Probably giving the Shinnerbots a break so that they can get the party line right for the Presidential election. You cant just brainwash people overnight.

Might give some of the lads on here a chance to have a holiday. Need to make sure that the new lads are up to the grade first though.

Ten Pin wrote: »

Given the upcoming Presidential election, someone "accidentally" turned off the server from where all potential skeletons could have emanated.

Can someone not just pop over and restart it?

Kermit.de.frog

Many of them will need a new home. How many has Boards agreed to take in?

OneEightSeven

The kip is full of middle-aged leftist trolls who spend most of their spare time on there, posting an average of 60 to 80 posts a day, but at least the censorship on there isn't as bad as here. They're all posting on Political Irish now.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Turnipman wrote: »

Jesus no! :eek: That buffoon shouldn't be let near this site - he is seriously raving. Appears genuinely to believe that the current pope isn't religious enough!

He doesn't accept Francis as Pope.

Benedict is still the official head honcho according to the FM.

DEFTLEFTHAND

You see some great fights on it.

A lot of posters seem to genuinely hate each other.

Jim Bob Scratcher

Is that where banned boards.ie members go?

Never really looked at it or had an account. Sounds like a bit of a laugh..

I get warnings, infractions and bans weekly here if I talk about certain politics and it is definitely because of my views. The mods are either hyper-biased or just trust the little brigade of posters who report en-masse.


They won that battle. I just look elsewhere for discussion on that topic.

TomOnBoard

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

Is that where banned boards.ie members go?

No, its where they come from... Its the AQ training camp for forays onto Boards wearing the ould vests to create self-immolating threads and apoplectic mods playing whak-a-mole before the martyrs head off to find the 70 something Bored virgins TFM has promised them...

YFlyer

Pa8301 wrote: »

The OP opens their account, starts this thread and promptly closes their account after 1 post. Is this a record?

No.

Some have opened an account and didn't reply for years afterwards.

BadBannana

I feel this is no great loss to humanity....

pleas advice

Turnipman wrote: »

Jesus no! :eek: That buffoon shouldn't be let near this site - he is seriously raving. Appears genuinely to believe that the current pope isn't religious enough!

some might even go as far as saying he's the antichrist

TomOnBoard

As yeer all so worried....'twill be back up 'shortly'...

https://mobile.twitter.com/PoliticsIE/status/1024061967437377538

Are Am Eye

A week is a long time in politics.

pleas advice

boom boom

maccored

Berserker wrote: »

Read it once of two and it made me appreciate the posters on here, even the ones I don't agree with. Some right tulips active on that forum.



Might give some of the lads on here a chance to have a holiday. Need to make sure that the new lads are up to the grade first though.



Can someone not just pop over and restart it?

terribly boring. you make work on how to rile people up. bullying from a distance just doesn't cut it.

Taytoland

Probably full of sinn feiners and communists.

hatrickpatrick

Ye'd be surprised, it's actually fairly right wing. In fact, I'd argue that it's people who are beyond the Overton Window on either the left or the right who tend to post there, because they face over-moderation here.

It does make political debate a bit more fun though. Debates go on until someone is backed into a logical corner and abandons the thread because they can't win, or everyone gets sick of the debate - not when someone arbitrarily decides that a debate has "gone too far" or "run its course", as happened a few days ago with the Peak Trans thread here.

Boom_Bap

pleas advice wrote: »

boom boom

what?

Hammer89

I suspect they finally realised that politics was a bit boring and sh*t and stopped posting.

Muahahaha

Its as mad as a box of frogs that site but I do like to pop in occasionally. Some good posters there who clearly have the inside track on their parties going ons

riffmongous

Boom_Bap wrote: »

what?

Basil Brush!

Boom_Bap

riffmongous wrote: »

Basil Brush!

Not the Outhere Brothers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqHQ_wWbG9Y

I want that song played at my funeral. F*cking Jam.

riffmongous

Those lyrics are pure filth

Harry Palmr

Presumably the Special Branch have finally made a move against them.

Cienciano

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

Is that where banned boards.ie members go?

No, that would be /r/ireland

Boom_Bap

riffmongous wrote: »

Those lyrics are pure filth

Back in the day we used to run around disco's singing those lyrics oblivious to their meaning.

Floppybits

Holiday time

riffmongous

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Back in the day we used to run around disco's singing those lyrics oblivious to their meaning.

Mental when you think about it, or the good old sex on the beach

I think boom boom boom had a clean version too? I remember something like 'and your kisses on my face'