Sketch! They're talking about us on reddit r/ireland

iamstop

https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/kv2fnq/how_the_mighty_have_fallen/

:eek:

Some good comments though.

46 Long

Boards.ie is parochial and over-moderated say members of forum that the mods close down from midnight - 8am

Thelonious Monk

If you like anti Brit and IRA memes posted by 15 year olds in rural Ireland, Reddit Ireland is where it's at

They do that every now and then. I even got a mention once. I'm a "sad cùnt" or something or other.

Kilboor

Boards.ie is class. Being able to discuss stocks, cars, food, places etc with fellow Irish people and without constant image meme posts and all in separate threads and forums makes it far far superior to the everyday changing r/Ireland circle jerk that's overly moderated and any opinions that are shared by anything less than 51% of the userbase are downvoted and hidden

Leg End Reject

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

Gatling

Some snowflake was crying about a certain thread on twitter the other day ,

Gatling

Gatling wrote: »

Some snowflake was crying about a certain thread on twitter the other day ,

Oh really??

*nosey*

Gatling

Gatling wrote: »

Some snowflake was crying about a certain thread on twitter the other day ,

It wasn't blindboy again, was it?..

EmmetSpiceland

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Oh really??

*nosey*

Someone “ratted out” the CA lads on twitter regarding the racism in one of the threads in there.

Harry Palmr

Isn't r/ireland basically the banned list?

Gatling

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Someone “ratted out” the CA lads on twitter regarding the racism in one of the threads in there.

Quite day in feedback .

It was nothing to do with racism

Gatling

[Deleted User] wrote: »

It wasn't blindboy again, was it?..

Some wannabe journo Bryan wall

TheValeyard

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Someone “ratted out” the CA lads on twitter regarding the racism in one of the threads in there.

How do I never here about these things?

TheValeyard

And tbf, I'd consider the Domino's codes thread in bargain alerts to be of paramount importance.

OU812

P45.net > boards.ie

(Showing my age)

The Inbetween is mine

I did like the post from one lad who said he was glad of boards...as it kept boards type people on boards

Gatling

The Inbetween is mine wrote: »

I did like the post from one lad who said he was glad of boards...as it kept boards type people on boards

Vs those elsewhere because they banned from boards

greenspurs

a down vote facility on here would be great though.....

As one lad is very accurate about :
"Any thread that has legs on boards seem to always to descend into three or four absolute loolahs going back and forth at each other page after page"

Spot on !

Wibbs

Kilboor wrote: »

any opinions that are shared by anything less than 51% of the userbase are downvoted and hidden

That's my major issue with Reddit(not just the Ireland sub). It actively encourages echo chambers. Oh you certainly get echo chamber threads, even forums here and on any old style forum layout, the significant difference being because of the chronological non down/upvote layout you can't avoid reading contrary opinions to your own*. This is a good thing.

That said it seems outside of a pretty brief time in internetland where contrary discussion was popular nowadays it's clear people increasingly gravitate towards echo chambers of views they already believe in, where any dissent is downvoted, blocked, or never invited to join in the first place. Though you could argue that's the more natural state of man anyway. Beyond adolescence where people try on different hats to see what suits them, people tend to gravitate towards people who are similar, birds of a feather and all that. By adulthood most people's views are pretty set, by middle age those views are set in stone, rooted to deep foundations in concrete and that's comfortable for them and can be extremely uncomfortable for them to grapple with anything that questions those views.

Time is another factor. On Reddit a thread can vanish very quickly into the ether, so you can get a lot of repetition, whereas you can have threads here going back many years that are added to daily. In more technical subs for enthusiasts and the like both the "accepted view" and quickly fading threads can mean an awful lot of bad information rises to the top and becomes the Truth.





*Unless you go on a ignore poster spree, in which case your opinions are delicate anyway.

Badly Drunk Boy

The Inbetween is mine wrote: »

I did like the post from one lad who said he was glad of boards...as it kept boards type people on boards

Did you write that post?

Feisar

While I get the down/upvoting thing I don't get it at the same time.
Here is like people meeting up for a coffee, yea it can get out of hand but there is some sort of reasoned flow, even if a thread descends into a back and forth between a couple of people. Which if good debating can be enjoyable in it's own right.
Reddit on the other hand is like me and the lads at three in the morning repeating the same waffle to each other we came to a conclusion on an hour previously.

TheValeyard

Reddit and boards both have there uses. It's grand.

The Inbetween is mine

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Did you write that post?

Nope, you want the applause here or on reddit

Church on Tuesday

Both have their pluses and minuses but one thing Boards has over r/Ireland is that I'm not constantly bombarded with pictures of the Cliffs of ****ing Moher.

Pamsteer

46 Long wrote: »

Boards.ie is parochial and over-moderated say members of forum that the mods close down from midnight - 8am

"...forum that the mods close down from midnight - 8am" is this some sort of in-joke?

Sleepy

To be fair to it, reddit is far better for porn. :pac:

There's even an r/IrelandGoneWild for all those idiots who think a few quick bucks made on OnlyFans won't ruin their career prospects in a country as small as this...

Tork

Pamsteer wrote: »

"...forum that the mods close down from midnight - 8am" is this some sort of in-joke?

???

https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/gyyv6y/temporary_closure_of_rireland_at_latenight_hours/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=post_body

ancapailldorcha

The one thing that gets me abou Reddit is why people volunteer to moderate it. Boards, sure given that it's a message board few enough people, even in Ireland would use IME but Reddit is one of the most visited and profitable sites in the world. Niche subs, sure but why someone would moderate a big one like like r/politics for free is unfathomable IMO.

riffmongous

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Both have their pluses and minuses but one thing Boards has over r/Ireland is that I'm not constantly bombarded with pictures of the Cliffs of ****ing Moher.

I barely look at Reddit Ireland anymore because of this

greenspurs

cant make head nor tail of reddit ................

Thelonious Monk

riffmongous wrote: »

I barely look at Reddit Ireland anymore because of this

Cliffs of Moher yes. Threads starting with "Ah lads here look mental health" etc, pictures of boxes of f*cking "taytos" that their ma sends them if they're abroad, or a picture of Tweet by some 19 year old making a very forgettable quip and they all get 10k upvotes.
I really feel like I'm either completely out of touch with Irish people these days or they're just a bunch of absolute retards on that sub.
Plus you can't post your view that doesn't go with everyone else's or it just gets downvoted into oblivion.

Tork

I agree that boards threads often degenerate after a few pages but I'd rather have that than reddit's up voting and down voting. There are far too many subreddits as well. The layout of the place isn't for me.

Bobblehats

greenspurs wrote: »

cant make head nor tail of reddit ................

Anything that makes you automatically like on your own posts is up itself anyways. I got fed up with having to remove them and then realised it probably then looks like I got a dislike which didn’t make any sense?!.... questioned the logic, of even being on there in the first place even if it was just for tech help and then shut that shiįt down.

frozenfrozen

whatever about people downvoting stuff they disagree with there, the massive benefit to boards is you can see who thanked stuff.

500 upvotes from random yanks who are easily swayed by the gist of an argument...

The Inbetween is mine

Sleepy wrote: »

To be fair to it, reddit is far better for porn. :pac:

There's even an r/IrelandGoneWild for all those idiots who think a few quick bucks made on OnlyFans won't ruin their career prospects in a country as small as this...

Do you mean the leaked onlyfans images are on Reddit? If so that's just wrong ffs

Ekerot

I prefer forums like this because I can remember the posters better because I have an avatar and a name to picture them with, unlike Reddit where it's just a brief username over a comment

That and it sucks almighty donkey c**k when you're downvoted for no reason other then not kowtowing to the party (subreddit) line. Spending your time without considering other worldviews isn't healthy, I'm sure most of the divisiveness today comes from people spending too much on Reddit/Twitter/whatever the big internet site is in their comfort.

greenspurs

The Inbetween is mine wrote: »

Do you mean the leaked onlyfans images are on Reddit? If so that's just wrong ffs

Its not even worth trawling through to find those...
i gave up ! :P

46 Long

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

The one thing that gets me abou Reddit is why people volunteer to moderate it. Boards, sure given that it's a message board few enough people, even in Ireland would use IME but Reddit is one of the most visited and profitable sites in the world. Niche subs, sure but why someone would moderate a big one like like r/politics for free is unfathomable IMO.

Strangely enough, Reddit has never turned a profit. I'm not sure if Boards does.

ardinn

There is way too much cock on that page!!

Hellrazer

46 Long wrote: »

Strangely enough, Reddit has never turned a profit. I'm not sure if Boards does.

It hasn't. Saw the accounts once in the secret mods forum and the amount spent paying the mods for their services is scandalous.

You get paid by the yellow card, red card with extra wages for forum bans.

If you manage to give someone a site ban you get employee of the month with your picture in the super secret mods bunker forum.

wiggle16

I wonder if they've noticed that we're talking about them talking about us....

Tork wrote: »

I agree that boards threads often degenerate after a few pages but I'd rather have that than reddit's up voting and down voting. There are far too many subreddits as well. The layout of the place isn't for me.

Agreed, I find it completely bewildering, could never understand how it works. And like CapallDorcha I can't fathom how anyone would be willing to mod on reddit for free.

The option to nest replies on Boards as threads go along would be nice, along the lines of having the our current set up for threads as the default view, but being able to click on a button which would nest the replies of posters who are going back and forth with one another so that they branch off from the main thread - but the site would have to be completely overhauled obvs so it's not going to happen.

As a civil servant, this is news to me: (from reddit)

If you know where to look, you can find a fair amount of information on Boards about the inner workings of government departments. It's actually pretty cool the way civil servants use it as a way of leaking information that is far too niche for any newspaper to care about.

Sorry, what???

greenspurs

ardinn wrote: »

There is way too much cock on that page!!

Cockerels ?

iamstop

wiggle16 wrote: »

I wonder if they've noticed that we're talking about them talking about us....

Don't worry, I'll cross post ;-)

Potential-Monke

The Inbetween is mine wrote: »

Do you mean the leaked onlyfans images are on Reddit? If so that's just wrong ffs

I went on it on mobile to find out. You can't view it on mobile without downloading the app. One of my biggest issues with it in general is it's insistence to download the app and use it.

Couple that with the 1990's style of forum and I just can't. Boards, with the issues it has, is far superior imo.

ancapailldorcha

46 Long wrote: »

Strangely enough, Reddit has never turned a profit. I'm not sure if Boards does.

I'm pretty sure the same is true for Amazon. No idea about Reddit but I know Amazon reinvests all of its profits.

Arghus

Reading that, it appears that a lot of posters on that thread were banned from boards.

Even though boards frequently drives me mad, well, sections of it, I think it's a great thing overall.

I appreciate reddit for it's niches and such, but I don't really see the appeal of the reddit Ireland page whenever I use it.

There's also a fair bit of life here still, I thought boards was slowly dying for years, but the pandemic has definitely brought more activity than previously.

Quantum Erasure

r/ireland is basically just After Hours on boards.ie


Ah PIGHEAD you funny bastard

wiggle16

iamstop wrote: »

Don't worry, I'll cross post ;-)

Much appreciated

Potential-Monke

We could get a bit of thredception going here. Anyone know if there's a thread on reddit discussing the thread on boards discussing the thread on reddit?

Quantum Erasure

There was also this one from yesterday aswell

Whats the worst thread you have ever read on Boards?
https://old.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/kvrtd9/whats_the_worst_thread_you_have_ever_read_on/