After hours no longer a safe place for irreverent humour.

superfurry1 · 01-10-2016 12:44PM #1

After hours has turned into a PC newsflash advice thread for shame, i guess it was always going to happen. And this thread wont last very long.

Winterlong · 01-10-2016 12:46PM

As long as you crack jokes that could not possibly offend anyone then you should be ok. :mad:

But I agree wiht you. AH has majorly lost its way.

Know any good Daffodil jokes?

Zascar · 01-10-2016 12:47PM

After Hours is the Donald Trump of forums

RobbingBandit · 01-10-2016 12:55PM

Zascar wrote: »

After Hours is the Donald Trump of forums

By that you mean the second coming of Ronald Regan. America's best and only choice. The saviour of the 1%. I for one believe in The Donald.

biko · 01-10-2016 01:01PM

AH is the moanfest of boards.
That hasn't changed.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 01-10-2016 01:01PM

superfurry1 wrote: »

After hours has turned into a PC newsflash advice thread for shame, i guess it was always going to happen. And this thread wont last very long.

What did you get carded for? Be honest

kneemos · 01-10-2016 01:03PM

Gone to shoite.

Wibbs · 01-10-2016 01:14PM

Bring back Terry. Oh and allow pictures FFS. It's 2016, not 1996.

RayM · 01-10-2016 01:17PM

biko wrote: »

AH is the moanfest of boards.
That hasn't changed.

It's a lot moanier than it used to be. Full of threads that would be more suited to Politics Cafe or Humanities or somewhere (fucking anywhere, tbh).

01-10-2016 01:34PM

Careful OP, people won't like you talking about wanting to turn AH into a safe space

BattleCorp · 01-10-2016 01:41PM

superfurry1 wrote: »

After hours has turned into a PC newsflash advice thread for shame, i guess it was always going to happen. And this thread wont last very long.

It's absolutely retarded that you can't even say the word retard any more without being pulled up. Where's the craic gone. Spastics*

*Which word went too far, retard or spastic?

osarusan · 01-10-2016 01:44PM

AH is mostly just a place for incoherent moaning from people about how they and their group really have it worse than everybody else. And if you can't see that, you're sheeple.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 01-10-2016 01:44PM

It's a sitewide thing. I used to love boards, I'd spend a couple of hours each evening reading through it. Now it's a couple of hours a week, and it's more a force of habit rather than finding anything interesting.

Shint0 · 01-10-2016 01:58PM

I was only thinking this exact same thing a couple of days ago. I was searching for something on Boards and came on an AH thread from around 2008/9 era. There were a lot of insults being traded back and forth between Pighead (don't know if he's still around) and someone else who is still a regular poster who I won't name but is much quieter these days compared to that thread

It was all in good humour but I was waiting to see where a Mod would step in and stop it which would happen now but it was allowed to run. Very different beast compared to the Boards of today.

wakka12 · 01-10-2016 02:11PM

I think its still a funny forum

suicide_circus · 01-10-2016 02:16PM

This culture fostered by management is reflected in the usership decline.

IamMetaldave · 01-10-2016 02:16PM

Pigface/head speaking in the third person was the best thing on boards.. he should come back.

Giacomo McGubbin · 01-10-2016 02:19PM

superfurry1 wrote: »

After hours has turned into a PC newsflash advice thread for shame, i guess it was always going to happen. And this thread wont last very long.

it entirely depends on what you are irreverent about. As long as it fits in with the political agendas of the owners and their mods, you can be as irreverent as you want about certain things. It fact its positively encouraged and fostered.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 01-10-2016 02:37PM

RayM wrote: »

It's a lot moanier than it used to be. Full of threads that would be more suited to Politics Cafe or Humanities or somewhere (fucking anywhere, tbh).

I remember a year or two ago there was an initiative by the mods to keep serious political discussion to the Politics and Politics Cafe forums. I thought it was a good idea at the time but it never stuck.

I suppose the forum has just evolved over the years, it's more of a place to discuss current affairs these days.

The_Captain · 01-10-2016 02:38PM

Boards has always been famous for being quite heavy handed when it comes to imposing limits.

Whatever about language on after hours, try criticising an MCD event, saying anything about the Liverpool/United or Leinster/Munster rivalries, going off topic, swearing, talking about sex (paying members only), bumping an old thread, making a new thread if there's already a thread on it that isn't too old, having something you post misconstrued by a mod, explaining to a mod why he's wrong, posting something a mod disagrees with, posting in a thread after a mod tells you not to post again in it, criticising someone's parenting, criticising someone's pets or posting anything when a mod is in a bad mood

b_mac2 · 01-10-2016 02:46PM

Giacomo McGubbin wrote: »

it entirely depends on what you are irreverent about. As long as it fits in with the political agendas of the owners and their mods, you can be as irreverent as you want about certain things. It fact its positively encouraged and fostered.

Yup. There are a quite a few posters here that would have been banned long ago, had they been on the centre right, because of the absolute nonsense/shīte they come up with.

01-10-2016 02:53PM

I'm very fond of this place but it's a bit safe at times. I hate the whole right wing left wing thing. People have opinions and that's the end of it. Let them be free to air them. Don't want the country being turned in to the Middle East? Then it should be ok to say so. A Donald Trump supporter? Tell us about it. Horrible experiences with travellers? That's ok too. *Find the idea of special transgender toilets silly? I'm all ears.

*they are silly. pick one and use it*

Winterlong · 01-10-2016 02:55PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm very fond of this place but it's a bit safe at times. I hate the whole right wing left wing thing. People have opinions and that's the end of it. Let them be free to air them. Don't want the country being turned in to the Middle East? Then it should be ok to say so. A Donald Trump supporter? Tell us about it. Horrible experiences with travellers? That's ok too. *Find the idea of special transgender toilets silly? I'm all ears.

*they are silly. pick one and use it*

Post reported. Your lack of mentioning of muslims is discriminatory.

01-10-2016 02:56PM

Winterlong wrote: »

Post reported. Your lack of mentioning of muslims is discriminatory.

Fück you!!

:pac:

Jawgap · 01-10-2016 02:56PM

Not everywhere has to be a "safe space"

TerrorFirmer · 01-10-2016 03:06PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm very fond of this place but it's a bit safe at times. I hate the whole right wing left wing thing. People have opinions and that's the end of it. Let them be free to air them. Don't want the country being turned in to the Middle East? Then it should be ok to say so. A Donald Trump supporter? Tell us about it. Horrible experiences with travellers? That's ok too. *Find the idea of special transgender toilets silly? I'm all ears.

*they are silly. pick one and use it*

Absolutely this. The problem is way too many moderators now consider anything other than the ultra liberal, PC viewpoint as trolling, incitement, etc.

If you don't agree with someone's opinion, by all means point out why they are wrong or why you disagree with them. Don't tell them they're simply not allowed have that opinion.

I understand stuff like the MCD issue and why that had to be enforced, but the heavy handed censoring of genuine opinion driven discussion and debate is a huge issue on boards in my opinion.

We all know that famous phrase - "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

Too many moderators prefer the angle "I disapprove of what you say, therefore I am shutting you down".

twill · 01-10-2016 03:13PM

You know, for all the supposed pinko-liberal-feminist agenda on boards, AH is full of right wing threads too. That's not even the issue, the problem is people start clickbait threads about how (opposing agenda) is destroying humanity with the sole objective of having their position reinforced and proving everyone else wrong. All you have then is a Youtube comments section rather than a discussion.

Solution: start discussions in Philosophy, Humanities, The Ladies Lounge/Gentleman's Club, Debate, etc. That's not to say politics shouldn't come into AH, just don't take things so bloody seriously.

RobbingBandit · 01-10-2016 03:15PM

Its like a shrinks office to many most of whom may or may not be Abe Simpson or the auld lads down your local that ****e on about the good auld days.

Badly Drunk Boy · 01-10-2016 03:16PM

Winterlong wrote: »

Post reported. Your lack of mentioning of muslims is discriminatory.

In fairness, she mentioned the Middle East. There are still some Muslims there, I hear... :pac:

This Fat Girl Runs · 01-10-2016 03:20PM

I for one was shocked and disappointed that no one said 'yore ma's' when I asked what the best pillow you ever slept on was. AH is definitely slipping.

Electric Sheep · 01-10-2016 03:20PM

Shint0 wrote: »

I was only thinking this exact same thing a couple of days ago. I was searching for something on Boards and came on an AH thread from around 2008/9 era. There were a lot of insults being traded back and forth between Pighead (don't know if he's still around) and someone else who is still a regular poster who I won't name but is much quieter these days compared to that thread It was all in good humour but I was waiting to see where a Mod would step in and stop it which would happen now but it was allowed to run. Very different beast compared to the Boards of today.

Maybe most of the users have grown out of the idea that trading insults is the height of wit and (insert stupid made up word and spelling) craic.

After hours no longer a safe place for irreverent humour.

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