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After hours no longer a safe place for irreverent humour.

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  • #122
    KKkitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    JohanFr wrote: »
    Like who ?

    Starbelgrade, mauzo, KeithM89. There's so much more but this forum has lost it's way a lot. I think a more comedic approach is needed here.


  • #123
    Olishi4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭Olishi4


    I think that although boards is "anonymous", that people still have an identity or attachment through their username however it still lacks context.

    Sometimes I do want to make jokes that in real life, with my own friends would be no issue but I stop myself because I know that the majority of posters have not come across my username before and do not know where I stand politically or whether I am someone who is sexist, racist etc. and what could be meant as a joke would be taken completely out of context.

    For expl in real life, there is an elderly man who my husband and I would chat to in the local pub if we go. He, sometimes makes sexiest jokes towards me that written down as one comment, would make him sound like an awful person but in reality, he is lovely and he is constantly praising his wife, not in a sexist way, and talking about his children and grandchildren however if I were to write some of the things he has said, online, it would come across that he was a dirty old sexist man when in reality, he is far from that.

    I think in some ways, it's just the nature of the internet and written word. I don't know of anyone, genuinely, who is not capable of making a mistake in what they say and if you make things too pc then people have too much fear to risk putting themself out there for scrutiny, when the motive of what they were saying probably didn't really come from a bad place.


  • #124
    FizzleSticks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭FizzleSticks


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  • #125
    Mark Tapley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Mark Tapley


    You need to have the courage of your convictions. Unfortunately Boards has sold its soul to mammon. This means pandering to popular ideologies.
    Free speech is not offered by boards and at times they seem to take pride in this . I enjoy boards and like to hear what people think. I might detest what you say but I would defend your right to say it.

    Edit - I have a few bans for attacking the poster but got away with calling a post a twàt.


  • #126
    La.de.da
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,010 ✭✭✭La.de.da


    There's not enough coke and hookers going around anymore.


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  • #127
    JohanFr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 ✭JohanFr


    La.de.da wrote: »
    There's not enough coke and hookers going around anymore.

    If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and then make that change.


  • #128
    hannible the cannible
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 163 ✭✭hannible the cannible


    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Something which is prevalent today which wasn't say ten years ago is the concentrated effort made not to offend and to be accepting of all and everything. It should be ok to put your head above the parapet and say what it is you want to say.

    I've never said otherwise. We have to ensure that everyone can enjoy this forum though. There's a balance.

    Why should everyone enjoy it, isn't the point of a discussion board to debate differing views , you can't please everyone , so why try ,forums are overmoderated to the point of censorship , I've seen yellow and red cards handed out to some posters who don't quite have the linguistic dexterity to make a point as some other posters . 1 example would be the use of the term thieving travelling salesmen in hiace vans , everyone knows what the poster means but nothing is done about it, but the poster who straight up says most knackers are thieving scum is carded immediately,(I've seen it) language is a very powerful tool , not everyone has the ability to use it to prove a point in a non direct manner , if people are that easily insulted I suggest they take up knitting or bridge with like minded people


  • #129
    Mark Tapley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Mark Tapley


    JohanFr wrote: »
    If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and then make that change.

    Meaningless aphorisms my favourite.


  • #130
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,627 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    hannible the cannible wrote: »
    Why should everyone enjoy it

    I specifically said "can enjoy", ie, everyone should be welcome to enjoy the forum no matter their background. If it isn't to their particular tastes then there's not much we can do about that.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #131
    La.de.da
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,010 ✭✭✭La.de.da


    JohanFr wrote: »
    If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and then make that change.

    Ah c'mon. Hee hee!


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  • #132
    jamesbere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    La.de.da wrote: »
    There's not enough coke and hookers going around anymore.

    And blackjack, can't have coke and hookers without backjack.


  • #133
    Rumpy Pumpy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭Rumpy Pumpy


    I miss posters like Pighead, Flutterinbantam and Degsy. They'd emerge out of the Thunderdome en masse to annoy people on AH with their views on crusties, stoners, socialists and neckbeards .


  • #134
    BOHtox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭BOHtox


    Where's Feeky MaGee and Facekicker nowadays?


  • #135
    evolving_doors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    Mark Tapley wrote: »
    You need to have the courage of your convictions. Unfortunately Boards has sold its soul to mammon. This means pandering to popular ideologies.
    Free speech is not offered by boards and at times they seem to take pride in this . I enjoy boards and like to hear what people think. I might detest what you say but I would defend your right to say it.

    Edit - I have a few bans for attacking the poster but got away with calling a post a twàt.

    Maybe that's just it, there's plenty of other sites that are a free for all. If you want to say what you like then reddit or facebook.
    But unfortunately for some, mods have a line. Everyone has a line though.

    There is another forum i used to split myself laughing at for months. But now I don't find the stuff that funny. But the thing is, the content probably hasn't changed that much.
    So maybe I've changed due to funny overload.

    Maybe a significant portion of AH has just grown up and 'your ma' jokes aren't as funny cos.. Well... Yer ma is probably knocking on heavens door right now...
    .
    .

    .





    Or sucking co#ks in hell probably :)


  • #136
    GerryDerpy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 761 ✭✭✭GerryDerpy


    I remember when I stumbled upon After Hours after spending some time in other forums. I was pleasantly surprised that their was actually a forum where you could take the pee. I have noticed that freedom reduce significantly over the years.


  • #137
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,115 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    I remember the olden days when everyone looked to the future - now it is the future and everyone is looking to the past.


  • #138
    JohanFr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 ✭JohanFr


    Mark Tapley wrote: »
    You need to have the courage of your convictions. Unfortunately Boards has sold its soul to mammon. This means pandering to popular ideologies.
    Free speech is not offered by boards and at times they seem to take pride in this . I enjoy boards and like to hear what people think. I might detest what you say but I would defend your right to say it.

    Edit - I have a few bans for attacking the poster but got away with calling a post a twàt.

    Aphorisms, mammon.

    How much brandy has one imbibed this eve, in the drawing room of fathers rectory.


  • #139
    Mark Tapley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Mark Tapley


    JohanFr wrote: »
    Aphorisms, mammon.

    How much brandy has one imbibed this eve, in the drawing room of fathers rectory.

    I am ill educated but widely read. If my vocabulary offends you I could use terms like fùck off or you dumb cùnt if you would prefer.


  • #140
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    We should have a special section in AH called 'Personal issues for drunk people'.


  • #141
    evolving_doors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    GerryDerpy wrote: »
    I remember when I stumbled upon After Hours after spending some time in other forums. I was pleasantly surprised that their was actually a forum where you could take the pee. I have noticed that freedom reduce significantly over the years.

    Taking the pi55 is fine, but I think what people are complaining about is not being able to 'stick their head above the parapet' to rant about travellers/Muslims/immigrants/women etc


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  • #142
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    I'm a bit confused as to how we can have people saying AH is gone too right wing, and at the same time other people say it's too lefty-liberal.
    I think some people (on both sides) want an echo chamber (as was mentioned before) and not actually a true discussion site.


  • #143
    learn_more
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    Silverfish wrote: »
    We have. There were surprisingly few arguments and very little bloodshed.

    Did you'z hit it off, hudge hudge wink wink ?


  • #144
    b_mac2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 454 ✭✭b_mac2


    The poster- Ilovemybricks was site banned recently and following his posts, I can only see his ban came about because of his views on immigration that were not fitting current #refugeeswelcome bollox, which is being shoved down everyone's throats.


  • #145
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    Gebgbegb wrote: »
    Maybe a significant portion of AH has just grown up

    Not far off from the truth. The user base has gotten older, and the younger folk these days prefer Facebook, Twitter and all the rest of it. All this talk of over zealous modding I never quite understood, as it seems to me that all sides of the political spectrum get their 2 cents in. Whatever After Hours used to be (and there is most likely rose tinted glasses in action there) doesn't matter anymore, as this is how online discussion has evolved. Like it or lump it. Even if a concerted effort was made to bring AH back to the days or yore, how exactly would that work? You can't force things like that to happen, they either happen naturally, or they don't happen at all.


  • #146
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    mzungu wrote: »
    Not far off from the truth. The user base has gotten older, and the younger folk these days prefer Facebook, Twitter and all the rest of it. All this talk of over zealous modding I never quite understood, as it seems to me that all sides of the political spectrum get their 2 cents in. Whatever After Hours used to be (and there is most likely rose tinted glasses in action there) doesn't matter anymore, as this is how online discussion has evolved. Like it or lump it. Even if a concerted effort was made to bring AH back to the days or yore, how exactly would that work? You can't force things like that to happen, they either happen naturally, or they don't happen at all.

    Nothing as cringey as forced craic


  • #147
    learn_more
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    Silverfish wrote: »
    We have. There were surprisingly few arguments and very little bloodshed.

    What does he/she? look like ? Did ya ride him/her ?


  • #148
    MadDog76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    Mods* are pr%cks.













    * Except the Mods who read this post.


  • #149
    evolving_doors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    learn_more wrote: »
    What does he/she? look like ? Did ya ride him/her ?

    Whoop there it is. Welcome back to 2008.


  • #150
    Samaris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    b_mac2 wrote: »
    The poster- Ilovemybricks was site banned recently and following his posts, I can only see his ban came about because of his views on immigration that were not fitting current #refugeeswelcome bollox, which is being shoved down everyone's throats.

    Given the topic, and while I wouldn't usually talk about the whys and wherefores, bear in mind that some reregs get caught later than others and are booted when it's worked out who they were previously. Most posters who are just persistantly being an ass tend to get quite a lot of time to prove they are capable of not being an ass before they get shooed off to Reddit or wherever the whiny kids go these days.

    There is a lot less plotting than I think is sometimes suspected :P
    MadDog76 wrote: »
    Mods* are pr%cks.

    * Except the Mods who read this post.

    I is deeply offend and need a safer space!


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  • #151
    learn_more
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    @samaris , It was very booooooring of you to close down that thread I started. I though it quite funny but you guyz obviously don't have any kind of sense of humour at all. Which is very very booooooring of you.


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