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  • 12-11-2017 11:12PM
    #1
    JupiterKid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,955 ✭✭✭✭


    I've been on boards for 13 years and in that time I've definitely noticed a shift in some forums, but AH in particular. What used to be lighthearted and jocular seems now to be populated by posts that are antagonistic, bitter and adversarial.

    Don't get me wrong, debate and arguement are healthy but there really does seem to be a rather nasty undertone to some of the posts. I long for the old days of After Hours where threads were jovial and not full of rather bitter rows over issues like abortion, virtue signalling, housing and that old chestnut, social welfare.

    I miss the old AH. :(


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  • #2
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,701 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    I've been on boards for 13 years and in that time I've definitely noticed a shift in some forums, but AH in particular. What used to be lighthearted and jocular seems now to be populated by posts that are antagonistic, bitter and adversarial.

    Don't get me wrong, debate and arguement are healthy but there really does seem to be a rather nasty undertone to some of the posts. I long for the old days of After Hours where threads were jovial and not full of rather bitter rows over issues like abortion, virtue signalling, housing and that old chestnut, social welfare.

    I miss the old AH. :(
    lets dig upmold threwds


  • #3
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    So start some lighthearted threads?


  • #4
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    I member.


    latest?cb=20170130113816


  • #5
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Somewhat difficult to be light hearted when yous say this about people?


  • #6
    jacksie66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭jacksie66


    This post has been deleted.


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  • #7
    The Royal Scam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭The Royal Scam


    Your ma


  • #8
    Will I Am Not
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,496 ✭✭✭Will I Am Not


    Member when people were not falling over themselves to be offended by everything? I think you’ll find that was when it used to be fun.


  • #9
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Yore Ma© blasted me with piss™ only last week. I see no changes JK... :D

    I suppose it's just how things evolve. In the past *cue harp music* more of the other forums like politics, humanities and the like were more populated and active, so subjects had a bigger spread of natural homes. That was then. The interwebs has changed a lot in that time, so there is less of the "this subject goes here" than was the case in the past. I reckon that's much of it.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #10
    Jim Bob Scratcher
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    jacksie66 wrote: »
    Ah go **** yourself you ****ing ****er

    Bleedin spoofers!


  • #11
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,897 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    I've been on boards for 13 years and in that time I've definitely noticed a shift in some forums, but AH in particular. What used to be lighthearted and jocular seems now to be populated by posts that are antagonistic, bitter and adversarial.

    Don't get me wrong, debate and arguement are healthy but there really does seem to be a rather nasty undertone to some of the posts. I long for the old days of After Hours where threads were jovial and not full of rather bitter rows over issues like abortion, virtue signalling, housing and that old chestnut, social welfare.

    I miss the old AH. :(

    People certainly seem to be a bit trigger happy dissing others posts.

    That's rubbish.
    Drivel
    You don't know what you are talking about

    etc etc.

    Seem to be getting more common.


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  • #12
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    The first time I ever looked at After Hours was in 2008 and there posts about dole scroungers all over the place. Maybe it was radically different four years earlier.


  • #13
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    You're talking about the internet as a whole, not just Boards TBH.


  • #14
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,701 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    tennyears ago this was the state of play

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055166829

    probably should be locked somno one posts in it ive never understood why threads dont pocknif they are dead for annywar


  • #15
    Tommy Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 93 ✭✭Tommy Ferguson


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Yore Ma© blasted me with piss™ only last week. I see no changes JK... :D

    I suppose it's just how things evolve. In the past *cue harp music* more of the other forums like politics, humanities and the like were more populated and active, so subjects had a bigger spread of natural homes. That was then. The interwebs has changed a lot in that time, so there is less of the "this subject goes here" than was the case in the past. I reckon that's much of it.

    Have you someone keeping you’re account going 24/7 you’re thanking and posting everywhere.


  • #16
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Irish Guitarist wrote: »
    The first time I ever looked at After Hours was in 2008 and there posts about dole scroungers all over the place. Maybe it was radically different four years earlier.

    I remember when all this was fields


  • #17
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    I don't know what yere on about I do be having a great laugh at ye


  • #18
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,311 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    Things change with the times. No need for rose tinted glasses, things are grand, same as it was 10-15 years ago.


  • #19
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    I blame the right

    (First time I think that's ever been written in AH....!!)

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #20
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I miss the characters like Trent, Facekicker and Pighead.*







    *I actually don't give a fcuk about any of them, it's just always said on these threads.


  • #21
    LadyMacBeth_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭LadyMacBeth_


    Ah it depends on the threads that you frequent. I usually don't even bother with abortion/feminism/dole threads because it's the same old fighting and arguments and crap. I just ignore them and post in the lovely threads, like TH, TA and "Where are you now?" where arseholes are generally not welcome and are given short shrift.


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  • #22
    soups05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭soups05


    don't forget feaky and the grinds teacher, a beacon of hope back in the day


  • #23
    Arbitrary
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 532 ✭✭✭Arbitrary


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    I've been on boards for 13 years and in that time I've definitely noticed a shift in some forums, but AH in particular. What used to be lighthearted and jocular seems now to be populated by posts that are antagonistic, bitter and adversarial.

    Don't get me wrong, debate and arguement are healthy but there really does seem to be a rather nasty undertone to some of the posts. I long for the old days of After Hours where threads were jovial and not full of rather bitter rows over issues like abortion, virtue signalling, housing and that old chestnut, social welfare.

    I miss the old AH. :(

    As tempting as it is to post a clip of Grandpa Simpson reminiscing of the good old times, I have to agree. Remember the old for sale forum? Compare that with adverts now. :eek:

    What happened between then and now is the interweb went mainstream. Businesses use forums for research, to scrape stories, curate opinions, general market research, product placement and you name it.

    None of that went on back then because it was much easier to make money on the net, you didn't need to go to all that trouble. Just stuff your site full of keywords and start printing money.

    Then you have political gaming on forums and social media to add to all the above. And the trolls, the trolls just don't have the same level of nuance to their game these days.

    As old fart would say, they were simpler times, to be sure.


  • #24
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,439 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    I've been on boards for 13 years and in that time I've definitely noticed a shift in some forums, but AH in particular. What used to be lighthearted and jocular seems now to be populated by posts that are antagonistic, bitter and adversarial.

    Don't get me wrong, debate and arguement are healthy but there really does seem to be a rather nasty undertone to some of the posts. I long for the old days of After Hours where threads were jovial and not full of rather bitter rows over issues like abortion, virtue signalling, housing and that old chestnut, social welfare.

    I miss the old AH. :(


    Kinda reads like that Socrates quote about his observations between generations that went before, and those who came after, think it went something like -

    "You're old JupiterKid, you're beginning to see things the way your parents saw them when you were a kid and didn't see these things for yourself"

    Something like that anyway :pac:


  • #25
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    It reminds me a bit of my adult life , long periods of boring calm interspersed with moments of terror.


  • #26
    Tommy Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 93 ✭✭Tommy Ferguson


    LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »
    Ah it depends on the threads that you frequent. I usually don't even bother with abortion/feminism/dole threads because it's the same old fighting and arguments and crap. I just ignore them and post in the lovely threads, like TH, TA and "Where are you now?" where arseholes are generally not welcome and are given short shrift.

    You put up a battle fado fado in those kind of threads though.


  • #27
    wakka12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    The Fake Sheikh wrote: »
    Member when people were not falling over themselves to be offended by everything? I think you’ll find that was when it used to be fun.

    Yeh this really. Its a shift in society(most evident online though) not just AH!


  • #28
    Ten of Swords
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,705 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    Sweet nostalgia

    Moderator: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender, Vegan & Vegetarian

    Category Moderator: Social & Fun



  • #29
    Silverbling
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 311 ✭✭Silverbling


    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=83284149 - I found a safe :)


  • #30
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ten of Swords wrote: »
    Sweet nostalgia

    I'm not gonna say that it's not funny. It's funny. It's actually gas I think. Why is it so funny though?!?


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  • #31
    GMSA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭GMSA


    Even the re reg trolls don't make an effort any more. Stick out like a sore thumb so they do. Same sh1te different name. You'd spot them a mile off.


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