Name the cliques of Boards.ie

steddyeddy · 06-07-2018 01:11PM #1

Not noticed it myself but I've seen posters mention that there are cliques of posters on Boards who thank each other irregardless of content. As I say I've not seen it and certainly don't do it but I wondered has anyone else noticed it. If you could name each group how would you do it (being civil). For example there's certainly a unionist and nationalist clique on Boards.

somefeen · 06-07-2018 01:29PM

I only thank one particular users posts so senpai will notice me

ELM327 · 06-07-2018 01:32PM

As a member of the Judean People's front there's only one thing worse than the egyptians, and that's the Peoples front of Judea

Oops69 · 06-07-2018 01:33PM

The runners forum is an echo chamber , don’t dare criticize the Dublin city Marathon , all the pacers are all over that forum .

pleas advice · 06-07-2018 01:33PM

The re-reg trolls

Husker Du · 06-07-2018 01:33PM

Soccer forum ---->

06-07-2018 01:34PM

There's one group who report everyone they don't agree with politically.

ELM327 · 06-07-2018 01:34PM

Deleted User wrote: »

There's one group who report everyone they don't agree with politically.

Reported.

AlphaOmega1 · 06-07-2018 01:37PM

The Co. Clare sticky on nice lakes

steddyeddy · 06-07-2018 01:47PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

There's one group who report everyone they don't agree with politically.

Also reported

Under His Eye · 06-07-2018 01:50PM

Cyclists!

Eggs For Dinner · 06-07-2018 01:50PM

There's one group who will swarm over any poster who says anything negative about their common profession

Pugzilla · 06-07-2018 01:51PM

Feminists

ELM327 · 06-07-2018 01:52PM

Eggs For Dinner wrote: »

There's one group who will swarm over any poster who says anything negative about their common profession

Yeah those god damn librarians

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 06-07-2018 01:53PM

Mods.
Users.
Liberals.
Anti-liberals.
Cat lovers.
Sad insensity empathy-lacking losers.

That's about it.

Sky King · 06-07-2018 01:54PM

This thread is cliquebait, pure and simple.

_Dara_ · 06-07-2018 01:55PM

Nobody ever thinks they’re in a clique, OP!

5rtytry56 · 06-07-2018 01:55PM

The Drone clique in Models.

B0jangles · 06-07-2018 01:56PM

There's that infamous group 'The Mob' AKA all the posters on boards who disagree with me.

You can tell which posters are members of this group because I will endlessly accuse them of engaging in 'witch-hunts' and 'hysteria'.

Don't confuse them with 'The Silent Majority' who are all the posters I know secretly agree with me but who never post on the topic, or thank my posts.

johnpatrick81 · 06-07-2018 01:58PM

Anti pirate association 2017

#pdf

#never4get

Infernum · 06-07-2018 01:59PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

For example there's certainly a unionist and nationalist clique on Boards.

BRA and BVF?

Gloomtastic! · 06-07-2018 01:59PM

I can find out who all my favourites are using this:

https://www.boards.ie/love.php

Zebra3 · 06-07-2018 02:03PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

Not noticed it myself but I've seen posters mention that there are cliques of posters on Boards who thank each other irregardless of content. As I say I've not seen it and certainly don't do it but I wondered has anyone else noticed it. If you could name each group how would you do it (being civil). For example there's certainly a unionist and nationalist clique on Boards.

The Right.

Which is a very ironic term for them.

BBDBB · 06-07-2018 02:07PM

I'm a clique

jamesbere · 06-07-2018 02:08PM

I can clique my fingers

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 06-07-2018 02:09PM

I've never noticed Boards being particularly cliqueish. You can often see two people fighting to the death on one thread, and then thanking each other on another thread. It's happened to me as well.

Occasionally you will notice a few posters circulating like an angry Rottweiler around one poster, some just randomly popping into the thread to support the ringleader. Sock puppeting springs to mind on those occasions.

BabysCoffee · 06-07-2018 02:09PM

The LLS thread on the TV forum

Northern Monkey · 06-07-2018 02:09PM

Eggs For Dinner wrote: »

There's one group who will swarm over any poster who says anything negative about their common profession

Bee keepers?

bee06 · 06-07-2018 02:12PM

Angela Damp Somersault wrote: »

I've never noticed Boards being particularly cliqueish. You can often see two people fighting to the death on one thread, and then thanking each other on another thread. It's happened to me as well.

Occasionally you will notice a few posters circulating like an angry Rottweiler around one poster, some just randomly popping into the thread to support the ringleader. Sock puppeting springs to mind on those occasions.

I never noticed either but I don’t spend much time in the forums which seem to generate a lot of controversy or the controversial threads like the abortion discussion etc.

Yer Da sells Avon · 06-07-2018 02:16PM

There are a few posters on the Louise O'Neill thread about whom I recently made an observation... Essentially, I'm unable to distinguish between them because they all sort of 'blend into one', such is their lack of originality or humour, their identical world-view, and the total absence of any distinguishing features in their posting styles. They aren't a clique though. If they were, they wouldn't have all responded to my observation separately, but with the same kind of inane, humourless comment. They're just a bunch of people who, to me, seem very similar.

Boards isn't cliquish. If you see cliques everywhere, you're probably paranoid.

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 06-07-2018 02:26PM

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

There are a few posters on the Louise O'Neill thread about whom I recently made an observation... Essentially, I'm unable to distinguish between them because they all sort of 'blend into one', such is their lack of originality or humour, their identical world-view, and the total absence of any distinguishing features in their posting styles. They aren't a clique though. If they were, they wouldn't have all responded to my observation separately, but with the same kind of inane, humourless comment. They're just a bunch of people who, to me, seem very similar.

Boards isn't cliquish. If you see cliques everywhere, you're probably paranoid.

For me, a giveaway is when a poster who has just arrived on the forum posts in a frothing at the mouth, angry way as if they're already in the middle of an argument with the targeted poster.
They seem a bit too invested and wound up to be just joining the argument. I suppose, with most people nowadays being able to access Boards through multiple devices you are going to have posters registering under several different names.

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