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Name the cliques of Boards.ie

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  • 06-07-2018 1:11pm
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    steddyeddy
    Registered Users Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭


    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.


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    somefeen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭somefeen


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


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    ELM327
    Registered Users Posts: 21,473 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    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


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    Oops69
    Registered Users Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Oops69


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


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    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    The re-reg trolls


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    Husker Du
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭Husker Du


    Soccer forum ---->


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,381 ✭ [Deleted User]


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


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    ELM327
    Registered Users Posts: 21,473 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    Deleted User wrote: »
    There's one group who report everyone they don't agree with politically.
    Reported.


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    AlphaOmega1
    Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭AlphaOmega1


    The Co. Clare sticky on nice lakes


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    steddyeddy
    Registered Users Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    There's one group who report everyone they don't agree with politically.

    Also reported


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    Under His Eye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Under His Eye


    Cyclists!


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    Eggs For Dinner
    Registered Users Posts: 2,942 ✭✭✭Eggs For Dinner


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


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    Pugzilla
    Site Banned Posts: 1,765 ✭✭✭Pugzilla


    Feminists


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    ELM327
    Registered Users Posts: 21,473 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    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


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,048 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


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

    That's about it.

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



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    Sky King
    Registered Users Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    This thread is cliquebait, pure and simple.


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    _Dara_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


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


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    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    The Drone clique in Models.


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    B0jangles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,951 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    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.


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    johnpatrick81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,752 ✭✭✭johnpatrick81


    Anti pirate association 2017

    #pdf

    #never4get


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    Infernum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 249 ✭✭Infernum


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    For example there's certainly a unionist and nationalist clique on Boards.

    BRA and BVF?


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    Gloomtastic!
    Registered Users Posts: 8,336 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


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

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


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    Zebra3
    Registered Users Posts: 13,854 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    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.


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    BBDBB
    Registered Users Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    I'm a clique


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    jamesbere
    Registered Users Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    I can clique my fingers


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    c68zapdsm5i1ru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭c68zapdsm5i1ru


    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.


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    BabysCoffee
    Registered Users Posts: 4,712 ✭✭✭BabysCoffee


    The LLS thread on the TV forum


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    Northern Monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,593 ✭✭✭Northern Monkey


    Eggs For Dinner wrote: »
    There's one group who will swarm over any poster who says anything negative about their common profession

    Bee keepers?


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    bee06
    Registered Users Posts: 4,514 ✭✭✭bee06


    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.


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    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    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.


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    c68zapdsm5i1ru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭c68zapdsm5i1ru


    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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