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  • #2732
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Anyone that behaves like a knacker can be called a knacker. A knacker is a scumbag. Act like a scumbag, be prepared to be branded a knacker. Settled fella acting like a knacker? You’re a knacker. Travelling fella acting like a knacker? You’re a knacker. That’s what it is to me anyway. As beasty said, context.

    I accept that. And there are others who would use that word to describe someone who has an accent that they don't like. Now, I dunno about you, but I'm not entirely convinced that the people using that word in that thread are using it in the same context that you are.


  • #2733
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Hapax Legomenon wrote: »
    Yes, context matters. But in the very specific context of calling members of the Travelling community 'knackers', is it acceptable on Boards?
    As already mentioned, if there are specific examples you have a concern over, report them and leave it to the mods to look at and deal with as they see fit. Give them some time to review anything that is reported, but if after a while you feel as if something still needs dealing with, PM one of the local mods to raise your concerns

    If you are not satisfied approach a CMod and after that start a thread in Help Desk. Trying to continue discussion of such a specific issue is not appropriate in this thread


  • #2734
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,465 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Hapax Legomenon wrote: »
    Maybe one of the mods might clarify whether it's ok to use racist terms like 'knacker' on Boards nowadays, and whether we're free to adopt the language of the Nazis when talking about ethnic groups that we happen to dislike.

    It's interesting that you're invoking the Fascists, when it's you trying to shut down certain types of speech.


  • #2735
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    It's interesting that you're invoking the Fascists, when it's you trying to shut down certain types of speech.

    Tbh, I'd happily round up everyone who uses that stupid line of argument, work them to death and then toss 'em in an oven.


  • #2736
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Hapax Legomenon wrote: »
    Tbh, I'd happily round up everyone who uses that stupid line of argument, work them to death and then toss 'em in an oven.

    Ironically enough, this kind of post probably wouldn't be allowed under your preferred moderation regime :D


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  • #2737
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    Ironically enough, this kind of post probably wouldn't be allowed under your preferred moderation regime :D

    Jokes are all that would be allowed under my preferred moderation regime.


  • #2738
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    I think an environment that makes people less willing to post, is more of an issue than the rise of social media as to why traffic seems to be slowing. When you have to dissect your comments and look at them from every conceivable angle, keeping in mind how others may misconstrue them and for some reason ensuring it's not a topic you've posted on too much, or one where you may have shown to have a particular view in the past, prior to posting, why would you bother?
    Then of course, there's topics you know infrequent posters will come out of the woodwork purely to derail or shut down any discussion on, which is one area where Moderation is severely lacking IMV.


  • #2739
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    Hapax Legomenon wrote: »
    Tbh, I'd happily round up everyone who uses that stupid line of argument, work them to death and then toss 'em in an oven.

    How you fascists sleep at night I don't know ;)


  • #2740
    Odhinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,476 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    No generalised Trump thread is ridiculous tbh.


  • #2741
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,593 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Odhinn wrote: »
    No generalised Trump thread is ridiculous tbh.

    :confused:
    that's politics, there's two fora for that with active topics on it already...


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  • #2742
    Odhinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,476 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    :confused:
    that's politics, there's two fora for that with active topics on it already...

    Cafe is a disaster, Politics is entirely serious.


  • #2743
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Odhinn wrote: »
    Cafe is a disaster, Politics is entirely serious.

    And AH is at its best when it's entirely unserious.


  • #2744
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Hapax Legomenon wrote: »
    And AH is at its best when it's entirely unserious.

    That's a matter of opinion. I not inclined to agree with you. There are many serious social topics that suit AH and would not have a home in any other forum.


  • #2745
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The way I see it is After Hours evolved over time in to something like a mini boards. It's no longer made up of only funny threads and instead is a mix of those and some very serious topics. This of course will attract a different type of poster. The thing is though that I believe the serious and the frivolous can live side by side. The person who wants to debate till the cows come home can do so alongside the person who wants to blast us all with píss :p

    The trouble occurs within the threads themselves rather than the actual forum content. Some people are really bad at relating to each other and picking up on all the shades that exist within a topic. This is very evident when a lighthearted thread becomes overrun with serious posts and confrontation. It's ok to have a different opinion. It doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of things and certainly shouldn't in your own lives.

    In my view there's too much thinking about this forum and how great it was and how not so great it is. Just let it be. Let it continue to evolve some more. Keep a bit of perspective maybe.


  • #2746
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,924 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    ^ Yore ma. :)

    Not your ornery onager



  • #2747
    Kuva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 870 ✭✭✭Kuva


    Esel wrote: »
    ^ Yore ma. :)
    Hmm, reported as not sure if racist or feminist.


  • #2748
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Hapax Legomenon wrote: »
    And AH is at its best when it's entirely unserious.

    The Trump thread in Politics isn't serious. It's hysteria and the conspiracy forum smashed together.

    All they want to talk about is Stormy Daniels. There's very little about his actual presidency there.


  • #2749
    MadDog76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    Noticed that a high traffic interesting thread (the one about "junkies" in Dublin City Centre) has been deleted in it's entirety without explanation....... thought this practice was a thing of the past???


  • #2750
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,011 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    MadDog76 wrote: »
    Noticed that a high traffic interesting thread (the one about "junkies" in Dublin City Centre) has been deleted in it's entirety without explanation....... thought this was practice was a thing of the past???

    It's supposed to be but two popular threads were locked in AH too with the explanation that they aren't cheerful enough.


  • #2751
    MadDog76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    Discodog wrote: »
    It's supposed to be but two popular threads were locked in AH too with the explanation that they aren't cheerful enough.

    Seriously?

    That's just ridiculous.


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  • #2752
    Sal Butamol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭Sal Butamol


    What do you expect, literally everything about boards thst is designed to "enhance" the experience turns out to be totally counteractive.

    The moderation is crazy and a total mess.


  • #2753
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,011 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    MadDog76 wrote: »
    Seriously?

    That's just ridiculous.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057863382

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057889167

    If AH policy is to change then announce it & move the threads to the appropriate forum. Closing them kills all discussion, looks like censorship, & will make any newcomer reluctant to discuss the topics.


  • #2754
    Snake Plisken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,965 ✭✭✭✭Snake Plisken


    Discodog wrote: »
    It's supposed to be but two popular threads were locked in AH too with the explanation that they aren't cheerful enough.

    Who the hell is that Mod who closed both of those threads? Are they doing it off their own back? I suspect they are doing itas they don't like the subject matter being discussed!
    What happened to the current affairs forum that was promised for threads like those?


  • #2755
    Malayalam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭Malayalam


    Discodog wrote: »
    It's supposed to be but two popular threads were locked in AH too with the explanation that they aren't cheerful enough.

    Can't be a Debbie Downer :)

    best-debbie-downer-meme-september-2013-keep-chasing-that-invisible-penguin-debbie-downer-meme.jpg


  • #2756
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,011 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Snake Plisken wrote: »
    Who the hell is that Mod who closed both of those threads? Are they doing it off their own back? I suspect they are doing itas they don't like the subject matter being discussed!
    What happened to the current affairs forum that was promised for threads like those?

    I guess the idea died. It seems so pointless to have page after page of feedback threads, promises, assurances etc & then they are just ignored. Imagine if you were a Trans person & signed up to Boards - what would it make you think ?


  • #2757
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    The closure of the junkie thread was strange. It was a discussion about Dublin as a tourist spot. I was pro Dublin.

    If there were some posts that were out of order (like sterilise the junkies) then those individual posts should have been carded. The thread ended abruptly without explanation.


  • #2758
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,011 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    The closure of the junkie thread was strange. It was a discussion about Dublin as a tourist spot. I was pro Dublin.

    If there were some posts that were out of order (like sterilise the junkies) then those individual posts should have been carded. The thread ended abruptly without explanation.

    Maybe there should be a rule that no individual can close a thread. It has to be agreed by several Mods or a CMod


  • #2759
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    MadDog76 wrote: »
    Noticed that a high traffic interesting thread (the one about "junkies" in Dublin City Centre) has been deleted in it's entirety without explanation....... thought this practice was a thing of the past???
    That one was my fault. I deleted all trace of a particularly nasty troll. It looks like that thread was collateral damage. I'll re-instate it now


  • #2760
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    It was probably started by a serial re-reg troll, they usually get nuked once the mods figure out who they are

    Edit: above^


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  • #2761
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Here it is


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