Dulce Mango Padlock wrote: » some sickos on p.ie alright. prefer abusing each other to debating
Lemongrease wrote: » Closed permanently due to GDPR exposure is what I heard.
Thomas_IV wrote: » Have you ever been there posting? With Stringjack who runs the place since the American who once took over a couple of years ago 'resigned' and left the place after around one year being the administrator and owner of the site. I know that place as I have been posting there for a couple of years, on and off. Stringjack had the habit to dishing out bans in various periods, going from a couple of days, weeks, months and finally permanent. When being engaged with some nasty or trollish offender over there, fighting back his insults, you would have been caught with that troll and receive a ban. Other posters who exceeded their 'credit' got scotfree and continued with their way of posting. I sometimes simply quitted my registration there as I grew more and more fed up with his way of moderating and administering the place. As one can't close down ones own account there, one had to do it via some unorthodox way. The NI section is the real madhouse of p.ie with the most idiotic and provocative Unionists and Loyalists. But I won't omit that their oppenent equivalents from the Shinners faction are doing their daily trench battles with them. A running in circles day in day out year after year. So, I am not much surprised that p.ie seems to have finally gone down the toilet (some of them must have pressed the 'flush' button). I prefer the moderation on b.ie over that on p.ie which in case of the latter one was either randomly or none existent.
hatrickpatrick wrote: » Thomas_IV wrote: » Have you ever been there posting? With Stringjack who runs the place since the American who once took over a couple of years ago 'resigned' and left the place after around one year being the administrator and owner of the site. I know that place as I have been posting there for a couple of years, on and off. Stringjack had the habit to dishing out bans in various periods, going from a couple of days, weeks, months and finally permanent. When being engaged with some nasty or trollish offender over there, fighting back his insults, you would have been caught with that troll and receive a ban. Other posters who exceeded their 'credit' got scotfree and continued with their way of posting. I sometimes simply quitted my registration there as I grew more and more fed up with his way of moderating and administering the place. As one can't close down ones own account there, one had to do it via some unorthodox way. The NI section is the real madhouse of p.ie with the most idiotic and provocative Unionists and Loyalists. But I won't omit that their oppenent equivalents from the Shinners faction are doing their daily trench battles with them. A running in circles day in day out year after year. So, I am not much surprised that p.ie seems to have finally gone down the toilet (some of them must have pressed the 'flush' button). I prefer the moderation on b.ie over that on p.ie which in case of the latter one was either randomly or none existent. I wasn't aware of any of this, I generally post in the social issues and current affairs sections and I just notice that unlike here, nobody closes threads because they've arbitrarily decided that "that's enough of that", regardless of the fact that the users want to continue discussing the subject at hand. This, on the other hand, is endemic on Boards and I for one find it totally infuriating. As far as I'm concerned, threads should be allowed to continue indefinitely until they naturally peter out organically. No forum I've ever posted on operates this "time limit" on contentious subjects the way Boards does - if Boards changed this policy, that'd be about 90% of my issues with Boards moderation sorted. On thread carding, post edits and infractions are normal moderation and I have no problem with them, but closing discussions for arbitrary reasons after they've gone on for X amount of time is infuriating. For instance, in the last week we've had two major discussions shut down here - one on the ongoing gender newspeak situation and one on immigration. On Politics.ie, these discussions are just allowed to continue indefinitely until the users get tired of participating in them - and if you don't want to participate, you simply skip to the next thread. Simple.
hatrickpatrick wrote: » On Politics.ie, these discussions are just allowed to continue indefinitely until the users get tired of participating in them - and if you don't want to participate, you simply skip to the next thread. Simple.
hatrickpatrick wrote: » I wasn't aware of any of this, I generally post in the social issues and current affairs sections and I just notice that unlike here, nobody closes threads because they've arbitrarily decided that "that's enough of that", regardless of the fact that the users want to continue discussing the subject at hand. This, on the other hand, is endemic on Boards and I for one find it totally infuriating. As far as I'm concerned, threads should be allowed to continue indefinitely until they naturally peter out organically. No forum I've ever posted on operates this "time limit" on contentious subjects the way Boards does - if Boards changed this policy, that'd be about 90% of my issues with Boards moderation sorted. On thread carding, post edits and infractions are normal moderation and I have no problem with them, but closing discussions for arbitrary reasons after they've gone on for X amount of time is infuriating.
end of the road wrote: » at antigravity2. there are definitely mods on p.ie . unlike boards there is no title under their username to identify them though.
snoop_catt wrote: » was a great little site , only site where conservative views were in the majority , reddit is more PC than boards
Thomas_IV wrote: » No idea how you can say that with lots of anti-immigrant and even far-right supporters and Holocaust deniers posting there. I could tell some names but I won't as this would go too far. But I also know that there were lots of conservative views expressed as well. The FF bashing was a daily business over there whenever they liked to have it.
hatrickpatrick wrote: » I just miss the days when the internet was a proper thunderdome of argument, as opposed to two parallel internets for left and right wind views where the opposing side is tolerated so little by the side running a particular site, that you never really get a proper argument going. Politics.ie is unique in that regard, in that while it has a right wing bias (probably due to migration from other mainstream sites which have slid to the left over the years), they're happy to debate and don't tend to try to push people away when they go there with opposing views to discuss.
Harry Palmr wrote: » get it while you can.http://www.politics.ie/forum/current-affairs/265572-absolute-state-politics-ie.html that PoliticalIrish site looks appalling - ie full of nazis.
Why did you even buy an Irish Political site Monte, what are your real interests here? Would it not be better to just sell the place to someone who really has an interest in Ireland and Irish politics with a bit of know how? No idea what you paid, but I am willing to bet if you sold it you could still turn a profit. Time to hand it over to people who actually care.
Grayson wrote: » But you could say that boards has taken that place. Sured there are some extreme views that will get you banned but there's plenty of offensive stuff said.
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hatrickpatrick wrote: » Ireland has no "safe harbour" rules with regard to the internet, which is a huge, huge problem. In Ireland, if someone posts something illegal, the platform is legally responsible, not the individual user who posted it. Because of this, if I for instance libel someone on Boards, it's not me who gets sued for millions of euro, it's Boards itself. This causes a gigantic chilling effect.
