A big announcement is imminent...

_blaaz wrote: »

Tbf your opening.a can of worms there essentially admitting mods arent required to be neutral in disputes on subject matters they mod??



Surely accusations of favouritism is the endpoint of this policy?

A mods opinion is irrelevant on the topic being discussed when actioning a post if that is what you are asking?

I appreciate the time some have put into this but the way it has been done is not going to work and it'll just go the way of the Cafe.

Like I said last year....

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

...let After Hours rest in peace I say and just rename this forum 'Current Affairs' as to continue to call it After Hours is to do so in just name only, as the ethos and spirit of the forum that once was, has long since passed.

After Hours is a Current Affairs forum, to extract current affair topics from After Hours is absurd and misses the whole point of the forum and disrespect it's history and the mods that worked hard down the years to see that it's ethos was honoured.

Just look at the old logo and see what was chosen to be repeprsaentive of AH, a guy sitting on a barstool:



...now tell me which bar it is where people shoot the breeze and talk shite, but not about current affairs?? Come on, it's laughable.

We have a Politics forum and a Humanities forum, and a whole range of other forums for discussing current affairs in serious ways, devoid of all jokes and meandering, where users must be very civil to one another and that's cool. After Hours though, was (and still should be) Boards barroom, where users can discuss and debate anything and everything, current affairs or otherwise, in a manner which would not be appropriate elsewhere on Boards (and for good reason).

There have been a string of new landlords over the last ten years or so that don't seem to get that. Who want to appease the blow in patrons that came in here and didn't like the way things were being discussed. Like going downstairs in Bruxelles and saying 'What's will all the heavy metal music?'.

After Hours was sanitized, the tail was allowed to wagbthe dog, and it didn't work, and rather than admit that and put the heavy metal music back in the jukebox, further changes are being made in an effort to make it popular again, rather than admit the changes were one of the reasons the forum started to fail.

Heavy metal music = "frank exchanges of views on serious and at-times controversial topics" of course.

So, imo, you should have just renamed AH to be 'Current Affairs IMHO' as what's the point in making it a sub forum? Why allow frank current affair discussions there, and not here? You're trying to make After Hours some feel good forum for light hearted discussions but we already have Sunshine, Lolipops and Rainbows.

You all tried to fix something that wasn't broke. Admit that, put it back the way you found it, and make After Hours great again!

MAHGA hats on sale in the foyer.

tl;dr

Get outta my pub!

Not really one of the greatest ideas... I'm just going to assume that like politics cafe everyone will make current affairs posts in AH as they've always done and eventually the mods will just get tired of moving stuff over and we'll go back to the way it was and the CA forum will just die away.

Are they making a new Soprano's season?

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

You haven't grown up any in the last year anyway - still wondering too how the blatant trolling and baiting from a supposed mod of this forum is allowed.

One rule for ye eh?

_Kaiser_ you do mean a lot to me and the other mods. You come up in conversation a lot compared to the other users.
Thanks for the feedback tough!