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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    It's a pity that they nuked the entire record of the Thunderdome.

    It would be nice to go back and read some of the threads between 06 and 2012.


    Pure gold. Some of the funniest material that I've ever read.


    The Degsy, Creepingdeath feud especially.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 442 ✭✭Ifevera wiztherewas


    Loved her!

    Edit: i just checked and she last posted two weeks ago asking about cat-friendly suncream <3

    Always found her sound too. Mustn't frequent the threads I do anymore.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,644 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    This is it wrote: »
    Throwaway accounts, loss of the "community" feel.

    On the other hand, maybe it isolates the quality of the post outside of the popularity or reputation of the poster.

    Maybe basic content should trump personalities and cliques on a discussion forum. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    It's a pity that they nuked the entire record of the Thunderdome.

    It would be nice to go back and read some of the threads between 06 and 2012.


    Pure gold. Some of the funniest material that I've ever read.


    The Degsy, Creepingdeath feud especially.


    OK, someones going to have to explain this to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    OK, someones going to have to explain this to me.

    Posters just insulted each other back and forth trying to be as full on and witty as possible. There was some kinda competition to it? Ha.

    To be totally honest I remember it and never seen the hype.

    It lost run of itself eventually which was always likely to happen.


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  • Posts: 7,946 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    OK, someones going to have to explain this to me.
    It's a pity that they nuked the entire record of the Thunderdome.

    It would be nice to go back and read some of the threads between 06 and 2012.


    Pure gold. Some of the funniest material that I've ever read.


    The Degsy, Creepingdeath feud especially.

    The nucking of TTD marked the end of boards innocence when those that "know best" took over. It's a shadow of its former self. Not quite parody yet, but past it's 'best by' date.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    The nucking of TTD marked the end of boards.ie's innocence, when those that "know best" took over. It's a shadow of its former self. Not quite parody yet, but past it's 'best by' date.

    Nobody is forcing you to stay.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,966 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    sullivlo wrote: »
    Nobody is forcing you to stay.

    No need for that, S. It’s Friday night after all, time to kick back for a bit.

    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be” - A. Dumbledore

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    OK, someones going to have to explain this to me.

    The Thunderdome was something of an "anything goes" forum. The original idea was for it to be used as a neutral battleground. If posters got into an argument that couldn't be sorted in-thread, they could be sent to the Thunderdome to settle their differences.

    After a while it became a place where posters competed to come up with the best/funniest/most offensive insults for each other. Pighead, for instance, "won the Internet" when his interlocutor, R-Rated, was told that his username was an anagram for a word that is no longer politically correct. ;)


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,328 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    It's a pity that they nuked the entire record of the Thunderdome.

    It would be nice to go back and read some of the threads between 06 and 2012.


    Pure gold. Some of the funniest material that I've ever read.


    The Degsy, Creepingdeath feud especially.
    I always liked Degsy I have to say. Then I met him and thought him an utter... :D actually no, I found him sound as a pound in person too. Very funny with it. Or I was off me box drunk, or both. :pac: One thing I noted about him is when crap goes down most people ignore it or freeze, some back off, he was one of the rarer types who would be at the front going what is the crap and can I deal with it.

    Dav was another like that actually. Now he would be someone who would be about the polar opposite of me in most ways and there's be little enough overlap on many opinions, but what always struck me in my dealings with him online and off and just general observation was he had a genuine human decency going on. He wasn't crawthumping for attention or popularity either like some. He just wanted things to be better in life for people. Now like I said I would have disagreed with much of how he would have reckoned that could be achieved(if at all in some cases), but being decent was his default position. Now I've found the vast majority of people are fairly decent all in, but down the years I've met few enough people with his level and attention to that and who will stand by their position, regardless. I generally tend to stand by the positions I hold because tbh I don't really give a fuck, he stands behind his because he does. His is the harder road to walk and I respect that.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,724 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    On the other hand, maybe it isolates the quality of the post outside of the popularity or reputation of the poster.

    Maybe basic content should trump personalities and cliques on a discussion forum. :)

    Never! :mad:


  • Posts: 7,946 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    sullivlo wrote: »
    Nobody is forcing you to stay.

    How do you know? :P

    It's like Methadone now. It's no longer got the same effect, but you still use it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    Under GDPR there’s a right to be forgotten, so closing accounts and deleting information is important. That said boards brought in the right to close accounts years ago. In response to GDPR it initially deleted all posts, now it’s removes the search capability for closed posters.

    But you can still search their posts through Advanced Search, just not by clicking on the username.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 ✭✭✭TuringBot47


    sullivlo wrote: »
    Nobody is forcing you to stay.

    I think that idea goes against the business model of increasing boards user count and clicks per advert.

    You may need some mod retraining.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 58,049 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    It's a pity that they nuked the entire record of the Thunderdome.

    It would be nice to go back and read some of the threads between 06 and 2012.


    Pure gold. Some of the funniest material that I've ever read.


    The Degsy, Creepingdeath feud especially.

    Nuked you say....

    Interesting as I have it in my followed forums and can still read through it at will.


  • Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Necro wrote: »
    Nuked you say....

    Interesting as I have it in my followed forums and can still read through it at will.

    Really?


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 58,049 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Really?

    Yeah I've had it followed for years (from before it closed).

    Now it's kinda stuck in the nebulis and I can't unfollow it, but can still read it!


  • Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Necro wrote: »
    Yeah I've had it followed for years (from before it closed).

    Now it's kinda stuck in the nebulis and I can't unfollow it, but can still read it!

    I'd love a read :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭Lost implants


    KeithM89 and El Weirdo.

    That is all


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 58,049 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    I'd love a read :)

    I'm not screenshotting the whole forum for ya :pac:
    It would likely get me in twouble:P


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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    I'd love a read :)

    Try this on the desktop site - https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=484

    Edit: sorry people, I forgot that they made it a "private" forum before they closed it altogether!


  • Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]



    I got the "you do not have permission to access this page" notice.

    Thanks anyway :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    I can be as gratuitously insulting as the next fucking cunt, but I found the Thunderdome a bit boring and never bothered posting there. I found it a bit cringeworthy, tbh. Skirting around the edge of the rules is always more fun than having no rules at all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Squall Leonhart


    I can be as gratuitously insulting as the next fucking cunt, but I found the Thunderdome a bit boring and never bothered posting there. I found it a bit cringeworthy, tbh. Skirting around the edge of the rules is always more fun than having no rules at all.

    You have a gift, uncensored swear words!

    Wait, I see your fucking trick now. Nice one haha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise



    I'm not getting permission to use that page.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 58,049 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    I can be as gratuitously insulting as the next fucking cunt, but I found the Thunderdome a bit boring and never bothered posting there. I found it a bit cringeworthy, tbh. Skirting around the edge of the rules is always more fun than having no rules at all.

    I agree. I guess it was all edgy and cool and you had to have been there but I don't see the allure tbh.

    It's not deserving of the regard some posters seem to hold it in anyways. Particularly in the last year or two of it's existence it just got a bit... weird and the posters more deranged imo.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    I remember accidentally posting a reply on the thunderdome, someone had pm'd me I think saying I might like it, I was reading a few other threads in other tabs while browsing through it and thinking "No thank you".

    At the time the rule was you couldn't start roasting anyone who hasn't posted there, and I accidentally posted a reply for another thread (meant for the vegetarian and vegan forum, I think it was some helpful advice about what lentils to use for something :pac:) under a post about how so-and-so goes to the National Concert Hall and sits there waiting for the young wan on the double bass to spread her legs so he could pull the lad off himself.

    Pretty panicky 30 seconds or so deleting that I tell you. Last thing I wanted was to get in on a fcuking technicality.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't there a post saying ilovesleep had passed away?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    KKkitty wrote: »
    Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't there a post saying ilovesleep had passed away?

    I thought so.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    I thought so.

    Iirc the mods locked it quite quickly.


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