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Beasty · 31-12-2020 11:58AM

Insect Overlord wrote: »

It might be a good idea to parachute some temporary replacements in to look after Dublin City. The local mods haven't been active in a while. One particular poster has been doing most of the damage right from the opening pages in that thread.

I'll head over there now

Beasty · 31-12-2020 12:03PM

Thread in CA re-opened. Thread in Dublin City closed. I'm going to go through the latter and could be handing out forum and site bans depending on content

ExMachina1000 · 31-12-2020 01:04PM

DubInMeath wrote: »

This isn't Alabama, the majority of Irish people don't have issues with foreigners etc, something that you might get to understand when living here.

Is that not a bit of a contradiction?

Irish people dont have issues with foreigners yet a smarmy comment about people from Alabama.
Lol

31-12-2020 02:56PM

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

Is that not a bit of a contradiction?

Irish people dont have issues with foreigners yet a smarmy comment about people from Alabama.
Lol

You might want to learn how to read.

ExMachina1000 · 31-12-2020 02:59PM

DubInMeath wrote: »

You might want to learn how to read.

Too late to edit it. Your hypocrisy is out in the open

31-12-2020 03:00PM

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

Too late to edit it. Your hypocrisy is out in the open

You also need to learn what the term hypocrisy means, don't worry sure you'll get there eventually.

Acosta · 31-12-2020 03:21PM

Such a horrible day yesterday for all involved. Both the left and right could probably do with taking a step back and taking a breath.

However the threads on this are an avalanche of racism on a scale I've not seen in my time on boards. People are revelling in it. Loads of new posters over the last 24 hours. Disgusting stuff.

31-12-2020 03:31PM

Acosta wrote: »

Such a horrible day yesterday for all involved. Both the left and right could probably do with taking a step back and taking a breath.

However the threads on this are an avalanche of racism on a scale I've not seen in my time on boards. People are revelling in it. Loads of new posters over the last 24 hours. Disgusting stuff.

Yep, I'm not inclined to say shooting was racially motivated. I do think there are legit questions over it in terms of use of force. But the glee of both brand new and posters who have been here for years is horrifying. It's that exact same type of rhetoric from the Carrigaline thread. As soon as the thread got locked, 60 pages of postings from the exact same posters sprung up in the Dublin city forum.

And I know the site likes to pretend that there's not an issue of racists or far the right on the site but there very much is. The main haunt generally being current affairs threads and a lot of it is simply left off. In terms of the topics atm, there's feck all consideration for the families and people affected by it. You can say report the posts or whatever but a lot of them are done by long time posters who seem to avoid outright bans. There is simply an acceptance it imho.

Acosta · 31-12-2020 03:39PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

It's that exact same type of rhetoric from the Carrigaline thread.

Except in this latest incident the requirement of having evidence of racism is suddenly important to them.

Beasty · 31-12-2020 03:45PM

DublinInMeath and ExMachina1000 - if you cannot post in a civil manner, do not post at all (or I will remove posting privileges)

Beasty · 31-12-2020 03:50PM

Acosta wrote: »

Such a horrible day yesterday for all involved. Both the left and right could probably do with taking a step back and taking a breath.

However the threads on this are an avalanche of racism on a scale I've not seen in my time on boards. People are revelling in it. Loads of new posters over the last 24 hours. Disgusting stuff.

I've only been through the Dublin City thread. A handful of cards handed out. 1 poster picked up a number of them. One poster was a re-reg troll, and hopefully evidence of their posting has been removed (which has resulted in a large number of additional posts quoting that user being removes)

ExMachina1000 · 31-12-2020 04:28PM

Beasty wrote: »

I've only been through the Dublin City thread. A handful of cards handed out. 1 poster picked up a number of them. One poster was a re-reg troll, and hopefully evidence of their posting has been removed (which has resulted in a large number of additional posts quoting that user being removes)

Great opportunity to let the posts all build up and then sift through them banning people as you go. Like a big net

Beasty · 31-12-2020 06:56PM

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

Great opportunity to let the posts all build up and then sift through them banning people as you go. Like a big net

It took a long time to go through that thread. But for me closing it I would have handed out threadbans, but that would have been before one or two posters had accumulated multiple cards

Yes the re-reg troll was always going to be sitebanned, but I did that after seeing a reported post last night. At that time I simply had no idea as to how much he had been stirring things (there were one or two other things taking up my time)

It would have been a lot easier if I'd got to the thread real-time

Timberrrrrrrr · 31-12-2020 08:48PM

Beasty wrote: »

It took a long time to go through that thread. But for me closing it I would have handed out threadbans, but that would have been before one or two posters had accumulated multiple cards

Yes the re-reg troll was always going to be sitebanned, but I did that after seeing a reported post last night. At that time I simply had no idea as to how much he had been stirring things (there were one or two other things taking up my time)

It would have been a lot easier if I'd got to the thread real-time

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, you can't be everywhere at once, real world rules over this place.

ExMachina1000 · 01-01-2021 12:32PM

I don't think that posts hoping that the garda who pulled the trigger has a miserable life and that he is a "murdering ****" are acceptable either

Timberrrrrrrr · 01-01-2021 12:36PM

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

I don't think that posts hoping that the garda who pulled the trigger has a miserable life and that he is a "murdering ****" are acceptable either

Obviously not acceptable, it was posted 12 minutes ago and has been reported. Give mods a chance to see the report.

ExMachina1000 · 01-01-2021 12:39PM

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Obviously not acceptable, it was posted 12 minutes ago and has been reported. Give mods a chance to see the report.

Thanks for assuming that I'm complaining
Fyi I'm not. Just pointing out I don't think its acceptable.
I dont presume that there are an army of mods on standby
I didn't mention mods, timeline or anything.

Jim

Timberrrrrrrr · 01-01-2021 12:40PM

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

Thanks for assuming that I'm complaining
Fyi I'm not. Just pointing out I don't think its acceptable.
I dont presume that there are an army of mods on standby
I didn't mention mods, timeline or anything.

Jim

So you're saying that your post was feedback?

ExMachina1000 · 01-01-2021 12:41PM

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

So you're saying that your post was feedback?

Yes.

Edit :I don't understand why you want to argue with me. I dont want to argue with you. Please leave me alone.
Thanks

Thomas

Timberrrrrrrr · 01-01-2021 12:41PM

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

Yes

OK:rolleyes:

ThewhiteJesus · 01-01-2021 12:45PM

Acosta wrote: »

Such a horrible day yesterday for all involved. Both the left and right could probably do with taking a step back and taking a breath.

However the threads on this are an avalanche of racism on a scale I've not seen in my time on boards. People are revelling in it. Loads of new posters over the last 24 hours. Disgusting stuff.

100% agree I’m a white irish male but feel disgusted by what you’re allowing in those threads it’s disgraceful. Anyone who tries to call it out gets a warning for trolling so effectively boards.ie is an enabler for online racism.

Snake Plisken · 01-01-2021 12:47PM

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

Yes.

Edit :I don't understand why you want to argue with me. I dont want to argue with you. Please leave me alone.
Thanks

Not sure why he uses that style of replies to your reasonable posts, he seems to think he is a mod or something

Discodog · 01-01-2021 12:59PM

Acosta wrote: »

Such a horrible day yesterday for all involved. Both the left and right could probably do with taking a step back and taking a breath.

However the threads on this are an avalanche of racism on a scale I've not seen in my time on boards. People are revelling in it. Loads of new posters over the last 24 hours. Disgusting stuff.

Unfortunately, for a lot of issues, CA is the last place you would go to discuss Current Affairs. It's the new Ranting & Raving forum only with a really nasty edge.

I know advertisers love footfall but increasingly they are looking to distance themselves from extreme views.

JeffKenna · 01-01-2021 01:32PM

ThewhiteJesus wrote: »

100% agree I’m a white irish male but feel disgusted by what you’re allowing in those threads it’s disgraceful. Anyone who tries to call it out gets a warning for trolling so effectively boards.ie is an enabler for online racism.

What are you on about? You're calling people bigots in the thread!

Beasty · 01-01-2021 02:17PM

Individual mod actions are not for discussion here. There are established ways for posters to challenge mod actions. Commenting about them here is entirely inappropriate

ToddDameron · 01-01-2021 03:12PM

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

So you're saying that your post was feedback?

Somebody very desperately wants to be a mod...

Timberrrrrrrr · 01-01-2021 03:25PM

ToddDameron wrote: »

Somebody very desperately wants to be a mod...

Not if they paid me all the hookers and coke in the world.

Overheal · 01-01-2021 04:52PM

Discodog wrote: »

Unfortunately, for a lot of issues, CA is the last place you would go to discuss Current Affairs. It's the new Ranting & Raving forum only with a really nasty edge.

I know advertisers love footfall but increasingly they are looking to distance themselves from extreme views.

Ranting and Raving doesn’t deserve that moniker. No race religion or politics is allowed in it.

Discodog · 01-01-2021 05:05PM

Overheal wrote: »

Ranting and Raving doesn’t deserve that moniker. No race religion or politics is allowed in it.

I apologise to those who can rant, rave & keep it civil

Sadly I don't think it's possible to discuss, potentially controversial issues, on Boards anymore.

But maybe Boards could be persuaded to offer a forum where current affairs can actually be discussed.

01-01-2021 05:16PM

Discodog wrote: »

I apologise to those who can rant, rave & keep it civil

Sadly I don't think it's possible to discuss, potentially controversial issues, on Boards anymore.

But maybe Boards could be persuaded to offer a forum where current affairs can actually be discussed.

That was sort of what brought about the existence of the current affairs forum. It's just gotten a lot worse than even the politics cafe. (And yes, I used post under a previously closed account)

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