All the Thankers left boards!

iamstop · 14-12-2021 6:38pm #1

This place seems a lot less 'Thank'ful than before the meltdown of 0-Twenty. Not just AH, but other forums too. All the Thankers left or wha?

Gregor Samsa · 14-12-2021 6:44pm

I'm not saying it's you, but I'll just drop this here...

14-12-2021 8:05pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118321627#Comment_118321627

Over what time period? Your thx to post ratio is awful.Maybe the fine art of thankswhoring is being lost, kinda like traditional crafts

Nekarsulm · 14-12-2021 8:13pm

I mainly read/post in the farming forum, and I'd say 80% of all the regular users whose name cropped up there daily, are gone.

Weeks down, and a clunky interface just broke them off the habit, I guess.

Dempo1 · 14-12-2021 8:14pm

Thank you , hope this helps 😁

Tom Mann Centuria · 14-12-2021 8:14pm

I still thank posts that I agree with or find useful, just good manners, but I've also been here far too long.

Gregor Samsa · 14-12-2021 8:22pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118321973#Comment_118321973

Thanks count got reset at the system migration during the summer.

My facetious point isn’t about me, though. It’s that despite all the complaints about the switch, the death of boards, etc., it’s actually still going on just as before. We’ve adapted already.

14-12-2021 8:36pm

God be good to the days where an opening post would get a few hundred 'thanks'.

I think OPs have definitely felt the wrath of the site migration most.

My own PB was 190-ish thanks.

Gregor Samsa · 14-12-2021 8:54pm

Thanks count was definitely down when the migration first happened and it was a “Like” button. We as a community definitely did not want that.

14-12-2021 9:11pm

Boards in general is ramping up a bit again. People never like change, and there was a considerable loss of functionality which annoyed people greatly. Generally cranky people wouldn’t be inclined to be thanking much.

14-12-2021 9:17pm

Things have definitely changed around here, less people posting. Also there was a time on boards where calling people names got a warning or ban. People stuck to the point but didn’t resort to name calling. That seems to have changed too.

Fandymo · 14-12-2021 9:19pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118322050#Comment_118322050

The place is dead compared to what it was before.

Gregor Samsa · 14-12-2021 9:22pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118322258#Comment_118322258

Yet there’s 700 odd posts arguing back and forth about Santa kissing a man in a Scandinavian ad. Classic Boards!

In fairness, I’m not saying there isn’t problems with the site, and it certainly is quieter. But it’s not the wasteland that (ironically) many people claim it is.

14-12-2021 9:24pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118322267#Comment_118322267

The last 600 are the same 5 or 6 people going back and forth repeating the same points.

Fandymo · 14-12-2021 9:36pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118322267#Comment_118322267

700 posts, between how many posters??

Gregor Samsa · 14-12-2021 9:46pm

I don’t know (nor do you) but the structure of the thread looks exactly like any similar thread pre-platform change. I took a quick look through some random pages, and saw plenty of variety of posters - there’s some repeat posters, but many unique ones. Boards always had that mix. Nothing about it stands out to me. Like I said, classic Boards - a prolonged discussion about a trivial subject.

14-12-2021 9:50pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118322247#Comment_118322247

An awful lot of mods were lost. I believe it has been not very mod-friendly and very hard to find your assigned relevant reported posts. Previously the filters worked well.

CGI_Livia_Soprano · 14-12-2021 9:53pm

A big reason why boards is slowly dying is because absolutely nobody aged under 25 posts on it, unless they were 12 when they joined.

It’s also pretty much turned into a right wing echo chamber for Middle Aged grumps who think society peaked in 2005 and any social progress since then is “too far.”

The quality of the debate and moderation is absolutely shocking as well. The magic words to end any discussion are “you don’t really believe that” or “of course you already know that,” followed by a smug recline to the back of their gaming chairs, doughy arms folded over their flabby protruding stomachs. If you don’t have the courage of your own convictions, then obviously nobody else does. You can’t be the only coward.

Forthright posters with sincere beliefs are threatened with bans for being “uncivil” or “trolling.” On the flip side: homophobic or racist dog whistlers are allowed to post with impunity, because they’re regulars. One poster literally posts regularly about grooming teenagers and nobody bats an eyelid. Unless you point it out and you get a ban.

The gay Santa thread is hilarious in particular. Homophobes start a homophobic discussion and cry like babies when people call them homophobes. That’s what this site is like. Middle Aged crying crybabies. Boohoo 👶

14-12-2021 9:54pm

I had to re-sign up to Boards due to a glitch, have about 2500 posts in 3 months, and 2.9K thanks. That’s more thanks than posts, so going on that I wouldn’t imagine my own “thank rate” is down, although I can’t honestly recall what it was before.

Still stihl waters 3 · 14-12-2021 9:59pm

I knew what was worth reading at the end of the day by checking the most thanks posts of the day, it's one of the things I miss about the old boards

15-12-2021 1:11am

Any thread on race, feminism, homophobia, immigration, transgenderism etc could write itself these days. Very predictable.

Trigger Happy · 15-12-2021 10:29am

I dont think anyone could argue that this place is as good as it was.

The quality of the site has gone down since the re-platforming. This drove away many of the better quality posters. And so the quality of content has gone down.

And yet here I am...