What happened to Boards.ie - genuine question

I’d have to agree with both of the above posters, frankly a certain cohort of the moderators are not up to the job, because they bring their own political leanings (mostly left to hard left leaning by todays barometer) in issuing warnings and thread bans to posters, and so effectively stifle open exchange of opinions. As a result people just stop postings as frequently, or simply leave.

I am an occasional poster and visit the site a few times a week and have received in the past what i felt were in some cases unwarranted warnings from certain moderators who then continue allow certain posters to continue to troll without taking any action and I’m certain it’s because it was a position they happened to support.

As has been previously stated I think the likes of forums like boards are in slow decline and will soon be extinct due to alternatives like Twitter etc…., but when that day comes, it will have been hastened by their actions.

100 percent on the pub obnoxious person . I had exact same thoughts when I read it earlier. Everyone knows one.

There is an air of nastiness about people online in recent years.

Maybe it's a lasting effect of the lockdowns, there was a lot of polarisation during that time, be it to do with Covid or all the other societal issues that were going on back then and haven't really been resolved since.

I'm currently engaged in a thread where I'm being asked for links and evidence. I provide them then I'm told its not good enough, screenshots of exact sentences are needed or I'm not going to be entertained, which feels like a natural progression of the trends of recent years. I've reported a heap of posts and no action seems likely to be taken, so "don't be a dick" no longer seems to apply. Be as unbearable and unreasonable as you like seems to be what's now acceptable.

It's that type of behaviour that's dragging this site down IMO, there's a group of posters who could do with a talking to because they ruin thread after thread with this crap.

The fun is definitely absent now and has been for a long time.

Ah lads tis fairly simple, the fun is gone out of it. There is no bit of craic anymore, or if there is it's fairly rare. I'm here since 2005. I don't post much, but would be on most days reading posts. The day of respectful and balanced discussion on serious topics is long gone. Now it's all, "can you post a link to back up your arguement" See, argument. It's become a debating argumentative site for a few posters who clog up every thread with left this or right that rhetoric.

I don't blame the Mods. That's a thankless job in this day and age.

Maybe we have all moved on and the fun stuff isn't what's important to us as it once was. Either way I reckon there is no saving it.

The search function is currently knacked. Maybe someone can report it to Vanilla?

Links or GTFO is nothing new, of course. The people using it now are the ‘Do your own research’ brigade and don’t believe anything anyway. There is no talking to them.

I entertained one once for a few posts to see where it went but he just constantly questioned what I posted to the point of ridicule but never countered or answered what I asked him. Obviously added to the ignore list then but it was a useful experiment to see where it went. But it no way to spend your time online, wasting it with a poster like that so people just don’t bother.

You can view users previous posts

This was going beyond links or GTFO.

Here's a taster...

I provided them a link and screenshots and still received that reply in the in the above.

Essentially it boils down to even if you follow something like the hierarchy of disagreement to the point where you refute the other person's central point, they still feel their opinion trumps provable fact.

We're in a post fact world where feelings and opinions are the pinnacle of debate and no amount of factual evidence can sway these people. This also tolerated by moderators from what I can discern, which should be anathema to anyone trying to encourage worthwhile debate.

There's a cohort of users on this platform who's sole interest in is causing arguments with a view to getting people riled up and banned from threads they don't them to be on, it usually happens when someone is making a well thought out and we'll research led point of view that disproves their woo woo beliefs.

Posts are listed under "comments" for some reason, but as far as I know we can see them on someone else's profile, no?

Nice of you to bring up the "boo hoo" incident again. For context I had shared a lot of links etc throughout the thread and was then asked to "bullet point" my arguments repeatedly even though to do so would lose a lot of the context required to understand them properly.

I wrote "boo hoo" at the end of one reply to that person and after a minute I edited the post and removed the "boo hoo".

You have raised that twice in the space of a day now.

Your primary motivation with me always seems to be to ignite some ridiculous argument that always ends with one or both of us receiving a threadban.

Yesterday I said I wasn't biting, that really pissed you off and the the usual nonsense kicked into over drive and here you are again raising the spectre once again.

It's always the same stuff with you and me Overheal but I'm just not that into you, sorry.

Go down to the very bottom.and click on comments

Nada, I can't see comments, only thread created, or comments which have gotten a reaction. I'm using the desktop site BTW.

You have a very distorted perception of my personality, and that seems to be your biggest problem in the thread that I can see: projecting and arguing personalities onto anybody you disagree with. Hand on heart, you saying anything about biting anything had no emotional weight with me.

That was me you screenshot and you’re being incredibly disingenuous.

Why not show the context?

These are just two examples of you not actually directing people via links or screenshots.

What else am I meant to say here, other than