What happened to Boards.ie - genuine question

Same as there is half the site complaining that people are making reports in the first place and the other half complaining that reports are not acted on. Shows you can’t please everyone.

We've been instructed to not engage with each other (I was told this by Beasty, he said he'd said the same to you). I don't quote you and try to avoid you as much as possible, only replying when you inevitably begin quoting me and picking a fight, usually by misrepresenting me in some way. And there's always the inevitable "Who? Me? You've got me all wrong, blah blah blah" whenever I get to this point of trying to ask you to stop interacting with me.

I don't go looking for you Overheal, you're the one keeping this crap up. Do is both a favour and stop engaging with me because I'm only ever replying to you to defend myself and I'm tired of it, it's a miserable experience dealing with you, you make this site a worse place to be.

Let's stop engaging once and for all.

With all due respect, I have as much right to defend myself from a post like that above, especially when you place such lofty blame on me, for the website's tribulations ("when you're being misrepresented there's always that need to defend yourself." - Nullzero). One post above that you're mocking another poster Flaneur OBrian as "feeling persecuted," talking down to and condescending to them, being hostile, treating them poorly; in the next here you are seemingly accusing me of persecuting you... I don't understand where you get this view when within the last week and a half we had a productive conversation about Irish religious establishment where we both mutually agreed. You claim you aren't looking for conflicts but then attempt to goad with comments like "I'm just not that into you" etc. in your posts, you talk down to others ("I spoon fed you everything you asked for and you still moaned.") but then accuse others of "keeping this crap up." When I agreed with your argument about the Irish constitution you didn't say anything about Beasty or threadbans or being instructed to not quote me, anything of the sort.

A lot of that goes back way before Vanilla to a time when the forum categories were reorganised and it made everything harder to find. The official solution at the time was to search for the forums but it never really worked. Come to think of it, that might have been the start of the decline here because it did kill off some forums by making them harder to find. The Cable and Digital TV forums are still fairly busy with the exception of Broadcasting History.

I think the Helpdesk/Feedback issue is because when you tap the "New Discussion" link on mobile, the Talk To forums (including Helpdesk and Feedback) are the first ones in the list. I suggested moving them but they probably have it that way for the last handful of companies still using Talk To.

I'll tell you what's mad, and absolutely indicative of exactly what the "higher ups" think of the userbase.

A 500+ post, 18+ page thread about the state of the website, and it hasn't been moved to a correct forum for this type of discussion, no visible input from the CA Mods or the "higher ups".

Lads, they don't give a single shiney turd what any of you (we) think, or care about addressing issues or fixing things.

This sure is a great thread for generating content and clicks though. 🤙

Given that you specifically called out a poster, why do you accuse them of doing this, but not the poster on the other side of that discussion? It takes two to tango.

And not to be speaking for the poster you are calling out here, but a lot of time the accusations of 'arguing in bad faith' are used to get someone removed from the discussion simply because people don't like that their posts are being challenged.

This is a discussion Board the whole purpose of the site is to allow for back and forth and while I'm aware that some topics involve stronger views than others, and can get more heated than others, this is reflective of real life in these areas and these are discussions that need to be had in my view.

There's crossing a line and being abusive, and should never be seen as acceptable. But the trend in moderation of these discussions of removing the individuals responsibility for particular opinions expressed is the wrong approach in my view.

Jayzuz how do you know all of this? You must spend all your time in certain threads like LGBT or Trump or Russia something. I wouldn’t know a leftie from a rightie if my life depended on it.

Me, I like the Harry and Meaghan thread- don’t think there are any right wingers or left wingers on that one but we have a hell of a time taking the pizz out of them both 😛

It’s a discussion forum. I don’t begrudge you to have a chat with as many users in one thread as you like. You’re now complaining about my posts that have *nothing to do with you* as well? Not even about the content of my posts, just that they audaciously, exist.

Notifications are annoying that’s why as soon as we switched to vanilla I manually went about shutting those all off on my end. That’s not my problem.

Just on the pub analogy.

It doesn’t work with boards anymore.

When there’s a discussion that’s either going around in circles, or in danger of exploding, there’s usually someone on the pub table that tries to change the subject to something innocuous, like did you see the new Bond or whatever. And the table as a whole can change subject and find common ground.

Quite a lot of users just seem to inhibit the same threads (nothing wrong with that, per se), but by ONLY talking culture war bollocks (and it usually is, from both sides) how can that divide be bridged? Where can common ground be found if the only things I know about a poster is that they’re transmisiacs and don’t like lefty’s?

There are a couple of right wing posters here who I enjoy reading. I obviously don’t agree with them on many points, but they’re not constantly hammering home the exact same point. The ones I enjoy reading don’t waffle on and are fairly succinct.