Site is a graveyard - How can boards save itself? [Threadbanned users in 1st post]

Slim the whole site forum structure down, way too overcomplicated. Keep archive for posterity and reference.

Contact DigitalSpy (the only other Vanilla forum I know of) and get some advice from them in particular for their mobile site - way more traffic and their mobile site actually works properly.

Stop doing ^^ (like the several examples above) for zero reason shutting down benign threads, is there a quota to be reached or what? Let threads run their course naturally.

Yes, Wokeism thread cancellation was handled pathetically and made me consider whether it was woth sticking around. I'd prefer it be open to comments if resurrected as false wokeisms and ridiculous anti-wokeisms are good to be critiqued. The permanently offended can keep away if they so choose.

On the plus side, I enjoy the tv/radio/film/bargains forums and get some good advice from some others elsewhere ranging from broadband/networks to plumbing so yes, boards is worth staying around for IF the issues outlined on this thread are even looked at and acted on from all angles. CA/politics threads - I now mainly read and thank occasionally as the continuing resident plague of ideologues/lowlevel trolls (from all 'sides') are too painful to engage with.

Also, maybe institute a site improvement roadmap and have a structured open forum for various suggestions on different aspects of improving the site for users and for promoting it/new users. I know there has been two threads since the changeover (mainly pointing out the mess) but they never had structure to them. Oh, and keep users/contributors informed if asking for suggestions and finally get rid of the overcomplication of death by PMing moderation and the general administrative overcomplication of everything!

It's not all down to just "angry people preferring to be angry". I find that very dismissive.

Many of the same issues have being brought up, again and again, by different posters, independant of each other.

We can't all be wrong.

Fair enough, I can see I'm wasting my time here.

I must say, that attitude doesn't exactly inspire my confidence that anything will ever really change.

Has to be said, there are lots of sycophants on this thread as well, not just negative or angry people who want to bash mods.

I have received invaluable information on numerous threads here and hope I have given some back to others and have about 30 odd threads I have bookmarked which are fairly active from food/renewable energy/bargains/motors/diy and so on and try to contribute as best I can. I think in my latest reincarnation here I received a couple of warnings and maybe a couple of thread bans which I got removed via PM with mods.

It's not the worst of sites but needs a hell of a lot of work to be done from everyone from members and the powers that be to keep it flowing without a lot of the bitching that goes on. I hope it survives for a long time to go. That's my positive of the site.

Indeed, this is a public forum ,in a Republic which free speech is written in the constitution ,yet some here won't even let you talk about a case ,that is not in the Republics Jurisdiction, why ,technically its a different country, England has no problem talking about it or Ireland to that matter, so what's the problem, its either a discussion site or not .

Just to follow up ,if we can't discuss court cases in other countries ya may as well delete all the donald trump thread's.

A good time to do that would probably have been when Boards moved to this new platform. It still tries to be a platform for everything on the internet, but there are way too many categories and sub-subforums.

Some of the posts in this thread remind me of a scene in Tom Clancy's Book, Red Store Rising.

First Lieutenant Michael Edwards: Let's have an attitude check!
Tower crew: I hate this **** place!
Edawrds: Let's have a positive attitude check!
Tower crew: I'm positive I hate this **** place!
Edwards: Let's have a negative attitude check!
Tower crew: I don't like this **** place!
Edwards: Let's have a short attitude check!
Tower crew: Fuckit!

If following has been said before apologies.

Would changing thread titles to make them more Google search friendly help traffic?

In the (inferior brand of 😃) Rugby forum, you have popular and busy threads dedicated to the Provinces. As an example Munster's thread is called:
Munster Team Talk Thread - Snymans are(n't) Forever

Would that get more eyes from the almighty Google if it included keywords like Rugby, News, Discussion in the thread title?

Munster Rugby Team Talk, News and Discussion thread - Witty bit at the end.

I've no idea, but I'd be interested to know if this kind of thing makes any difference at all, or is it as I suspect, pissing in the wind.

As a suggestion for what boards can do, bring Soccer and Ranting and Raving out of Groups, allow anyone to post and put it with the rest of the forums.

I wouldn't worry. It's the same handful complaining about Mods again. It's not representative.

Why do I still use boards?

Well, a lot of it is habit. Being here for years - but aside from just habit I still enjoy a lot of it.

I like how it's a big catch all forum with an Irish slant. You can find conversations about a wide variety of subjects. There's some great knowledge and great posters still on here. I use Reddit - or, more accurately,I look at it - but I just find the conversations more natural on here. I like how many good threads and forums have been going for years. A lot of good posters and knowledge are no longer here - but there's still many good posters and threads etc to be found.

I tend to avoid CA in the main I think posting in there is largely a waste of time. I think if you spend the majority of your time there you'll probably have a very different impression of the site than people who never go near it.

You yourself admitted that there is nothing positive about the forum. That you're here out of bad habit.

For the record, while I did say I was here out of habit - I never said there was "nothing positive" about the forum.

However, after being told (by an Admin) on thread that I contribute nothing to the site, I am done here.

I'm out.