Important News!!

There were subscribers here in the past (some still were even up to now). I was one of them. I don’t remember there being any cliquey behaviour stemming from it.

I can't access my sign up email here anymore, can I use the email now attached to my card? @Boards.ie: Mike

No, I'm saying the exact opposite. The poster I quoted wanted amnesty from being banned/modded if they signed up and posted things that upset people — they wanted preferential treatment for their sub, while also complaining repeatedly that they themselves were upset by the mods treatment of them. My point is that if they want preferential treatment for being a subscriber, then surely any other subscriber that they're talking to would have equal rights to be protected from their aggressive/abusive posting style too.

So, obviously, the rules should apply to everyone equally, sub or not. People should be responsible for their posting style, and if they post with a style they expect will upset people, then maybe either the site is not for them, or their should adjust their style.

It's really really not difficult to moderate yourself to not be abusive, if you actually want to.

Tbf, I'm leaving myself open to that after a lonw-winded post like that.

I don't think it's much to ask for a bit more information if they're asking for money. Like how realistic is it that the site can survive if we get to this number. It's all very vague.

If people are afraid Odhran & Mike are doing this to rip us all off and spend it on cocaine and hookers in Ibiza then either don't pay a sub or pay a monthly sub, I took the risk based on my wanting the site to survive. If €6 is going to hit you in the pocket then then don't give it. Sorted.

All those years ago, when I first discovered boards,we only had dial up so its USP was that as it was text based,it loaded up faster (relatively!) than other places.

You get used to this place awful quick!

Even though I haven't posted much,I have spent time here every day since

This site has helped me so much that I am glad to contribute.

I am doing this to keep the site going and do not expect anything back .

Vanilla is an issue,and I hope they fix it

To the undecided. I say give the site a chance for a year and see then.

Hopefully they get enough subs so they can do a proper change to an all singing/dancing platform.

Remember like the Homestore ad.

Once it's gone..

It's definately gone

Great post. It sums up what’s important. We can crib about Mods, Vanilla, etc. That’s for another day. I’d just hate to think that boards.ie would not be around for another generation, a relatively safe and open-minded space on the internet with a wide variety of personalities and views rather than some AI and algorithm driven commercial cesspit.

I threw in the €50 without giving it a second thought, and with no expectation that boards.tomorrow would be any different to boards.yesterday or boards.today. And as I said in a previous post and a pm to @Boards.ie: Mike if there is a way to do so I’m happy to make a larger donation. I genuinely believe that the survival of boards.ie is important.

No offense as you've clearly put some thought into the idea, but I have zero interest in voting on whether someone should stay banned or not.

I will gladly pay to support the site but I don't care about any of the "benefits" mentioned previously nor do I want to get involved in petty quarrels - I know it would be voluntary but you're essentially asking people to pay to be moderators.

Have you not heard of a non-profit organisation?

That's what Boards should always have been tbh, in accord with the community spirit it was founded in.

But somewhere along the way, it got profitable for a while, the vultures circled and Adverts got snatched away, a site which would not have existed without the Boards community. Someone made money out of that and left the hulk of boards.ie a pauper.

I own a Humax Foxsat-HDR satellite box (actually, I'm on my third, with two still active daily.) Which came out in 2009. The community support for that, even in its aged state today, is amazing. People hacked the firmware and made it do all sorts of things the manufacturer never intended, and then provided support to users in forums for years - to this day. They're still hosting websites providing help, and hosting updated firmware. They're still actively updating channel lists and such like. Not a single person has ever made a single penny out of this. It's all done for the greater good. Not everything has to be driven by profit.

Is that €50 auto-renewed?