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Well… what were the results of the narcissist test?

You’d just wonder how the heads running this site can be bothered trying to save it at all when you read the sh*te that the moaners are coming up with. It’s not like it’s a money making site. Nit-pickers who will neither pay nor feck off and leave it to those of us who want to be here. I don’t expect any favours for having subscribed. I’m just hoping we won’t lose something that’s v rare nowadays, i.e. a uniquely Irish forum of a lot of like-minded people. You can keep your twitter and the rest of the crazies’ infiltrated sites with their aggro and paranoia and demented agendas.

JUST SAVE BOARDS !!!!

I was going to subscribe but the full on ads for every link, every refresh put me off today. I felt like being bullied into it. I can't thank, post, make any click on the site without an ad. Whoever is responsible for this I think it's counter productive. No one likes to be forced into anything.

And all the €50 subs ad up. People saying so shouldn't be chastised. Between Laois Today (local news), Ancestry, My Heritage, Dating, VHI, an AVC, Irish Roots, Irish Newspaper Archive, GOAL etc my fortnightly Payslip gets a lot of cuts.

The timing of this is very sudden. Also do I trust it will be used properly. Everything is a bit ad hoc.

The site has good and bad memories for me. We're all trying to work out if it’s worth it for us. I often felt boards fell between 2 stools of amateurism and being a professional site with more coherent moderation. This site page flicking is going on since November 2024. That's not on. How someone didn't grab the bull by the horns and sort that is beyond me.

I'd say one thing. If you want to save boards, get rid of the new ads ASAP. As others said it's going to backfire. It feels coercive. We'll make the site unusable unless you join rationale.

I know X is **** But after scanning you might get the odd sensible post😅

Boards for me is middle aged, centrist views, middle class. Most of us seems to be in that cohort.

I haven't come upon any Phillip O'Dwyer, Lahive, Blighe, Pepper type viewpoints or threads. That's to boards' everlasting credit for me. The lack of extremes on both wings.

Message Mike, you probably have a different email address to the one you signed up with.

Invision Community by the look of it.

I held back subscribing to see how things would go. I was all in favour of it first and then shortly after the announcement there was a decision to turn CA into 4chan.

It was only when I saw that unofficially reverse over the last week I signed up for the year.

There are people who want more moderation as well as the folks who want less in CA etc.

The site is much more than that though.

• Sports forum: Excellent for reading about any sport you are interested in. Soccer, GAA, Rugby, Golf, F1 etc.
• After Hours: Can be random but has it's very good moments.
• Travel: Great to read threads and get inspired about visiting new places.
• Food: Inspired me to cook more and try new recipes.
• Athletics: Nothing to contribute but was so informational especially during the Olympics and even the last weekend Irish Championships.
• Infrastructure: Great to get updates from people who have knowledge or updates on projects. (Bus Connects, Metrolink Road projects etc.
• Renewable Energies: One of the best run forums on the site full of posters with a similar interest and always helpful.

Could list 10+ more but I am sure you get the picture. I would hate to lose the site over the whole CA moderation debate.

It seems to me that the people most vocal about moderation in CA (specifically the Immigration thread) are those on the minority viewpoint chafing that their "antics" were no longer getting other posters warned or threadbanned, but dressed up as a lack of balanced posting/victimisation.

I haven't been on much in the last few days, but if the more relaxed policy that was being implemented has now been reversed (officially or otherwise), this can only be a negative thing!

Having caught up this evening we have one serial poster who it turns out isn't even living in Ireland but posts repeated walls of texts that clearly aren't reflective of the reality on the ground, and another who has been (rightly) banned for telling people to get out of their ma's boxroom among other nonsense.

If this is the "standard" of counterargument then no wonder they're complaining/being called out on it TBH.