How much does boards mean to you?

Gazza22 · 25-08-2005 04:30PM #1

Well i have been here just over a year now and i must say Boards has definitely grown on me....i'm a big fan!

So has boards latched on to you? Maybe you might be able to capture this by imagining you have be given a permanent site ban, how much would it hurt? (i really pity Kevin)

In my newbie weeks on Boards, i wasn't very nice to ecksor once, but i am a rare survivor of an ecksor ban (and very grateful he gave me a another chance)...think i just went into rebel mode

....now at that moment in time, i was only getting into boards and ..lol... nearly had a heart attack!

If you were banned before no matter how trivial the ban was, did you miss the forum/site or did you just not care?

Then recently i flipped out at somebody here in AH and got a months ban(really not like me)...now AH is my favourite forum and tbh i really felt like a tiny piece of me was gone for that month, it drove me crazy...

So sorry for rambling on, what does boards mean to you? Newbies, Mods, everyday users, veterans...is boards a part of your life?! And i don't mean like i'd drop dead without it or anything (or would i?

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I see myself being here for the next few years, basically as long as it's still going...hopefully one day i get a mod position

Kinetic^ · 25-08-2005 04:50PM

Boards makes me look busy in work coz when people look over they see me typing so they assume i'm working.

25-08-2005 04:53PM

I would love a template that makes boards look like a word document or something.

No actually scratch that I would get even less work done.

qz · 25-08-2005 04:57PM

Boards is the first site I go onto in the morning (or in today's case, afternoon), and the last site I visit at night.

Gazza22 · 25-08-2005 05:09PM

qz wrote:

Boards is the first site I go onto in the morning (or in today's case, afternoon), and the last site I visit at night.

Man it sounds like you and boards are married!

Ah only jk, i know i'm probably like that too

As for boards at work, yeah it's a life saver!

jamiecake · 25-08-2005 05:09PM

Passes time while at work… I work for an internet company, so I is always online..

I like a place that changes hourly, unlike a chat room, this is for more topical and debatable, well, more so just dosing..

Deadwing · 25-08-2005 05:15PM

some aspects of boards have started to irritate me lately, but it can still be a great knowledgebase and a bit of a laugh

bigmouth · 25-08-2005 05:17PM

What aspects of boards are irritating you lately?

Gazza22 · 25-08-2005 05:18PM

Deadwing wrote:

some aspects of boards have started to irritate me lately

Care to elaborate? Though the good thing about boards is that that you get the mods and ocassionally the admins ears when you post a complaint

skywalker · 25-08-2005 05:20PM

gazza22 wrote:

Then recently i flipped out at somebody here in AH and got a months ban(really not like me)...now AH is my favourite forum and tbh i really felt like a tiny piece of me was gone for that month, it drove me crazy...

Can you still browse while banned?

RopeDrink · 25-08-2005 05:21PM

Been five years since I signed up, and I'm still here. I check Boards regularly, and am happy to have become the part of a great community, most of whom I have met in person and are exceptionally nice people (bar a few).

I have to say that Boards has taught me a lot, but what I'm most happy about is that it allows me to throw around topics regarding my own personal interests and hobbies, giving me the chance to teach or learn more about them.

Boards is constantly expanding it's horizons and bringing in fresh blood whom we can learn something from, or simply laugh at if they act the muppet and get flamed all the way to the Boards Prison, either way is good.

I adore going to the drinks sessions that are set up, because thats when you truly get the community feeling (The fact that most people here are willing to meet up with the rest and have some general fun and malarchy) but besides all that it's a great read, the Boards team is great, and there is a lot to be had here. I have made many friends here and, thankfully, only a few enemies so it was certainly well worth it.

Gazza22 · 25-08-2005 05:24PM

skywalker wrote:

Can you still browse while banned?

Well while you are logged on to your account no you cannot, your account is banned from AH and you cannot even view the forum unless you logout, but it doesn't matter you couldn't post and thats what counts.

Many people foolishly try and create another account so they can post in their banned forum but that results in a permanent site ban.

Deadwing · 25-08-2005 05:24PM

gazza22 wrote:

Care to elaborate? Though the good thing about boards is that that you get the mods and ocassionally the admins ears when you post a complaint

well, for one, i think its gotten very 'cliquey' with all these secret societies. Used to be there was the illuminati and the knights of comeonbanus and that was what you made do with by gum! now its gotten well out of hand. But anyway, thats just one thing tho..cant be arsed going into any other details..

By and large its a very good site to kill some time and one of my most visited over the years ive been here

Catsmokinpot · 25-08-2005 05:24PM

Keyser Soze 69 wrote:

Boards makes me look busy in work coz when people look over they see me typing so they assume i'm working.

couldnt have put it better myself

philologos · 25-08-2005 05:25PM

Boards doesnt mean too much to me but its a board i post on frequently like a few other boards. Afterdawn.com and Isohunt.com for example are other boards i post on.
I think people get too attached to boards though as if its their god given right to dictate how people even abbreviate words or use acronyms. Sometimes boards becomes a place where people rant about eachother's posting styles a lot. Sometimes I find that some other forums have a more let back attitute about how people post.

marshmallow · 25-08-2005 05:27PM

jamiecake wrote:

Passes time while at work… I work for an internet company, so I is always online..

And you've been on boards for four years with just under 150 posts?

But yeah, I like coming on boards. Once news headlines are announced someone posts it up on boards and I usually see it on boards before anywhere else! (radio, paper, tv, etc..) I haven't been here that long but I see 'relationships' forming between regular posters which is cool, it's like another group of friends you have on boards.

R0ot · 25-08-2005 05:29PM

boards means so much to me that i bitch about it going down for half an hour at 3:05 am every morning,

BOARDS IS GREAT!!!

joejoem · 25-08-2005 05:30PM

This much!

Gazza22 · 25-08-2005 05:31PM

RopeDrink wrote:

Been five years since I signed up, and I'm still here. I check Boards regularly, and am happy to have become the part of a great community, most of whom I have met in person and are exceptionally nice people (bar a few).

I have to say that Boards has taught me a lot, but what I'm most happy about is that it allows me to throw around topics regarding my own personal interests and hobbies, giving me the chance to teach or learn more about them.

Boards is constantly expanding it's horizons and bringing in fresh blood whom we can learn something from, or simply laugh at if they act the muppet and get flamed all the way to the Boards Prison, either way is good.

I adore going to the drinks sessions that are set up, because thats when you truly get the community feeling (The fact that most people here are willing to meet up with the rest and have some general fun and malarchy) but besides all that it's a great read, the Boards team is great, and there is a lot to be had here. I have made many friends here and, thankfully, only a few enemies so it was certainly well worth it.

I agree, there is a great tight knit community spirit on boards and most of the time people get along great. Thats what i like about it and the team, yeah it's great, they really deserve a pat on the back.

Lol...

Boards Prison

please don't don't mention it! I will start to have nightmares again

regi · 25-08-2005 05:34PM

I like boards

Tar.Aldarion · 25-08-2005 05:36PM

joejoem wrote:

This much!

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i like boards a fair bit,my favourite forum.I have made a good few friends here now and have met loads of people from on here and there is a few yet i would still really like to meet.
Good management team and fair play to the admins.

Gazza22 · 25-08-2005 05:38PM

marshmallow wrote:

And you've been on boards for four years with just under 150 posts?

I haven't been here that long but I see 'relationships' forming between regular posters which is cool, it's like another group of friends you have on boards.

Yeah 150 is kinda weird for that lenght of time, though im here a year and only have nearly 400. i just took it slow the first couple of months, im taking off now

Flukey · 25-08-2005 05:41PM

Boards doesn't mean much to me. There are other discussion boards that I do frequent that have more interest for me. I have friends on many of them, many from other countries, who I have met through them. There are far less posters than here so you get used to people there and to know them to a certain extent.

Tar.Aldarion · 25-08-2005 05:47PM

it is handy though that most people on here are from ireland and well you can meet them easily and stuff.i met another guy from boards yesterday and i slept on a couch of a guy on boards last night when i came up looking for accomodation.

Sarky · 25-08-2005 06:05PM

Boards is responsible for me meeting some wonderful people, often getting drunk with them at the same time. I've been able to talk about things that interest me, I've gotten to read some of the most amusing stuff I've ever seen, I've even gotten to run an RPG here.

It's pretty indispensible to me at this stage.

vector · 25-08-2005 06:28PM

Boards is an invaluable source of empirical information, for example when I started using [product name] I wanted to know [simple question] but the [company name] webpage course was tosh... but boards users had the real story

Bateman · 25-08-2005 06:31PM

Agreed, boards is top of the heap for tech stuff anyway I'd say. I've watched it grow in the past few years and it's maintained a community spirit, which is kind of non-mainstream, and for what's become such a massive site, that's good going.

arbeitsscheuer · 25-08-2005 06:38PM

I've become addicted tbh. Didn't use it so much when I first joined, or indeed when I joined under this monikor, but in the last 3 months it's taken over my life! I Can't Escape!!!!

It's too late for me, but...

YOU STILL HAVE A CHANCE, TURN OFF YOUR PC BEFORE YOU BECOME LIKE ME!!!! RUN! RUN LIKE THE WIND!

...Ahem.

Yeah, Boards is pretty cool...

Gazza22 · 25-08-2005 06:47PM

SebtheBum wrote:

Didn't use it so much when I first joined

Yeah same here...practically done nothing with my account, only opened one so i could get some information about Ripwave broadband and now...i'm addicted now too

Irishstabber · 25-08-2005 06:58PM

Boards rocks..Bunch or mostly Irish people talkin on the internet. Its amazing. IRISH using TECHNOLOGY. I'd never guessed there was so many of us

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Na but boards is cool. The help and 'craic' is unsurpassed. The advice comes free too. Boards is my home page too

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Ima even subscribe when I muster 50 squids. :cool:

grimloch · 25-08-2005 07:03PM

Ah I love the place. Countless hours of entertainment have I received over the last year and a bit. A great community.

How much does boards mean to you?

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