What do you hate/like about boards.ie?

Tha Gopher wrote:

Your retarded

Irony?

Cy Kotic wrote:

4. Anybody in an mod/admin position who makes veiled threats
about tracing posters ip addresses and interacting with them in
a physical way.

If you're referring to what DeVore said, I highly doubt he meant he was going to trace a user with the intent of a attacking them physically.

Now for the sake of contributing;

What I like about boards:

- The huge number of people on boards makes for vastly differing opinions, and its nice to come on and read some of them (once they're well constructed arguments)

- The range of topics and information available. Anything you're looking for information on you'll generally find, or if you've a question you can ask and receive quality informative responses to it.
Also, there's lots of great advice available. PI for example is packed with good advice and I'd imagine over the course of time that forum has helped an awful lot of people.

- The heirarchy of control. The vast exapanse of the structured control system (mods -> cmods ->smods -> admins ) keeps the place in good order and given the size of the site, the place would be chaotic without it. Also means that if you've a problem with someone, there'll always be a superior to take it up with should a conflict not get resolved by the two involved. Except for Admins, if you've a problem with them then you should know where to go.

-The banter and humour.

- The range of characters and personalities on boards. Keeps things interesting.That includes Pighead, I don't see why people are giving out about him.

- The sense of community and the fact its a local site (though we've many welcome users from abroad also).

- Its a great way to kill time.

- The people. Though I never came here with the intention of meeting people really, boards has introduced me to some great ones and one in particular whos become a substantial part of my life. Theres loads of cool people around who are more than willing to help/offer their advice on a subject or have a bit of banter when there's nothing else to do (or when they're working!you bums!)

- Theres a welcoming atmosphere for newer users. I've checked out a load of fora and there tends to be a lot of perceived superiority by users with higher postcounts towards those with relatively few and the opinions of newer users aren't taken seriously. I haven't seen this on boards.

Thats just a few off the top of my head.
Then theres

What I dislike about boards:

- Whingers. Theres some people out there who are never satisfied and constantly seem like they want to tell the whole world about it.

- Idiots. With there being so many people on this site, theres bound to be a few of them but some of them p1ss me off on a continual basis. Its usually the ones who are dumb and ignorant that get to me though. For example those that ask ridiculous questions in serious-toned threads such as "who would win in a fight, a sumo wrestler or someone suffering from anorexia" in a thread regarding weight/weight issues etc.

- txtspk. Theres a full keyboard sitting infront of them and no limit to how much they may enter in a message,but theres still some who are compelled to write sh1te like "i wz gn 2 d prk d othr day n i lukd up in2 d sky n saw a brd!!!" and then try to justify it with "well you can read it can't you so I don't see the problem" or "I'll write how I want thanks". Ignorant b*stards.

- The PC Brigade. Theres a few of them in the brigade, and though they don't bother me when it comes to a lot of topics, anything un-pc and they're jumping down users throats and slurring accusations of racism/ageism etc. The bandwagon effect applies here 'cause as soon as one of them starts up, a load more usually do.

- Spammers. Its annoying that companies feel they can try and use this local community forum as an advertising place.

- BoardTracker. I won't get into it but I don't like that thing at all at all.

- The strictness of the personal abuse rule. I mean, the line is drawn pretty low at what can and can't be said out of The Thunderdome. Someone got banned for calling another user a muppet (and rightly so as far as I'm concerned given what the user had said to be called a muppet) recently which I thought was absolutely OTT.

- The overuse of smilies.

- People who register duplicate accounts after being sitebanned.

I'm sure theres more..if there's anything else I'll add to it.

dr.bollocko wrote:

Likes-
There is something innately great about tying so many different minds together based on opinion.
The fact that whether we are kids of the 70's, 80's or 90's we all seem to be united by a connection to Irish society.
There are some laugh out loud frigging hilarious one-liners knocking about that frequently leave me laughing out my nose at work for trying to hold it in. Also when someone has a problem there is a pool of experience to call on, like with technical problems, personal issues, anything like that. There is always someone willing to go the extra mile to help someone out.
It is an interesting social mirror, relationships burgeon here that would not in reality, and what we have lost in communicating with each other whilst walking down the street, we can now replace it with online BBS's like this one, with like-minded people and those who think you're crazy alike. Based on about 15 replies to a current affairs thread, you can generally figure out the mood of the country.
Dislikes:

See?It wasn't that hard to post something that actually contributed.