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What forums do you avoid posting in, even though you have an interest in the topic?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 25,006 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Politics, though I do wish I could just ignore it totally.

    The country's ****ed and there's nothing any of us can do about it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭CrazyTalk


    Music and Film, I actually don't know why, same with Comics.
    I wouldnt bother trying to debate with people in Politics, and I just tend to read in Personal Issues, any advice I'd have would usually be posted already.


  • Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Literature - I love and adore reading books, but I just wouldn't know enough about it to partake in any sort of discussion.

    P.I - I would just feel far too depressed reading through some of the threads there, even though it might be something that affects me personally.

    Music - Listen to music a lot, but after having been in some discussions with my college friends, I found it a good idea not to try and discuss music whatsoever.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Star Wars; I love it to bits but hate discussing the damn thing.

    Soccer; I'd probably post there if I could be arsed jumping through the obligatory hoops....and I'd probably be banned 3 hours later.

    Computers & Technology: I wouldn't be as adept at giving helpful advice as some posters on there but I used to contribute....somone changed something in the drop downs and now it's just too much effort to navigate to so I don't bother.

    I couldn't give a f*ck about PI or anyone with one...more power to them.


    Those are ones I avoid (or have avoidance made for me)...plenty of others I don't visit but few that I avoid.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,779 ✭✭✭Dirk Gently


    The atheism and Christian forums. I don't post because I don't need to really. Posters such as wicknight, scofflaw, Asiaprod and a few others have far more patience than I and say much better and more diplomatically what I do be thinking.

    Although I post there, I hear what people are saying about politics. It does get very tedious but against my better judgement I do go back to post every now and again.

    Soccer is another one, apart from being stuck in work on a match night (Liverpool thread is good for running commentary) I otherwise never post there because the forum is almost as blind as politics. I may however make a few drunken posts after tomorrows match with the mancs. Soccer mods please send me a pm if I get banned tomorrow because I probably wont remember on Monday. :)

    A lot of other forums I just read but have no interest in posting on, such as fitness, martial arts, boxing, history, transport, infrastructure and astronomy. I don’t avoid posting in those forums, just don’t feel obliged to add anything to the discussions.

    A forum I feel is under used a lot is humanities. I use to post there a lot but it seems to be dead now. It's a pity, it was a much better place to discuss things as oppossed to the same threads on afterhours. They might have been a fraction of the size as their sister threads here in afterhours but they were 100 times more interesting.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    Feedback, good readin'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,141 ✭✭✭eoin5


    Christianity and Islam, my views would be met with less than charity. Same goes for Fashion and Appearance.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    PI because i used to mod it and i cant deal with seeing the same crap turn up over and over again and the same people who just get upset becuase the advice they get is not what they want to hear.
    Or the ones who only listen to what they want to hear, i.e.:

    OP: "Should I do x?"

    <next 20 posters>: "No, that would be stupid,"

    Poster 21 (who always disagrees with the majority for no reason other than they can): "I think you should do it"

    OP: "Finally someone who knows what they are talking about, thanks Poster 21, I'll do it!"


  • Posts: 8,092 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    rb_ie wrote: »
    This is wrong. Posting hands will help you improve your game and you will get replies and discussion about it, regardless of the limit or how easy/difficult the hand may be/seem.
    A lot of the really good posters there are very honest, if you played a hand sh1te they'll say so but they'll also point out why, which is something that will help you. Look at Dvdfan, he used to post micro-limit hands and it's helped him to no end to get up to 100nl+, so go for it.

    .

    100% true,
    You'll learn from posting your hands, thoughts etc. Just dont listen to Glowing Mind lol :D


  • Posts: 7,542 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    This post has been deleted.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,691 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman



    I dont post in Film anymore because of the film of the week thread.
    It makes me sad inside.


    ooh controversial!! Although as much as i like the film forum, i avoid the FOTW thread at times out of fear!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,536 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Rock/metal.
    Too much metal, not enough rock.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,392 ✭✭✭✭kaimera


    Soccer mostly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    I dont post in Film anymore because of the film of the week thread.
    It makes me sad inside.
    faceman wrote: »
    ooh controversial!! Although as much as i like the film forum, i avoid the FOTW thread at times out of fear!!

    *Boggle* :confused:

    Why?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    Fitness - because you ask one question and you get three or four different answers which are all FACT!

    I wouldn't give out about anyone on the forum though, because they are all genuinely giving advice re what worked for them. It just gets a bit annoying when you're looking for one answer and end up more confused than you were before you asked the question :(

    Oh and Thunderdome, cos its a waste of energy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    I am trying to avoid Commuting & Transport but the below thread is screaming out to me!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=54675264#post54675264


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭Orlee


    Teach na nGealt Because my Irish isn't good enough!

    ^^^^
    Agreed

    Motors - I'm afriad the boys will laugh if I ask a silly question :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    Mairt wrote: »
    Fitness, a hell of a lot of very poor advice and people's post count appear's to somehow equat to knowledge.

    Post count is everything!!! ha ha ha :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,624 ✭✭✭The Sparrow


    lezizi wrote: »
    Also the boxing forum, i posted on there once and i was basically told, your a woman you dont box what would you know, even though i love boxing and have a good knowledge of it. I didnt realise you have to play a sport to have an opinion on it.

    That doesn't surprise me one bit. There seems to be some regular posters there who discount people's opinions just because they have never boxed at any level. I got in an argument there a while a go about Joe Calzaghe and was subjected to all that nonsense about somebody's opinion being more valid because they had some sort of boxing coach certificate. I'm sure you proably have at least as much boxing knowledge as any of the "experts" in that forum.

    I post in boxing occasionally but for the most part I avoid it because of all that elitist crap.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭cance


    Orlee wrote: »
    ^^^^
    Agreed

    Motors - I'm afriad the boys will laugh if I ask a silly question :(

    similar with learning to drive, i dont like the "down the nose" tone in that forum.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Blisterman wrote: »
    Rock/metal.
    Too much metal, not enough rock.
    Same here.


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