The "state" of After Hours

Yeah I think the general state of AH has fallen a bit. There are still interesting conversations on it, but too many of them just fall into complete nonsense.

Just looking at this now, and this had the potential for a good thread (and I think the Op was looking for, at the least, semi-serious replies), but was pretty much killed straight away.

Kiera wrote: »

I blame Snyper and Degsy for the AH downfall! Oh and Bono.

Banned for blasphemy.

jmccrohan wrote: »

Every thread seems to come back to the cliques.
This isn't an after hours only problem, but it is certainly more obvious here than in other forums.

Nothing to do with jealousy because I'm not part of your sekrit club, but ye guys have your private forums. Would it not be an idea to keep clique posts in there and not have them spilling into other places such as AH?

My 2c

There are some cliques, but you don't have to belong to them to enjoy the place.
I'm a member of two private forums; The mod forum and Slydice.
The latter is accessible to anyone who asks for access and the former just involves threads about troll spotting.
I don't belong to any cliques, nor do I want to. This doesn't lessen my enjoyment of boards though.

randylonghorn wrote: »

In fairness, Tazdedub, that tag was appended to AH in the very early days when there were far fewer specialist forums, and it therefore legitimately covered a much broader range of topics.

Even DeV. said in Feedback during the last year that it had been a less than inspired wording even then, and had become less accurate over the years.

That said, it isn't entirely inaccurate either, and well ... realistically ... what wording would accurately sum up AH?!

Time-killer. I hyphenated it, so it's just one word.

snyper wrote: »

I think boards.ie has enough foura as it stands, that being said, how about a sub forum of AH called the 'bin' or 'the sand box' for example where the 'not so fancied' or a little juvanile or 4chanesq threads could be shifted off the main page keeping the mainstream AH a little less daft?

To hell with 4chan.
If you want 4chan-esque threads, then go to 4chan.
It was all fine until those fúcktards decided to declare a short lived war against Scientology and drew attention to themselves, thus gaining more member who were also members here who then thought they were all comedians.


Edit: The default setting for thread display on AH is for the last ten days.
Two years ago the average amount of pages was nine. It is currently fifteen and growing.
Note that the stickies also only appear on the first page now instead of every page.
We must be doing something right.

randylonghorn wrote: »

If "poo" gets banned from AH, does that mean Ikky has to go too?! :pac:

Banning poo? You gotta be kidding!! I'll just change my name to Winnie D.

Kiera wrote: »

You cant ban me because Bono's an annoying midget!

I'm writing a letter to the man about you!

Excommunicated.

One other thing.
The lolomgroxxor element is making a return.
I'm going to start banning people for this crp.

Take it to visitor profile messages, PM, IRC, MSN or whatever.