Why do you frequent boards?

Doyler92 · 09-01-2010 3:34pm #1

I'm interested to find out why boards members keep coming back to boards?

Would it be the sheer enjoyment you get in AH...?
Would it be to post on a more serious note?
Would it be because there is absolutely nothing else to do in work and extremely bored?

I find I keep coming back for the first 2...

But what do y'all think?

Pushtrak · 09-01-2010 3:42pm

Some good ol' topics here. So, in short, for the lulz.

Standard Toaster · 09-01-2010 3:44pm

For the ladies.

helimachoptor · 09-01-2010 3:46pm

Its where all the cool people are

Buford T Justice · 09-01-2010 3:51pm

All of the above

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 09-01-2010 3:53pm

Humour, debate, porn and to remind myself that there are stupider people out there than me

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InkSlinger67 · 09-01-2010 3:56pm

Community service

cloneslad · 09-01-2010 3:56pm

I tend to think of myself as a one man wolfpack. But when my friend visited boards on my laptop I knew it was one of my own. And my wolfpack, it grew by one athletics forum. So there were two of us in the wolfpack. I was alone first in the pack and then the athletics forum joined in later.

And 2 months ago, when some poster in athletics introduced me to you guys in AH and also the ranting and raving thread I thought, wait a second, could it be? And now I know for sure that I just added two more threads to my wolfpack. Four of us wolves, running around the desert together in Las Vegas looking for strippers and cocaine. So tonight, I make a toast..............To boards.ie!!!

Ickle Magoo · 09-01-2010 4:05pm

Depends what mood I'm in.

Sometimes I avoid the serious topics, other times I look for them; same with the silly stuff. You can be having a serious debate with a poster on one thread and thinking "what an idiot" & laughing at a funny, clever post by said same poster on another a minute later. What I like about boards is you get it all under one roof, so to speak - and with pretty much all tastes catered for, it doesn't get all boring and samey. :cool:

hooradiation · 09-01-2010 4:08pm

Clearly because i am a masochist.

brummytom · 09-01-2010 4:13pm

I don't have a life

Fighting Irish · 09-01-2010 4:17pm

Because it's the only decent irish message board, if it wasn't irish i probably wouldn't be here much at all

Sephiroth_dude · 09-01-2010 4:19pm

brummytom wrote: »

I don't have a life

I have no life either.

CrazyRabbit · 09-01-2010 5:52pm

I'm stalking several AH Mods.

Busi_Girl08 · 09-01-2010 5:58pm

'Cos I'm an idiot OK?! Ya happy?!

Luno · 09-01-2010 6:09pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Im have no life either.

No life here either or else as someone else said the "lul'z"

Faithless · 09-01-2010 6:27pm

...only when the chonz is down.

Captain_Generic · 09-01-2010 6:30pm

Other sites are hard to use crying in the fetal position

Hank_Jones · 09-01-2010 6:32pm

It's good for my self-esteem.

Bonavox · 09-01-2010 6:44pm

I visit Boards for the gay thread. Like this one

mardybumbum · 09-01-2010 6:47pm

In no particular order,

1. After Hours
2. Health Science and Education
3. TCD
4. Atheism & Agnosticism
5. Christianity

Doyler92 · 09-01-2010 6:47pm

Bono Vox wrote: »

I visit Boards for the gay thread. Like this one

Why post something like this?

sky88 · 09-01-2010 6:50pm

out of boredom really

sunnyside · 09-01-2010 6:51pm

It's really informative. As well as all the pointless but lots of fun AH threads this place is always completely up to date with news stories.

There's always someone who will help. I've never visited the DIY forum before but this week I needed help/advice about my not-working shower. The plumber who replied to me there was so helpful, did everything he could to advise. Same when I frequented the learning to drive forum. I can't help with DIY problems but I do reply in PI, fashion and appearance, other random places so hopefully I've helped somebody in return.

There's a forum here for everything be it dogs or weddings. Chatting about it here with others who are equally interested means you don't have to bore family and friends.

I check bargain alerts almost every day too.

Spending an hour on here distracts me from whatever today's problem is so it's relaxing in that sense.

Those would be my reasons for being here but then there's that "someone was wrong on the internet" line which is probably what keeps loads of us on here for much longer than intended.