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Where have all the old boardsies gone?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,966 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    K-9 wrote: »
    I don't know what it is with grammar nazis.
    I think it's part & parcel of the problem, tbh.
    Not having a pop at you Pace2008, I don't mean to single out your post. I know you didn't mean anything by it, and you were quick to apologies! :o

    Time was you didn't have to be too concerned about someone making a snide comment, or an aggressive retort. Sure it happened, but it wasn't the de-facto norm it appears to have become.

    IMHO, it's become more hostile here. It's certainly discouraged me from posting at times, and there are whole forums I don't post in any more because I genuinely don't feel welcome. Usedn't feel like that before. The cliques still exist, they're just different cliques.

    That said, clearly that's just my personal take - if it was hostile, or unwelcoming it wouldn't be growing, now would it? Well then; shut up Zulu you clown. :(


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Augustus Many Crossbones


    K-9 wrote: »
    You don't get the same fanaticism about maths! :D

    It's pretty fashionable at the moment to declare that you're useless at maths, tbh


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Zulu wrote: »
    Time was you didn't have to be too concerned about someone making a snide comment, or an aggressive retort. Sure it happened, but it wasn't the de-facto norm it appears to have become.
    I dunno Z I don't see it that much. Or don't think it has ramped up. Maybe there's more of a general downer vibe because of the economy? More cynicism perhaps? It seems fairly slight overall, to me anyway.
    The cliques still exist, they're just different cliques.
    It's the nature of any community though and in fairness(IMHO), given the size of the place that stuff is a lot less than would be the case in a similar sized "real life" community. But yep there are cliques, but they have a fairly rapid turnover for the most part.
    That said, clearly that's just my personal take - if it was hostile, or unwelcoming it wouldn't be growing, now would it? Well then; shut up Zulu you clown. :(
    I dunno, youtube can be downright vicious on it's "forums"/comment section and there are a lot of forums out there that are more than hostile and very popular. Boards is unusually well policed on that score IME.

    Maybe you could look at it like the evolution of a city. It starts off like a village where it's more personal in both good and bad ways. In villages, drama is loud, memories are long and cliques can be impenetrable, though there can be a bigger veneer of politeness and it tends to be more easygoing in other ways. Then it grows through the town stage and then the city. The city can make people more brusque, more "wtf", less patient, but it also gives people more neighbourhoods to hang out in to avoid that brusqueness of main street if they so choose. Cliques where they exist are largely localised and don't affect the city overall*. I'd see the boards of today more like the city, rather than the town I joined, which was a different animal again to the village of those who joined in the late 90's early naughties.





    *even in the administration layer of the "city". IMHO there are far fewer cliques in the mod layer than before. Even before it really wasn't the one voice clique many seemed to think, but it's lesser again these days.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,966 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    I wasn't comparing to other sights, just reflecting on the past decade. ...oh my god, I'm here nearly a decade. W.T.F.

    ...actually, thank you Wibbs! You've given me an epiphany. Thank you very much.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    Wibbs wrote: »
    I dunno Z I don't see it that much. Or don't think it has ramped up. Maybe there's more of a general downer vibe because of the economy? More cynicism perhaps? It seems fairly slight overall, to me anyway.
    It's the nature of any community though and in fairness(IMHO), given the size of the place that stuff is a lot less than would be the case in a similar sized "real life" community. But yep there are cliques, but they have a fairly rapid turnover for the most part.


    I dunno, youtube can be downright vicious on it's "forums"/comment section and there are a lot of forums out there that are more than hostile and very popular. Boards is unusually well policed on that score IME.

    Maybe you could look at it like the evolution of a city. It starts off like a village where it's more personal in both good and bad ways. In villages, drama is loud, memories are long and cliques can be impenetrable, though there can be a bigger veneer of politeness and it tends to be more easygoing in other ways. Then it grows through the town stage and then the city. The city can make people more brusque, more "wtf", less patient, but it also gives people more neighbourhoods to hang out in to avoid that brusqueness of main street if they so choose. Cliques where they exist are largely localised and don't affect the city overall*. I'd see the boards of today more like the city, rather than the town I joined, which was a different animal again to the village of those who joined in the late 90's early naughties.





    *even in the administration layer of the "city". IMHO there are far fewer cliques in the mod layer than before. Even before it really wasn't the one voice clique many seemed to think, but it's lesser again these days.

    I don't think boards is agressive or hostile compared to the rest of the web. Youtube is an awful hate-filled horror show. Posters on the rugby forum regularly complain of other posters bias but it's nowhere near as bad as places like planet-rugby. I'm still not brave enough to post on 4chan.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Zulu wrote: »
    ...actually, thank you Wibbs! You've given me an epiphany. Thank you very much.
    *lays back on bed, lights fag, enjoys the afterglow* :D

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,966 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    ...and you know what: you should be proud!


  • Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    I wish they'd clean up the place .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Zulu wrote: »
    I think it's part & parcel of the problem, tbh.
    Not having a pop at you Pace2008, I don't mean to single out your post. I know you didn't mean anything by it, and you were quick to apologies! :o

    Time was you didn't have to be too concerned about someone making a snide comment, or an aggressive retort. Sure it happened, but it wasn't the de-facto norm it appears to have become.

    IMHO, it's become more hostile here. It's certainly discouraged me from posting at times, and there are whole forums I don't post in any more because I genuinely don't feel welcome. Usedn't feel like that before. The cliques still exist, they're just different cliques.

    That said, clearly that's just my personal take - if it was hostile, or unwelcoming it wouldn't be growing, now would it? Well then; shut up Zulu you clown. :(

    I don't think politics or AH has any more snideness than it had a few years ago and I can remember threads in 07 that had plenty of it. Aggressiveness maybe, with the recession and politics atm, but I think mods are more aware of it and will act if it's a repeated issue. We have to with the increasing numbers.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Doc wrote: »
    Not as angry as the little mad face looks ;) so don’t go disappearing again. It’s just spelling Nazi’s piss me off as they seldom contribute anything to discussions other then telling someone they spelt a word wrong. It really doesn’t help anyone in any way.
    A-1 . Like somebody in this thread who did nothing but pick up on everybodys spelling errors , like she was some bastion of grammer perfection and who's main contribution every day was to make people feel uncomfortable when posting .


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    who here remembers angel whore?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    Getting sick of all the "what would you do if you won the lotto" threads


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,194 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    Links234 wrote: »
    who here remembers angel whore?

    Most would, though maybe more as Karl Hungus.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Links234 wrote: »
    who here remembers angel whore?

    Most would, though maybe more as Karl Hungus.

    I don't remember seeing a username called Angel Whore but I do remember Karl Hungus


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,198 ✭✭✭CardBordWindow


    I don't remember seeing a username called Angel Whore but I do remember Karl Hungus
    Karl Hungus was in that porno Logjammin', right?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Gazza22


    ...because we don't take kindly to change around here *points stick at all the newbs*

    It doesn't seem the same anymore as a few posters have already mentioned above however I still lurk from time to time and I think the team have done a fantastic job in developing boards!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭Unknown Soldier


    Sleepy wrote: »
    Hadn't realised monkeyfudge had stopped posting... surprised to see the man behind the original boardscasts stepping back from the site.
    .

    Lets not mention the war. It was terrible what happened to monkeyfudge tbh. But that in itself is part and parcel of the evolution of boards.ie

    Back when it started off as a little gamers hippy commune on the internet, when the internet was akin to the wild west of old. It was anything, more or less, goes.

    Then a few non hippy gamers joined that commune and fitted in but were not really into the whole tree hugging aspect. Cause a few issues but it was still the wild west.

    After awhile more people came and it soon became a village on the internet with little streets and houses. Most people still knew their neighbours and life went on but there were some new people who came with their newfangled ways and upset the old residents but being the internet still being the wild west it still all worked out. People suggested expanding the village a bit with some new streets and estates and there was resistance but it happened.

    Eventually it became a town... a society developed. The wild west aspect of the internet was being eradicated by more and more people joining. And so the same was happening on boards. Being a town you didn't always know everyone. Some older residents missed their free lovin hippy ways. They would still says "lol Internet, serious business" when serious stuff happened. They thought it was funny. They never saw the irony that was coming.

    Fast forward and you now have a metropolis. You could spend your life in one tenth of it and never know 90% of the people in the other areas.

    A lot of the old members are still around. Just you don't see the areas they post in. A lot of them are now in their mid to late 30's with families and stuff and only briefly visit. Some have ditched their old accounts and now have new ones. Some just have changed their names like The Sweeper.

    A few have passed on :( RIP logic_away

    I missed Shinji.



    Internet. Serious Business.


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