What annoys you most about boards.ie?

What annoys me most:

(And not just on Boards.ie)

Is when after being a long time contributor to this a forum, and a Mod bans you on a whim.

My point being, there is no such thing as a valid reputation model that exists on the Internet. I've been around many of the Mega-Forums and have seen legends of the board, some of them Mods themselves, being banned by Super Mods, and the Super Mods being banned by the Admins.

Anyone thinking of trying to make a name for themselves, or otherwise climb the ranks of a forum is wasting their time.

This is the reason people setup their own blogs, etc. They simply hate having to walk on eggshells every-time they post, regardless of how many posts they have, or their 'rank' on the forum.

So my proposal is this:
Keep the members that contribute, and add to the discussion.
Be suspect of anyone who is a subtle / blatant troll.
Be suspect of anyone detracting from the conversation.

That is all.

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

Worse is when people are hidden and view your page. F**king teases.

In fairness, I do do that for perving for pictures, but I at least have the decency to go invisible so as not to freak out the pervee.

The King of Moo wrote: »

More intriguing than annoying: when someone I've never come across visits my profile (and I haven't started a thread in a long time so it can't always be put down to accidently clicking on my name instead of the thread title).

Who are you and why are you looking at me?

Admit it, this doesn't annoy you, you actually like it

kfallon wrote: »

Admit it, this doesn't annoy you, you actually like it

It depends who's looking. Sometimes it's someone I like, or else someone who's recently been posting in the same thread as me.

But sometimes I have no idea who the person is, and it genuinely confuses me. I honestly can't think of why someone who make an effort to go to my page.

The worst is the occasional time a notorious troll visits my profile, and I worry they're going to cyberterrorise me.

What I hate is watching a good poster go downhill. I've noticed a few folk recently who used to talk a bit of sense but are now coming out with the usual rabble bull****.

EdanHewittt wrote: »

What annoys me most:

(And not just on Boards.ie)

Is when after being a long time contributor to this a forum, and a Mod bans you on a whim.

My point being, there is no such thing as a valid reputation model that exists on the Internet. I've been around many of the Mega-Forums and have seen legends of the board, some of them Mods themselves, being banned by Super Mods, and the Super Mods being banned by the Admins.

Anyone thinking of trying to make a name for themselves, or otherwise climb the ranks of a forum is wasting their time.

This is the reason people setup their own blogs, etc. They simply hate having to walk on eggshells every-time they post, regardless of how many posts they have, or their 'rank' on the forum.

So my proposal is this:
Keep the members that contribute, and add to the discussion.
Be suspect of anyone who is a subtle / blatant troll.
Be suspect of anyone detracting from the conversation.

That is all.

Surely that just means that they enforce the rules, regardless of who the transgressor was?

No point in looking to get popular just so you can break the rules and get away with it, save that for real life!

akura wrote: »

I Hate it when people edit their posts

I hate editing my own posts!! I hate the look of an edited post, with the message down at the bottom of the post. Sometimes I'll notice a typo in a post well after the ninja-edit window. If I deem it unimportant I'll leave it there to avoid editing the post, but it'll eat me up a little inside.

I like boards, a lot. It's like a girl that you really like spending lots of time with, might rattle the odd time, gives you a few laughs, but you will never truly love her - yet she takes up maybe three to four hours of your day, every day, regardless if you're on holidays or at Christmas, Easter or any other celebration. If I spend a day away from boards I feel like something is missing in my life but an comforted by the fact that there will be 100+ email thread notifications on my return.

I've made a good few friends on boards, mostly on the motoring forum and have learned lots about various subjects and opened my eyes to stuff I was previously adverse too. My only complaint is that I could be far more productive in work withouth it.

The endless Religion, Atheist debate in AH.

LordSmeg wrote: »

You know what annoys me ? When the fcukin thing goes down for about 10 seconds or a page wont load when I'm trying to get in a quick witty post on a new thread.

Thinking on it I'm embarrassed as fcuk as its quite possibly the most pathetic thing an individual can do. But sure as hell next time I get a 503 or 404 or whatever the hell it is when I'm trying to get my spake in I'll be hittin the roof again.

shoddy internet service provider?
cant remember the last server error have had off here,and we are forced to stick with an absolute shyt ISP.

kingofmoo,
sometimes when clicking on threads it directly goes to the thread starters profile page-that might be the cause.

-original topic.
#used as a mocking joke am not arsed about it;but users using mentaly retarded as a descriptive insult against neurotypical users who do or say something ridiculous,which at the same time has a knock on effect slur on intelectualy and learning disabled people, its more of an insult to us than to those its aimed at;for one we probably wont be found doing the ridiciulous sht that the typicaly high functioning target does.

#sockpuppeting.
dont care about sockpuppeting in general,if its kept honest.
its when people use it to pretend to be all different personas,are full of more bull turd than a slurry tank,its worse when people invest their support,trust and friendships in these only to find out it was all a made up con.

#spelling/grammar/language nazis.
not those who only do it to people who ask for help,or those who correct in their heads, am refering to those who take it upon themselves to bitch at someone for their spelling/ grammar/language.
mine is affected by issues caused by global learning disability,classic autism,regular lifelong mild post brain injury,after seizures [have far less vocab available],night medication...using a spelling checker isnt possible in mine because of information procesing and memory difficulties.
there are a lot more medical and health reasons why people are not perfect post writers, we go through our lives being belittled for our issues and we come to places like boards to get away from real life bollox like that,we dont need people who havent got a clue about our RL making snide judgements.

The dole bashing threads really bug me sometimes.
I don't mind that people have very strong opinions one way or another but some of the comments that can be made about people on the dole can be truly stomach churning.
Its as though people on the dole don't count as human beings.

Gummy Panda wrote: »

on the flip side, some posters get better

Thanks!

:pac: