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is boards dying in popularity?

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  • #92
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    Artful_Badger wrote: »
    ^^

    Well if ever anyone needed a reason to avoid this place there it is. Its the internet equivalent of the back of the bus on a third year school tour.

    You're just jelly. :P


  • #93
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    He's very jelly. He will never know the unbounded love that we will experience.


  • #94
    oak5548
    Closed Accounts Posts: 226 ✭✭oak5548


    Artful_Badger wrote: »
    Try reddit.com/r/Ireland

    that place is worse than boards.ie

    Wouldnt advise going there. Tbh they're both not great places.


  • #95
    jane82
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,590 ✭✭✭jane82


    oak5548 wrote: »
    that place is worse than boards.ie

    Wouldnt advise going there. Tbh they're both not great places.

    Ah your just here to get directions out of here I see.


  • #96
    Sound of Silence
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭Sound of Silence


    jane82 wrote: »
    Ah your just here to get directions out of here I see.

    Send her to /r/Spacedicks.


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  • #97
    mbur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭mbur


    irishrepeat2 wrote: »
    why you say liveline?
    Go to the radio forum and look at the liveline megathread. It's huge. Lots of other exciting stuff going on in other radio threads. :pac::pac::pac:


  • #98
    pharmaton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    There are just a lot more areas to browse within boards than before, I always thought of AH as the lobby (like the way chatrooms used to be set up, remember them?) where people would congregate before or after attending their own particular area of interest. I haven't been as active recently because of the limits of what I can do while sitting in class but I do a lot of hovering over topics rather than reading through threads these days. (I'm half afraid my tutors will block it if they catch me) I do spend a fair bit of time reading the journal most days tho, which I figure is a safe bet insofar as what I'm allowed to browse. (and a bit of tumblr for the giggles)


  • #99
    Charlie19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,008 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    I find boards.ie is a bit of a taboo, I've only ever met about a half dozen of people that openly admit to using it.


  • #100
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Maybe I should start more threads?


  • #101
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Do that. You do that, backwardsman. And wait........................


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  • #102
    irishrepeat2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭irishrepeat2


    maguic24 wrote: »
    You're just jelly. :P

    clearly daddy issues :P


  • #103
    irishrepeat2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭irishrepeat2


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Maybe I should start more threads?

    quality not quanitity!P


  • #104
    irishrepeat2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭irishrepeat2


    Charlie19 wrote: »
    I find boards.ie is a bit of a taboo, I've only ever met about a half dozen of people that openly admit to using it.

    meh I wouldnt see like that at all but that justs me:)
    #notdownthekids...


  • #105
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    catallus wrote: »
    Do that. You do that, backwardsman. And wait........................

    That role is exclusively Teddy Tedson's! Cause he's a thread started, a twisted thread starter.....


  • #106
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    irishrepeat2 wrote: »
    clearly daddy issues :P

    :confused: Wut???


  • #107
    Eight Ball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 906 ✭✭✭Eight Ball


    Only here a few months but there seems to be a bit too much censorship of ones opinions. Maybe that has something to do with it?


  • #108
    gugleguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    more like latent derailment going on, and boardsies belittling other posters points


  • #109
    jellyboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 615 ✭✭✭jellyboy


    I reckon its planked out ….:D


  • #110
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    how much is boards worth???


  • #111
    jellyboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 615 ✭✭✭jellyboy


    kevthegaff wrote: »
    how much is boards worth???


    8.99 a sheet in woodies ..judging by the planks on here an awful lot


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  • #112
    buckfasterer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,198 ✭✭✭buckfasterer


    Too many people on here with the holier than thou approach. Mods far too scared of legalities doesn't help either.


  • #113
    gugleguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    jellyboy wrote: »
    8.99 a sheet in woodies ..judging by the planks on here an awful lot
    That's why woodies is'nt complained about in Consumer Issues or Customer rant and praise that much. Completely wooden.


  • #114
    tfitzgerald
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭tfitzgerald


    Eight Ball wrote: »
    Only here a few months but there seems to be a bit too much censorship of ones opinions. Maybe that has something to do with it?

    I have to say I agree . Some of the mods are so PC it's frightening.


  • #115
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,714 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Zascar wrote: »
    What's dying is the frequency of actual decent discussion - it's just really bad puns and stupid jokes derailing threads most of the time. Maybe we can see the statistics I'm sure it's doing just as well if not better than in the past - but proper discussion of topics and events has certainly been going downhill for a long time.

    The Politics sectiion of the forum has certainly been suffering. I think there are too many sub forums which means each section has fewer views and people miss out on topics that they're interested in.

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #116
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    irishrepeat2 wrote: »
    why you say liveline?

    One of my posts on Boards was quoted on Tuesday's programme.


  • #117
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,714 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Cianos wrote: »
    Why do you think that?

    Because the order of the discussion is completely ruined. Imagine having a debate with someone where he keeps replying to something you said 25 minutes ago or something you haven't even said yet.

    Conversation and debate is supposed to flow. People put forward positions and then defend them. With reddit style forums, it's just constant rhetoric and it's very difficult to see if someone is ignoring reasoned objections to their position.

    I've used a lot of internet forums and the vbulletin style forums are by far the easiest to use and navigate.

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #118
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,714 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    jane82 wrote: »
    Yeah people.dont understand after hours. Its not about discussion its about saying something you think is funny then returning to see if everybody else thought it was funny. Then curseing them all that they didnt find it funny because they have a vendetta against you and not your hilariously funny post. Then returning the next morning to see if any of the people found it funny at night time. Then curseing them again.
    There is a forum for everything to discuss everything in.
    This is really the section where you put a thread if you want it to get derailed I think.
    It's also a forum where people think they win when they post in a thread about holding unpopular opinions and their unpopular opinion gets the most thanks

    You can't buy that kind of amusement

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #119
    jacksie66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭jacksie66


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  • #120
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,714 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    . It will die because a new generation will see it as old and fuddy-duddy
    Good. I don't want young people coming in here with their youth and hope and baggy jeans and such and such thinking they know everything.

    They can feck off with their long hair and shania twain music, all hoofed up on goofballs.

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



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  • #121
    jacksie66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭jacksie66


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