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  • #92
    py2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,845 ✭✭✭py2006


    I don't' even know what PUA is? :confused::(


  • #93
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,454 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    py2006 wrote: »
    I don't' even know what PUA is? :confused::(
    :D Pick Up Artist
    Have a read of The Game and you will get the idea


  • #94
    Seriously?
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭Seriously?


    py2006 wrote: »
    I don't' even know what PUA is? :confused::(
    PUA, Packet Uplink Assignment used in GPRS.


  • #95
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,518 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    The Mustard wrote: »
    You can get the ball rolling on that if you want. There'll have to be a mod warning etc.

    Thanks. I didn't want to receive another an infraction.
    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    :D Pick Up Artist
    Have a read of The Game and you will get the idea

    Don't. It's awful. I got just over 20% of the way in and it became incredibly repetitive.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #96
    Yorker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 164 ✭✭Yorker


    D'Agger wrote: »
    It says more about the mantra of boards.ie as a website - not Dav as an individual.
    boards.ie seem to want an awful lot of control over their members. It is something i would walk away from very easily. mantra sounds like something a cult would use


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  • #97
    Yorker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 164 ✭✭Yorker


    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    Thanks. I didn't want to receive another an infraction.
    Did you start it?


  • #98
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,518 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Yorker wrote: »
    boards.ie seem to want an awful lot of control over their members. It is something i would walk away from very easily. mantra sounds like something a cult would use

    Depends on your interpretation of the word. I would see it as a commonly spouted slogan or statement (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/mantra).

    Boards.ie isn't free. Someone has to pay for the server, running costs, staff, etc... I've never seen much in the way of interfering in the mods. Most of it is basic etiquette so it's not a problem for me.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #99
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,518 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Yorker wrote: »
    Did you start it?

    It was a joke. I've had a few infractions in my time and no, I've not got round to it yet.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #100
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,454 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Yorker wrote: »
    boards.ie seem to want an awful lot of control over their members. It is something i would walk away from very easily. mantra sounds like something a cult would use

    Mod note - This is a thread for feedback and ways to improve tGC. If you have an issue with boards as a whole or those who run it please goto the main feedback forum.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=82


  • #101
    Yorker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 164 ✭✭Yorker


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Mod note - This is a thread for feedback and ways to improve tGC. If you have an issue with boards as a whole or those who run it please goto the main feedback forum.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=82
    i would not waste my time. as i said i can walk away easily. If banned i would not be like the people who beg to be reinstated. the internet is full of forums


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  • #102
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    Yorker wrote: »
    i would not waste my time. as i said i can walk away easily. If banned i would not be like the people who beg to be reinstated. the internet is full of forums

    Mod:

    Please move back on topic. Please look at the forum charter regarding off-topic posting.


  • #103
    KomradeBishop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,981 ✭✭✭KomradeBishop


    A lot of the posts in the Mens Rights thread (and other threads), are often just links without any opinion provided by the poster, or explanation of why they are noteworthy - and a lot of them seem to just be very random (taking minor events that have happened some place far off in the world, that even in the newspaper/website they are a part of, only merit a very brief mention), and most of the time the opinion pieces seem founded on premises that aren't very sound, and can be debunked/picked-apart with very little effort.

    A lot of it just seems like clickbait for promoting the point of view of the extremists among mens rights groups - there's nothing wrong with a debate on those issues, but it's a bit like "soapboxing-by-link" or "soapboxing-by-youtube" - I'm pretty sure other forums (Politics maybe), require the poster gives their own opinion, or offer something to contribute to the debate like that, alongside the link.

    The latter actually, youtube links, is also something that ends up happening every now and then - almost nobody is going to bother watching a 15-20 minute video (on occasion, hour or more long videos have been posted), and unless a summary or such is presented by the poster (so they are putting the argument in their own words, so people don't have to waste ages on a video, that is largely of poor content) - unless a summary is provided it just doesn't really contribute anything to debate. I'm pretty sure again, that other forums don't allow this.


  • #104
    Zulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,967 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    KomradeBishop wrote: »
    A lot of the posts in the Mens Rights thread (and other threads), are often just links without any opinion provided by the poster, or explanation of why they are noteworthy .... ...I'm pretty sure other forums (Politics maybe), require the poster gives their own opinion, or offer something to contribute to the debate like that, alongside the link.
    And yet more posts are drive-by soundbites that dismiss mens rights altogether.
    With that said - it's a single thread. I would have thought the place to raise issue is via the report button on thread on not here on the overall feedback.

    ...unless your ultimate goal is to prevent that type of thread in the first place?


  • #105
    tritium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,793 ✭✭✭tritium


    Generally I think this is a fairly solid forum. My only real bugbear would be a type of intentionally derailing debating style that's crept in from a few posters in the last while. essentially it involves lots of bitty, on the face of it technical arguements. However once the arguement is stripped back and its list of flaws presented the arguement descends into claims of misrepresentation or dishonesty. No attempt is made to address the counter arguement the position is simply that they are right and any attempt to debate is just dishonesty. The motive appears to drag the topic into a semantic death spiral so that people walk away or the thread gets clogged.

    Its actually an absolute time sink and soul destroying, usually any evidence presented against the position simply involves a dismissal or request for a different item of evidence or on changed terms from what was originally requested. Frankly its dishonest derailing, IMHO a close cousin of trolling. I really wish it wasn't tolerated to the extent it appears to be.

    That said its something you see on boards more generally, not just here (I considered putting this in the main feedback thread), so I'm not sure what one forum can do to address something that's more widely prevalent.


  • #106
    KomradeBishop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,981 ✭✭✭KomradeBishop


    Zulu wrote: »
    And yet more posts are drive-by soundbites that dismiss mens rights altogether.
    That's whataboutery - does nothing to counter the point I raise.
    Zulu wrote: »
    With that said - it's a single thread.
    KB: "posts in the Mens Rights thread (and other threads)"
    Zulu wrote: »
    I would have thought the place to raise issue is via the report button on thread on not here on the overall feedback.

    ...unless your ultimate goal is to prevent that type of thread in the first place?
    What type of thread?


  • #107
    Yorker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 164 ✭✭Yorker


    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    Depends on your interpretation of the word. I would see it as a commonly spouted slogan or statement (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/mantra).

    Boards.ie isn't free. Someone has to pay for the server, running costs, staff, etc... I've never seen much in the way of interfering in the mods. Most of it is basic etiquette so it's not a problem for me.
    and there are no ads on boards?


  • #108
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,518 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Yorker wrote: »
    and there are no ads on boards?

    In any case, you don't own the site and do not set the rules.

    This is getting off-topic so I'll leave it at that.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #109
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,454 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    mod note - Yorker do not post in this thread again. You are adding nothing.


  • #110
    Soft Falling Rain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭Soft Falling Rain


    I noticed a mod note from Mr Mustard in the subservient men thread, where he warned against using generalisations. No problem there, but I was just a bit taken a back by his insistence that points are backed up by journals and articles.

    How strict is this rule? I just want to know in case I post using my own experiences and get a warning for it!


  • #111
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,454 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    If you are posting an opinion then that is just what it is - your opinion.
    If you are posting from personal experience, then a realisation that it is a personal experience and is not indicative of the whole population then that should be apparent from your post.
    Where you are posting stating a 'fact' such as 76% / the majority of (insert demographic here) are (itc) subservient then we would expect you to be able to back up your assertions otherwise you are presenting your own opinion/ experience as fact when it is not fact.


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  • #112
    KomradeBishop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,981 ✭✭✭KomradeBishop


    Just quoting from another thread:
    The Mustard wrote: »
    Mod:

    New users; please do not post on this thread until you have been registered for at least 10 days and until you have a post count of at least twenty.
    That's a very good idea. To be honest, mods should be using that tactic all-across Boards, as there are a number of types of topic prone to re-regs, that would be easy to exclude perpetual re-regs from, by doing that - wouldn't even need much mod effort, as posters could just report the re-regs when they see them.

    I suggested something like this on Feedback once, but enforced by altering Boards code - which would be impractical - but this should work just as well.


  • #113
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,518 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    The only thing is that would exclude people with new accounts from making genuine contributions though that seems to be very rare.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #114
    KomradeBishop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,981 ✭✭✭KomradeBishop


    Ya, so it would be bad to apply it generally to a whole forum, but for 'problem threads/topics', it seems ideal.


  • #115
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,518 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Ok guys, thanks for the feedback. I'm going to close this as there hasn't been any activity for a good while now.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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