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Bounty Hunter

so after the last thread hit 10,000 posts a new thread was needed and here it is so have it it lads:

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Machismo Fan

My first boards post was gushing over how good Jay Lethal was. Quite fitting really.

Blue_Dabadee

It's pretty interesting to hear the backstory of this forum.

I was a long time lurker, but I started posted here ever now and again when I became a fan of OSW which was last year.

Diabhal Beag

tbf to Colt I'm fairly positive that he did a Boardsie podcast with tbc once. Luckily there were no lawsuits after.

gimmick

He was a gent about it. So was Gabe Sapolsky.

Colt Cabana agreed to one as well and said he would mail me when he was ready so we could have valid in date questions. He never mailed me again. I mailed him a few times more, but he never replied either. Boo.

[Deleted User]

billion dollar baby wrote: »

Leggo posts on boards a lot and seems sound enough. He was a wrestler with IWW If I remember rightly.

Ah yes Rick O Shea from the Anger Management tag team. A gentleman I must say. He organises the Woolshed parties too.

Bounty Hunter

gimmick wrote: »

Ahem :mad:

whoops dunno why I thought that was Jayk. Still think that was great for you to be able to organise especially at the time when not everyone on PW really knew about Devitt in Japan.

billion dollar baby

Leggo posts on boards a lot and seems sound enough. He was a wrestler with IWW If I remember rightly.

gimmick

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

yeah tbh I thought it was mad whilst writing it. tbh the past few years are arguably it's peak cos it's busy but friendly although that said there is probably less of the mad sh!t going on thats happened in the past. Even Jayk getting a few interviews with Devitt for boards PW a few years ago was pretty big

Ahem :mad:

gimmick

Omackeral wrote: »

Do any Irish Indy guys have beef or a good relationship with PW boards? I understand if you don't wanna name names or usernames, although that would be juicy!

They certainly used to about maybe 10 years ago, but then it got out of hand and people started sniping about other promotions and wrestlers, so we went down the route of having 3 or 4 different irish threads, one for each promotion. This was a disaster as well. I know the IWW chief banned his wrestlers from posting on behalf of them, which was a good measure.

Im sure a few lads from the irish scene are posting here but are not advertising the fact.

Bounty Hunter wrote:

back on ShaunRaven though, he eventually stepped down as mod (perhaps hat was face saving though as I think he was going to be pushed) and afterwards went off and started his own forum with Minto (who was a loss to the forum, think he actually ran the first ever draft) and iirc actually started posting pics of pw regular he disliked.

This guy was a joke. He was mod here for 3-4 months and made the place seems like it was an unstable mess, when in fact the only unstable mess was him. A real nasty piece of work. Himself and his acolytes - RebelRockChick and Minto (MNG started the first draft, Minto horned in and started the 2nd one) tried to start their own forum, which was basically to bitch about here. This is where it got weird for me.

I went on one day and saw a thread called - "this is what a c**t looks like". It was a picture of me posted by Shawn Validreasoning Nero The Extreme Raven. His fued he was having with me (it was very one sided, I never gave him a thought once we fell out) resorted to him finding a picture of me on one of my friends "bebo". This was some proper stalking and to this day do not know how he found it. That was the end of him here. He was site banned before he got to close another account. His name, while already in the dirt, was irreparably broken.

Im sure he still looks in here every now and then, so Hi Sean :pac:

[Deleted User]

Do any Irish Indy guys have beef or a good relationship with PW boards? I understand if you don't wanna name names or usernames, although that would be juicy!

Bounty Hunter

Omackeral wrote: »

That's the most mental post I've ever read! I wonder what all those people are at now, wonder are any still around. In your opinion, when was the peak of PW Boards?

Also I put petrol in my diesel car, feel like such a jobber.

yeah tbh I thought it was mad whilst writing it. tbh the past few years are arguably it's peak cos it's busy but friendly although that said there is probably less of the mad sh!t going on thats happened in the past. Even Jayk getting a few interviews with Devitt for boards PW a few years ago was pretty big

[Deleted User]

That's the most mental post I've ever read! I wonder what all those people are at now, wonder are any still around. In your opinion, when was the peak of PW Boards?

Also I put petrol in my diesel car, feel like such a jobber.

Bounty Hunter

jaykhunter wrote: »

Wow, Attitude Era boardsie! We need a history lesson about PW boards, like didn't we used to be in the TV forum? Eras of PW boards?

hmm let me see

Well boards started off as a board for people who played the game Quake. My brother, username: Bard (used to post here years ago when we watched WWE together) posted on said board and just as boards started (after hours was first iirc) to expand he showed it to me and I signed up.

My first posts were before there was a PW board but I did actually post on the WM18 thread which actually had more posts on it than the following years one which gimmick mentioned... a staggeting 11 posts! as a young mark at the time I believe my post was about how the WWE wouldn't let Hogan beat Rocky even though everyone was booing The Rock.

As Gimmick mentioned Hanza was the mod at the start but it was Bombidol (Bomb idol, not Bom ba dol as I originally thought) who I remember as the guy who petitioned for PW to have it's own board and for it to not be in the TV section (think it was TV and not Entertainment at the time) and then he was also one of the early mods.... this is a thing he created before getting the PW board set up http://www.thebombshelter.2ya.com/ ...

I honestly won't get all the details right and as the PW forum was not always so busy and therefore less worth reading nor was I online as much back then I missed things but other mods along the way who I had a lot of time for were Fozzy & Vince135792003 (who actually was a mod long after he had stopped posting cos he never stepped down officially), Orestes (who actually had 2 goes around as a PW mod and was the guy who got me modded) and I'm not sure but Ph3nom/Minto may have been mods at one point but I don't think so.

There is another mod I didn't mention yet but he will get a good mention next as I highlight that that PW actually used to have a terrible rep with many posters and until recently still with the CMods, Admins and was not the happy little community it is now. He seemed to actually be somewhat liked but ShaunRaven (others would know him as ValidReasoning) always came off to me as the inmate who ran the asylum at the time of his modship.

I essentially stopped posting in PW at one point aswell when one (only recently banned from PW) poster had his first run in the forum round 2008. The guy was a complete d!ck (most woulda just called him a troll at the time) and the forum lost a lot of good posters at the time some of which I remember asking to post again when I became mod a few years later as that poster had stopped posting (he eventually returned and had mellowed a little but if you knew his whole story you'd know how much better the place is without him) posters like Charlie McHugh for example.

back on ShaunRaven though, he eventually stepped down as mod (perhaps hat was face saving though as I think he was going to be pushed) and afterwards went off and started his own forum with Minto (who was a loss to the forum, think he actually ran the first ever draft) and iirc actually started posting pics of pw regular he disliked.

It was after this time I believe that Orestes got his second run as PW mod and the ban hammer really came into play as the lad had no hesitation to wield it and banned loads of folk so as to clean up the board, and it really improved as a result.

Then I came on as a mod as we had the faux faction war between The Munster Mafia and The Leinster Lords (or Ladyboys as some said) as posters like Flahavaj & Ger C (when he wasn't being challenged to fights outside Easons in Clonmel by Connor Hurley) took on folk like Waltersobchek.

It was also at around this time that *hic* became a thing you would regularily see posted in off topic. Generally by Orestes (think he started it) or myself & 2/3 others which would highlight that you were posting drunk.

around a year or so later Orestes stood down and we got Gimmick in as his replacement. Gimmick actually got himself demodded in 2010 as part of an april fools day joke!

It was around this time that Billy Gunn's Ex (bit on the side)started posting on boards as PinkDiva which was kinda mad cos although it was a nothing story her youtube videos were she recorded conversations with Billy (who at the time was still at his wife officially irrc) didn't become a story with the dirt sheets for a few weeks after she was already on here posting all about it.

I think it was the same year that this post was made which after a random search recently I saw quoted as the most thanked post on PW (dunno if that the case but maybe) and it's by current poster TBC

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=71657789&postcount=9

phew that was a long post :pac:

gimmick

WMXIX thread

8 posts!!

Angron

gimmick wrote: »

Stereomaniac wrote: »

Just had a look there and my first post was made in the Alternative & Indie forum in a thread called "Best Neil Young Album", which makes sense for me considering what I was doing.

What do you mean?

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When I signed up first i didn't post for a year or so. I think i really starting posting around 2004. It was when the WWE had the Tour Of Defiance - their first visit to Ireland in a decade. I was quite the mark at the time rather than the cynical jackass I have become now.

The mod at the time was Hanza, who would go on to become wrestler Red Vinny. Seemed a decent guy. The forum was very quiet back then. Like the WM thread might get 30 posts as opposed to the 1000+ we get nowadays.

Wow, that's hard to imagine nowadays.

Stereomaniac

Well back then my main outlet was music, so I was constantly just talking about, reading about, playing and listening to music. I was and still am quite obsessive about finding new things to listen to and going back and listening to old stuff as well. I didn't even remember posting in that Neil Young thread but it makes sense because I was listening to him a lot and he's definitely become one of my favourite artists. I went to see him play 3 times already.

gimmick

Stereomaniac wrote: »

Just had a look there and my first post was made in the Alternative & Indie forum in a thread called "Best Neil Young Album", which makes sense for me considering what I was doing.

What do you mean?

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When I signed up first i didn't post for a year or so. I think i really starting posting around 2004. It was when the WWE had the Tour Of Defiance - their first visit to Ireland in a decade. I was quite the mark at the time rather than the cynical jackass I have become now.

The mod at the time was Hanza, who would go on to become wrestler Red Vinny. Seemed a decent guy. The forum was very quiet back then. Like the WM thread might get 30 posts as opposed to the 1000+ we get nowadays.

Stereomaniac

If you want to discuss it, private message someone about it. Mods don't want it discussed here.

buckfasterer

Stereomaniac wrote: »

If you want to look at his Twitter or look at the older posts on here on this thread, it's there.

Seems this has been tidied up and I can't get back far enough on his Twitter.....man, he posts some amount.

Stereomaniac

If you want to look at his Twitter or look at the older posts on here on this thread, it's there.

buckfasterer

Lads, anyone able to fill me in with what happened with Rovert being banned and that post from Dav? Feeling very out of the loop.

Stereomaniac

Ah okay, I was curious. Well I've always been able to stop using the site and just come back to it later. I actually probably signed up because I needed to waste time when I lived in Dublin because I didn't really know many people. It was hard to join any conversations though.

Virtanen

Stereomaniac wrote: »

Not that I'm trying to make you feel weird or anything, but how did you arrive at a point where you needed a new username? I had to get a new Facebook at one stage as I got locked.

No problem at all

It wasn't an argument or anything, I actually closed my account with the intention of leaving Boards for good, to stop wasting so much time here. Didn't last long though, I signed up again a few weeks later

Angron

I changed my user name a while back, I just got kinda tired of the old one really.

Stereomaniac

Not that I'm trying to make you feel weird or anything, but how did you arrive at a point where you needed a new username? I had to get a new Facebook at one stage as I got locked.

Virtanen

Stereomaniac wrote: »

So you were posting mainly in other forums with your old account, would any of us have known your old username?

Honestly, outside of maybe five forums, I blended in to the background with everyone else, I can't say I made a huge impact in most of them, so for the most part I'd doubt it. But in some forums if I were to say my old name some people might go 'oh yeah, I remember that guy'

Stereomaniac

So you were posting mainly in other forums with your old account, would any of us have known your old username? I would like to have a different name sometimes, but that is what I have been using for years, dating back to the old Microsoft Network Classic Rock Chat.

Virtanen

I started my first Boards account in 2008, had over 7,000 posts with it too, but decided I wanted a fresh start and so I closed that one and set up this one instead

I've only started watching WWE again in the last year though; I already have more posts in this forum with this account than I did my previous one

jaykhunter

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

Joined in nineteen dickity two by which I mean 2001, f*ck! 14 years ago. my first posts were in the Sports (General) & Games (general) forums cos back then I don't think there were too many specific forums.

Wow, Attitude Era boardsie! We need a history lesson about PW boards, like didn't we used to be in the TV forum? Eras of PW boards?

CastorTroy

November 2004. Posting on and off (about 30 posts) until March 2012 and now I'm nearing 9.5k with most being this forum. Hmmm.