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Boards - as good as it used to be?

  • 02-11-2015 10:33PM
    #1
    Robsweezie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    looking through old threads from about 2010-2011 and you see a lot of banned posters, messy grammar and people just being pure dicks to each other . all of these are seen at a much lesser extent nowadays it seems. cleaner, more sterilised. a lot of ''trolls'' have been weeded out.

    I think the site has grown up a bit and changed, but for the better? is it as good as It used to be? ive only been on 3 years so im not familiar with the early days.


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  • #2
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Robsweezie wrote: »
    looking through old threads from about 2010-2011 and you see a lot of banned posters, messy grammar and people just being pure dicks to each other . all of these are seen at a much lesser extent nowadays it seems. cleaner, more sterilised. a lot of ''trolls'' have been weeded out.

    I think the site has grown up a bit and changed, but for the better? is it as good as It used to be? ive only been on 3 years so im not familiar with the early days.

    Prison Forum?


  • #3
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    I remember when this whole site was just fields.


  • #4
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Tis a bit like me.

    I'm not as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was.


  • #5
    That_Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,342 ✭✭✭✭That_Guy


    It all went downhill when Facekicker and Bubbles were banished.


  • #6
    Washington Irving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,066 ✭✭✭Washington Irving


    It's not as much fun as it used to be (especially AH), but people have been saying that since I can remember so y'know. Rose tinted specs a bit.


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  • #7
    Robsweezie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Prison Forum?

    AH actually


  • #8
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    Sure beats reading Irelands Own.....barely.


  • #9
    Armchair Andy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Armchair Andy


    They dont make em like Trent anymore thats for sure.

    *puffs pipe*


  • #10
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Robsweezie wrote: »
    ...you see a lot of banned posters, messy grammar and people just being pure dicks to each other . all of these are seen at a much lesser extent nowadays it seems. cleaner, more sterilised. a lot of ''trolls'' have been weeded out...

    You just proved it yourself. Of course it's better.

    Edit. And there's so much more to it than AH.


  • #11
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,060 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    It went downhill when people stopped talking about gibbing noobs


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  • #12
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    There's a thread that's explicitly racist from around that time when Ireland lost to France with the infamous hand of God moment .Someone started a thread and called Thierry henry a n##)er and people thanked it.Absolutely disgusting.


  • #13
    Armchair Andy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Armchair Andy


    MRnotlob606 wrote: »
    There's a thread that's explicitly racist from around that time when Ireland lost to France with the infamous hand of God moment .Someone started a thread and called Thierry henry a n##)er and people thanked it.Absolutely disgusting.

    I think the same fella used to pick his nose too IIRC.


    The poster, not Henry.


  • #14
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    No new additions to the Legendary threads sticky in three years.

    We are not as good as they used to be in the olden days.


  • #15
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    You can't even blast yor ma with piss any more.


  • #16
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    The same question pops up every few months. It's probably not as good as it used to be, or rather the layout really limits it, especially when you're used to other forums.


  • #17
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    Robsweezie wrote: »
    looking through old threads from about 2010-2011 and you see a lot of banned posters, messy grammar and people just being pure dicks to each other . all of these are seen at a much lesser extent nowadays it seems. cleaner, more sterilised. a lot of ''trolls'' have been weeded out.

    I think the site has grown up a bit and changed, but for the better? is it as good as It used to be? ive only been on 3 years so im not familiar with the early days.

    Isn't everything gone sterilised now? These days whatever you say there is someone waiting for the chance to get deeply offended over it


  • #18
    Baggy Trousers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »
    Isn't everything gone sterilised now? These days whatever you say there is someone waiting for the chance to get deeply offended over it

    How fcuking dare you! :mad::mad::mad:


  • #19
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »
    Isn't everything gone sterilised now? These days whatever you say there is someone waiting for the chance to get deeply offended over it

    No no your wrong :P


  • #20
    the evasion_kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Used to be far funnier/fun,far more sniping on it these days, also a lot of the threads that get started and you might think to yourself this might be interesting get closed and you're left with such riveting threads as "I hate my toes"


  • #21
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    I looked back at a post from 1999. Somebody said OMG and somebody else said DILDO. Or was it the other way around? They were ahead of the curve, ahead of the curve.


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  • #22
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    Baggy Trousers wrote: »
    How fcuking dare you! :mad::mad::mad:

    Yeah, he can fcuk right off.


  • #23
    KilOit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭KilOit


    Got a lot worse!
    it's all too PC now and so many threads get locked and posters banned if they even fart in the general direction of another poster


  • #24
    Baggy Trousers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    Fleawuss wrote: »
    Yeah, he can fcuk right off.

    The pwrick! :mad:


  • #25
    Baggy Trousers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    KilOit wrote: »
    Got a lot worse!
    it's all too PC now and so many threads get locked and posters banned if they even fart in the general direction of another poster

    Cloud computing?


  • #26
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    KilOit wrote: »
    Got a lot worse!
    it's all too PC now and so many threads get locked and posters banned if they even fart in the general direction of another poster

    Back in the day boards was the preserve of nerds preening into 15" CRT monitors waiting for dial up networking to finish screeching so they could fire up Netscrape Navigator that took 4 hours to download. Twas almost like an an obscure underground subculture, if you tried to explain boards or USENET to a 'normal' person in 1999 they'd look at you funny.

    There was far less scrutiny back then, nowadays you have whatsherface in the Dail banging on about people getting raped on the internet. Most people have at least 3 devices they can readily access boards on. If some girlie tops herself in the morning because she didn't like a post on boards.ie then you'll have Joe Duffy trying to direct the blame onto DeV

    For the same experience now you'd probably have to go onto Tor-based forums or packet radio


  • #27
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,457 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Of course it was better in the good old days, now feck off I have to empty my colostomy bag!


  • #28
    ...And Justice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,283 ✭✭✭...And Justice


    Robsweezie wrote: »
    looking through old threads from about 2010-2011 and you see a lot of banned posters, messy grammar and people just being pure dicks to each other . all of these are seen at a much lesser extent nowadays it seems. cleaner, more sterilised. a lot of ''trolls'' have been weeded out.

    I think the site has grown up a bit and changed, but for the better? is it as good as It used to be? ive only been on 3 years so im not familiar with the early days.

    The thunderdome


  • #29
    furiousox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,336 ✭✭✭furiousox


    Page 1 of most threads can be interesting but jump to the last page and it's usually gone miles off topic and you're left with 2 posters going "again you failed to answer my question" and "wow, way to miss the point completely" etc.
    Tedious.

    You are a khaki coloured bombardier, it's Hiroshima that you're nearing.



  • #30
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    We lost a lot of fun people with the close account option.

    Although, most came back but it's never the same.


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  • #31
    Keplar240B
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 891 ✭✭✭Keplar240B


    furiousox wrote: »
    Page 1 of most threads can be interesting but jump to the last page and it's usually gone miles off topic and you're left with 2 posters going "again you failed to answer my question" and "wow, way to miss the point completely" etc.
    Tedious.

    Deemed by the government.

    Are you going to retract your claim "As soon as you crave out separate groups and give them extra special rights what you are actually doing is taking rights from another group" or back it up anytime soon?


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