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Sketch! They're talking about us on reddit r/ireland

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭46 Long


    Boards.ie is parochial and over-moderated say members of forum that the mods close down from midnight - 8am


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,562 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    If you like anti Brit and IRA memes posted by 15 year olds in rural Ireland, Reddit Ireland is where it's at


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    They do that every now and then. I even got a mention once. I'm a "sad cùnt" or something or other.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭Kilboor


    Boards.ie is class. Being able to discuss stocks, cars, food, places etc with fellow Irish people and without constant image meme posts and all in separate threads and forums makes it far far superior to the everyday changing r/Ireland circle jerk that's overly moderated and any opinions that are shared by anything less than 51% of the userbase are downvoted and hidden


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,180 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."


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  • Registered Users Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Some snowflake was crying about a certain thread on twitter the other day ,


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    Gatling wrote: »
    Some snowflake was crying about a certain thread on twitter the other day ,

    Oh really??

    *nosey*


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Gatling wrote: »
    Some snowflake was crying about a certain thread on twitter the other day ,

    It wasn't blindboy again, was it?..


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Oh really??

    *nosey*

    Someone “ratted out” the CA lads on twitter regarding the racism in one of the threads in there.

    The tide is turning…



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Isn't r/ireland basically the banned list?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Someone “ratted out” the CA lads on twitter regarding the racism in one of the threads in there.

    Quite day in feedback .

    It was nothing to do with racism


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    CQD wrote: »
    It wasn't blindboy again, was it?..

    Some wannabe journo Bryan wall


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,131 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Someone “ratted out” the CA lads on twitter regarding the racism in one of the threads in there.

    How do I never here about these things?

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,131 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    And tbf, I'd consider the Domino's codes thread in bargain alerts to be of paramount importance.

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,033 ✭✭✭OU812


    P45.net > boards.ie

    (Showing my age)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭The Inbetween is mine


    I did like the post from one lad who said he was glad of boards...as it kept boards type people on boards


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    I did like the post from one lad who said he was glad of boards...as it kept boards type people on boards

    Vs those elsewhere because they banned from boards


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,177 ✭✭✭✭greenspurs


    a down vote facility on here would be great though.....

    As one lad is very accurate about :
    "Any thread that has legs on boards seem to always to descend into three or four absolute loolahs going back and forth at each other page after page"

    Spot on !

    "Bright lights and Thunder .................... "



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,027 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Kilboor wrote: »
    any opinions that are shared by anything less than 51% of the userbase are downvoted and hidden
    That's my major issue with Reddit(not just the Ireland sub). It actively encourages echo chambers. Oh you certainly get echo chamber threads, even forums here and on any old style forum layout, the significant difference being because of the chronological non down/upvote layout you can't avoid reading contrary opinions to your own*. This is a good thing.

    That said it seems outside of a pretty brief time in internetland where contrary discussion was popular nowadays it's clear people increasingly gravitate towards echo chambers of views they already believe in, where any dissent is downvoted, blocked, or never invited to join in the first place. Though you could argue that's the more natural state of man anyway. Beyond adolescence where people try on different hats to see what suits them, people tend to gravitate towards people who are similar, birds of a feather and all that. By adulthood most people's views are pretty set, by middle age those views are set in stone, rooted to deep foundations in concrete and that's comfortable for them and can be extremely uncomfortable for them to grapple with anything that questions those views.

    Time is another factor. On Reddit a thread can vanish very quickly into the ether, so you can get a lot of repetition, whereas you can have threads here going back many years that are added to daily. In more technical subs for enthusiasts and the like both the "accepted view" and quickly fading threads can mean an awful lot of bad information rises to the top and becomes the Truth.





    *Unless you go on a ignore poster spree, in which case your opinions are delicate anyway.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,386 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    I did like the post from one lad who said he was glad of boards...as it kept boards type people on boards

    Did you write that post?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,587 ✭✭✭Feisar


    While I get the down/upvoting thing I don't get it at the same time.
    Here is like people meeting up for a coffee, yea it can get out of hand but there is some sort of reasoned flow, even if a thread descends into a back and forth between a couple of people. Which if good debating can be enjoyable in it's own right.
    Reddit on the other hand is like me and the lads at three in the morning repeating the same waffle to each other we came to a conclusion on an hour previously.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,131 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Reddit and boards both have there uses. It's grand.

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭The Inbetween is mine


    Did you write that post?

    Nope, you want the applause here or on reddit


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Both have their pluses and minuses but one thing Boards has over r/Ireland is that I'm not constantly bombarded with pictures of the Cliffs of ****ing Moher.


  • Registered Users Posts: 29 Pamsteer


    46 Long wrote: »
    Boards.ie is parochial and over-moderated say members of forum that the mods close down from midnight - 8am

    "...forum that the mods close down from midnight - 8am" is this some sort of in-joke?


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,135 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    To be fair to it, reddit is far better for porn. :pac:

    There's even an r/IrelandGoneWild for all those idiots who think a few quick bucks made on OnlyFans won't ruin their career prospects in a country as small as this...


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,216 ✭✭✭Tork




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 36,787 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    The one thing that gets me abou Reddit is why people volunteer to moderate it. Boards, sure given that it's a message board few enough people, even in Ireland would use IME but Reddit is one of the most visited and profitable sites in the world. Niche subs, sure but why someone would moderate a big one like like r/politics for free is unfathomable IMO.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,592 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Both have their pluses and minuses but one thing Boards has over r/Ireland is that I'm not constantly bombarded with pictures of the Cliffs of ****ing Moher.

    I barely look at Reddit Ireland anymore because of this


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,177 ✭✭✭✭greenspurs


    cant make head nor tail of reddit ................

    "Bright lights and Thunder .................... "



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