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Boards - as good as it used to be?

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  • #102
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    You will always have posters who want boards to be like the Thunderdome...and others who want it to be as polite as a nuns smile.
    Ya cant keep em all happy!


  • #103
    Robsweezie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    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.[/QUiv

    ive seen that post and it supports what im saying. you wouldn't really see that sort of hardcore blatant racism around the forums today. I barely see any racism but maybe im looking at the wrong threads.


  • #104
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    OldGoat wrote: »
    Too many peoples! Ban everyone registered from 2005 onwards and then only accept noobs when one of the old school dies...or gets assassinated.
    Ssssshhhhhhh now, just go to sleep everything will be fine.

    https://images.rapgenius.com/978d044e20dec64ad87366e313f743c0.717x342x1.png


  • #105
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,522 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Also a lot of posters have become americanized :rolleyes:

    ...dude, seriously...


    :pac:


  • #106
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    smash wrote: »
    That's all well and good Seamus, but the beta site isn't optimised for mobile. It's just an awful mash up of bad design, with a very poor UI and an even worse user experience. There's literally nothing new, or good about it.

    It is optimised more for mobile than it is for desktop at the moment.

    The "mobile" bubble will not be around for ever. There's a lot of stats been thrown around that's just rubbish.

    As for the OP, i don't think it's changed a whole lot. Posters come and go, but that's the life cycle of an online forum, or a club/society for that matter.


  • #107
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,731 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    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.

    Fairly new here, any names amongst that lot worth checking out?

    Could do with a bit of a laugh:(


  • #108
    Maguined
    Registered Users Posts: 8,247 ✭✭✭Maguined


    Many say boards grew up as a good thing but it's the exact opposite. Gone is the child like sense of wonder, awe, humour and enjoyment. It has grown up and become a soulless husk of it's former self, all light of imagination and playfulness absent from it's eyes and instead just a weary thousand yard stare.

    Boards is now the middle aged office worker. It sold it's soul for a shiny penny in it's youth thinking of how much they could achieve with their potential and ideas only now its over a decade later and all the potential and motivation is gone and there is nothing left except to hope for the sweet embrace of the grave to remove them from this banal existence.


  • #109
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Maguined wrote: »
    Many say boards grew up as a good thing but it's the exact opposite. Gone is the child like sense of wonder, awe, humour and enjoyment. It has grown up and become a soulless husk of it's former self, all light of imagination and playfulness absent from it's eyes and instead just a weary thousand yard stare.

    Boards is now the middle aged office worker. It sold it's soul for a shiny penny in it's youth thinking of how much they could achieve with their potential and ideas only now its over a decade later and all the potential and motivation is gone and there is nothing left except to hope for the sweet embrace of the grave to remove them from this banal existence.

    That's exactly what I felt every time I saw "Yore ma" or "Blast it with piss."


  • #110
    Maguined
    Registered Users Posts: 8,247 ✭✭✭Maguined


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    That's exactly what I felt every time I saw "Yore ma" or "Blast it with piss."

    Sure it was repeated too many times but it would of reduced in usuage eventually over time but banning it completely is just an over reaction, individually it is not a big deal but the little things all add up to make the place far more sterile than it used to be.

    You can judge a society on how it treats it's Facekickers and boards has been left wanting.


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