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    #812
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 75,285 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    "Sara" last year managed about 9k


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    #813
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    TheValeyard wrote: »
    Why would someone bother signing up 4000 accounts?

    It’s mental. Like, setting up an account isn’t that laborious in isolation but you still have to do the whole email confirmation thing. Imagine doing that multiple times? And of course you’d have to set up new email addresses for each account. Sounds spectacularly boring.


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    #814
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    It’s mental. Like, setting up an account isn’t that laborious in isolation but you still have to do the whole email confirmation thing. Imagine doing that multiple times? And of course you’d have to set up new email addresses for each account. Sounds spectacularly boring.

    Theres websites/software that will do this for you?

    Theres even website that will set up 3min email temp address for ya




    I used chat with that lad,that reregs whole time on PM,seemed a sound bloke and ya could knock a bitta laugh outta him


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    #815
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 75,285 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Deleted User wrote: »

    I used chat with that lad,that reregs whole time on PM,seemed a sound bloke and ya could knock a bitta laugh outta him
    There are at least 4 who are "regulars"


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    #816
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Beasty wrote: »
    There are at least 4 who are "regulars"

    Haha....jesus


    Chap i chatted with,just seemed to treat it,as a really obscure pasttime tbh

    Each to their own i guess!!


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    #817
    This is it
    Registered Users Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭This is it


    Probably a bad idea to be talking about him here, kinda like saying Candyman three times to a mirror... anyway. Scanlas is sound for the most part, have had plenty of short conversations with him, but... his constant reregging is a pain in the arse! Haven't seen an aul chore sex thread in a long time though. Not sure if he's slipping or admin are catching much quicker.


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    #818
    McMurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    This is it wrote: »
    Probably a bad idea to be talking about him here, kinda like saying Candyman three times to a mirror... anyway. Scanlas is sound for the most part, have had plenty of short conversations with him, but... his constant reregging is a pain in the arse! Haven't seen an aul chore sex thread in a long time though. Not sure if he's slipping or admin are catching much quicker.

    Scanlas is chore sex lad?


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    #819
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,867 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    mike_ie wrote: »
    Also, to point out, due to a spammer signing up 4,000 accounts

    It's not your fault who have to clean up the mess. But it really shouldn't be possible for someone to set up 4000 spam accounts just like that. Cloudflare causes issues for some genuine posters, but didn't obstruct the 4k account spammer at all, it seems.

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #820
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Theres websites/software that will do this for you?

    Theres even website that will set up 3min email temp address for ya




    I used chat with that lad,that reregs whole time on PM,seemed a sound bloke and ya could knock a bitta laugh outta him

    Oh right. I'm naive about that stuff.


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    #821
    This is it
    Registered Users Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭This is it


    McMurphy wrote: »
    Scanlas is chore sex lad?

    The original


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    #822
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,381 ✭ [Deleted User]


    In a thread about the removal of statues in the Sheraton, mike_ie is bizarrely trying to assert that discussion of the Prime Time episode that deals with that very topic hours beforehand is "wildly off-topic".

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=114183480#post114183480

    Cancelling a conversation about an episode of Prime Time which specifically deals with cancel culture is just incredibly mad moderation.


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    #823
    Tokyo
    Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,655 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    Response to mod warning in thread, pm to me, and then straight to feedback all in the space of half an hour - this must really be urgent.

    What I was about to reply to your PM is that at my count, there are three pages of little except slagging off Dr Ebun Joseph, questioning her mental state, one of our more frequent flyers telling her to go back to Africa if she doesn't like it here. The more pointed of those have been actioned individually, but asking people in general to actually discuss the topic isn't out of line. I have however, clarified that even further in the mod note.


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    #824
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,381 ✭ [Deleted User]


    mike_ie wrote: »
    Response to mod warning in thread, pm to me, and then straight to feedback all in the space of half an hour - this must really be urgent.

    What I was about to reply to your PM is that at my count, there are three pages of little except slagging off Dr Ebun Joseph, questioning her mental state, one of our more frequent flyers telling her to go back to Africa if she doesn't like it here. The more pointed of those have been actioned individually, but asking people in general to actually discuss the topic isn't out of line. I have however, clarified that even further in the mod note.

    Regardless of whether or not her mental state should be discussed, it would have been helpful for your mod note to be more detailed when you posted it.


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    #825
    Boards.ie: Mark
    Boards.ie Employee Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭✭✭Boards.ie: Mark
    Boards.ie Employee


    Mod: Reminder that you need to be a member on site for at least 3 months to post in Feedback.

    How can I? User's guide to some features on the new site



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    #826
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    The hijacking of threads by people who want to go off on a racist rant is becoming ridiculous. Eg the discussion on the conviction of a healthcare assistant who raped an alzheimer's patient has descended into certain posters declaring that they knew the perpetrator would be a foreigner. It's a dreadful case but there's posters that are using threads to push hate based on people being from certain regions.

    There's also for the record, posters that clearly veer into the territory of white supremacists. Eg claims about the "deracination" of Ireland. It's not subtle and the posters simply see to get threads that are safe zones to engage in rhetoric.


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    #827
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 81,626 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Regardless of whether or not her mental state should be discussed, it would have been helpful for your mod note to be more detailed when you posted it.

    In turn do you not think it would have been helpful of you to give him a chance to respond to a PM, or Report on his post, of constructive criticisms before making an on-thread swipe at moderation? I don’t find it helpful in the least, arguing on-thread is blatant derailment no matter what it’s dressed up with and is one of my bugbears. Even posting about it here is a far sight better but I wish more users would actually take the good faith approaches offered first before assuming deliberate negligence or promoting popular opposition.


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    #828
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,748 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Deleted User wrote: »
    The hijacking of threads by people who want to go off on a racist rant is becoming ridiculous. Eg the discussion on the conviction of a healthcare assistant who raped an alzheimer's patient has descended into certain posters declaring that they knew the perpetrator would be a foreigner. It's a dreadful case but there's posters that are using threads to push hate based on people being from certain regions.

    Stopped reading it after about 10 posts. Went back in just now and it hasn't changed. There's no point engaging. Where is that Patrick Nevin guy from? Louth, I think? Amazing no one is calling for action against people from Louth.

    I rarely use this site these days and I'd say there are many more doing the same thing.


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    #829
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    Stopped reading it after about 10 posts. Went back in just now and it hasn't changed. There's no point engaging. Where is that Patrick Nevin guy from? Louth, I think? Amazing no one is calling for action against people from Louth.

    I rarely use this site these days and I'd say there are many more doing the same thing.

    Who is calling for action against people from Nigeria?

    It is entirely reasonable that we deport this piece of garbage when he has served his sentence.


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    #830
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,748 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Who is calling for action against people from Nigeria?

    It is entirely reasonable that we deport this piece of garbage when he has served his sentence.

    Its more complex than that though isn't it? Given he's been here 15 years, hes likely an Irish citizen, as are his wife and kids. The tone and phrasing of some of the posts would not be as they are were he white Irish. As said on the thread, some posters are using the thread as a ruse to disguise their own racist tendencies.


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    #831
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,400 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Who is calling for action against people from Nigeria?

    It is entirely reasonable that we deport this piece of garbage when he has served his sentence.

    People have called for his whole family including his children to be deported, they want to punish the children for the actions of the father.


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    #832
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    Its more complex than that though isn't it? Given he's been here 15 years, hes likely an Irish citizen, as are his wife and kids. The tone and phrasing of some of the posts would not be as they are were he white Irish. As said on the thread, some posters are using the thread as a ruse to disguise their own racist tendencies.

    We generally can’t deport white Irish criminals so it makes sense that deportation doesn’t come up regarding white Irish criminals.


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    #833
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    And that thread has now also descended into people ranting about Dr Ebun Joseph. And the motivation for obsessing over her isn't subtle.

    It's a very real story where multiple families are affected and there's huge questions to be asked, discussions to be had. But it's just become another soapbox for people posters who really don't give a damn. And plenty of the posters doing it are regulars.


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    #834
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    Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    We generally can’t deport white Irish criminals so it makes sense that deportation doesn’t come up regarding white Irish criminals.

    Cant deport black irish criminals either though??


    So the suggestion of deportation is a bit silly,if as stated he holds irish citizenship?


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    #835
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Cant deport black irish criminals either though??

    I posted a link in that thread to an article from a Nigerian website that says he is Nigerian. So deport away.


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    #836
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,610 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    I posted a link in that thread to an article from a Nigerian website that says he is Nigerian. So deport away.


    You do realise he can be Nigerian and Irish at the same time and it is possible to hold two passports?

    Nobody in that thread has provided any evidence to say he is not an Irish citizen (yet many have claimed it as fact regardless, the very definition of fake news) and the posts saying he should be deported despite not knowing his status are obviously a ruse to satisfy some posters racist tendencies. The thread is dripping in it. Not sure why his heinous crime cannot be discussed in a civil manner without posters shoehorning their racist attitudes into the thread.


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    #837
    hullaballoo
    Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,708 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭hullaballoo


    Admin: please bring the discussion back around to the thread at hand.


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    #838
    Sweetemotion
    Registered Users Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭Sweetemotion


    Closing the Antifa thread was uncalled for. It's over a year old, one of the biggest threads in current affairs and Antifa have never been more current affairs than they are now.


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    #839
    2u2me
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭2u2me


    Sweetemotion wrote: »
    Closing the Antifa thread was uncalled for. It's over a year old, one of the biggest threads in current affairs and Antifa have never been more current affairs than they are now.

    Cancel culture strikes again. In a time when Antifa should be talked about the most the thread gets closed.


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    #840
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 81,626 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    The premise of the thread went out the window; these protests are so much more now than Antifa, and a lot of the undercurrent on the thread was just “basement dwellers who can’t get jobs fcuking scumbags” this and that.

    There’s still a lot of newsworthy developments these days, with pushes from lawmakers now who want to ban protests period as a way of addressing the dissent, under the auspices of Covid-19, and historians likening the federal response to the soviet KGB. Perhaps a broader thread on that now then, the police protests, and not just an Antifa-headed thread which is more or less derision of a particular movement in a less than constructive manner. In reality these protests aren’t just Antifa or BLM or Moms or Dads or Veterans, they encompass all those groups, and more.


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    #841
    Tokyo
    Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,655 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    Sweetemotion wrote: »
    Closing the Antifa thread was uncalled for. It's over a year old, one of the biggest threads in current affairs and Antifa have never been more current affairs than they are now.
    2u2me wrote: »
    Cancel culture strikes again. In a time when Antifa should be talked about the most the thread gets closed.

    We may as well have renamed it The Pissing Contest thread. It had devolved to a point of being a back and forth between posters repeating the same old circular arguments over and over again, and was generating a ridiculous amount of reported posts due the squabbling going on there. It was rightly closed and shall remain so.


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