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Has politics.ie closed down ?

  • 30-07-2018 6:22pm
    #1
    gufdaf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭


    Offline for at least 4 days now and not a word of warning to users


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  • #2
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,698 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    gufdaf wrote: »
    Offline for at least 4 days now and not a word of warning to users

    Indeed! Irish politics does not exist.


  • #3
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Noticed this myself.

    Wonder what's going on.


  • #4
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Probably giving the Shinnerbots a break so that they can get the party line right for the Presidential election. You cant just brainwash people overnight.


  • #5
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I checked up their Twitter but it hasn't been updated in over a year.

    A google news search is showing up nothing.


    I wonder have they been hacked again.


  • #6
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    It's still like the wild west days of the internet over there.

    Practically no moderation.


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  • #7
    Trasna1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Trasna1


    Every now and then the database breaks. It'll probably be back in a week or so.


  • #8
    Pa8301
    Closed Accounts Posts: 543 ✭✭✭Pa8301


    The OP opens their account, starts this thread and promptly closes their account after 1 post. Is this a record?


  • #9
    chinwag
    Registered Users Posts: 427 ✭✭chinwag


    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=75319467#post75319467

    I came across this post/link on an old Boards thread about Politics.ie being down but link doesn't make sense to me if P.ie is down.


  • #10
    end of the road
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,139 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    their twitter hasn't been updated since may, they would surely say if it had closed? i'd say it will be back soon.

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words.



  • #11
    somefeen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭somefeen


    Prepare for the influx of lost politics.ie posters


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  • #12
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    After Hours could sign The Field Marshall on the cheap if It has gone into administration


  • #13
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    It's still like the wild west days of the internet over there.

    Practically no moderation.

    For this reason it's far more fun than Boards for political discussion (no "this thread has run its course, closed" even when users are still up for a debate) but Boards still has an edge by having a much broader range of forums.


  • #14
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    Edgware wrote: »
    Probably giving the Shinnerbots a break so that they can get the party line right for the Presidential election. You cant just brainwash people overnight.

    And yet you beat them to it here ;)


  • #15
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,264 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Pa8301 wrote: »
    The OP opens their account, starts this thread and promptly closes their account after 1 post. Is this a record?
    Have you tried asking the Irish Times' letters to the editor page?


  • #16
    Pa8301
    Closed Accounts Posts: 543 ✭✭✭Pa8301


    cdeb wrote: »
    Have you tried asking the Irish Times' letters to the editor page?

    Good idea. I better fetch my quill.


  • #17
    Sal Butamol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭Sal Butamol


    No moderation...the horror...the horror...


  • #18
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Place is crawling with lunatics. They have real-life communists over there for example. Ones who think Stalin wasn’t bad. Proper nutters.


  • #19
    Mutant z
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Mutant z


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    It's still like the wild west days of the internet over there.

    Practically no moderation.
    That's what good about it you don't have debates constantly broken down by incessant ott modding conversation is generally allowed to flow more freely over there it ain't perfect but its better than what you get on most places which are becoming increasingly echo chambers for certain pc group thinks, Politics.ie is a decent alternative to that.


  • #20
    Turnipman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Turnipman


    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    And yet you beat them to it here ;)

    It's pretty easy to beat the politics.ie shinnerbots. Most of them are still riding tricycles.


  • #21
    Turnipman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Turnipman


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    After Hours could sign The Field Marshall on the cheap if It has gone into administration

    Jesus no! :eek: That buffoon shouldn't be let near this site - he is seriously raving. Appears genuinely to believe that the current pope isn't religious enough!


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  • #22
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Pa8301 wrote: »
    The OP opens their account, starts this thread and promptly closes their account after 1 post. Is this a record?

    He knew too much, we did what we had to and that's all there is it to it.

    Anyway what is it they say, one account closes, another one opens.

    GTiuRt


  • #23
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Welcome to AH, the helpdesk for other sites...

    You can keep an eye on https://twitter.com/politicsie


  • #24
    Berserker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Berserker


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    It's still like the wild west days of the internet over there.

    Practically no moderation.

    Read it once of two and it made me appreciate the posters on here, even the ones I don't agree with. Some right tulips active on that forum.
    Edgware wrote: »
    Probably giving the Shinnerbots a break so that they can get the party line right for the Presidential election. You cant just brainwash people overnight.

    Might give some of the lads on here a chance to have a holiday. Need to make sure that the new lads are up to the grade first though.
    Ten Pin wrote: »
    Given the upcoming Presidential election, someone "accidentally" turned off the server from where all potential skeletons could have emanated.

    Can someone not just pop over and restart it?


  • #25
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,897 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Many of them will need a new home. How many has Boards agreed to take in?


  • #26
    OneEightSeven
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭OneEightSeven


    The kip is full of middle-aged leftist trolls who spend most of their spare time on there, posting an average of 60 to 80 posts a day, but at least the censorship on there isn't as bad as here. They're all posting on Political Irish now.


  • #27
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Turnipman wrote: »
    Jesus no! :eek: That buffoon shouldn't be let near this site - he is seriously raving. Appears genuinely to believe that the current pope isn't religious enough!
    He doesn't accept Francis as Pope.

    Benedict is still the official head honcho according to the FM.


  • #28
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    You see some great fights on it.

    A lot of posters seem to genuinely hate each other.


  • #29
    Jim Bob Scratcher
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    Is that where banned boards.ie members go?


  • #30
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Never really looked at it or had an account. Sounds like a bit of a laugh..

    I get warnings, infractions and bans weekly here if I talk about certain politics and it is definitely because of my views. The mods are either hyper-biased or just trust the little brigade of posters who report en-masse.


    They won that battle. I just look elsewhere for discussion on that topic.


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  • #31
    TomOnBoard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭TomOnBoard


    Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »
    Is that where banned boards.ie members go?

    No, its where they come from... Its the AQ training camp for forays onto Boards wearing the ould vests to create self-immolating threads and apoplectic mods playing whak-a-mole before the martyrs head off to find the 70 something Bored virgins TFM has promised them...


  • #32
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Pa8301 wrote: »
    The OP opens their account, starts this thread and promptly closes their account after 1 post. Is this a record?

    No.

    Some have opened an account and didn't reply for years afterwards.


  • #33
    BadBannana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭BadBannana


    I feel this is no great loss to humanity....


  • #34
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    Turnipman wrote: »
    Jesus no! :eek: That buffoon shouldn't be let near this site - he is seriously raving. Appears genuinely to believe that the current pope isn't religious enough!

    some might even go as far as saying he's the antichrist


  • #35
    TomOnBoard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭TomOnBoard


    As yeer all so worried....'twill be back up 'shortly'...

    https://mobile.twitter.com/PoliticsIE/status/1024061967437377538


  • #36
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    A week is a long time in politics.


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  • #37
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    boom boom


  • #38
    maccored
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,714 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    Berserker wrote: »
    Read it once of two and it made me appreciate the posters on here, even the ones I don't agree with. Some right tulips active on that forum.



    Might give some of the lads on here a chance to have a holiday. Need to make sure that the new lads are up to the grade first though.



    Can someone not just pop over and restart it?

    terribly boring. you make work on how to rile people up. bullying from a distance just doesn't cut it.


  • #39
    Taytoland
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭Taytoland


    Probably full of sinn feiners and communists.


  • #40
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Ye'd be surprised, it's actually fairly right wing. In fact, I'd argue that it's people who are beyond the Overton Window on either the left or the right who tend to post there, because they face over-moderation here.

    It does make political debate a bit more fun though. Debates go on until someone is backed into a logical corner and abandons the thread because they can't win, or everyone gets sick of the debate - not when someone arbitrarily decides that a debate has "gone too far" or "run its course", as happened a few days ago with the Peak Trans thread here.


  • #41
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    pleas advice wrote: »
    boom boom
    what?


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  • #42
    Hammer89
    Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    I suspect they finally realised that politics was a bit boring and sh*t and stopped posting.


  • #43
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,688 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Its as mad as a box of frogs that site but I do like to pop in occasionally. Some good posters there who clearly have the inside track on their parties going ons


  • #44
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,812 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    what?

    Basil Brush!


  • #45
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    riffmongous wrote: »
    Basil Brush!
    Not the Outhere Brothers?


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqHQ_wWbG9Y



    I want that song played at my funeral. F*cking Jam.


  • #46
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,812 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Those lyrics are pure filth


  • #47
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Presumably the Special Branch have finally made a move against them. ;)


  • #48
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,310 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »
    Is that where banned boards.ie members go?

    No, that would be /r/ireland


  • #49
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    riffmongous wrote: »
    Those lyrics are pure filth


    Back in the day we used to run around disco's singing those lyrics oblivious to their meaning.


  • #50
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,733 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Holiday time


  • #51
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,812 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Back in the day we used to run around disco's singing those lyrics oblivious to their meaning.

    Mental when you think about it, or the good old sex on the beach

    I think boom boom boom had a clean version too? I remember something like 'and your kisses on my face'


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