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How true to life is your Boards.ie persona?

  • 27-05-2021 12:18PM
    #1
    Walking_Wolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭Walking_Wolf


    I like this Oscar Wilde quote; "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." When you consider the internet, this quote almost seems prescient. I'm wondering how true to your 'real-life' self is your Boards.ie persona. Is it the same, or is it a more irreverent version of yourself? Would the mods be as assertive in real life situations as they can be on this site? There are a few wind up merchants around here too, would they be so antagonistic in real life?


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Almost identical, with an extra helping of irreverence in AH. By and large, what you see is what you get. Those who sport more than one mask on boards are cowards. That is all.


  • #3
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    87% true to life.


  • #4
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,259 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Walking_Wolf wrote: »
    I like this Oscar Wilde quote; "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." When you consider the internet, this quote almost seems prescient. I'm wondering how true to your 'real-life' self is your Boards.ie persona. Is it the same, or is it a more irreverent version of yourself? Would the mods be as assertive in real life situations as they can be on this site? There are a few wind up merchants around here too, would they be so antagonistic in real life?

    Interesting question, but it's not so direct to answer. People will always see themselves in a better light than what they are. Be it on the internet or in real life. A rude and abrasive person, for example, can view himself as just a 'straight-shooter' while everyone else would beg to differ.

    As for mods being so assertive in the real world?
    They wouldn't because they couldn't. People would tell them to f-off and say who do you think you are etc.

    This is the internet. Anyone can come off as anyway they like without any repercussions.


  • #5
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 43,267 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I think pretty much as close to possible though I can't be objective. I like cats a lot more than my posting here would suggest though.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #6
    Leg End Reject
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 21,859 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    True to myself, just ever so slightly more argumentative here at times. :p

    The character accounts and spoofers are usually very obvious, the rest generally trip themselves up eventually. I'll never understand the insecurity or inferiority complex that compels someone to create an online persona, it's actually quite pitiful.

    https://forumofgames.com/



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  • #7
    AdrianBalboa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 475 ✭✭AdrianBalboa


    100% accurate. You can probably figure out where I live from what I have posted here.


  • #8
    McGinniesta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    This is nothing like my real persona.

    I'm way more scathing in real life. There are no infractions and thread bans in real life.


  • #9
    ELM327
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,397 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    100% true.
    I'm as much of an arse here as I am in reality


  • #10
    D3V!L
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,715 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    Fairly accurate. Every so slightly more evil in person.


  • #11
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,966 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    While there are, certainly, a few, of what I would call “sound skins” on here I would, sincerely, hope that a number of posters are not like their personas here.

    There are a number of very “negative”, angry, posters who spend their days whinging about travellers, RTÉ, Covid restrictions, The Late Late Show, Dr Tony, people of colour, Noel King, WOKE (all caps) and a number of other topics that seem to constantly boil their piss.

    This cannot be good for ones mental health. Maybe it’s just a way for them to deal with their own “shortcomings” in real life but the levels of nastiness, and spite, have them coming across as deranged oddballs.

    As for me, well, my winning personality comes across in person the same as on here. Just a shame my good looks are restricted to the “real world” ;)

    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be” - A. Dumbledore

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,755 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Same, but I think I come across more aggressive in text.


  • #13
    Trigger Happy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,243 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    I am great craic in real life and on boards.


  • #14
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,225 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    There was an almost identical thread in March OP.
    Just an FYI if you're interested in replies there.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058169360


  • #15
    ELM327
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,397 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    While there are, certainly, a few, of what I would call “sound skins” on here I would, sincerely, hope that a number of posters are not like their personas here.

    There are a number of very “negative”, angry, posters who spend their days whinging about travellers, RTÉ, Covid restrictions, The Late Late Show, Dr Tony, people of colour, Noel King, WOKE (all caps) and a number of other topics that seem to constantly boil their piss.

    This cannot be good for ones mental health. Maybe it’s just a way for them to deal with their own “shortcomings” in real life but the levels of nastiness, and spite, have them coming across as deranged oddballs.

    As for me, well, my winning personality comes across in person the same as on here. Just a shame my good looks are restricted to the “real world” ;)


    I do most of the above, and dole scroungers and antivax people to boot too.


    I also do it offline too!


  • #16
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    I am different on here than in real life.

    You have to be careful about what you say on here. It's easy to get vilified, lambasted or banned if you say the wrong thing on boards. If I was having a beer with someone I know well I'd feel more free to mention certain things whereas on here you'd get someone taking it the wrong way very easily because you're only communicating via text.

    I think as well there's a lot of argumentative bastids on here who are just itching to have a go at someone and no matter how careful you are you'll still get one latching on now and then


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,208 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Pretty much the same. I'm probably a little less serious, and easygoing in RL. But I'd express the same opinions offline as I would here.


  • #18
    lintdrummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭lintdrummer


    Is that user Pighead still active? Always spoke in the third person about himself. I always wondered what kind of character that individual was away from the keyboard.


  • #19
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,733 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm sleepy. That has nothing got to do with who I am. I just wanted to express my feelings.
    In fact I'm so damn sleepy it feels like no amount would help. In two hours I'll be in bed.


  • #20
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I don't have enough posts to have a persona.

    Maybe I never will.

    :(


  • #21
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,225 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    MeepMeep2021 wrote: »
    I don't have enough posts to have a persona.

    Maybe I never will.

    :(

    Based on this post I'd say you have low self-esteem and are pessimistic? Does that sound like you in real life? :cool:


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  • #22
    Immortal Starlight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,268 ✭✭✭Immortal Starlight


    I’m absolutely the same. I’ve never said anything here I wouldn’t say in real life. I don’t lie I don’t play games. Couldn’t be arsed making up stories. What you get is what you see.


  • #23
    Nicole Uptight Script
    Posts: 13,753 ✭✭✭✭ Nicole Uptight Script


    I hate capitalism much more in real life.


  • #24
    NickNickleby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,889 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    In real life, I'd be quite humorous. I love Dad jokes, especially as my adult kids never tire of groaning at me.

    I'm a bit garrulous in real life as well, and sometimes I can lose the run of myself on boards as well. A recent post of mine epitomises this. Caused chaos and confusion :eek::eek::eek::pac:

    All in all, I'm live and let live and I hope I come across that way on here as well.


  • #25
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'll never attain facekicker notoriety. That's all I say.


  • #26
    Aongus Von Bismarck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    I really couldn't give a curse about what anonymous blowhard posters on sites like this think of me, but do appreciate a warm compliment in real life.


  • #27
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    I really couldn't give a curse about what anonymous blowhard posters on sites like this think of me, but do appreciate a warm compliment in real life.

    Far removed from your cousin Otto, who was a master at diplomacy.


  • #28
    py2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,845 ✭✭✭py2006


    A lot of the things I bitch, whinge and moan about on here actually don't occur a lot in my day to day life.


  • #29
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tell me how wrote: »
    Based on this post I'd say you have low self-esteem and are pessimistic? Does that sound like you in real life? :cool:


    I didn't think a /sarc tag was necessary, but live and learn :)


  • #30
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,344 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Well I suppose I see this forum as being "for" discussion and debate. So that is how I present myself on it. But I would not be going looking for that in real life. It is a bit like how the jujitsu mat for me is a place to go for fighting - but I do not go around in real life wanting or looking for a fight.

    So I suppose I come across as entirely different as a persona on here that I would in real life for that reason.

    Outside work - which is generally the only place I find time to get to use boards anyway - I pretty much fill every waking minute of my time without stopping so I am more often doing than discussing. I have become quite driven and simply do not stop from dawn till dark when I finally pass out.


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  • #31
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Well I. It is a bit like how the jujitsu mat for me .
    .

    For me, it looks more like a playpen at times, with a bunch of angry recalcetrant toddlers whining and crying.


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