This sub reminds me of an old website I used to know…

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  1. This sub was much better before all the boards users migrated here. Buch of infantile, moany fuckers.

  2. What, you don’t like seeing the same users post the same thing every day until you recognize them by their profile pictures?

  3. Reddit has always been a safe haven for people boards.ie rejected.

    It just so happened boards.ie rejected the vast majority of its user base overnight, in one of the most stunning acts of self harm I’ve ever seen….

  4. This sub has become completely unreadable, I actively avoid it now as it is the most toxic, hostile and depressing subreddit I frequented. The mods really need to get a handle on things because the mood has dropped off a cliff the past two years. I find myself browsing /r/northernireland more these days despite being from the south.

  5. Boards.ie was such a fucking great place originally. I’m talking after it moved from being the quake board to the original boards between like 99-2001.

    Back then , actually getting on the internet was ‘hard’, so even with the rampant shithousery going on, there was a certain level of expectation that the people you were talking to , or insulting, were of a certain baseline intelligence. Those days are sadly gone.

  6. As soon as this sub shifts from a “landlords are scum” majority to “well, acktually, they are very hardworking people and tenants are scum”, then the transition will be complete.

  7. This sub feels like all the worst aspects of Irish culture amplified.

    Oh you’re sharing something you made? **Downvoted**. We can’t let people have Notions!

    You’re asking an innocuous question? Today I’ll downvote you but try asking me again tomorrow and I’ll answer it but with a smartarse answer just to show I’m a joker.

  8. The Forum Games part of Boards was a wonderful place and I genuinely miss it greatly sometimes.The werewolf games especially were some of the best craic

  9. Used to like Boards.ie but the same posters starting shit and the site redesign killed it for me. Mods too heavy handed with the banhammer also didn’t help and I found it got very clique-y.

  10. Boards is a shit place anyway, one of the worst forums I ever seen. Their censorship and moderatorship in general is just ridiculous.

  11. Now you mention it, the drop off here did happen right around the time boards.ie underwent one of the most disastrous overhauls I’ve ever heard of, where they made everyone’s private messages public (including ones with the likes of bank account info on them) and moved everyone’s personal data out of the EU to a Canadian company who’s servers are based in the US (massive breach of GDPR).

  12. Was a long-standing contributor to the Insult Thread over in Thunderdome foru..there was about 10 of us slugging it out every day for years..sad really but it was great fun. Degsy

  13. I used to have a great time on Boards as a young adult moving through the various edu forums and C&H.

  14. The moderation here has got a bit ‘Marmsy’, in the last few months.

    It would be interesting to see how much of the moderating team has jumped over from boards.

    My jimmies are rustled at the very thought.

  15. Some posters seemed to be full time on boards. One user called ” end of the road” was quite the contrarian to put it mildly.

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