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    #122
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    damien.m for mod


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    #123
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    If Stix wasnt banned already. I'd be banning him now.

    10% of people will complain at either end of the spectrum. ie: that we are too strict or too lax. 10% of people who dont hold those opinions will support any anti-establishment position. Generally 80% of people simply couldn't care less and never encounter the mods or the admins.

    So, my theory is that so long as 80% are happy, I can live with that because its the local maximum of happiness. Any movement to more or less strict moderation will, in my opinion decrease generally happyness.

    DeV.


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    #124
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    CuLT wrote:
    .... :v:


    I so wanted to post tubgirl there.

    or meathole :D


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    #125
    The Sweeper
    Registered Users Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭The Sweeper


    DeVore wrote:
    If Stix wasnt banned already. I'd be banning him now.

    10% of people will complain at either end of the spectrum. ie: that we are too strict or too lax. 10% of people who dont hold those opinions will support any anti-establishment position. Generally 80% of people simply couldn't care less and never encounter the mods or the admins.

    So, my theory is that so long as 80% are happy, I can live with that because its the local maximum of happiness. Any movement to more or less strict moderation will, in my opinion decrease generally happyness.

    DeV.

    So 10% will complain either end, and 10% of people who don't hold those opinions will support anything anti-establishment, and 80% of people couldn't care less, and as long as they're happy, you don't mind really, and the other 70% of users prefer whiskas?

    ...you play poker? That an odds-based game?

    /me points and runs away, wearing copper armour in a thunderstorm and shouting "all gods should suck my c0x0r5".


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    #126
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,803 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    damien.m wrote:
    Well then with that argument, shouldn't there only be txt spk in the txt spk forum? There's an idea to ban txt spk sitewide! Create a forum for it and ghettoise those that love txt spk there.
    I half-heartedly endorse this product and/or service.


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    #127
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    oscarBravo wrote:
    I half-heartedly endorse this product and/or service.

    Who would be willing to mod it, though?


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    #128
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,803 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    ne1 wth hlf a brn. r lss.


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    #129
    Sparky
    Registered Users Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    DeVore wrote:
    Generally 80% of people simply couldn't care less and never encounter the mods or the admins.

    So, my theory is that so long as 80% are happy

    id say im in the 80% bracket, i only become a person who compains when there is personal loss of money involved.

    Right you are Dev.


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    #130
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,196 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    simu wrote:
    Who would be willing to mod it, though?
    Masochists?


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    #131
    damien
    Registered Users Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭damien


    I nominate Rsynnott. Rob puts the OTT in Synnott.


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    #132
    damien
    Registered Users Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭damien


    DeVore wrote:
    So, my theory is that so long as 80% are happy, I can live with that because its the local maximum of happiness. Any movement to more or less strict moderation will, in my opinion decrease generally happyness.

    But it's the 10% who spark revolutions, make the innovations and change the world.


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    #133
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,196 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    When the revolution comes to boards.ie, YOU will be the first against the wall.


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    #134
    Stark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,991 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    *bump*s for everyone in the new utopia. Oh brave new world.


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    #135
    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    Stark wrote:
    *bump*s for everyone in the new utopia. Oh brave new world.

    or stranger in a strange land.

    guess it depends how you look at it!


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    #136
    redspider
    Registered Users Posts: 2,544 ✭✭✭redspider


    Many of you are probably aware of the Holohan/O'Donoghue case which has erupted in public interest due to what went on it court yesterday. A thread was started on it in After Hours.

    I login this morning only to find the thread locked !!!

    This is clearly over-reaction as it is a subject being discussed up and down Ireland today yet here on a discussion board the topic is banned ?!?! That just does not make sense.

    Nesf, can you unlock the thread?

    I realise that other people requesed the thread to be locked but that is no reason to lock it. The discussion was barely getting going ...... its also a complex one as there are finer points of legal detail which need to be outlined and additionally, it is a moving story.

    redspider


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    #137
    RE*AC*TOR
    Registered Users Posts: 7,482 ✭✭✭RE*AC*TOR


    Agreed. I've been listening to it on the radio all morning. Don't see why it should be out-of bounds here.


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    #138
    RuggieBear
    Registered Users Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    circular arguments...and people stating their own opinions and hypotheses as "facts" get boring pretty quickly and turns into one big flamewar as posters refuse to budge from their preconceived notions...

    Suprised that thread lasted as long


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    #139
    redspider
    Registered Users Posts: 2,544 ✭✭✭redspider


    RuggieBear wrote:
    circular arguments...and people stating their own opinions and hypotheses as "facts" get boring pretty quickly and turns into one big flamewar as posters refuse to budge from their preconceived notions...

    But isnt that what discussion and debate is all about. If you dont like what you read in a thread, either comment on it or else ignore it. It seems stange to have a "big brother" (original meaning, not the DeMol lark) approach and lock threads when there is clearly interest in a topic.

    redspider


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    #140
    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    id have to agree.
    i generally only a lock a thread once it gets down to the 'I AM USING CAPS BECUASE THAT WAY YOU WILL UNDERSTAND MY POINT AND AGREE WITH ME' stage.

    it appears that most people cannot accept that others can have a different viewpoint that is just as valid.
    and of course, stating you opinion as fact is another big thing on boards.ie.

    of course, i havent actually read the thread, so it could have been locked due to it being pants.


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    #141
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,196 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    I'd Lay A Bet It Was Locked Due To It Being Another Case Of People Claiming "facts" All The Time. Do You Understand My Point And Agree With Me?


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    #142
    Steveire
    Registered Users Posts: 1,421 ✭✭✭Steveire


    you HAVE TO MAKE SURE TO START ONE WORD WITH A LOWERCASE LETTER IF YOU WANT TO SHOUT!!!1!1


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    #143
    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan


    sTFU!

    :)


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    #144
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,196 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    Yeah steveire - i forgot that -i think i was still wanting to be in bed at the time :p


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    #145
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,312 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    TheGrinch_000 wrote:
    I'd Lay A Bet It Was Locked Due To It Being Another Case Of People Claiming "facts" All The Time. Do You Understand My Point And Agree With Me?

    Are You A Galway Dude Who 'Supplies' Cables?

    On second reading, probably not! You don't punctuate your sentences with '!'. Also, you forgot to capitalise "Facts"!

    Dude, I Sent That PM Already!

    Not your ornery onager



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    #146
    rsynnott
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    esel wrote:
    Are You A Galway Dude Who 'Supplies' Cables?

    On second reading, probably not! You don't punctuate your sentences with '!'. Also, you forgot to capitalise "Facts"!

    Dude, I Sent That PM Already!

    Bad.


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    #147
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,196 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    esel wrote:
    Are You A Galway Dude Who 'Supplies' Cables?

    On second reading, probably not! You don't punctuate your sentences with '!'. Also, you forgot to capitalise "Facts"!

    Dude, I Sent That PM Already!
    ...can someone please translate what this guy said?


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    #148
    RuggieBear
    Registered Users Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    TheGrinch_000 wrote:
    ...can someone please translate what this guy said?

    so it's not just me...:confused:


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    #149
    Shabadu
    Registered Users Posts: 7,659 ✭✭✭Shabadu


    TheGrinch_000 wrote:
    ...can someone please translate what this guy said?
    I *think* he doesn't understand that if you post in all caps, the code automatically reverts everything except the first character of each word into lower case. He is comparing you to Galway Dude, who has been known to type in a similar fashion, (albeit with more exclamation marks and less cable selling), and was trying to draw a similarity between you, or accuse you of being one and the same.

    Although, I don't remember Galway Dude typing in that fashion.

    /shrugs


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    #150
    RuggieBear
    Registered Users Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    Shabadu wrote:
    I *think* he doesn't understand that if you post in all caps, the code automatically reverts everything except the first character of each word into lower case. He is comparing you to Galway Dude, who has been known to type in a similar fashion, (albeit with more exclamation marks and less cable selling), and was trying to draw a similarity between you, or accuse you of being one and the same.

    Although, I don't remember Galway Dude typing in that fashion.

    /shrugs

    /me kowtows


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