After Hours Is ****?

xOxSinéadxOx

Why is it not funny anymore?

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV

your **** if you don't like it go somewhere else. i think its grand

Not sure. I'm guessing it's something recession related.

Could also have to do with your sense of humor. Personally, since the "yore ma" posts started disappearing, i've thought AH has been better than ever.

Wagon

Cos there's mods.

tman

<insert lame joke here in attempt to get as many thanks as possible>

Fago!

Deleted User wrote: »

Not sure. I'm guessing it's something recession related.

Could also have to do with your sense of humor. Personally, since the "yore ma" posts started disappearing, i've thought AH has been better than ever.

Are you not allowed to say t"Yore MA" here anymore?

Saibh

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

Why is it not funny anymore?

Why did you not start a thread about something that is funny instead of moaning

Purple Gorilla

Cos since this whole recession started, any thread started here has one mandatory recession/anti-fianna fail-joke post where the poster thinks they are being funny and creative but they aren't..they're just beating a dead horse

phasers

*Simpsons quote goes here*

Mr.Lizard

I blame the advent of professional blogging. It's taken all the best online yappers away and destroyed the once amateur spirit of mindlessly posting sh1te on the net for the world to read.

phenomenon

We need to mindlessly post more internet memes

jester77

Either you've become desynthesized or you are losing your sense of humour!

Karl Hungus

Wagon wrote: »

Cos there's mods.

But there are also rockers.

Wagon

Karl Hungus wrote: »

But there are also rockers.

That caused me look at the Quadrophenia poster on my wall affectionately Thanks Karl Hungus!

galwayrush

Get pissed, it's always funny then.:D

Saibh

galwayrush wrote: »

Get pissed, it's always funny then.:D

It helps when you see the words with double vision :P

galwayrush

Saibh wrote: »

It helps when you see the words with double vision :P

Ohh, love that, and when you have to edit your post 5 times to get the basic spellings right, fantastic.:cool:

sdanseo

Too many thanks-whores tbh

jester77

jester77 wrote: »

Either you've become desynthesized or you are losing your sense of humour!

He's become less combined?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/synthesize

stovelid

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

Why is it not funny anymore?

AH is the sum of it's users, including you. If it's shit, you need to take more responsibility and start being more funny.

Buzz Killington

I heard from a friend that all the mods on all forums were told to clean the place up, cos the owners don't want to upset the companies buying advert space.

Don't belive that for a second meself.

ejmaztec

Buzz Killington wrote: »

I heard from a friend that all the mods on all forums were told to clean the place up, cos the owners don't want to upset the companies buying advert space.

Don't belive that for a second meself.

If Carlsberg did Boards, they would probably be the best boards in the world, but they wouldn't be advertising Heineken.

galwayrush

Buzz Killington wrote: »

I heard from a friend that all the mods on all forums were told to clean the place up, cos the owners don't want to upset the companies buying advert space.

Don't belive that for a second meself.

Why, is Max Clifford advertising here?:rolleyes:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

Why is it not funny anymore?

Because you're a woman and you've no sense of humour.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

galwayrush wrote: »

Why, is Max Clifford advertising here?:rolleyes:

I believe he has a vacancy...

FlutterinBantam

We need more Toilet Threads, ever since these were curtailed, the auld good humour and bonhomie usually prevalent around AH went due West.

Too many politically correct whankers took umbrage and the buttoned down brigade won the day.

Nothin' beats a good auld "bad toilet experience" to get the chuckles going, let's face it we all have had one of those.

Not that I'm complaining though, I have permission for a TT every two months, but regret cannot broadcast my very bad experience in Tuffloo at the bottom of Dawson St. today.

The auld spontaneity is gone, it's all PC now, mores the pity.

ejmaztec

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

We need more Toilet Threads, ever since these were curtailed, the auld good humour and bonhomie usually prevalent around AH went due West.

Too many politically correct whankers took umbrage and the buttoned down brigade won the day.

Nothin' beats a good auld "bad toilet experience" to get the chuckles going, let's face it we all have had one of those.

Not that I'm complaining though, I have permission for a TT every two months, but regret cannot broadcast my very bad experience in Tuffloo at the bottom of Dawson St. today.

The auld spontaneity is gone, it's all PC now, mores the pity.

They were crap.

Fago_25

Fago_25 wrote: »

Are you not allowed to say t"Yore MA" here anymore?

Dunno if they're banned or anything, but they don't appear as much, so that's a good thing.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

The auld spontaneity is gone, it's all PC now, mores the pity.

The **** it is! Give me three minutes....

Done. Probably by locked insite five minutes, but hey - I tried!

AlmightyCushion

After Hours Is ****?

I think it's more of a 4.5 stars out of 5.

m83

Good point OP, I couldn't agree more, AH has definitely gone to the dogs.

For a while I thought this was down to it being too heavily moderated. Take today's Jade Goody debacle for instance. The thing was a f*cking mess and a mod had to step in to sort it all out with bans, infractions and deleting of posts. All very school teacher type punishments but they are the only tools of the trade here on boards.

However at the same time, take a look at the same topic on B3ta (http://www.b3ta.com/links/293855 NSFW: Language). This is a site often compared to 4chan for its sick and twisted humour and is run by non other than Rob Manuel, the founder of Sickipedia. Sure a lot of people took swipes at Goody but there's enough cop on amongst the users to show some respect for the dead. I've been a member there for 3 years and in my opinion it is a much friendlier place to post than AH (this even being a place where two members can verbally abuse eachother without retribution). Even now, I'm wondering will this post get deleted but such is the schoolboy/teacher relationship which exists between normal users and mods.

But if it isn't moderators spoiling the party then what is it? Would it be daft to suggest a stricter policy is being applied from the top down. Well that could be a stretch and maybe one for the tinfoil hat brigade of the conspiracy theories forum.

Well ok if that takes the mods and owners out of the equation, what's left? Please don't say the recession. F*ck the recession. Yes times are tougher now but none of us are starving on the street because of it. So you might have to wait another 6 months until you get a new laptop, boo hoo I say.

So Boardsies I put it to you, yes you, you are the reason why AH is a mere shadow of it's former self! There is a massive community of people in this forum but nothing good comes of it, nothing! Any serious discussion is swiftly moved to it's correct forum, far away from the sharp edged dunce caps of the AH dumbies. Let's face it, this is the butthole of Boards, a collective of foggy notioned know-it-alls and half-arsed wanna be's, lolling and trolling with one hand on the mouse, the other scratching their arse.

But I say no more! If this forum is going to pick up again it needs some fresh content. We've all been guilty of the crap threads, no pun intended. But AH cannot carry on in this way with such gutter postings. It's repetitive and boring, repetetive and boring, repetetive and ...

Well I'm going to do my bit. No more recession threads. No more toilet threads. No more Polish are racists threads. Just no more dumb crap that I'd otherwise read in yesterdays freshly greased tabloids.

Rant over. Delete me, lock me, mock me... whatever. But I'll be back with, I hope, some threads to make this a better place in future because without good content this place is, like me... finished.

SV

I don't think it's that bad..

well since the ban on toilet threads and things like that it gets a bit shíte but overall it's still ok

FlutterinBantam

What do you mean no more "dumb crap"??

This is the capital of "dumb crap"!!

Go to Politics if you want serious threads.

shamblertine

the recent poll on AH proved that the majority of posters felt mods are too harsh, its about time they started to take notice of this fact or else....

AlmightyCushion

shamblertine wrote: »

the recent poll on AH proved that the majority of posters felt mods are too harsh, its about time they started to take notice of this fact or else....

That poll was about mods on boards not just on after hours.

My name is URL

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=260466

That stupid reference makes me think this place was never really funny, Im relatively new here so I don't care

S.I.R

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

Why is it not funny anymore?

cause its that time of the month for you ?

Tech3

Too many new users trolling around thats the problem offering lame jokes

K4t

tech2 wrote: »

Too many new users trolling around thats the problem offering lame jokes

Reported.

Reason ~ Not a lame joke

TPD

Flutt - Reading your post made me think. A lot of the mindless chuckles and light-hearted laughs I derived from AH had come from reading about your toilet escapades. I miss them.

Must look out for more adventures from the toilet-bowl.

*wipes away tear*

Tech3

K4t wrote: »

Reported.

Give me a proper reason and Ill accept my punishment

Turd Ferguson

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

Why is it not funny anymore?

Because people keep moaning about things and dont contribute anything funny.
Here, have a cookie

K4t

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

What do you mean no more "dumb crap"??

This is the capital of "dumb crap"!!

Go to Politics if you want serious threads.

Ireland > Politics > Serious > GTFO.

missingtime

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

Why is it not funny anymore?

Was it ever?

banquo

It was great back in the day. I could be wrong, maybe it was just because I was 17 in 2002 and it seemed better.

Boards.ie has a certain decorum to it, and AH is probably one of the most popular forums. New members are great - the more the merrier - but we're getting people appearing in and posting crap in AH 2 hours after joining. And other noobs think that it's the way it's done.

And a lot of it is just crap. 'Two fingers to the recession'. And most of the time the thread isn't actually that bad, it's the quality of the posts that's taking the piss.

In my day, you were flamed to shiSIZE="2"]t[/SIZE if you acted like a moron. Today's posters lack discipline and decorum.

I'm sure nobody will agree with me on this, but I'd love to see a 200(ish) minimum post count before being able to post on AH or Humour.

TPD

banquo wrote: »

It was great back in the day. I could be wrong, maybe it was just because I was 17 in 2002 and it seemed better.

Boards.ie has a certain decorum to it, and AH is probably one of the most popular forums. New members are great - the more the merrier - but we're getting people appearing in and posting crap in AH 2 hours after joining. And other noobs think that it's the way it's done.

And a lot of it is just crap. 'Two fingers to the recession'. And most of the time the thread isn't actually that bad, it's the quality of the posts that's taking the piss.

In my day, you were flamed to shiSIZE="2"]t[/SIZE if you acted like a moron. Today's posters lack discipline and decorum.

I'm sure nobody will agree with me on this, but I'd love to see a 200(ish) minimum post count before being able to post on AH or Humour.

That would quite likely bump up the amount of gibberish posts in other fora though.

banquo

TPD wrote: »

That would quite likely bump up the amount of gibberish posts in other fora though.

True...

/strokes beard thoughtfully

Is there, like, a playpen we can put the flaming teenies in? With lots of rotating colours and the like. Something really annoying.

Like I said, in my day you were flamed until you got the message: no annoying crap for the sake of your post count. 'Lol' is not a post. 'Yore ma' is not a post.

xOxSinéadxOx

I'm a teenie, where is this colourful playpen you speak of?

but seriously, I think what I meant to ask is do other people think AH is gone crap or is it just me?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

I'm a teenie, where is this colourful playpen you speak of?

but seriously, I think what I meant to ask is do other people think AH is gone crap or is it just me?

Depends on what we're comparing it to. Bebo?

xOxSinéadxOx

compare it to AH say even a year ago

FlutterinBantam

TPD wrote: »

Flutt - Reading your post made me think. A lot of the mindless chuckles and light-hearted laughs I derived from AH had come from reading about your toilet escapades. I miss them.

Must look out for more adventures from the toilet-bowl.

*wipes away tear*

Well I'm glad to hear that, indeed a lot of posters secretly got a a chuckle ,but as I said, the buttoned down lot ,like the Taliban, got in, and that was that.

I am grateful to be allowed to post bi-monthly on this serious subject, but feel the spontaneity has gone, and it will be like a dump in a Tuff-Loo , dull and boring.
I realise not all people liked my subject matter,but jaysus,when you unload a ripe steamer of epic proportions, you are somewhat akin to the hen after laying.
You need to cluck loudly to draw attention to the feat.