After Hours Is ****?

themadchef

After hours is only as good / funny as the people who post here.

The Boards community is constanly growing. So there's alot more traffic in AH... why is this? Because AH is more relaxed, and meant to be fun imo. If AH was so sh1t people would soon find somewhere else to post.

It's supposed to be a light hearted bit of craic. Can we discuss serious topics? Course we can but at the end of the day it's not the admins or the mods making the threads...it's us.

Will everyone be happy all the time? No. Should everyone be happy all the time? no, where's the fun in that. You have to take the good posts with the bad posts, it's what makes the good posts great

Thanks whoring, well people just stop thanking those "thank me" posts and that problem is solved.

AH

delta_bravo

I blame the thanks button

Conor108

I think most funny AH threads adhere to the simple formula of

1. Quote recent news story
2. Quote Father Ted
3. ???
4. Profit

Insect Overlord

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

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

The worst-named forum on Boards, at your service

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1146

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

compare it to AH say even a year ago

I'm pretty sure there was a thread in here this time last year making the exact same point (i.e. that After Hours was not as cool as it used to be). Methinks people just get bored of it after a while.

Terry

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

Why is it not funny anymore?

Have you done anything to help make it a funny place?

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV wrote: »

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

Banned.
Note to self. Ban this guy after submitting this post.

Karl Hungus wrote: »

But there are also rockers.

I'm a mod and I rock.

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.

Your friend is lying.
I don't have any affiliation with Daft.ie. They can suck my balls.

Deleted User wrote: »

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

They have been curtailed.

m83 wrote: »

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.

Once again, Daft.ie can suck my balls.
They are only investors and do not have a say in what I do.
If I get demodded for this, then you can have your conspiracy theory.
I'll probably get demodded for other stuff, so don't let that interfere with stuff. I'm tired.

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*

They have been curtailed.

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.

Things change and boards has changed too.
We are getting a lot more people migrating from Bebo and such and they are new to the format here.
They will either adapt, leave of their own accord, get sitebanned or bring something new to the site. I prefer the last one.

As for the post limit, never going to happen.
AH is here to take the pressure off the other niche forums.

banquo wrote: »

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.

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1146

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

compare it to AH say even a year ago

Links?

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

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.

They have been curtailed.

kittensoft1984

I dont think its changed that much except a lot more morons seem to post here lately.

Terry

As a policy we do not ban people for being idiots.
Idiotic posts are a different thing though.

kittensoft1984

Maybe there should be a change in policy.....

congo_90

Karl Hungus wrote: »

But there are also rockers.

which brings us onto rocker chicks

Terry

congo_90 wrote: »

which brings us onto rocker chicks

An Ah mod wept.
Not me.

Tar.Aldarion

tman wrote: »

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

Couldn't think of a crap joke eh?

FlutterinBantam

kittensoft1984 wrote: »

I dont think its changed that much except a lot more morons seem to post here lately.

You should have added "in my opinion"

I feel sorry for Anne Frank. First she gets her diary published, which is every girl's worst nightmare, but on top of that she doesn't get any money from it, which is every Jew's worst nightmare.