Is it me or is AH filling up with Children and thanks whores?

Doc

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Are people really that worried about who is thanking who because of their status? Internet, serious business...

Well what I was saying is that people with larger post counts and mods are the people who are paid attention to. I don’t particularly care about who is getting thanked but was trying to show that this was the case.

Doc wrote:

There are so many people on now that nobody gives a crap about anyone else’s opinion and only hugely prolific posters or Mods are known or respected. (This is evident by the amount of times a Mod will say something ordinary on a tread and will receive numerous thanks from people.)

I realize that this is natural I was only pointing out that due to the size of boards and after hours it has lost some of its original community feel.

Bonito

Sorry but this has to be said...






























Somebody please think of the children!

GLaDOS

Doc wrote: »

Well what I was saying is that people with larger post counts and mods are the people who are paid attention to. I don’t particularly care about who is getting thanked but was trying to show that this was the case.

I think it's more the popular posters have high post counts than high post count = popular.

Personally it doesn't bother me, there's always going to be posters who get their point across better and therefore get more attention. I say what I have to say and make my contribution, mightn't get as much recognition but that's not what boards is about.

Sharpshooter

Doc wrote: »

There are so many people on now that nobody gives a crap about anyone else’s opinion and only hugely prolific posters or Mods are known or respected. (This is evident by the amount of times a Mod will say something ordinary on a tread and will receive numerous thanks from people.)

That is not realistic imo.

Thanks drop with Mods posts unless you are being a lickarse.

I always pun, if posters that normally thanked my puns still thank them, well and good.

If I still pun and don't get the whole thanks button that's okay too, because most posters in AHs don't want to be seen to be a lickarse to a mod.

Even if they did enjoy the pun.:p

mahamageehad

More people wander the internet aimlessly now because they can. I bet membership of this site has grown exponentially in the last 3 years!

Basically op, why not start a good interesting thread that is more like you think the old times were? Instead of a child like whinging thread.....?

Bonito

Note to self : From now on I will only thank a mods 2nd/3rd witty/comical/funny/punny post.

Also note : More than one mod shall not be thanked in the same thread - 1st come 1st served.

Also note : I may have just set up an internal competition between mods to be 1st to get thanked by me in a thread.

Also note : My thanks are the best

Also note : End result is to make sure fellow boardsies don't see me as licking mod ass :rolleyes:

robby^5

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Are people really that worried about who is thanking who because of their status? Internet, serious business...

Thanked by two mods...clearly you're part of the elite ruling class.

Shine those shoes for you sir?

Doc

Note to self : Never mention anything no mater how small about thanks again.

OutlawPete

Dudess wrote: »

The misogyny and trolling used to be WAY worse, in my opinion.

Ya sure?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=64364620&postcount=45

GLaDOS

robby^5 wrote: »

Thanked by two mods...clearly you're part of the elite ruling class.

Shine those shoes for you sir?

Get yourself in on the action before it's too late my friend

Overheal

Asking if AH is filling up with children is like getting suprised at a Hospital that fills up with babies and Old People.

Jazzy

Dudess wrote: »

I'm not being smart, but I genuinely think AH is the same as ever. Actually it was probably more idiotic in the early days.

pre 2005?

Joey the lips

I noticed this. I dont know whats worse. Looseing a debate to someone that knows what their talking about or having a debate with someone who is quote school text books and does not understand the meaning of whats being said.

Having said all that its really about direction. If your happy to feel that you need to argue with everyone then your on the wrong site. If your open minded to learning from every generation then your in the right place.

Most discussions are meaningless anyway. One of the longest threads I have seen to date is "So what did you do today" .... Yepp that is going to bring some interesting stuff....

FlutterinBantam

sdonn wrote: »

Honestly, I dunno. Just a subconcious noticing that threads are getting boringly repetitve and full of smartarse comments. Which is grand the odd time, but not in every thread.

Just wanna reiterate that overall AH is stil a great forum. Just i'm curious who feels the same way (although I should know at this stage getting a serious answer to a question is difficult!)

Spot on SDonn, place is overrun by a certain coterie of ,well, immatures, who run around the place in a pack posting inane comments and thankswhoring each other and using the forum like GMail chat with puerile flirting and half baked fappery.

Bebo surely would be more appropriate for them,as it's pure teenage rubbish.

These people ,it would appear cannot post anything of any interest themselves, yet are first in to attack anyone who tries to inject a bit of genuine levity .

Losing interest, I must say even thought the Mods ARE trying.

Maybe these people will cop on and this phase will pass.

bonerm

Abigayle wrote: »

I remember when all this were just fields....

Ah, how I miss those halcyon days!

After Hours 1955

After Hours 2015?

Joey the lips

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Maybe these people will cop on and this phase will pass.

ehhhh...nope. dont think so.:D

arybvtcw0eolkf

I use two discussion forum's regularly and have noticed over the years that they both go into the doldrums during the winter months but pick up again in spring & summer.

Prof.Badass

IvySlayer wrote: »

I understand some of what you're saying. There is a trend to get a smartarse comment of 'This thread is ****' amongst other annoying things.

A lot of people complained about 'yore ma' and the mods stamped that out. I think if enough people want it, the forum will change.

Tbh, anyone who complained about YORE MA was up their own arse. It's just one post in a whole thread, are you really such a joyless prat that one post in a thread annoys you that much?

It was our very own meme and just like different groups of friends have different injokes, YORE MA gave AH a real sense of community that has been lacking since it was banned.

For those who never got it, the joke was in the fact that it was used in every thread regardless of how well it worked.
In short, AH got shit when YORE MA was banned :mad:.

OldGoat

Them feckers over in Teh Gentlemens Club forum stole our sensible threads and left only teh 'Yore Ma'ers, teh durty feckers! Pitchforks and torches now.

Rabies

sdonn wrote: »

Anyone noticed this? Back in time AH was about 70% General Discussion, 20% A great laugh and 10% idiots. Now it seems theres too many pointless, meaningless, stupid threads, or polls that attempt to be funny but really just waste my time. It's becoming a chore to flick through AH and find threads worth reading where once I read them all, many in full.

In other words, the place has got more childish and less serious. While I'm all for a bit of craic theres no reason why every thread has to have a quota of humour that's out of place because its just stupid or slapstick and unnessecary. Contributions like that are just too common.

I'm not attributing this to moderation or specific moderators, but the tone of the contributions in general.

At the risk of being hung out to dry, I must ask - I want the original AH back. Who does too?

BTW - I'm posting this to make a point, not to whore a whole pile of meaningless thanks.

We've tried before keeping a little bit more balanced to one of the sides, but its hard to keep everyone happy so it is a game of a little bit of everything.

AH can surprise me and have some great topics, not just light discussion, but in some in depth serious topics too.

It comes down to the contributers. If people push a thread one way or another, posters are sheep they will follow.

The thanks feature has dumbed down AH (was that possible) a little more. But it also serves the purpose of doubling up as an "I agree" or "LOL" or "+1" post. But it has led to some stupid sh!t too.

stovelid

The "original" posters are just getting older perhaps... :pac:

hooradiation

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Spot on SDonn, place is overrun by a certain coterie of ,well, immatures, who run around the place in a pack posting inane comments and thankswhoring each other and using the forum like GMail chat with puerile flirting and half baked fappery.

Bebo surely would be more appropriate for them,as it's pure teenage rubbish.

These people ,it would appear cannot post anything of any interest themselves, yet are first in to attack anyone who tries to inject a bit of genuine levity .

Losing interest, I must say even thought the Mods ARE trying.

Maybe these people will cop on and this phase will pass.

Wow, our resident coprophiliac thinks the place is too low brow.

A dark day for After Hours.

AnonoBoy

As a justice of the peace I find it's only through After Hours that I can joke about Mary Harney, Chuggers, immigrants and annoying kids playing music through their mobile telephone devices outside shops without fear of reprimand.

Let me have my fun. :mad:

pickarooney

Dudess wrote: »

The misogyny and trolling used to be WAY worse, in my opinion.

Ah you've just got older and wiser and accepted your place/the truth/the fact that people say stuff they don't mean/the complex versatility of the slash character/not the guy from guns 'n' roses/the one that's also use for division/I'm pretty sure the percentage sign is just a modified/your wrists/I need a /

biko

I think with the creation of Cool Vids and Ranting forums the pressure on AH has eased somewhat.

In my opinion the thanks button has changed things.
Damn/Thank you thanks button, damn/thank you to HELL!

stovelid

Maybe the collective fug of whinge-nostalgia currently besetting Boards is a demographic thing?

Perhaps a particular of posters have reached a similar age (or a certain length of time on boards) at the same time and that explains the near-torrent of discussion about the direction of this and that, and the temerity of "children"/non-gamers/people without shit facial hair posting about topics that were - If you don't mind- adequately covered in 2004.

If you feel there is a dearth of serious topics in AH: get posting some. Whinging for thanks ain't that far removed from the punning for thanks that you so abhor.

Dudess

ScienceNerd wrote: »

I think it's more the popular posters have high post counts than high post count = popular.

This. The idea that people would look at the profile of someone they don't know, but see a high postcount/thanks-count so they'll e-snog them... seriously?

TheZohanS

You have to remember that new forums are being created all the time too so they might syphon off different types of posters.

For example the new Gentlemans Club will take their share of posters from here or posters that might have posted a thread here will go there instead, the same with other fora. It's like market fragmentation.

Dudess

stovelid wrote: »

Maybe the collective fug of whinge-nostalgia currently besetting Boards is a demographic thing?

Perhaps a particular of posters have reached a similar age (or a certain length of time on boards) at the same time and that explains the near-torrent of discussion about the direction of this and that, and the temerity of "children"/non-gamers/people without shit facial hair posting about topics that were - If you don't mind- adequately covered in 2004.

Oh how I wish we could return to the days of sycophancy for Amp and all those other old guard "characters"...
That's what it was like when I joined - I for one welcome the death of it.

pickarooney

Dudess wrote: »

This. The idea that people would look at the profile of someone they don't know, but see a high postcount/thanks-count so they'll e-snog them... seriously?

Dudess wrote: »

Oh how I wish we could return to the days of sycophancy for Amp and all those other old guard "characters"...
That's what it was like when I joined - I for one welcome the death of it.

Do you not think that if amp were here people would be thanking his posts just because he's amp?

we'llallhavetea_old

Bonito wrote: »

I have noticed more pointless threads and grouchy n00bs TBH. Other than that the craic is still here when you're in the right company

i am shocked bonito, internet etiquette gone out the window, you're posting for the last three months, i'm not even posting for a year and i wouldn't dare suggest that i knew "how it was back in the day" :eek:

Bonito wrote: »

Yep, especially in the last couple of weeks there's been a lot of newbies not fully understanding what we got going on here :cool:

wtf? YOU ARE A NEWBIE!!!!!

/rant

Jazzy

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

i am shocked bonito, internet etiquette gone out the window, you're posting for the last three months, i'm not even posting for a year and i wouldn't dare suggest that i knew "how it was back in the day" :eek:



wtf? YOU ARE A NEWBIE!!!!!

/rant

gonna have to + you just for the sig. i dunno if thats new school or old school or mid life crisis school though

Mal-Adjusted

Thaedydal wrote: »

Same thing could be said of the site as a whole, damn ireland offline wanting everyone
to have broadband, there was a time most people found boards via college or working in some sorta IT related job but these says anyone who can use google will find this place.

you may have hit the nail on the head with this one. nowdays, when someone can access the interweb through their phone, it amounts to opening the floodgates! and we all know that the idiots outnumber us intelligent folk!

Bonito

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

i am shocked bonito, internet etiquette gone out the window, you're posting for the last three months, i'm not even posting for a year and i wouldn't dare suggest that i knew "how it was back in the day" :eek:

I never said anything about "back in the day" :rolleyes:

I have said that from within the time frame of me being here within the last couple of weeks there has been a sharp escalation in fresh users. In saying that, from when I first joined, the people who have the craic are still here you just have to find them.

wtf? YOU ARE A NEWBIE!!!!!

/rant

And your point is? I have just as much of an opinion on AH as it is today as yourself or anyone else here does.

we'llallhavetea_old

Jazzy wrote: »

gonna have to + you just for the sig. i dunno if thats new school or old school or mid life crisis school though

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055716814&highlight=madman%3F%3F%3F%3F

learn yourself!

Mr. Presentable

Dudess wrote: »

The misogyny and trolling used to be WAY worse, in my opinion.

I miss the misogyny. Don't I?

Bonito

nipplenuts wrote: »

I miss the misogyny. Don't I?

And the misandry

we'llallhavetea_old

Bonito wrote: »

I have noticed more pointless threads and grouchy n00bs TBH. Other than that the craic is still here when you're in the right company

in two or three months?? the op is knockin around for donkey years, i believe he is referring to a time long before either of us were here.

Bonito wrote: »

Yep, especially in the last couple of weeks there's been a lot of newbies not fully understanding what we got going on here :cool:

as i said before, you are a newbie, this sounds condescending to other new users.

Bonito wrote: »

I never said anything about "back in the day" :rolleyes:

I have said that from within the time frame of me being here within the last couple of weeks there has been a sharp escalation in fresh users. In saying that, from when I first joined, the people who have the craic are still here you just have to find them.




And your point is? I have just as much of an opinion on AH as it is today as yourself or anyone else here does.

i don't see that in your previous post.

please don;t take this as a personal attack, i'm just pointing out that you are very new still and that the op "appears" to be talking about a long while ago.

your points are valid of course, just not in this thread, i think. but this is obviously just my opinion.

Bonito

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

in two or three months?? the op is knockin around for donkey years, i believe he is referring to a time long before either of us were here.

I agree but there's nothing stopping us picking on newer newbies

please don;t take this as a personal attack, i'm just pointing out that you are very new still and that the op "appears" to be talking about a long while ago.

Of course I'm not taking it as a personal attack Your posts (mostly) always give me a jolly or two

your points are valid of course, just not in this thread, i think. but this is obviously just my opinion.

In this particular thread, if it is ment form back say 3 years or so then I'd agree I wouldn't have a clue about what it was like but, we can all see AH changing at present to when we 1st joined. Maybe it's an annual occurrence but I can't say 'til this time next year, then I can say wait a minute didn't we have this problem last year and it dwindled away by itself?

Oh and it's pistols at dawn for me and you missy :cool: Bring your jacket, it's gonna be cold out.

super_furry

Meh, I've been here nearly 10 years. Can't say AH has changed that much at all.

we'llallhavetea_old

Oh and it's pistols at dawn for me and you missy :cool: Bring your jacket, it's gonna be cold out.

bring it, popeye always irritated me, so i have alot of pent up aggression to unleash :pac:

latenia

What I hate is some poster picking a newspaper article about something bad happening somewhere in the world (usually to children) for the sole purpose of gathering people together to say how terrible it is. Eg: "5 year old boy in Alabama raped by wolves."
What discussion is supposed to take place around these articles? Amongst 6 billion people bad sh1t happens every day. If there was no internet you'd never have heard of 99% of these and the truth is you actually don't give a fck any more than the 'your ma'/terrible pun brigade.
When the next similiar article appears in the Daily Mail you'll take your self-righteous indignation onto that thread and Baby P/Maddie/whoever will be forgotten.

Bonito

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

bring it, popeye always irritated me, so i have alot of pent up aggression to unleash :pac:

Well I'm not popeye I'll be bringing a can o' whoop ass, not spinach :cool:

You have been forewarned

Alessandra

Hard to tell if boards has changed all that much of late.
I hate all the "in" jokes that clog up a lot of the threads on boards (well mainly AH). I think flirting should be kept to PM as it ruins many good threads. I just hit ignore button on the usual suspects looking for thanks. Some of the younger posters are actually quite good so I don't necessarily agree it's always "children" ruining boards.

OutlawPete

super_furry wrote: »

Meh, I've been here nearly 10 years. Can't say AH has changed that much at all.

Have to agree.

AH has always had it's share of attention seeking creeps, annoying newbies and hilarious ones (criticized out of jealously), sound posters, whingers, smartarses (or at least, people who think they are, haters, begrudgers, misogynists, thanks whores, thanks sluts, feminists, protesters and legends.

What's really quite funny is that the people that usually complain about discussion topic quality going downhill are the very fcuking ones who hardly ever start their own damn threads.

It's the equivalent of living in a houseshare and never buying food, yet still having the cheek to ask why there's no parma fcuking ham in the fridge.

Contribute or button it.

Jazzy

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055716814&highlight=madman%3F%3F%3F%3F

learn yourself!

:eek:

best thing ever by miles

we'llallhavetea_old

Bonito wrote: »

Well I'm not popeye I'll be bringing a can o' whoop ass, not spinach :cool:

You have been forewarned

i'll bring a can of lead and lob it at your head :pac:

Bonito

Alessandra wrote: »

Hard to tell if boards has changed all that much of late.
I hate all the "in" jokes that clog up a lot of the threads on boards (well mainly AH). I think flirting should be kept to PM as it ruins many good threads. I just hit ignore button on the usual suspects looking for thanks. Some of the younger posters are actually quite good so I don't necessarily agree it's always "children" ruining boards.

Guilty, I'm sorry I wont do it anymore I promise

we'llallhavetea_old

Jazzy wrote: »

:eek:

best thing ever by miles

its feckin brilliant isn't it? "hahaha!"

Bonito

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

i'll bring a can of lead and lob it at your head :pac:

My lead will be in my pistol, not a can :cool: