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  • 06-09-2010 11:05pm
    #1
    last name ever. first name greatest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭


    IMHO

    The underlying prerogative is keep board popular but kill off popularism.

    The new admins do what they are told.

    I miss the old ones. regi etc

    Pre loads of mods and the likes intervening... what happened to you boards?
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    #2
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,900 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Really? You registered in July 2010. Who are you?


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    #3
    last name ever. first name greatest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭last name ever. first name greatest


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    Really? You registered in July 2010. Who are you?

    A member who was here long before you.

    Good point. Yours was?


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    #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bubbles


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    #5
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,206 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Did it occur to you old mods retired out of, well, desire for change? How many years can you go on administrating before it becomes minutiae and tiresome?


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    #6
    last name ever. first name greatest
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭last name ever. first name greatest


    Overheal wrote: »
    Did it occur to you old mods retired out of, well, desire for change? How many years can you go on administrating before it becomes minutiae and tiresome?

    Desire for change?


    LOL


    Yeah they fuked of for those very reasons... You xxxxx:)


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    #7
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    last name ever. first name greatest wrote: »
    The new admins do what they are told.
    That gave me a giggle.


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    #8
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,900 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    last name ever. first name greatest wrote: »
    A member who was here long before you.

    Good point. Yours was?

    In that case, you're probably here long enough to appreciate LOL-cats in Feedback... >_>

    My point was that it's unusual for a 2 month old account to reminisce about the good ol' days, that's all.


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    #9
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,206 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Mmmm.....lolcat....


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    #10
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,305 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    That gave me a giggle.

    Stop giggling you, this is a serious Feedback thread!

    What's wrong Merc, nobody paying you much attention lately so you have to stick your head above the parapet?


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    #11
    Terry
    Registered Users Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    I remember when this was all fields and lolcats.
    Good times.


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    #12
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    So you are you? Really? I do think boards is increasingly about money but thats what happens when you become popular - the cult indy band that sells out for a 7 album deal and the American tour!


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    #13
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,206 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    mike65 wrote: »
    So you are you? Really? I do think boards is increasingly about money but thats what happens when you become popular - the cult indy band that sells out for a 7 album deal and the American tour!
    Another keyboard warrior that likes the whole V for Vendetta vibe?


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    #14
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Last name ever. First name greatest. Middle name...
    Well. I'll leave it up to you.


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    #15
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    last name ever. first name greatest wrote: »
    IMHO

    The underlying prerogative is keep board popular but kill off popularism.

    Well I never got that memo.

    I never get the memos I feel left out,I never got my free coke,never got my free hookers,and now this.I am pissed off big time about this,I am going to start a union are you in..?we can fight this together.

    I am going to drop joe higgins a email about this I am sure he will join our fight,Comrade.


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    #16
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    last name ever. first name greatest wrote: »
    The new admins do what they are told.

    I miss the old ones. regi etc

    etc was sound out alright. Didn't half keep going on about things though...


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    #17
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    When you say "last name ever", is that a promise?

    Pwetty pwease?


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    #18
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Why, back in my day we used to traipse across the site in our bare feet, across the fields. We didn't have any of those fancy JavaScript menus.

    And when I wanted to thank a poster, I did it by typing the bloody word, not by clicking on some fancy button.

    Back then, there were only men on the internet. It all went downhill when they let the women in, I tell you.

    Give me a 14.4k modem over broadband any day. You could tell by the sound of the modem what your parity bit was set to.

    Those were the days.


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    #19
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users Posts: 22,775 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Tom Dunne wrote: »
    Give me a 14.4k modem over broadband any day.
    Ya flash fecker. When I was a nipper all we had was a 9600 baud modem to play with.

    This place hasn't been the same since they had that Hamster upgrade in 2007. Bring back Gerbils V7.1.1! You really feel part of a community when you're running on Gerbils.


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    #20
    Shield
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 9,812 CMod ✭✭✭✭Shield


    Some say that he appears on high value stamps in Sweden, and that he can catch fish with his tongue… we know him only as Mercury_Tilt.


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    #21
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    "All about money .."

    Jaysus, I'm not sure about that one.

    The ads are kept to a minimum, if enough people complain about intrusive ads, they are removed.

    I don't think the place is utilized near enough to extract the obvious dollar that is sooo waiting to be earned.

    If I owned Boards on the other hand, then it would without question, be all about money.

    I'd have all users receiving PMs from companies selling their wares (10 a day max).

    I'd have ads between all posts.

    Most likely sell all users emails to one of those commercial mailing lists.

    I'd allow all forums to be sponsored to the highest bidders.

    I'd also let companies bid on keywords and when these words were used on-thread, a pop-up advert would appear related to that buzz word.

    I'd also sell Moderation jobs via auctions.

    Some people would pay a pretty penny for that kind of power, and I'd be there to take their lovely money.

    I'd be rich in no time, living the high life of escorts and babes.

    No woman can resist an XR3.


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    #22
    D
    Registered Users Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭D


    Jaysus I remember when this was naught but quake boards, when regi would abuse you on irc and when the drop down menus didn't fill the screen. We wore onions on our belts, which was the style at the time.


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    #23
    Sparks
    Registered Users Posts: 40,038 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    Hill Billy wrote: »
    Ya flash fecker. When I was a nipper all we had was a 9600 baud modem to play with.
    1200/75 was a real man's modem speed...


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    #24
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Oooh, look at the fancypants modem users! In my day we had to write down the 1's and 0's on paper and post THEM. Discussion took forever, and buying all the stamps was a killer, but we were better off for it!


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    #25
    Sparks
    Registered Users Posts: 40,038 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    No, you didn't. You used punch cards. Quit making **** up.


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    #26
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo


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    #27
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    That Ada Lovelace was a right goer and all.


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    #28
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    remember when search was down? Nobody made a fuss, we all just got on with it.


    and before that we had this:

    google-classic.jpg


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    #29
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    last name ever. first name greatest wrote: »
    The new admins do what they are told.

    Yup. I'm known for doing as I'm told. I lack any kind of formed opinion and am very pliable.

    Your's meekly....
    B


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    #30
    LoLth
    Registered Users Posts: 10,339 ✭✭✭✭LoLth


    I've been told that I must agree with you so I do. compeltely and utterly. in fact, I would go so far as to ask if I can hold the shiney pitchfork this time ? I'm tired of carrying the shovel and I'm not co-ordinated to carry the flaming torch without being a danger to all around me...

    oh shi.... I'm three bans below my quota... Fagan...erm I mean, Dev will be furious.....


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    #31
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users Posts: 22,775 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Well, I suppose it is thanks to all this money that boards is making that I have a handcrafted 24 carat gold cursor when I log on now to the fora that I mod. How I yearn for a platinum banhammer!


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