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Iwannahurl · 2011-10-16 15:45:06

Post of the Day today is this little gem: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=74943225&postcount=1 Personally I find that a bit of a simplistic and reactionary rant, but I noticed that the 150+ thanks appended included the username Boards.ie. That got me wondering: who or what is this entity thanking such posts,…

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Iwannahurl

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Post of the Day today is this little gem:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=74943225&postcount=1

Personally I find that a bit of a simplistic and reactionary rant, but I noticed that the 150+ thanks appended included the username Boards.ie.

That got me wondering: who or what is this entity thanking such posts, and what does it say, if anything, about the politics of the site generally?

Is it just an individual with that username, in which case only a personal opinion is being expressed, as validly as anyone else's? Or does it give us a clue as to the political leanings of Boards.ie?

Just wondering...

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#2 16-10-2011 4:47pm
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Iwannahurl wrote: »

Post of the Day today is this little gem:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=74943225&postcount=1

Personally I find that a bit of a simplistic and reactionary rant, but I noticed that the 150+ thanks appended included the username Boards.ie.

That got me wondering: who or what is this entity thanking such posts, and what does it say, if anything, about the politics of the site generally?

Is it just an individual with that username, in which case only a personal opinion is being expressed, as validly as anyone else's? Or does it give us a clue as to the political leanings of Boards.ie?

Just wondering...

It's just a users name.

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#3 16-10-2011 4:48pm
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Someone saw the username was available and went for it?

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#4 16-10-2011 4:49pm
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It comes up automatically when someone gets Post of the Day. It's not a user.

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#5 16-10-2011 4:50pm
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It's an automated feature.

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#6 16-10-2011 4:54pm
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That thought had crossed my mind. So it's an automated nod from Boards for getting POTD.

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#7 16-10-2011 5:19pm
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Purely automated as some of the earlier posters have indicated. The account was set up to track previous POTD afair.

Search the username's profile for 'Find all posts thanked by Boards.ie' and you've an intersting history of all previous POTD. Good reading.

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#8 16-10-2011 10:26pm
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Mr Magnolia wrote: »

Purely automated as some of the earlier posters have indicated. The account was set up to track previous POTD afair.

Search the username's profile for 'Find all posts thanked by Boards.ie' and you've an intersting history of all previous POTD. Good reading.

The example linked to in the OP presumably an example of the exception proving the rule.
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#9 16-10-2011 10:55pm
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Mr Magnolia wrote: »

Purely automated as some of the earlier posters have indicated. The account was set up to track previous POTD afair.

Search the username's profile for 'Find all posts thanked by Boards.ie' and you've an intersting history of all previous POTD. Good reading.

I drew a blank when first looking up the Boards.ie username, which is partly why I resorted to Feedback.

Clicking on the 'find all thanked posts' option just gave me this error message: "Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms."

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#10 17-10-2011 4:28am
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Iwannahurl wrote: »

I drew a blank when first looking up the Boards.ie username, which is partly why I resorted to Feedback.

Clicking on the 'find all thanked posts' option just gave me this error message: "Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms."

You clicked the wrong link, you should have clicked this one:
Find all posts thanked by Boards.ie

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#11 18-10-2011 1:09pm
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"Boards.ie has not made any friends yet"

Aww, *clicks befriend*

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#12 21-10-2011 2:24am
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Mr Magnolia wrote: »

Purely automated as some of the earlier posters have indicated. The account was set up to track previous POTD afair.

Search the username's profile for 'Find all posts thanked by Boards.ie' and you've an intersting history of all previous POTD. Good reading.

I liked it more before YLYL took over. Now it's mainly a history of reddit

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#13 21-10-2011 10:15pm
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So if its automated, how has Boards.ie made it onto the league of bastards for sitebans?!

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#14 21-10-2011 10:28pm
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thetonynator wrote: »

So if its automated, how has Boards.ie made it onto the league of bastards for sitebans?!

Maybe it recently became self aware. :eek:

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#15 21-10-2011 10:28pm
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The 'thanking the post of the day' is an automated feature specific to that account or so I read. It's still a standard user account. There's a few accounts set up with User, Mod and/or Admin privileges used by the tech team to test vB stuff.

That or it's the rise of the machines.

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#16 21-10-2011 10:54pm
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thetonynator wrote: »

So if its automated, how has Boards.ie made it onto the league of bastards for sitebans?!

It may at some point have been used to ban a user. The current use for the Boards.ie account is for POTD and various other automated tasks related to the day to day running of Boards.

The tech team have their own accounts and a few test accounts to test stuff with

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#17 21-10-2011 10:58pm
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Boards.ie: Danny wrote: »

It may at some point have been used to ban a user. The current use for the Boards.ie account is for POTD and various other automated tasks related to the day to day running of Boards.

The tech team have their own accounts and a few test accounts to test stuff with

Test stuff? Interesting

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#18 22-10-2011 1:01am
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It has been said that bubbles started the account and got banned under it. Then the company found a use for it.

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