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Has politics.ie closed down ?

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30-07-2018 6:22pm

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gufdaf

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Offline for at least 4 days now and not a word of warning to users

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#2 30-07-2018 6:25pm
Badly Drunk Boy

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gufdaf wrote: »

Offline for at least 4 days now and not a word of warning to users

Indeed! Irish politics does not exist.

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#3 30-07-2018 6:25pm
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Noticed this myself.

Wonder what's going on.

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#4 30-07-2018 6:27pm
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Probably giving the Shinnerbots a break so that they can get the party line right for the Presidential election. You cant just brainwash people overnight.

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#5 30-07-2018 6:28pm
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I checked up their Twitter but it hasn't been updated in over a year.

A google news search is showing up nothing.

I wonder have they been hacked again.

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#6 30-07-2018 6:34pm
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It's still like the wild west days of the internet over there.

Practically no moderation.

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#7 30-07-2018 6:35pm
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Every now and then the database breaks. It'll probably be back in a week or so.

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#8 30-07-2018 6:36pm
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The OP opens their account, starts this thread and promptly closes their account after 1 post. Is this a record?

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#9 30-07-2018 7:08pm
chinwag

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https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=75319467#post75319467

I came across this post/link on an old Boards thread about Politics.ie being down but link doesn't make sense to me if P.ie is down.

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#10 30-07-2018 7:16pm
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their twitter hasn't been updated since may, they would surely say if it had closed? i'd say it will be back soon.

ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.

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#11 30-07-2018 7:20pm
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Prepare for the influx of lost politics.ie posters

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#12 30-07-2018 7:21pm
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After Hours could sign The Field Marshall on the cheap if It has gone into administration

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#13 30-07-2018 7:22pm
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DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

It's still like the wild west days of the internet over there.

Practically no moderation.

For this reason it's far more fun than Boards for political discussion (no "this thread has run its course, closed" even when users are still up for a debate) but Boards still has an edge by having a much broader range of forums.

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#14 30-07-2018 7:28pm
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Edgware wrote: »

Probably giving the Shinnerbots a break so that they can get the party line right for the Presidential election. You cant just brainwash people overnight.

And yet you beat them to it here

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#15 30-07-2018 7:30pm
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Pa8301 wrote: »

The OP opens their account, starts this thread and promptly closes their account after 1 post. Is this a record?

Have you tried asking the Irish Times' letters to the editor page?

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#16 30-07-2018 7:42pm
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cdeb wrote: »

Have you tried asking the Irish Times' letters to the editor page?

Good idea. I better fetch my quill.

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#17 30-07-2018 7:48pm
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No moderation...the horror...the horror...

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#18 30-07-2018 8:41pm
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Place is crawling with lunatics. They have real-life communists over there for example. Ones who think Stalin wasn’t bad. Proper nutters.

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#19 30-07-2018 8:54pm
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DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

It's still like the wild west days of the internet over there.

Practically no moderation.

That's what good about it you don't have debates constantly broken down by incessant ott modding conversation is generally allowed to flow more freely over there it ain't perfect but its better than what you get on most places which are becoming increasingly echo chambers for certain pc group thinks, Politics.ie is a decent alternative to that.

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#20 30-07-2018 8:58pm
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Matt Barrett wrote: »

And yet you beat them to it here

It's pretty easy to beat the politics.ie shinnerbots. Most of them are still riding tricycles.

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#21 30-07-2018 9:00pm
Turnipman

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SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

After Hours could sign The Field Marshall on the cheap if It has gone into administration

Jesus no! :eek: That buffoon shouldn't be let near this site - he is seriously raving. Appears genuinely to believe that the current pope isn't religious enough!

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#22 30-07-2018 9:03pm
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Pa8301 wrote: »

The OP opens their account, starts this thread and promptly closes their account after 1 post. Is this a record?

He knew too much, we did what we had to and that's all there is it to it.

Anyway what is it they say, one account closes, another one opens.

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#23 30-07-2018 9:04pm
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Welcome to AH, the helpdesk for other sites...

You can keep an eye on https://twitter.com/politicsie

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#24 30-07-2018 10:01pm
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DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

It's still like the wild west days of the internet over there.

Practically no moderation.

Read it once of two and it made me appreciate the posters on here, even the ones I don't agree with. Some right tulips active on that forum.

Edgware wrote: »

Probably giving the Shinnerbots a break so that they can get the party line right for the Presidential election. You cant just brainwash people overnight.

Might give some of the lads on here a chance to have a holiday. Need to make sure that the new lads are up to the grade first though.

Ten Pin wrote: »

Given the upcoming Presidential election, someone "accidentally" turned off the server from where all potential skeletons could have emanated.

Can someone not just pop over and restart it?

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#25 30-07-2018 10:01pm
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Many of them will need a new home. How many has Boards agreed to take in?

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#26 30-07-2018 10:16pm
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The kip is full of middle-aged leftist trolls who spend most of their spare time on there, posting an average of 60 to 80 posts a day, but at least the censorship on there isn't as bad as here. They're all posting on Political Irish now.

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#27 31-07-2018 12:57am
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Turnipman wrote: »

Jesus no! :eek: That buffoon shouldn't be let near this site - he is seriously raving. Appears genuinely to believe that the current pope isn't religious enough!

He doesn't accept Francis as Pope.

Benedict is still the official head honcho according to the FM.

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#28 31-07-2018 1:01am
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You see some great fights on it.

A lot of posters seem to genuinely hate each other.

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#29 31-07-2018 1:21am
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Is that where banned boards.ie members go?

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#30 31-07-2018 1:45am
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Never really looked at it or had an account. Sounds like a bit of a laugh..

I get warnings, infractions and bans weekly here if I talk about certain politics and it is definitely because of my views. The mods are either hyper-biased or just trust the little brigade of posters who report en-masse.

They won that battle. I just look elsewhere for discussion on that topic.

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#31 31-07-2018 1:49am
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Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

Is that where banned boards.ie members go?

No, its where they come from... Its the AQ training camp for forays onto Boards wearing the ould vests to create self-immolating threads and apoplectic mods playing whak-a-mole before the martyrs head off to find the 70 something Bored virgins TFM has promised them...

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