Has politics.ie closed down ?

DEFTLEFTHAND

They're talking about us over there.

Keplar240B

The shut downs have been christened the darkening

Thomas_IV

Lemongrease wrote: »

What was that leftist breakaway a few years ago? Politicalworld.org. Full of commies !

I noticed that too.

riffmongous

Harry Palmr wrote: »

get it while you can.

http://www.politics.ie/forum/current-affairs/265572-absolute-state-politics-ie.html

that PoliticalIrish site looks appalling - ie full of nazis.

I had a look there last week and they were using an old photo of irish soldiers wearing german style helmets* for.. some reason..



*worn during the 30s, Vickers helmets they're called

Foxhound38

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Place is crawling with lunatics. They have real-life communists over there for example. Ones who think Stalin wasn’t bad. Proper nutters.

A lot of it is, I believe, character acting and long-term trolling. TFM is an example, as is another poster there who's name escapes me who pretends to be a radical feminist and who has for years refused to refer to women as anything other than "womyn", the mere mention of whom is enough to lay waste to an entire thread. There's a couple of examples there of such posters.


It can be quite funny to read the threads there. Everyone seems to genuinely hate everyone else there, so it has a definite "7 grumpy aul fellas arguing with each other in a bar" vibe about the place. Think the way things are done around here is more conjunctive to productive conversation though.

Thomas_IV

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Place is crawling with lunatics. They have real-life communists over there for example. Ones who think Stalin wasn’t bad. Proper nutters.

That's just one example for the plenty of various virtual characters with some even posing as North Korean 'Rocketman'. Worst are those on the NI Forum and one of them really told me in a PM that the many people there really hate one another. There it is always Republicans vs. Unionists, day in day out going on for years and they don't seem to get tired. It is their game of point scoring. A game nobody (neither side) ever wins because there is no end to it, unless the site is completely shut down never to return.

Thomas_IV

Foxhound38 wrote: »

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Place is crawling with lunatics. They have real-life communists over there for example. Ones who think Stalin wasn’t bad. Proper nutters.

A lot of it is, I believe, character acting and long-term trolling. TFM is an example, as is another poster there who's name escapes me who pretends to be a radical feminist and who has for years refused to refer to women as anything other than "womyn", the mere mention of whom is enough to lay waste to an entire thread. There's a couple of examples there of such posters.


It can be quite funny to read the threads there. Everyone seems to genuinely hate everyone else there, so it has a definite "7 grumpy aul fellas arguing with each other in a bar" vibe about the place. Think the way things are done around here is more conjunctive to productive conversation though.

'TFM' stands for 'TheFieldMarshal' whose 'close supporter' is the holocaust denier 'Rasherhash' (I always called him 'Rashers'). That couple is the example of the far-right posters over there. Some others are there too, but it is pointless to have any normal conversation with them because they learn nothing and surprisingly, Rashers could ruin a many threads with his holocaust denial crap.

Some other chap ended up talking to himself as he constantly was posting pictures, articles and links to Pat Finucan related sites. Often one and the same in a couple of days. Then there is some radical religious convert who converted fom Protestantism to Catholicism. Not to forget the trolls and bullies which have a go at anybody as they please.

Lemongrease

Cyberianpan was always a weird one over there.

Foxhound38

Thomas_IV wrote: »

'TFM' stands for 'TheFieldMarshal' whose 'close supporter' is the holocaust denier 'Rasherhash' (I always called him 'Rashers'). That couple is the example of the far-right posters over there. Some others are there too, but it is pointless to have any normal conversation with them because they learn nothing and surprisingly, Rashers could ruin a many threads with his holocaust denial crap.

Some other chap ended up talking to himself as he constantly was posting pictures, articles and links to Pat Finucan related sites. Often one and the same in a couple of days. Then there is some radical religious convert who converted fom Protestantism to Catholicism. Not to forget the trolls and bullies which have a go at anybody as they please.

This is more or less what is going on there most of the time...

Loafing Oaf

P.ie has been down since yesterday for me. Anyone else?

political analyst

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

P.ie has been down since yesterday for me. Anyone else?

Same here!

political analyst

Seriously, does politics.ie not have a firewall to keep-out computer viruses?

Outlaw Pete

This post hasn't been deleted.

Yer Da sells Avon

political analyst wrote: »

Seriously, does politics.ie not have a firewall to keep-out computer viruses?

It's more than a firewall that site needs. Makes AH look sane, almost.

JohnnyFlash

A cesspit of a site. It used to be grand in its time, and had politicians, insiders, and hacks who posted there.

Now it's full of proper loopers. A collection of bone-headed far right reactionaries arguing against deluded communists talking about reappraising Stalin and our pressing need for a 32 county socialist republic. Angry little men with bleak lives is my image of the typical poster. The thing they fail to realise is how similar they actually are. Most of them grew up in a society that balanced progressive taxation with an open market economy. And they really don't understand how lucky they are to have been born in such a place.

It would be no lose if it never came back up.

backspin.

Is mercurial still over there, utterly relentless poster. If he is involved in a thread his will be every 2nd post for hundreds of pages.

end of the road

backspin. wrote: »

Is mercurial still over there, utterly relentless poster. If he is involved in a thread his will be every 2nd post for hundreds of pages.

he is, he's a mod now i think.

Loafing Oaf

political analyst wrote: »

Seriously, does politics.ie not have a firewall to keep-out computer viruses?

I thought they were supposed to have had a massive overhaul a few months ago that sorted all their tech issues.

_Kaiser_

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

This post hasn't been deleted.

Valid point though. Why not just delete the entire post rather than just the content. It makes even less sense to edit the user's post but not the reply too.

An Ciarraioch

Has reportedly been hacked - when you type in the URL, comes up as "Account Suspended"?

https://www.politics.ie/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi

is_that_so

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

I thought they were supposed to have had a massive overhaul a few months ago that sorted all their tech issues.

Yeah they did and then got into some actual moderation, which seemed popular. Has gone downhill though and those who can't hack it there wander off to politicsworld or something.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Total amateur hour over there, every month the site is down or getting hacked.

Bout time to wind it up anyway. It's just the same 10 people arguing relentlessly with each other.

is_that_so

end of the road wrote: »

at antigravity2.

there are definitely mods on p.ie . unlike boards there is no title under their username to identify them though.

In the upgrade that changed and in recent times you could see it. Not sure whether it was a policy thing or the software.

Ah it was an amazing site back in its day. Its founder, David Cochrane, now works for the IT, so I suppose he has bigger fish to fry.

It made our politics forum here look like amateur-hour, but now the roles have reversed. I got into all kinds of mad arguments there when I was 18 and at my peak communist, with people who actually knew what they were talking about. Sad to see what's happened to it. I think the whole forum format is in trouble, which is a very great pity.

Muahahaha

Once Cochrane quit running it the lunatics took over the asylum. Tis a shame as it was a good site in its day.

Harry Palmr

Not sure anyone should be hoping P.ie is buried - it can only mean an influx of headbangers to boards.

Loafing Oaf

is_that_so wrote: »

Yeah they did and then got into some actual moderation, which seemed popular. Has gone downhill though and those who can't hack it there wander off to politicsworld or something.

I can see why there would be ongoing issues over moderation on a politics discussion site, but I'm surprised the tech problems seem so hard to overcome on what is after all just a discussion forum...

Del.Monte

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Not sure anyone should be hoping P.ie is buried - it can only mean an influx of headbangers to boards.

Are they we not here already?

Hotblack Desiato

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Re MCD - boards.ie had two run ins with them, the first in 2005 when a diabetic and her partner who both posted here often enough were accused of trying to smuggle in drugs, presumable heroin as it was insulin!

MCD later arranged for them to attend a Coldplay concert by way of compensation for the inconvenience.

As if they hadn't suffered enough.

Odhinn

Muahahaha wrote: »

Once Cochrane quit running it the lunatics took over the asylum. Tis a shame as it was a good site in its day.

Cochrane was a man fine with Jewish conspiracy theories but would wield the ban hammer if some one tried to bypass the "swear filter". No loss.