When did Boards.IE become full of so many rude ignorant people? Is it any wonder people have left it

Ah now. You are around these parts quite some time and most of your comments tend to be argumentative and expressing your own opinion which often differs vastly from the general populace with little or no support. I call that trolling but maybe you call it a discussion.

You're not a bad hand at it yourself, to be honest. What you really mean is that you consider opinions contrary to your own to be rude,

And, it's not Boards; it's some of the forums like After Hours. But you know what their raison d'etre is before you post in those forums. Boards has many very civil, enlightening, helpful and engaging forums. If you choose to raise a topic in AH, where you're leading with your opinion, you can expect a robust selection of replies

Current Affairs is a pit of hate.

Have a toastie. You'll be grand.

Ya, seriously I don't care about my grammar but your just tough going. You recently replied to a motoring thread recently and you were rittering on about to many big cars on the road, people driving to young, etc and then I clicked into After Hours and you had a thread going about smoking.

Make it in the air fryer, its a game changer:)

You're one of those the OP was talking about! Say 10 hail Mary's and 20 our father's.

You're right to hang your head in shame.

Yeah it's the best way to do a ham and cheese, check it out on YouTube or TikTok.

OP, I seem to remember you created a thread about the Russians bombing a petrol station in Donegal recently. Before it was quickly deleted. Quite nasty.

Yeah, it's always been this way.

I think Boards, and the internet in general is just a reflection of what the world has become (I appreciate the internet and 24 hour access to social media has fed this).

People have become ruder, less caring, more demanding, entitled and belligerent in the last few years. What else would explain the acceptance of food banks and hundreds and hundreds sleeping on streets or hostels with mostly just a shrug of the shoulders.

I don't buy into all this cleaning the Internet up of toxicity, people are human, we are all capable of being rude and ignorant, sometimes its because we are having a bad day, sometimes due to the nature of the topic, and sometimes its because we are just dikheads, and people should make allowances for these to some degree.

As a society we seem to be heading in a direction of attempting to eradicate natural human traits from the Internet. The reason boards is on a decline is simply because there are more alternatives, and better alternatives in recent years.

This complaint is nearly as old as the internet itself

sorry to be pedantic but thats not the old saying.

It is if you cant stand the heat in the kitchen then throw a bucket of water into the deep fat fryer

That is laughable doc.

Did you read what was in the sun? Did you read instatubridy? He is using vicky, as the posters stated.

Seems like you think this is a perfect opportunity to close up the thread? Did your dudes report posts also???

You know Tubridy is a disgrace and stealing a living from rte.

Not true Jim.

If you read the op, they say "We all have our own opinions. I respect that but do not try to force your opinion or ways onto someone else".

The doc is forcing his opinion onto someone else, and not even conversing in the tubridy thread about the issue he reported to the mods. He just wants it closed down because he disagrees

A bit of self examination is no harm from time to time.

If we just leave old battles and grudges behind for a while this thread could be a useful exercise.