Reddit - it's not great is it

I did have to revise my position and admit Evanescence were a two hit wonder.

Well is that Irish related content or in general ?

Cause there is a ton of stuff on Reddit, way, way outstripping what's on Boards.

But the Irish related stuff is pretty lacklustre + Fr. Ted memes, which seem quaint and overused now. The actual guy who created Fr. Ted wouldn't even be allowed on Reddit there days. QED.

Just in general but I do frequent /r/Ireland, I'm also banned from the soccer forum here so need reddit for that 😅

Seems a bit strange that reddit has one forum r/ireland for what Boards must have a hundred forums, for motors, cycling, transport, accommodation, photography and many many more. It must be hard to get into any serious detailed discussion there when everything is all mixed into the same pot.

They probably saved a bunch of suckers a lot of money.

That put me off it too. Go into the motors part and ask advice on 'what first car?' and get opinions from people from California or the Philipines. What would be the point? Post it in the Ireland forum and you might get no response as no one is interesting in it there.

At least here, in its heyday, it was mostly irish based people and in Motors it was big car heads and people in the trade. You had a good chance at some good advice. Well, as good as internet advice ever is!

Oh yes! There certainly were cliques and some opinions were not tolerated!

The EV forum is pretty busy but the rest is quiet now. That being said there is currently a pile on of poster who had the misfortune to be ticketed for no tax on the day they bought a new car. A lot of sympathy going as you can imagine…

The problem with boards is you'll have discussions repeatedly spammed by posters who don't absorb new information and keep pushing an agenda, like on the Ryan Tubridy threads currently.

Sometimes boards feels like a lounge bar where you can meet good people with relevant information but all the time there'll be the same few barflies shouting over everyone elses conversations. Reddit is much more like a cafe where you can drop in and walk away if some langer wants to start mouthing off.

even theyre not great any more, mainly just people trying to get you to subscribe to their various other platforms

That is just genius.

Probably tastes shyte, but have to admire the effort.

The upvote system also works the other way, often the most intelligent post gets pushed to the top which is great of your just looking to browse a thread

In fairness, Monk is correct in observing that this site is now mostly used by men who are 40 plus and who all have very similar boring opinions - young people are useless, modern music is useless, public service broadcasting should be done away with as it doesn’t make content exclusively to the whims of middle-aged white men, climate change is a scam, Ireland is going to hell in a handbasket, women are getting too uppity, Putin has a point etc etc etc.

It’s interesting to see this as most sites haven’t had the longevity to be able to view this happening. The light-hearted nature of it has disappeared and it’s now a site known for grumpiness, extremely obvious opinions, and just a general air of low testosterone.

jesus thats horrible, all that crap on the right and all that wasted space on the left. you cannot keep your favorites colapsed and cannot remove recently viewed reddits. most of the ones your subed to are never searched out so why have them there taking up so much room.

I suppose thats how life works, people get older. What do you expect them (us/me) to do? Should we just fvck off after 40 since we should clearly understand we're past boards now? ;) Also not surprised the younger generation seems in the minority. They're probably more likely to use other stuff like instagram or TikTok - or whatever it is they're using. (imagine Steve Buscemi pic inserted here)

Agree that boards was more fun when After Hours was all about 'your mother'. But I dont think a demographic shift did away with that. It was boards that did away with that, no?

It was more of a rhetorical question. Just pointing out that people get older, grow up, change...and whats coming after may have different interests. Natural flow of things.

But despite that I think it was boards themselves who killed the lightheartedness. Ur ma no longer acceptable, Stasi mods etc

Well I can spell it out for you. 'Ur ma' and the general atmosphere embodied by such was actively killed off. And certain topics were and still are policed rather than moderated. As in party line only please or thread ban. Dont really see the contradiction between the two.

Not saying all mods are/were like that but they did/do exist imo.

Yes we can agree to disagree and I'm certainly not here to start an argument, but imo there is no doubt that some discussions were/are not modded impartially. Which is a whole topic by itself and yes I'm sure posters were not faultless either.

With regards to 'your ma' - which was of course childish and foolish and personally I never really participated - it embodied some sort of lighthearted fecklessness that had its own charm and to some degree defined boards IMO. There were real characters around here. IIRC that was actively done away with by owners/mods/whatever and with it the tone of the whole place was changed. And it wasnt even like as if all of boards was like that and you couldn't have a proper discussion. But someone had decided it tainted the place or something. Ah well, long gone now...

Most people who post comments on news articles on Facebook seem like complete morons to me, who can barely spell their own names.

Well thats not what I was doing, I dont really care about virtual yellow cards. My gripe was about partial moderation. So you misunderstood or went out of your way to misunderstand. Especially since the main point of the OP I was referring to was the loss of lightheartedness. Which you ignored completely just so you can construct your case for some 'toxicity' (is that a word you learned in 'progressive' school?). Since you're also a mod yourself maybe I struck a point. Nice one and I'll rest my case, you've just proven it.

Anyway, I AM actually not here to start an argument so I'll leave it here.

That may be true but are they the real representatives of Ireland ? :)