Go anywhere nice for the weekend?
It was lovely. Apart from getting reported posts, PMs and emails on my blackberry when I'm out for a meal with family. It's fairly sad when you can't even leave your PC at home for fear of world war 3 breaking out.
At least mod1 was here to keep order.
Quote from: Gaaboardmod3 on February 11, 2008, 10:04:01 AM
It was lovely. Apart from getting reported posts, PMs and emails on my blackberry when I'm out for a meal with family. It's fairly sad when you can't even leave your PC at home for fear of world war 3 breaking out.
At least mod1 was here to keep order.
What were you doing with the phone on when out for a feed. Switch it off.
Because the little fella is being minded by his granny, and I need the phone on in case she needs to ask a question. Thanks for the advice though :D
Quote from: Gaaboardmod3 on February 11, 2008, 10:04:01 AM
It was lovely. Apart from getting reported posts, PMs and emails on my blackberry when I'm out for a meal with family. It's fairly sad when you can't even leave your PC at home for fear of world war 3 breaking out.
At least mod1 was here to keep order.
Why do you do it?
Dont get me wrong I think the site is great, but to be a Mod, you must be a little nuts? ;)
Quote from: his holiness nb on February 11, 2008, 10:16:35 AM
Quote from: Gaaboardmod3 on February 11, 2008, 10:04:01 AM
It was lovely. Apart from getting reported posts, PMs and emails on my blackberry when I'm out for a meal with family. It's fairly sad when you can't even leave your PC at home for fear of world war 3 breaking out.
At least mod1 was here to keep order.
Why do you do it?
Dont get me wrong I think the site is great, but to be a Mod, you must be a little nuts? ;)
It sounds unbelievably corny, but I do it because I genuinely really like the GAABoard, and I remember it when none of this rubbish went on. Of course there was slagging, and banter, but very rarely any of this feud crap, or gratuitous nasty abuse between posters. It's not that long ago either.
I want to try and help the board be a place where lads can come, have a decent chat about a whole host of things, with like minded individuals and enjoy it. The pub analogy has been used before, and I agree with it. It's like a virtual local, and I think we have to make sure that the local isn't overrun by people who want to come in and throw glasses.
I enjoy the board, and I enjoy reading and posting on it. I want that to continue for as long as possible.
That's why I do it.
Plus, I'm nuts.
Quote from: Gaaboardmod3 on February 11, 2008, 10:12:42 AM
Because the little fella is being minded by his granny, and I need the phone on in case she needs to ask a question. Thanks for the advice though :D
Any time.
What did we all do before mobiles and blackberries i wonder?
Quote from: maddog on February 11, 2008, 10:26:38 AM
Quote from: Gaaboardmod3 on February 11, 2008, 10:12:42 AM
Because the little fella is being minded by his granny, and I need the phone on in case she needs to ask a question. Thanks for the advice though :D
Any time.
What did we all do before mobiles and blackberries i wonder?
Granny probably called on the experiences she had when bringing her own kids up, bet it all worked out ok.
Quote from: Red Sky on February 11, 2008, 10:28:49 AM
Quote from: maddog on February 11, 2008, 10:26:38 AM
Quote from: Gaaboardmod3 on February 11, 2008, 10:12:42 AM
Because the little fella is being minded by his granny, and I need the phone on in case she needs to ask a question. Thanks for the advice though :D
Any time.
What did we all do before mobiles and blackberries i wonder?
Granny probably called on the experiences she had when bringing her own kids up, bet it all worked out ok.
That would be me. Whether it all worked out okay is a matter of conjecture. :D
Quote from: Gaaboardmod3 on February 11, 2008, 10:12:42 AM
Because the little fella is being minded by his granny, and I need the phone on in case she needs to ask a question. Thanks for the advice though :D
Can't she just report the fella and which rule she believes he broke like the rest of us?
Quote from: Gaaboardmod3 on February 11, 2008, 10:04:01 AM
It was lovely. Apart from getting reported posts, PMs and emails on my blackberry when I'm out for a meal with family. It's fairly sad when you can't even leave your PC at home for fear of world war 3 breaking out.
Quote from: Gaaboardmod3 on February 11, 2008, 10:21:08 AM
Plus, I'm nuts.
Gaaboarbmod is an anagram for - Go mad abroad :o
Is that what happened on your holidays?
Hopefully your break put you in better form so that you won't be unleasing your ire on poor innocent bystanders this week ;)
I picked a pile of wild blackberries one summer and had the skitter for two days.
Quote from: Minder on February 11, 2008, 12:47:55 PM
I picked a pile of wild blackberries one summer and had the skitter for two days.
Yer suppose to eat them not stick them up yer arse.
Quote from: Zapatista on February 11, 2008, 12:50:38 PM
Quote from: Minder on February 11, 2008, 12:47:55 PM
I picked a pile of wild blackberries one summer and had the skitter for two days.
Yer suppose to eat them not stick them up yer arse.
No it was the summer before i stuck them up my ring
Im just gonna have a quick rant here, and then off ill go.
Ever since I joined this board, there have been threads devoted to how this board is going to the dogs with the new posters, childish posters and so on. Threads like "Is the board worth bothering with anymore?". In the last couple of months, the board has decended to a level of sheer internet lunacy with posters wanting to meet up for fights, others wanting to sign up to cause trouble (repeatedly) and all kinds of carry on. While the mods have had no choice due to the behaviour of some on here, these new rules are like being part of an internet boarding school with people running off and reporting posts to satisfy their own personal vendettas so the mods can come out and trawl through posts and warn or ban people for "violation of rule 9" or other such variations. Obviously the rules have been made necessary, but they leave a bad taste in the mouth and Im sure, (or at least I hope) that the mods dont enjoy this kind of policing.
Mod3 is right, some of us treat this like our local, but unfortunately it is in danger of becomming more like witherspoons. Maybe we could all just start using a little common sense. Id also like to suggest that the moderators use common sense. For example, if Id inadvertently bent a rule, and there was a poster who had some beef with me and began trawling my every post looking for reasons to report me, Id like that to be made a rule of its own. i.e. posters continually reporting relatively innocuous threads and posts need to be dealt with also. Schoolboy running to the teacher will kill this board as quickly as a cyber informationsuperhighway feud.
As someone once said "Id like to appeal for calm"
Anyways, its a shame you cant go out for a nice dinner without the bleeding phone going off the hook. If I was your date Id have launched the blackberry into the clam chowder and that would have been that.
I think thats the rant over. I wish the coffee would hurry the feck up.
Quote from: Puckoon on February 11, 2008, 03:09:57 PM
As someone once said "Id like to appeal for calm"
I believe that was whitey ford and he was knocked unconscious with a barrage of pretzels
puckoon, if you don't want people reporting posts what do you suggest they do if they're on the receiving end of a load of shite?
surely the board would be a better place if these repeated offenders were perma banned.
Dont get me wrong pints, report all that needs to be reported. I just feel like there are posters out there who nit pick and they dont nit pick publicly, they privately are pming the mods every day with posts that could be let go. Maybe its just all this talk of conspiracy theory on the other thread you started thats gotten into my head. You and 5ive times have done everything very publicly! I wasnt referring to either of you.
Common sense and a return to decent banter is I guess what im just missing. In the last week we've had threads devoted and titled to two internet arguements. EG and HNN being the other thread. Its pointless.
Quote from: Puckoon on February 11, 2008, 03:09:57 PM
In the last couple of months, the board has decended to a level of sheer internet lunacy
wtf :D :D does your browser only allow access to this site!!!
Quote from: Red Sky on February 11, 2008, 06:05:14 PM
Quote from: Puckoon on February 11, 2008, 03:09:57 PM
In the last couple of months, the board has decended to a level of sheer internet lunacy
wtf :D :D does your browser only allow access to this site!!!
I guess that was a relative exaggeration. Still though, for a bunch of well rounded GAA afficionados, it has gotten quite mental in here at times.
Slander, Libel, death threats... :o
Relative internet lunacy if you ask me. :D