Does anybody else feel that the forum has become a lot harder to use/enjoy?

I think the mods are doing a great job, but there is a real issue with conflict between individual posters and long running feuds. It’s dragging out across multiple threads and creating a lot of noise. Its toxic, frankly.

Maybe this is just the way that forums end up, no matter what you do, but I’m pretty much at the point where I’m going to stop posting and reading. The enjoyment just isn’t there. Big loss, I know!

Anybody have any thoughts about how we can fix it?

I love all you kunts equally. 

The amount of times some posters have responded to someone else's opinion with "stupid comment", "this forum is getting ridicules" "these people think they're so called experts" or some other variation is killing this place.

Yeah, that’s a killer. It’s not constructive 

Regards 

BSM 

I'm nameshaming Doc, the biggest shoite talker on here.

It's been more or less the same for as long as I've been on this forum. Some absolute clowns over the years. Trapnoclue, Rainpaulo, Byrner and Cathalthesmart. Around Euro 2012 was as bad as the forum has ever been.

Some great posters that don't post anymore like Tribal and some other chap whose name I can't remember but he used to have great tips for South American football

JAVIER

It very much depends what you use it for. The travel subsection is generally kept on topic and is mostly useful. The whatever section is entertaining if nothing else. This section is what it is, and is mostly okay with some issues. It's the rest of the world section that has the some spoofers posting the same nonsense being responded to by the same gobshi*es in a never-ending loop of idiocy.

They're very much ranked 1, 2, 3, 4. I don't use the LOI section that much but it doesn't seem as bad (with one entertaining nutter).

Just remembered your mans name. Madferret 

For the most part I enjoy the forum information-wise, keeping track of up-and-coming players and finding out how random players are getting on etc. But yeah the general attitude of some people can be s bit toxic.

My biggest gripe of all was all the terrible clichéd puns that were recycled over and over and over, and I'm so glad that the mods cracked down on that.

I think the forum is more bearable if you read the comments without looking at who's writing them, and of course take all comments with a grain of salt.

Love the craic on here and have to get my daily fix otherwise i get lost . 

Lets face it i think we have all took something positive from here Tickets , Travel and info now as for negative people move on and we don't see them again but the nutters were outstanding i must say they must have been on truck loads of acid 

There's a one word argument against this: Deise.

Probably it would be better if conduct, in the ROI section at least, would be if you want to challenge, criticize or have some sort of smart comment about an opinion then have a constructive point to back it up.

Maybe not all the time, we dont want robotic posts, but constant offenders should have it pointed out to them.

 

ROW can be a good laugh and you’re almost guaranteed some lunacy.

Whatever has its moments and the LOI is good at times.

Crap senior wrote: Trap junior and pre Madonna must be the same poster. Both so repetitive.

You should know you stalker.  And if I see you hiding in the bushes at night outside my house again I am calling the Guards. 

Lady Gaga?

Still not over Madonnas last appearance on Graham Norton. It was spectacular coontishness. Gaga has some way to go to get to that level.

My favourite one so far has to be Sean Longstaff on the basis his name was spelt Sean and not Shaun or Shawn so he must be eligible.

People on here are crackers 

Or a player capped at u21 level for the north has photos of GAA or Celtic on his Facebook page

He must be called into our next squad despite the fact he can’t get a game at Crusaders 

The sort of activity only Keith Lemon or Ted Bundy would participate in.

Comparing anybody to Keith Lemon is very harsh.

Id see it the other way, threads with post after post of one or very few words or just an emoji at times are fcukin tedious. There is quality on here, some very good content but you usually have to wade through some awful sh*t to get to it. 

To be fair Murph you should be glad you are still

Getting pop ups at your age. 

+1

This sort of sh*t is worse than some of the lunatics that post on here. And there is some serial offenders. Also imagine I was to spell it cereal instead of serial , that would get even more replies, some people it would be the highlight of there day

That would be ‘serial’. Spelling ‘cereal’ as ‘cereal’ would be correct. I would also use single quotation marks for emphasis, it makes it easier for the reader; after all, punctuation and grammar is merely consideration for those reading it.

In the highlights of my day so far, this comes about fourth just behind a rousing sing-a-long to ‘Louie, Louie’ in the shower, a relaxing sh*t and a very enjoyable coffee with herself. 

Maybe a sign of how desperate some people have become to see players tied down to us after the Grealish & Rice sagas.

 

Oh, and you know there must be an issue with conduct on here when a thread about it has already run to 3 pages in less than 24 hours.

Still no PM's to this anonymous account in regards to names of posters you want banned. 

Regards

Gazh 

1. Replies must not be too short or too long

*their

2. No lists

great tips for getting to games. like the 160 return to geneva in oct.. yeah the emojis are annoying and when two posters ahve arguments and quote everything...

i enjoy the forum, dont post too much though

 

3. Don't be seen to be enjoying yourself or having a laugh

4. No multi quoting. 

cheers

5. More puns in the Troy Parrott thread 

I wouldn't want to see anyone banned personally, some posters like Dublin_doc and pre_madonna can be annoying but occasionally can be really funny too. I guess you've got to take the good with the bad.

Hans Moleman is like trap junior but at least I kinda found traps whining funny, and takes all the threads off topic / on a tangent. just needs to chill out.

Miss Javier though, can someone bring him back?

Who are you talking about? It would seem that there have been zero requests to ban people! I've only seen requests to bring back javier...

Javier is alive and well under the new alias Paul Andrew White 

Someone once told me, "a prophet is never recognized in his own time"...

Regards 

Mr E 

Doc was named twice so 

 It's running nowadays. Rocky Marshmellow has to keep fit