Having checked boards.ie following my 'ban' from a thread in the motoring section, I happened to notice that the so - called Moderator who banned me has been ridiculing my posts, after having actually banned me! He firstly banned me for 1 week, then 1 month, knowing fully that I would not have an opportunity to respond.
To be honest, it surprises me little. I enjoyed my time on the motoring forums there very little, not least because many of the moderators know very little about cars but rather just want to drive very, very fast. How immature. I blame 'Top Gear' myself.
Top Gear? - well, yes. I love the programme ( my work was on it once ) and I'd not miss it for the World. Like everything in life though, it's got to be taken in context. At the turn of the Millenium Top Gear was scrapped by the BBC. They then noticed that rival programme 'Fifth gear' was doing well, so they brought Top Gear back with a new format in 2002.
An important part of this new format involved opening out the concept. An important part of that was making fun of certain cars, in order to appeal to a wider audience - people who might otherwise pass it by. In short, the new Top Gear is a magazine programme with huge appeal; the old Top Gear was for 'petrolheads'.
Allied with stunts like blowing up Morris Marinas and slagging off Hyundai's, the personalities of the three presenters come into play. Unfortunately some of the moderators on boards.ie don't seem to realize that this is just a programme, and not something on which to build a weak personality. Further unfortunately some of the moderators seem to spend most of their time trying to be the bowel movement of Jeremy Clarkson, James May or Richard Hammond.
It's sad, but there you go. From the off it was clear that the 'moderators' didn't like the fact that I knew about cars. This manifested itself almost entirely in selective application of the ( highly abstract ) 'Rules', and ignoring me on the threads which they dominated with personality - building attempts whilst trying to sound like a 'Top Gear' presenter. It's not meant to be taken seriously, lads!
So where do I go now that most of my posts were removed for nothing, moderators only stopped by to disagree with me, and now having banned me the same moderator is making fun of me with no right to reply? Well, I'm busy organizing a car meeting. I'm also dealing with a guy who has a Volvo 164 apart and is welding the floorpan. Oh, and I'm learning how to coach - paint. In a way it's a compliment to be banned. I won't be bothered with boards.ie again, because beyond the tittle-tattle I actually like to talk cars on a Motors forum. All they seem to do is talk is tittle-tattle.
I predict that boards.ie will do well for the foreseeable future. It is clearly popular for being popular - it is not a good quality website ( from the abusive language 'upward' ) but rather got to where it is today because there was nothing else around. That will change. Already several sites have sprung up as a result of people's dissatisfaction with boards.ie. Most of those will fail, but some won't. The long - term future of boards does not look so good. At present, they go out of their way to make enemies, and allow immature people to take pride in being immature. The World moves on.
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