It was too much for him. If I remember rightly he had a guy writing his own code for the site rather than doing like @Rocko here and using an off the shelf one. This made it hard for him to modify/update and keep a close control of whatās going on.
He also had a zero tolerance for cus words which you can imagine kept him busy. I once got a warning for using the word āpussyā which was in the context of a pussy cat but he had zero tolerance. His way or the highway.
I only very briefly touched upon AFR , it had run its course I think by then- 2007. Didnāt some weirdo save down loads of chat for posterity? @Horsebox and @carryharry were two AFR fundamentalists and hung in till the very end if I remember correctly.
I always thought Choclatemice was a fairly active contributor on AFR but maybe he only came in towards the end?
The story goes that @carryharry was pure harmless altogether in the AFR days before turning edgy when he joined TFK?
Thereās some links up the page. I couldnāt be arsed posting them again. This site is worse than AFR, it doesnāt like you posting the same link twice.
Iād say it was nothing in 2007, that was before it got popular
I can remember very little about it TBH, none of the characters, maybe if I heard the names,
Boards had a busy thread for a while when the plug was pulled and a lot ended up here which probably kicked this place on a bit
Like Bandage in reverse.
He didnāt discover the true meaning of the word printer till he came on here.
Ah yeah that is who I was thinking of.
I think what ruined it was when it got popular? Iād say like here, there was a nice cohort of oddballs that you could engage in serious debate or ball hoppingā¦ Iād say by 07/08 it was saturated and full of shite threads with the goods ones splattered about.
AFR was a place where I could put on my INTERNET cloak and become Bandage. Trouble with TFK was that too many people knew me in real life.
That Limerick nomad seemed like a right saddo.
Another forklift operator
I jest, parenthood softens anyone up before they metamorphise back into a grumpy old bastard when the college bills start rolling around.
Some lads here would have worshipped him like a god.
I joined AFR a few months before it came to an end and was banned twice in that time. I canāt recall what for. It took me ages to stop typing āfcukā instead of fuck.
I went on to become a Top Top Poster on TFK and an INTERNET Colossus.
RIP Liam
Paulm as he was on Clarehurlers. He was never the same after he recounted the tale of the priest riding some other fellow in the basement of a French inn that he had been sent down to get a bit of cheese from.
You materialised when you were needed the most. Thats what heroes do.
Iām very sharp now, butter knife sharp