In hindsight easy to see that he was turning his site into North Korea well in the past. However, it was far more guerrilla warfare that was going on where it was a little more subtle.
At least in my case, I think it was an eye opener for many because at least KJV and Ektard were in full blown assault mode about breaking multiple "rules" that they had for conduct on the boards. I had more than my fair share of messages from people wondering why I wasn't fighting back and when I told them the reasoning, they couldn't believe it.
The other thing that is always highly amusing is his threat of using the Fox lawyers. If you make a post on yelp or whatnot reviewing a business and you say it sucks, there's nothing to that. It actually would be really interesting to see if there was an online feedback location where you could give a "review" of a website like doogman.
If you would have listened to us instead of being a cunt you would not have needed hindsight. We were your eye opener and you didn't listen.
I can't say anything about 2005 - I don't think I was around then. Way too busy getting my #TCU MBA.
I always viewed this group getting run was as much because many started getting personal instead of sticking to the facts ... at least that's what my perspective was at the time.
I had never really noticed anybody (up to that time) getting run for simply stating opinion or facts. That being said, I didn't often pay too much attention to what KJV was doing. The most I would pay attention would be when people like Kyle would get warned and threatened for making low tweaks and turning the chat room into roommate radio. But I always chalked that stuff up to it being KJV's site and he was within his means to do as he saw fit.
I think where it really started changing for me was when he was puffing out his chest and giving himself free pub by saying that the site was the for a lack of better way of saying it, the only place to be for UW football and athletics and then running it in a manner where if you didn't toe the company's line on opinions, there was hell to pay. Taking away people's ability to post during games based on what was going on - including in the chat room was just flat out comical.
I don't think I ever said a cross public word about him until he threatened me and I left the site for good. If there's one thing I really can't stand in the world, it's hypocrites ... and he's one of the biggest that I've ever seen.
Let's flash back to exactly a year ago shall we? A year ago UW was about to have their special season with Steve Sarkisian and finally shut us nega's up. Oregon was going to be hit hard with sanctions any day now it's finally going to happen so that should help Sark out and Kim will be right so he can gloat. He's spent 2 years on this story he can't wait to gloat to all the naysayers who knew all along he was fed bullshit. Plus UW was getting a brand new stadium and has Kim promised that means UW would have a top 10 recruiting class. He had his own show on the Husky flag ship station and had all the access to the program that he wanted. This site was still slow so he had nothing to fear.
Then little by little the small man's world started to crumble right in front of him. First of all the Oregon sanctions finally reached a conclusion. It was just a slap on the wrist if even that. Kim was wrong on this. Two plus years of build up finally blew up in his face. Many were gloating and he was banning people like he were Harvey Road after a New Mexico Bowl loss. With the Oregon sanctions blowing up in his face another thing happened. That is when this site started to take off and really started to pick up some steam.
With all that Kim was struggling but he still had his radio show on the flag ship station, still had Sark and more importantly to him he still had access. September comes and the Huskies are 4-0 and Kim is gloating like usual. Heading into the Oregon game UW is picked for game day which Kim tweets "Well this is it guys the moment that Washington football has officially arrived". After that blowout and the ASU blowout the Huskies were 4-3 and already eliminated from the Rose Bowl race. The 2013 special season that Kim had been talking about since 2011 wasn't going to happen. Sark was starting to finally get some heat on him so Kim was fearing that he'd lose his access. That is when he stooped to all-time lows even for him where a day before legendary coach Don James actually died Kim casually after blasting paying customers for being too critical of Sark he slips this line "Don James just died. The cancer has won" within same post he mentioned that Eklund's kid had the crud.
The season ends and UW finishes 8-4 and 5-4 in conference good for 6th place in the conference. The special season that Kim promised wasn't special at all. Then Kim's world really started to come crashing down as this site continued to rack up more and more hits.......Sarkisian left in the middle of the night to USC. Kim couldn't believe it as the rumors were Mora would be coach and he knew the HHB's had saved all the screenshots of him trashing on Mora that was his worst fear. He wanted Nussmeirer as Nuss would be inexperienced and was previously on Sark's staff so he'd still give Kim access. Then Kim got another hit to his pathetic ego the Huskies hired Chris Petersen who went 92-12 at Boise State. EVERYONE was happy with that hire but Kim. Why is that? Because he knew he wouldn't have access to the program, drinks with the coaches at Joey's, have off the record chats with coaches about useless shit that was most likely false anyways. In Petersen's presser the only question Kim asked was about access to the program.
That is when BiggusDickus(RIP) created northwestfucktards(actually he did in November) where he would screenshot all their idiotic posts. They were scrambling as their savior/hero Sark had left ship on them in the middle of the night leaving him with a coach with no access. UW didn't have that special season, didn't have that top 10 recruiting class he promised, Oregon didn't get the hammer and Sark proved the HHB's right by leaving to USC.
The only thing Kim could hang his hat on is that he has a show on the flagship station. Well that bubble officially burst today. With the Huskies moving back to Komo he no longer has a show on the flagship station. It's also a matter of time before he has no show at all. When you no longer have the Mariners, Seahawks or Huskies and you are a sports station in Seattle then you won't have a station for much longer.
12 months ago Kim thought he had everything. Now it appears the little man has nothing anymore. At least he still has that great real estate career? ;-)
What is wrong with people's sense of humor today? SMFH ... either that or I need to light myself on fire and jump off the Aurora Bridge for how shitty of a day it's been.
Kim's gone from "top of the world" to the outhouse in 12 months ...
He'll claim that it's the offseason and the world is slow, but he's got as a middle of the front page post from Ektard asking people whether or not they like 11 am kickoffs with the latest response dating back to yesterday. Here? Comments from yesterday are relegated to page 2 or page 3.
You really do have to wonder how much longer KJR is going to last in its current form. Clear Channel is really tight with their pennies since they are being run by Bain Capital ... and we all know that ROMNEY only cares about making a buck when they turn around and spin that back off to someone somewhere. If they need to close a money loser down (and it's hard to see KJR as a cash cow going forward with no ties to any local sports team and no major national media - which means almost impossible to get any guests on the air), it's only a matter of time before you go tits up.
The best part of the radio show by far is to get people to listen, they offer up the free beer that basically cannibalizes any reason for someone to pay $10.95 per month for ACCESS!!!
If you look at bottom of page there are threads over 5 days old....on front page. Nice try though
What is wrong with people's sense of humor today? SMFH ... either that or I need to light myself on fire and jump off the Aurora Bridge for how shitty of a day it's been.
Kim's gone from "top of the world" to the outhouse in 12 months ...
He'll claim that it's the offseason and the world is slow, but he's got as a middle of the front page post from Ektard asking people whether or not they like 11 am kickoffs with the latest response dating back to yesterday. Here? Comments from yesterday are relegated to page 2 or page 3.
You really do have to wonder how much longer KJR is going to last in its current form. Clear Channel is really tight with their pennies since they are being run by Bain Capital ... and we all know that ROMNEY only cares about making a buck when they turn around and spin that back off to someone somewhere. If they need to close a money loser down (and it's hard to see KJR as a cash cow going forward with no ties to any local sports team and no major national media - which means almost impossible to get any guests on the air), it's only a matter of time before you go tits up.
The best part of the radio show by far is to get people to listen, they offer up the free beer that basically cannibalizes any reason for someone to pay $10.95 per month for ACCESS!!!
If you look at bottom of page there are threads over 5 days old....on front page. Nice try though
What is wrong with people's sense of humor today? SMFH ... either that or I need to light myself on fire and jump off the Aurora Bridge for how shitty of a day it's been.
Kim's gone from "top of the world" to the outhouse in 12 months ...
He'll claim that it's the offseason and the world is slow, but he's got as a middle of the front page post from Ektard asking people whether or not they like 11 am kickoffs with the latest response dating back to yesterday. Here? Comments from yesterday are relegated to page 2 or page 3.
You really do have to wonder how much longer KJR is going to last in its current form. Clear Channel is really tight with their pennies since they are being run by Bain Capital ... and we all know that ROMNEY only cares about making a buck when they turn around and spin that back off to someone somewhere. If they need to close a money loser down (and it's hard to see KJR as a cash cow going forward with no ties to any local sports team and no major national media - which means almost impossible to get any guests on the air), it's only a matter of time before you go tits up.
The best part of the radio show by far is to get people to listen, they offer up the free beer that basically cannibalizes any reason for someone to pay $10.95 per month for ACCESS!!!
If you look at bottom of page there are threads over 5 days old....on front page. Nice try though
And BTW, this commentary should be a matter of public record for anybody that is, or considering, paying money for those kind of "services."
Anyone still considering or even still paying Kim should do the world a favor and light themselves on fire.
Also doubt anyone considering paying Kim even comes on this site.
Follow the terms of service and everyone will be fine. It's really simple. Not sure why all the twisting is neccesary. We did have to give a few people timeouts from time to time. Is it always fair? No, it never is. That's impossible with thousands of users on at once.
If there's an issue, shoot us a PM. As you know we don't take care of business in the middle of the store.
By the way, subscriptions are up 7.4% from June 2013. Thanks for reading.
Thank for putting "long post" in the title. It helped me out and saved me from reading such a long post.
I'm a classy poster and allow others to know what they are getting into.
I know. Because if you start reading and get way into it, then realize it's a long post, you're screwed.
I've made that mistake with a Tequilla post or two. Although as @Swaye pointed out those long posts make for great material to read while you are on the shitter. So I'm just providing some shitter material for you guys.
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If you didn't think it was being ran like North Korea you were either oblivious or a Doog. Perhaps abundance?
I always viewed this group getting run was as much because many started getting personal instead of sticking to the facts ... at least that's what my perspective was at the time.
I had never really noticed anybody (up to that time) getting run for simply stating opinion or facts. That being said, I didn't often pay too much attention to what KJV was doing. The most I would pay attention would be when people like Kyle would get warned and threatened for making low tweaks and turning the chat room into roommate radio. But I always chalked that stuff up to it being KJV's site and he was within his means to do as he saw fit.
I think where it really started changing for me was when he was puffing out his chest and giving himself free pub by saying that the site was the for a lack of better way of saying it, the only place to be for UW football and athletics and then running it in a manner where if you didn't toe the company's line on opinions, there was hell to pay. Taking away people's ability to post during games based on what was going on - including in the chat room was just flat out comical.
I don't think I ever said a cross public word about him until he threatened me and I left the site for good. If there's one thing I really can't stand in the world, it's hypocrites ... and he's one of the biggest that I've ever seen.
Also doubt anyone considering paying Kim even comes on this site.
Nice try though ...
If there's an issue, shoot us a PM. As you know we don't take care of business in the middle of the store.
By the way, subscriptions are up 7.4% from June 2013. Thanks for reading.