Message from a soon-to-be former Hardcore Poster.

Swaye said:

kickinthenutshuskies said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Just received this message from a guy (who shall remain anonymous) that I've interacted with over the years on DM and HH: "Just a quick personal note to say thanks for your perspectives on UW football over the years. I haven't always agreed with you, but I've appreciated your passion for the program. I had hoped this site would be a place to have fun discussing football, but even the few promising threads ultimately devolve into insults and name calling. While I certainly don't always agree with Kim, after hanging out here for a while, he has a point: some of the shtick gets old after a while. The older I get, the more I judge activities by whether I enjoy them, and I simply don't enjoy having my intelligence questioned by a bunch of internet idiots. Perhaps I will catch you in the future at another site somewhere between DM and HH. Anyway, carry on the good fight and feel free to drop an email if you want to discuss Dawgs."

The guy that sent me this note is NO fan of kim or any of the other jerks over at DM.

Look, I'm not going to advocate for people to be censored (like the d-bags that ruined DM), nor am I going to lecture anybody. I will only say that this website has the opportunity to become a REAL and UNFILTERED alternative to DM. The problem is that a few folks on here insist on turning threads into name-calling and 8th-grade-level cursing contests, or just an opportunity to 'zing' other people.

I'll be the first to say that at times I've been guilty of that BS as well.

I guess my only suggestion is that some folks should decide if they want this to become the website that ALL OF US have described at one time or another - a place of INTELLIGENT analysis where INTENSE criticism and UNSCRIPTED opinion is welcome - or do we want HH to be just a place of one-liners, biting insults, and contests to tear down others. I realize that it's often both, but I tend to agree with this guy that it tilts a little too much toward the latter.

Just a thought. Peace. Now fire away.

great thoughts here. One one hand, I think this site is hilarious. I think the podcast is fucking hilarious. And I love how the passionate Husky fans can vent their spleens and not worry about being cancelled by 'superfans.' I love making critical commentary without being blasted by idiots. I wish there was more of that content here. I was excited to join the boards and quickly found the sharp elbows - tough audience. But that's fine. I tried to post a straight up football comment and got LEAVE as a one word reply. Not much different than WSB. Again, I could give a fuck, (and I will no doubt get several FO's and LEAVES here...whatever). I am a media consultant and we are working on a project that tries to thread the line of attitude and substance. It's not easy to be true to the audience and culture AND be taken seriously for subject matter content...say...by advertisers or even a broader audience. This site ain't for wimps. It's hilarious and yeah, sometimes you have to really look for meaty football discussions and tolerate a lot of bullshit along the way. But it is what it is. Go Dawgs.

I am actually not going to bust your balls for replying to years old copypasta like a noob. I liked the cut of your jib in this poast so I will illuminate instead of fumigate - which is weird for me, but you may not understand why.

A LEAVE can be sort of a term of endearment or an actual call to kill yourself. The trick is being here long enough to figure out the difference. This place very intentionally tries to deny entry to wimps, morons and casuals. We always used to say we'd rather have 50 smart fans with standards than 50 thousands Doogman mouth breathers - and we actually mean that.

It's a tough love go fuck yourself culture that many people have spent the better part of two decades honing to a sharp point. To stab losers with. In the dick. Not kidding. Many of the long termers here go back to the late 90's and early 2000's on message boards, and we? have gypsied around the interwebs together, going from website to website, as we either got kicked out en masse or the websites failed or were overrun with Fox lawyers. At this point, we are a tribe of disaffected malcontents that have been kicked out of every bar in the county, except this one. So it's our bar. And we protect it like it's ours. With malice to all.

We are basically the biblical Jews of Husky fandom. @RaceBannon is our Moses, only older. Pharaoh keeps fucking with us but we manage to survive. Like cockroaches. We talk about the tits of underage coaches daughters, we make paraplegic jokes to actual paraplegics, and we will always ask for naked pics of wives and daughters of friends and enemies alike. To be fair, we have few friends. We like that too. Having few friends keeps us nimble and fast, and ready for anything Charlie wants to throw at us. Years of being on the run has made us sharp, and hard (lulz) like iron, with breath like kerosene. We smoke weed and talk shit and like it when people are offended. We named this place the Thunder Dome. For a reason. Ten men enter, one man leaves, or in this case makes it to be a part of our tribe.

It's been a three decade war with upper campus, the AD, and 81% of this no account fanbase that has no standards and just wants good clean games with no injuries. Guess what? We like injuries. Fuck the kids we always say.

So, we don't dislike all newcomers, we just don't trust them. Could be a spy for Pharaoh, or just a wimpy fag. You have to earn entry to this club. Nothing given. Always earned. That said, you can come to the movement later in life and still be taken into the fold, just axe @YellowSnow (he fucking has his own bored here for Christs sake). You just have to be able to pick things up quickly, knife fight in a phone booth a little bit, and not try to take stands on pedophilia when someone asks how old the new Coaches underage daughter is. People who do that and then triple down on it are huge fags and will be scorned with copypasta for an age.

We don't give a fuck about being relatable to the masses, or getting access, or anything else. We care about one thing as it relates to football. That's it. Just one thing. We are, after all, simple men with simple requests. Win, or else.