This will be my final comment on the whole affair (no further questions, respect my decision):
We? (rightly or wrongly) have a rich tradition on this board for making donations to our fearless leader for stupid shit in return. I personally have throw Stalin a few bucks here and there for him to name an award in my honor, read a list of my grievances about several poasters on his podcast, and to get people to change their avatars, etc. (this is on top of my annual tribute).
@Fire_Marshall_Bill paid to change the name and Derek accepted. And as we all know, this is a benevolent dictatorship. DJ’s word is law. We can of course express our opinions, but either deal with it or make a counteroffer.
I personally think it would be a fun cash grab opportunity for the site to have a silent auction before the season starts in August to get to rename all the reaction buttons.
I'll give you part of my reasoning. We have upwards of 25 posters who have 10,000 posts, 20,000 posts, 30,000 posts, 40,000 posts and even 50,000 posts, who spend 1.25-3.0 hours a day here, 7 days a week. And they can't kick in even $25 a year, which is about $2 a month. And as the Huskies went into the postseason, I watched many of them make posts like they've never been as addicted to the site as they are now, or they discussed their vacation plans to New Orleans and Houston, and yet... They can't even kick the equivalent of $2 a month, to where they spend so much time talking Husky football and other stuff.
On one hand I love this site. On the other hand, I am bound to it and sometimes it feels like what it is, a part-time job. There are days/nights where I don't feel like doing the admin work and tending to the issues. But I'm always on top of stuff. But when I feel like some folks are taking advantage of the situation and of me, it's bothersome. I'm not talking about the guy with 1,300 posts who logs in once a week to see what's going on. I'm talking about those who are on here 1.25-3 hours a day, every day.
The site "looking like AIDS" and "looking like dogshit" based on recent format changes has nothing to do with me. There's not much I can do about it besides raising issues to the Vanilla IT team or finding us a new home altogether, which would cause a new chorus of complaints because most people don't like change. It does sound like enough websites like mine have raised the issues sufficiently that Vanilla will find the solutions to keep their customers content.
So when a disgruntled poster offers me $300 to simply change the name of a reaction button to our football website, I say sure why not.
ATBS, I don't want to overlook the many supportive posters who donated generously in 2023 to keep the lights on here. And even some who sent me an extra $20 here, or $100 there during the holidays, just to show their appreciation for our little community here, and spurred on by the 14-1 season we were living through.
I told Stalin in PM I was open to putting amazeballs up to a vote. It's not my favorite line in the world, but maybe it could be a compromise. I know some will always want chins though. Ultimately, it's up to him.
Regarding Pumpy, remember, he hated chins as much as I do.
I'm fabulously, upper middle class wealthy because sugar mamas have always gravitated towards yours truly. But the same pot of money and matrimonial bliss puts a hard cap on HH donations.
While I strongly disagree with (and I think most of our community concurs) Bill's Chincredible grievance , I fully understand and appreciate @DerekJohnson your frustrations as described above. And in the big scheme of things it's a far bigger concern in terms of the long term health of HardcoreHusky.com.
I think the time has come to put an end to Free Beer mega posting.
I've been casually following this topic in two threads and trying to find a reason to care. I've failed so far. I don't relate to FMB's hatred of the chin button being severe enough that it's worth $300 to change it, but money speaks louder than words. We all come here because we follow a sport where tradition means fuckall and everything is there for the taking if you can come up with the $$.
You rich folks who don't like the change should put together an offer that Stalin can't refuse and get it changed back.
There's some free beer addicts that at least add to the color and ambiance of the place. @creepycoug classes up the joint a bit.
Then there's the free beer addicts who spew AIDS all over the place.
One is not like the other.
As an actual supporter I'll settle for links embedding and being able to actually read and contextualize what people are talking about without having to open X every poast. I realize this is a Vanilla issue and there's only so much @DerekJohnson can do, however, in turn, all the proletariat can do is petition the Czar so it is what it is.
wait people are unironically complaining? I thought I was occasionally participating in a silly community bit about ironically ribbing Stalin for things known to be completely out of his control for years? I refuse to believe that I have been duped by the biggest and longest woooosh and people have been sincerely complaining.
Its the off season... the chin and website design stuff is a community bit... right.....right guys.... ?
not sure of my post count (or care), but I’m not on here 2 -4 hrs a day 7 days / wk. used to post a lot more but don’t now for whatever reason. read more than I post.
but I also don’t complain about the free beer. meaning, for example, though I think chincredible is pretty funny (even moreso now that I know its origin - thought it had something to do with blow jobs and balls on the chin), I’ve kept out of it. alas, if I am to be lumped in with the riff raff, then so be it. I’m-a-man.gif. and I understand Derek’s point.
every now and again, this place surprises me. it can be debaucherous af with seemingly no limits in sight; and then you can be on the receiving end of a sermon the next. this is another surprise.
@creepycoug you've been nothing but a gentleman and a scholar here over the years except for that one time you tried to "USC respecks us" bully me and you ran into a brick wall of row peter puffer mental tuffness. No sane man among us would every refer to you as a complainer.
It's one of those things that I never thought would happen. I think I mentioned it in the DR about a month ago, because I like to complain a lot. Then Stalin PMd me about it about three weeks ago. Despite people who suddenly think I'm rich, January is a slow month financially for me, but I said I'd do it, and here we are....I knew there would be blowback, but it was slightly more severe than I thought. Cool story, Bill.
I've mentioned to a couple people that it only takes 10 donating $30.01 or 20 donating $15.01 to change it back, and others have said similar things. I guess despite all the meltdowns, it doesn't matter all that much in that grand scheme of things to those who are up in arms.
I don't have the patience to go back seven years to find Puppy's rants against the chin button. Maybe someone else does. Now it's just me. Oh well.
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This will be my final comment on the whole affair (no further questions, respect my decision):
We? (rightly or wrongly) have a rich tradition on this board for making donations to our fearless leader for stupid shit in return. I personally have throw Stalin a few bucks here and there for him to name an award in my honor, read a list of my grievances about several poasters on his podcast, and to get people to change their avatars, etc. (this is on top of my annual tribute).
@Fire_Marshall_Bill paid to change the name and Derek accepted. And as we all know, this is a benevolent dictatorship. DJ’s word is law. We can of course express our opinions, but either deal with it or make a counteroffer.
I personally think it would be a fun cash grab opportunity for the site to have a silent auction before the season starts in August to get to rename all the reaction buttons.
I'll give you part of my reasoning. We have upwards of 25 posters who have 10,000 posts, 20,000 posts, 30,000 posts, 40,000 posts and even 50,000 posts, who spend 1.25-3.0 hours a day here, 7 days a week. And they can't kick in even $25 a year, which is about $2 a month. And as the Huskies went into the postseason, I watched many of them make posts like they've never been as addicted to the site as they are now, or they discussed their vacation plans to New Orleans and Houston, and yet... They can't even kick the equivalent of $2 a month, to where they spend so much time talking Husky football and other stuff.
On one hand I love this site. On the other hand, I am bound to it and sometimes it feels like what it is, a part-time job. There are days/nights where I don't feel like doing the admin work and tending to the issues. But I'm always on top of stuff. But when I feel like some folks are taking advantage of the situation and of me, it's bothersome. I'm not talking about the guy with 1,300 posts who logs in once a week to see what's going on. I'm talking about those who are on here 1.25-3 hours a day, every day.
The site "looking like AIDS" and "looking like dogshit" based on recent format changes has nothing to do with me. There's not much I can do about it besides raising issues to the Vanilla IT team or finding us a new home altogether, which would cause a new chorus of complaints because most people don't like change. It does sound like enough websites like mine have raised the issues sufficiently that Vanilla will find the solutions to keep their customers content.
So when a disgruntled poster offers me $300 to simply change the name of a reaction button to our football website, I say sure why not.
ATBS, I don't want to overlook the many supportive posters who donated generously in 2023 to keep the lights on here. And even some who sent me an extra $20 here, or $100 there during the holidays, just to show their appreciation for our little community here, and spurred on by the 14-1 season we were living through.
That's about all I've got to say on the manner.
*matter
Case Closed
I told Stalin in PM I was open to putting amazeballs up to a vote. It's not my favorite line in the world, but maybe it could be a compromise. I know some will always want chins though. Ultimately, it's up to him.
Regarding Pumpy, remember, he hated chins as much as I do.
I'm far from rich, in fact, some have called me poor. No kids or wife spending my hard earned money though, so that makes a difference
I'm fabulously, upper middle class wealthy because sugar mamas have always gravitated towards yours truly. But the same pot of money and matrimonial bliss puts a hard cap on HH donations.
It's hard, it's a process.
While I strongly disagree with (and I think most of our community concurs) Bill's Chincredible grievance , I fully understand and appreciate @DerekJohnson your frustrations as described above. And in the big scheme of things it's a far bigger concern in terms of the long term health of HardcoreHusky.com.
I think the time has come to put an end to Free Beer mega posting.
I've been casually following this topic in two threads and trying to find a reason to care. I've failed so far. I don't relate to FMB's hatred of the chin button being severe enough that it's worth $300 to change it, but money speaks louder than words. We all come here because we follow a sport where tradition means fuckall and everything is there for the taking if you can come up with the $$.
You rich folks who don't like the change should put together an offer that Stalin can't refuse and get it changed back.
I blame the confluence of odd FMB grievances and the Free Beer bros for this cluster.
There's some free beer addicts that at least add to the color and ambiance of the place. @creepycoug classes up the joint a bit.
Then there's the free beer addicts who spew AIDS all over the place.
One is not like the other.
As an actual supporter I'll settle for links embedding and being able to actually read and contextualize what people are talking about without having to open X every poast. I realize this is a Vanilla issue and there's only so much @DerekJohnson can do, however, in turn, all the proletariat can do is petition the Czar so it is what it is.
There's no bigger fan of our resident philosopher king @creepycoug at HH than Old Yellar.
I look forward to having a Cuba Libre or two in person someday with this swarthy, hombre.
But still, he needs to buy the gaming license and I won't yield here.
wait people are unironically complaining? I thought I was occasionally participating in a silly community bit about ironically ribbing Stalin for things known to be completely out of his control for years? I refuse to believe that I have been duped by the biggest and longest woooosh and people have been sincerely complaining.
Its the off season... the chin and website design stuff is a community bit... right.....right guys.... ?
not sure of my post count (or care), but I’m not on here 2 -4 hrs a day 7 days / wk. used to post a lot more but don’t now for whatever reason. read more than I post.
but I also don’t complain about the free beer. meaning, for example, though I think chincredible is pretty funny (even moreso now that I know its origin - thought it had something to do with blow jobs and balls on the chin), I’ve kept out of it. alas, if I am to be lumped in with the riff raff, then so be it. I’m-a-man.gif. and I understand Derek’s point.
every now and again, this place surprises me. it can be debaucherous af with seemingly no limits in sight; and then you can be on the receiving end of a sermon the next. this is another surprise.
keeps it chintresting I guess.
@creepycoug you've been nothing but a gentleman and a scholar here over the years except for that one time you tried to "USC respecks us" bully me and you ran into a brick wall of row peter puffer mental tuffness. No sane man among us would every refer to you as a complainer.
You've received sermons here? Pray tell
Figure of speech Stalin.
It's one of those things that I never thought would happen. I think I mentioned it in the DR about a month ago, because I like to complain a lot. Then Stalin PMd me about it about three weeks ago. Despite people who suddenly think I'm rich, January is a slow month financially for me, but I said I'd do it, and here we are....I knew there would be blowback, but it was slightly more severe than I thought. Cool story, Bill.
I've mentioned to a couple people that it only takes 10 donating $30.01 or 20 donating $15.01 to change it back, and others have said similar things. I guess despite all the meltdowns, it doesn't matter all that much in that grand scheme of things to those who are up in arms.
I don't have the patience to go back seven years to find Puppy's rants against the chin button. Maybe someone else does. Now it's just me. Oh well.