State of the Bored Address

DerekJohnson said:

1. When I have put ads on here, people complain that I sold out

2. Soon after, we get flagged repeatedly for bad language, and the ads get pulled (as happened with Google advertising).

This is a big fucking problem. Not number 1. Fuck anyone who thinks you are selling out trying to break even in year 4 of a website you have sunk thousands of your own dollars into. I mean seriously, fuck them.

Number 2 is the issue. If you take away all the cursing and buffoonery this place becomes like neutering the Thunder Dome by making it gay only. Not just normal gays either, but the really fruity ones. Would kill the entire site mojo. Could you get creative and put most of the boreds behind a wall (like Wigwam), and leave a couple of clean boards visible to everyone? Call it the Freebird bored or some shit...I am just trying to think outside the box, but the need to be "clean" presents real problems for money generation.

I think Coke (and others) are really onto something with the social media thing. This site is really no different from ShaggyBevo or Tigerdroppings....but they have HUGE traffic and member bases. There is a market for this kind of hijinks. One of our core problems is that Texas and LSU are simply much, much better football programs than our shit show. People from all over the country follow them religiously. UW, not so much. Thanks sloppy tits. That said, with proper "marketing" on social media, there is no reason we couldn't pull a larger swath of people who are just football fans looking for a fun time. This could be the faggy Pac-12 equivalent of those. I really believe that. There is nothing else like this site for football on the West Coast. Market the shit out of it. Use social media all stars like Grundle, Coke, etc. If they can get us 50 new contributors in a year, that is better than any financial donation they could have made.

My fucking fingers hurt and I am making @Tequilla blush.

DerekJohnson said:

Swaye said:

DerekJohnson said:

1. When I have put ads on here, people complain that I sold out

2. Soon after, we get flagged repeatedly for bad language, and the ads get pulled (as happened with Google advertising).

This is a big fucking problem. Not number 1. Fuck anyone who thinks you are selling out trying to break even in year 4 of a website you have sunk thousands of your own dollars into. I mean seriously, fuck them.

Number 2 is the issue. If you take away all the cursing and buffoonery this place becomes like neutering the Thunder Dome by making it gay only. Not just normal gays either, but the really fruity ones. Would kill the entire site mojo. Could you get creative and put most of the boreds behind a wall (like Wigwam), and leave a couple of clean boards visible to everyone? Call it the Freebird bored or some shit...I am just trying to think outside the box, but the need to be "clean" presents real problems for money generation.

I think Coke (and others) are really onto something with the social media thing. This site is really no different from ShaggyBevo or Tigerdroppings....but they have HUGE traffic and member bases. There is a market for this kind of hijinks. One of our core problems is that Texas and LSU are simply much, much better football programs than our shit show. People from all over the country follow them religiously. UW, not so much. Thanks sloppy tits. That said, with proper "marketing" on social media, there is no reason we couldn't pull a larger swath of people who are just football fans looking for a fun time. This could be the faggy Pac-12 equivalent of those. I really believe that. There is nothing else like this site for football on the West Coast. Market the shit out of it. Use social media all stars like Grundle, Coke, etc. If they can get us 50 new contributors in a year, that is better than any financial donation they could have made.

My fucking fingers hurt and I am making @Tequilla blush.

That is part of the reasoning behind our Tennessee Volunteer podcast that will soon debut. It is one of several tools to help spread the word across the country.

I don't like the idea of watering down a board for mass public consumption. It takes away from what and who we are. But I appreciate what you're driving at, which is to think outside the box.

Considering the tepid nature of Husky Football, it is amazing the following and traffic we have here.

Hardcore Husky is going to succeed one way or another. We will figure it out as we go along.

I hadn't thought about using the Vols as an approach to expand the base (i.e. when I just PM'ed you). Let me think on that. It shouldn't take long. I am not known as a deep thinker.