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  • SpoonieLuv
    SpoonieLuv Member Posts: 5,470
    How about a book about Sark?

    Oh wait that already exists.


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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,040 Founders Club
    HuskyJW said:

    Derek,

    I am sorry the packages fell through and was a waste of your time. With the internet today and all the different travel sites, I can create my own package in less than two minutes, so people nowadays know a ripoff when they see one. Unless you are Race's age and hate money you should never buy one of these tour packages...ever.

    This place is phenomenal and the outlet you provide here is nothing short of fantastic. Let's keep the fundraising drive going (easy for me to say I'm not running this site). If companies don't want to be associated with HH because we tell people to "drink bleach"...well, they can drink gasoline and light a match.

    I've learned a lot about Husky football being on here...I've come a long ways as a fan and I have met some great people.

    And I agree with 2001400ex....people need to start being called out.

    I put my package together the Sunday of the announcement. The package was a bargain compared to the first class trip I've planned. At my age you go in luxury or you don't go
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,124 Founders Club
    You can find it on the front page or donate here:

    https://paypal.me/hardcorehusky
    Be sure to include your handle for credit

    For mailing checks and cash:

    Derek Johnson
    PO Box 8298
    Port Orchard, WA 98366


    thank you
    Derek
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,124 Founders Club
    Primesport, the company that runs the tour packages for the UW Alumni Association, contacted me 10-12 days ago wanting to advertise on Hardcore Husky for the Peach Bowl. I told them that I didn't want to play both sides of the fence with EBSports, and wanted to remain loyal to them. In retrospect, maybe I should have done it anyway and not have been so idealistic.

    Oh well, live and learn.

    And to answer Hondo, I have two goals. First step is to get this place where it's completely self-sustaining. The second goal would then be to generate a profit and find new ways to add value to the readers. But first things first.

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  • HuskyJW
    HuskyJW Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 15,488 Founders Club
    DerekJohnson said:

    Primesport, the company that runs the tour packages for the UW Alumni Association, contacted me 10-12 days ago wanting to advertise on Hardcore Husky for the Peach Bowl. I told them that I didn't want to play both sides of the fence with EBSports, and wanted to remain loyal to them. In retrospect, maybe I should have done it anyway and not have been so idealistic.

    Oh well, live and learn.

    And to answer Hondo, I have two goals. First step is to get this place where it's completely self-sustaining. The second goal would then be to generate a profit and find new ways to add value to the readers. But first things first.

    Nebraska Classy.
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  • ApostleofGrief
    ApostleofGrief Member Posts: 3,904
    edited December 2016
    What the site really needs is much more coverage of Central football. This would rachet the number of page hits well into the 10 million range.

    But seriously, I think that about 30% - 50% of the page hits are from a small nucleus composed of half a dozen true OK! sociopaths and a half dozen sports nuts of the clinical variety. Personally I am not an asshole but the reality is that if you have almost no moderating then you get a lot of assholes hiding behind their anonymity, acting like tough guys in this environment, because this is the only type of place they can try to get away with it so as to compensate for their awful lives and low self esteem. that's just the way it works. The trolls will change but not the formula. Is there a spot on sports sites like this where you can hit a happy medium of "just enough" moderation? Probably not. So you are stuck in that spot where you get a enough hits but not enough moderation to attract respectable advertisers. It might be best to just adopt a minimum investment model, where you keep the board going but don't enhance, and don't develop more features, just use it as a platform for your book sales.
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