Blades Of Funny Has Haters Now… Woo Hoo!
Blades | August 25th, 2010 - 10:58 am | Posted in: Miscellaneous | Comments: 13
Makes you think...
Since there’s nothing going on in the hockey world, I thought I’d share this funny experience I had yesterday.
It all started when I was checking recent referrals to the site (which reminds me: big shout out to Stay Classy, Puck Daddy, The Rat Trick, Die By The Blade and Discard What You Don’t Need!). Anyhoo, I also came across a message board which was sending some visitors my way. Being the curious fellow that I am, I clicked on over to see what’s up, and while the page was loading, I was greeted by the title “THE WORST HOCKEY HUMOR SITE ON THE INTERNET”. The all-caps meant this was quite serious. Uh-oh.
But surely, I thought to myself, someone probably just dropped my link as a nomination for that honor.
Nope.
I was the headliner. Behold…
The post went on to bash my latest fantasy hockey post and others chimed in as well.
While the response to BoF has been overwhelmingly positive, the addition of passionate hating means I’ve finally arrived on the internet, right? … right? … anybody?
Now, I’ve been married for 7 years; I can take a bashing and verbal beatdown with the best of them. Thus, I created an account on the forum and posted the following to poke fun at myself…
Which was greeted by this post from someone who I would later learn is a moderator (more on this later)…
“???,” I thought to myself. Did I just mistakenly issue a challenge for a duel?
Oh damn! It wasn’t a duel. It was a “showdown”.
Being the non-combative type, I decided to clear up any misconceptions that I was there for a fight to the death. So I posted the following…
I came back a few minutes later to find two things…
1) I noticed that my post was edited by “HFPM” with the message “needs more commas, champ”. I don’t know much about internet message board culture, but I think this is how a person tells the new guy he is a forum moderator, and thus an alpha male of the community.
2) A poem…
At this point, I realized that these weren’t haters but rather people whose humor doesn’t match mine. I vanished into the night…
But yeah, the board did send some hits my way and also inspired this post. So to return the favor, check them out! … just make sure you’re ready to throwdown!
Some spammage…
This Thursday at 9pm est. – hear me talk nonsense as a guest on Rink Side Rants.
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Now if they start insulting you in the comments in this thread you’ve definitely ‘arrived.’
The guy’s got a reddit link in his signature. That should have been all you needed to know.
^^
Beat me to it, JD! Nothing impresses hockey reddit fans.
Blades, I found your exchange with “sniping_people” hilarious. Loved the marriage line. You’ve arrived. Now go disappear before you anger anyone else!
Gotta love morons who’re too scared to talk smack to you on your own site.
Thanks for the mention first off.
Second, if you’re the worst hockey humor website out there, specifically mentioning your latest post on fantasy hockey, then what does that make me since I borrowed the idea? The worst hockey humor ripoff blog ever?
wmsheppa – if they start commenting here, should I edit their posts to assert myself the alpha male of this site?
jdschroeder – thanks for the laugh.
Kevin – I need to disappear and spend a year or two doing some internet flame training…so I can become a Master Flamer…er, that didn’t come out right.
Kevin – Thanks for the support. Next time I venture into enemy territory, I’m going to get you to be my backup.
Jason – I’m not sure. Maybe if you submit the link to reddit, you’ll find out. lol.
Ok, we’ll fix em on the Rink Side Rants show Thursday Night!
Bastards if they can’t take a joke!
Althought the wife comment was classic. Can I use it?
Franky! You can use anything you want from my site. Granted, in the spirit of fair trade, I’m going to swipe a photo from your site for my next post. PARTY CITY BABY!
*lol* those guys are so ridiculous …
yea, you’ve arrived. just take a look at the comments on pd – the net is probably *the* place for unqualified comments and stupid “criticism”. only a pub can top that
just keep on what you’ve been doing all the time. bof is unique, and that’s what makes it good.
and you’ve nailed it: there’s nothing more individual than humor. so just do what good humorists do: shrug and grin.
rouven – I’m going to shrug, grin and get hooked on crack like most humorists do.
Wow, I’m on multiple hockey and non-hockey forums and that reason for edit is brutal. I have no idea how that board can function if they require perfect grammar at ALL TIMES, nor do I know how that guy can hold a mod position. If he cares that much about the posts, I wonder how he can have enough time to edit every post and live an outside life.
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