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Thanks! My old job was physically affecting me in a bad way. My VP was a total incompetent doucher alcoholic that would ghost me when Inhad 3mm in ops and needed pricing. Among other things. Just happy now and my territory is out West so makes life better too.
 
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I'm on vacation right now and my ad blocker isn't verifiable with this hotel's shitty wifi. If you're neither a sponsor nor have an ad blocker running on this site...you're a madman. Didn't realize this was the standard experience with all these ads.
 
I'm on vacation right now and my ad blocker isn't verifiable with this hotel's shitty wifi. If you're neither a sponsor nor have an ad blocker running on this site...you're a madman. Didn't realize this was the standard experience with all these ads.
This site still can’t even function properly on trade deadline day, draft day, and free agency day despite 10+ years of server “updates”. They don’t deserve the ad revenue lmao
 
This site still can’t even function properly on trade deadline day, draft day, and free agency day despite 10+ years of server “updates”. They don’t deserve the ad revenue lmao
The irony of it is that the plethora of f***ing ads on the site are a big contributing factor to why the site performs like dogshit most the time. :laugh:

It's what happens when a bunch of people with the brain capacity of a potato are running a gigantic website.
 
The irony of it is that the plethora of f***ing ads on the site are a big contributing factor to why the site performs like dogshit most the time. :laugh:

It's what happens when a bunch of people with the brain capacity of a potato are running a gigantic website.

Never crossed my mind that's why this site sucks so bad at times, but that makes so much sense.


Anyone who views this site without an adblocker has a disgusting amount of self hate. Paying to use this site might be even more offensive than that even.
 
Never crossed my mind that's why this site sucks so bad at times, but that makes so much sense.


Anyone who views this site without an adblocker has a disgusting amount of self hate. Paying to use this site might be even more offensive than that even.
It’s $12/year. For the probable HUNDREDS of hours we spend here just fork over the money. To my knowledge this is the single best place to talk hockey on the internet, probably the single best place to talk any major sport online.

$1 a month is completely reasonable for how much enjoyment/value we all get. Regardless of the issues which are laughably fixable
 
It’s $12/year. For the probable HUNDREDS of hours we spend here just fork over the money. To my knowledge this is the single best place to talk hockey on the internet, probably the single best place to talk any major sport online.

$1 a month is completely reasonable for how much enjoyment/value we all get. Regardless of the issues which are laughably fixable


Yeah I just can’t open my wallet to a company that runs ads like this. If they put it all behind a paywall for $12 and cut the ads out then I’m all for it. No way I’m giving them even a penny while running ads like they do, though.

Didn’t this site have some weird ties by being owned by the porn industry for a while too or something like that?
 
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It’s $12/year. For the probable HUNDREDS of hours we spend here just fork over the money. To my knowledge this is the single best place to talk hockey on the internet, probably the single best place to talk any major sport online.

$1 a month is completely reasonable for how much enjoyment/value we all get. Regardless of the issues which are laughably fixable
Counterpoint: you would literally get banned for several days if you call a person a dumbass for saying Connor Bedard isn’t worth Arber Xheraj straight up in a trade.

Mainboard mods allow way too much rampant dumb-assery to occur. I don’t want to ever give money to Spinny Norman or whoever actually runs this site.

Now if DGH had an OF you might be on to something
 
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Counterpoint: you would literally get banned for several days if you call a person a dumbass for saying Connor Bedard isn’t worth Arber Xheraj straight up in a trade.

Mainboard mods allow way too much rampant dumb-assery to occur. I don’t want to ever give money to Spinny Norman or whoever actually runs this site.

Now if DGH had an OF you might be on to something
Not your money, just a ton of your time apparently. We’re very lucky to have HF Boards, warts and all. If this site went dark we’d be left with a desolate Discord server for a short while and then we’d have to crawl over to Reddit and deal with their terrible layout of discourse instead.
 
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Not your money, just a ton of your time apparently. We’re very lucky to have HF Boards, warts and all. If this site went dark we’d be left with a desolate Discord server for a short while and then we’d have to crawl over to Reddit and deal with their terrible layout of discourse instead.
I already use reddit truthfully and considering how often this site has maintenance and shuts down when any crazy news worthy it wouldn’t be that much of a change.

The different format doesn’t bother me it actually makes it easier to skim through conversations and ignore ones you don’t care to read meanwhile on here you can have KBIB and another use here have an argument that spans several pages long and you are stuck skipping several pages beyond that just to return to discussion.

Both formats work in their own way.

Only reason why going here is more reliable at times is the users who post here make it great and reliable to find information faster it is not because hfboards is a greatly managed website
 
genuinely the only value this website provides is that it is one of the greatest clearinghouses of internet dumbassery ever contrived. that it happens to be themed for one of my interests is just icing on the cake. i am literally just here to laugh at stupid people mouthing cliches and inept persuasive rhetoric at eachother. if i wanted to pay for something like that i'd just buy a xitter blue check like @Blackhawks.
 

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