rambisfan-rmcd says:
January 11, 2026 at 7:13 pm (Edit)
How about an open writers audition thread? If the Seahwaks can sign someone hardly anyone has heard of who has been out of the NFL for the last 6 yrs..ya never know what diamonds in the rough are lurking around here.
Well, I’ll ignore the scale and just go with the kernel you are popping.
If you are here all the freaking time posting comments then maybe you might want to contact Brian (it’s his blog) and let him know.
You can post your deep desire to not live with posts that go on for 300 hundred comments, and a willingness to take matters into your own hands.
It can be fun.
FYI, the writers and admins can see your email addresses when we are rummaging around the site you used to get access, so, Brian could just pick your email address right out of the backside of his blog (no offense).
I would like to contribute.
Check your email :)
Also interested. I dabbled in blogging last year: clipperscentral.com (yes, the URL was a tribute to SC).
I’d be interested :)
I mentioned this to Brian, but I am willing to serve here as I did on SonicsCentral for years. Mostly working in the background, tidying up posts, clearing comments, working the spam filters, stuff like that. Since I live outside of the Seattle metro my content isn’t as likely to be fresh. I did do all the box scores for years on SC.com as well, though I don’t know that there is a need for that sort of thing or not.
I’m thrilled to get some new people onboard. Let me throw down some general guidelines (not rules) that I think would increase commentary:
New posts should be put up at the following benchmarks:
1) New news comes out that deserves its own thread
2) Daily
3) In the event that an existing thread gets more than 100-150 comments
If they come more often than that it becomes a distraction. yesterday we wound up wiht 4 threads and it fractured the conversation.
in a perfect world for me we would have 2-5 writers who were writing something basically once ever 1-2 weeks each. There is going to be a ton of news based threads lately so that would probably get us somewhere between 2-5 “commentary” columns to mix in.
I think writers have to watch the things they do that get reaction and cater to their audience. If a thread is not getting play then don’t write a similar article next time. Sometimes the public doesn’t respond to the same thing you do.
Ideally some of you would want to take some leadership in organizing this and/or potentially continuing to upgrade and organize the site. I can tell you that I would love to do it and am really happy with the increased traffic here but I am just not going to have the time. I have some big stuff coming up.
I’ll add a couple things here, too.
I am just unable to do a daily post for health reasons.
I would like to just write a column once a week.
That being said, 5 people should not all post a column on the same day, so, pick a day.
The best days of the week for me are Mondays, Tuesdays, and Sundays, the rest stink.
So, I can post a commentary column every Tuesday. I would do it Sundays but I’m not prepared to grow a mullet.
There needs to be a little more organization, who does what, when.
Also…
Do’s:
Be as fair to people as you possibly can be, until they prove unworthy of such courtesy.
It’s ok to post a new thread in the middle of the dead of summer (or a dead Sunday) that is simply an “open thread”.
Don’ts:
I should never worry about my 12-year-old son reading any story. I have a much higher tolerance than Brian does (fair warning).
This is a blog but the same laws apply for libel.
I’ll do a Friday column heading into the weekends.
I would love to do it. Used to write for sports section of Yakima herald.
If and when this whole thing gets done and we finally get our Sonics back, I’d be very interested in running a podcast covering the team from a fan’s perspective. I have a couple years experience doing this already for ESPN’s Truehoop network. I’ve interviewed most of the major media personalities, like Sekou Smith, Kevin Pelton, David Locke, Ryan Russillo, and others. Let me know if you’re interested in working with me.
Thanks,
Joel Ashbee
joelashbee@gmail.com
Mondays are fairly light for me. I could do a Monday thing.
Truthfully, any day of the week I could do.