Welcome to the Site - Here's how you use it

by Dave Clark on Feb 21, 2011 7:47 PM PST in Life in the Sound

This website has grown well beyond what I ever thought it would. I had dreams of having a 2nd writer - someday. Now, we have 5 listed, plus a few others that will pop in at times. There was a point that the only readers were family and cornchops, now there are so many I can't keep track.

The Q&A pointed something out to me though. There are a ton of readers who not only didn't read in 2009, they didn't read in 2010 as well. This offseason has seen continued growth, and not just from people familiar with the SBNation network.

So for you, I thought it would be good to introduce you to how to use all these awesome functions. And then I thought it would be a lot of work.

Good news - Cougars don't know how to use the web either. So Brian Floyd put together the best work I've seen on how a regular reader can use SBN to their advantage for his readers at www.CougCenter.com

Most of you know commenting. But read that and we'll have less reply fails, more rec:s and catch those silly spammers quicker.

A few of you have posted a FanPost or FanShot, every author listed on the masthead actually did these to get noticed. Here's how to do that and be awesome. We like awesome. Here's how to do FanPosts, FanShots and Comments with Style. Most of you know me, I'm less stylish than they or LookoutLanding are.

Twitter and Facebook have helped all of us discover new things about the game, and about life. They've even started revolutions. Did you konw that you can use them to enhance your SBN and Sounder at Heart experience? Brian also talks about his role at SBN Seattle there. It is very similar to Jeremiah's role with www.sbnation.com/soccer Kirsten and Aaron from www.7500toHolte.com also pop up here once in a while. Both write at those two portal sites at times, while also providing their unique perspective here. Graham, of www.weaintgotnohistory.com can post here too, and also can post at SBN/Soccer. We'll always try and put things where they are the most appropriate, but as we've seen with Jeremiah sometimes a post there is a fanshot here, or a post here is a link there.

You can like Sounder at Heart on facebook HERE.

To follow the most frequent S@H authors on twitter you can find us at these accounts; Dave = @SounderAtHeart | Jeremiah = @JeremiahOshan | Sidereal = @SeaSoccerScene | Brian = @FloydCoug | SBNSeattle = @SBNSeattle

Thanks for joining us. Hopefully these links help you out as you learn how to take full advantage of SBN and Sounder at Heart.

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by Dave Clark on Feb 21, 2011 7:53 PM PST reply actions

Thanks!

I was trying to devour as much content as I could last year and really enjoy the banter and opinions! Now thanks to you guys, I have a S@H scarf and even signed up!

Keep up the great work! I know that there are tons of people who were like me and just read without joining SBN.

Nos audietis in somniis
Nos audietis in altum

by chrisso on Feb 22, 2011 10:56 AM PST up reply actions

i’ve been reading since last season but never really bothered to sign up.

i suppose this post inspired me.

by Scott Brandt on Feb 21, 2011 8:10 PM PST reply actions

Welcome aboard!

by wyte_lightning on Feb 21, 2011 11:34 PM PST via mobile up reply actions

Sup, joining the conversation is always good.

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After a long arduous summer of training, back for a new season of perpetuating hockey superstitions

by iced on Feb 22, 2011 2:39 AM PST up reply actions

Also

If you are unfamiliar with Graham, think of him as your lovable, yet irascible old uncle and you’ll take catch the tone of his comments about right.

by Perrinbar on Feb 22, 2011 7:39 AM PST reply actions

authentic

Too bad all us Sounder Supporters are unauthentic. :(

by lysander on Feb 22, 2011 10:00 AM PST reply actions

Such an amusing critique especially coming from Portland

I find that critique of Sounders fans hilarious when I see it on other boards. Especially when I see it from a Portland fan. Portland is the home of the hipster movement. Probably the most inauthentic cultural in my lifetime.

My absolute favorite was the multi-colored kafiya scarves thing that was popular a couple of years ago. I’d love to go up to someone wearing one and ask them what they thought of the current state of the Middle Eastern politics. Then watch their eyes go dull.

by Dizzo on Feb 22, 2011 10:13 AM PST up reply actions

The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland

by B-Lot tailgater on Feb 22, 2011 10:34 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs

There's...a lot of wrong in this comment.

by Aaron Campeau on Feb 22, 2011 11:28 AM PST up reply actions

And since drive-by comments aren't especially productive, allow me to elaborate.

For one, if there’s a “home” of the hipster movement, it’s not Portland. It’s Washington D.C. or it’s Olympia. A lot of the major driving forces of Portland’s music and art community are Olympia expatriates and they brought Olympia’s lo-fi, DIY ethos with them. That’s not to say Portland doesn’t have its own culture, but it’s been heavily influenced by Olympia’s indie scene which has been established since the early 1980s.

For another, I’m beyond skeptical that there is such a thing as a “hipster movement” in the way it’s generally spoken of. Yeah, there’s a fashion trend that’s been influenced by the 1980s/1990s indie rock scene that Portland was something of a nexus of, but that’s hardly a movement. Does anyone remember flannel shirts on the runways of Milan and Paris in the 1990s?

Third, to call anything relating to the PNW indie scene inauthentic is just flat-out incorrect. Please listen to anything released on any of the influential indie labels in Portland/Olympia/Seattle and tell me that it is inauthentic and contrived. You’d have a very hard time convincing me that the important and influential bands/musicians to come out of Portland over the past few decades-Dead Moon, the Wipers, Elliot Smith, etc- are anything close to inauthentic.

And not to take this discussion into politics, but the kafiya scarves thing has nothing to do with Portland on any real level. I remember that whole trend. I saw a hell of a lot more Seattleites wearing those scarves-which were most heavily pushed by Levis-than I did Portland residents. Portland is not a stupid or ignorant city. Most of the most intelligent, politically aware people that I went to college with ended up settling there and that’s not exactly an accident.

More than anything though, why do you care what a random Timbers fan says about the Sounders on a message board? And why do you feel the need to respond with a characterization of Portland that is just as unfair as their characterization of Sounders fans? I love both Seattle and Portland. I prefer to live in Seattle for various reasons, and of course I hate Portland’s soccer team, but the city itself is rad. There’s no need to bring the city into this. And if you want to talk about people and snobbiness, well, based on my experiences both here and in Portland I’ve found people there to be a lot more welcoming and unpretentious than people in Seattle.

Lastly, like Kirsten says below, these sorts of comments are just uncreative. There are plenty of valid and far funnier things to make fun of Portland for than this. Like, the fact that they’re bad at soccer. Or their disaster of a kit launch. Stick to stuff like that.

by Aaron Campeau on Feb 22, 2011 12:05 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs

My appologies

Yes, it was a dumb comment and I shouldn’t have posted it. I find the whole thing inauthentic, but there’s no need for me to put out an inflammatory comment.

by Dizzo on Feb 22, 2011 6:39 PM PST up reply actions