HSB Rules and Regs
Rule #1 –
Play nice with others. If you don’t, your comments will be deleted and all future comments will be held for moderation.
Rule #2 –
Email addresses: Posting of email addresses is frowned upon. Not because I don’t want you guys talking amongst yourselves, but because I don’t want the poachers and spammers having a one-stop location for chilehead email addresses. This blog is read by folks who don’t participate and simply use it as a tool to solicit loyal HSBers. I’ve even been approached for the entire email list of HSB commenters. I’m trying to figure out something like an HSB approved communications list, but until then please send me an email when you want the email of another commenter and I’ll send you both an email with each others information. But for now, email addresses will be deleted if posted (same with phone numbers). Continuing to post your email address will really annoy me and cause your comments to be held in moderation.
Rule #3 –
Selling stuff: If you have bottles you want to sell and you think a chilehead (or 100) would be interested in it, please email me about the items. I will create a separate post for your items (or hold them till the next Collector’s Corner) and they will be posted for all readers to see. Items that are posted for sale in the comments section do not provide all readers with an equal opportunity. Same goes for new topics. If you want to start something to talk about, send it to me and I’ll post it so all the readers can have a chance to participate and it doesn’t get lost in a long comment thread.
Rule #4 –
I don’t like rules, so don’t make me have to make more. And more important, have fun with the HSB ‘family’ of chileheads. New commenters are always welcome! 🙂
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For everyone on last night (late last night), That’s why all of your e-mails got deleted. There’s the mystery.
Cody, it has always said:
“Leave a comment
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” Most people skip over reading this though 🙂
Ok Nick…. I get it LOL … I still feel bad 🙁
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Hot Sauce!
Everything should be in pretty good order.
I forget to ask if Dan left the light on 🙂
Woops.. sorry nick, I didn’t know about the email thing…guilty as charged
Yeah, I left the light on for Nick. He must have got in pretty late last night:)
I’ve been wondering when this was going to happen. With the participation on the HSB comments having exploded in the past month, I figured it was only a matter of time before some rules had to be implemented along with stronger moderation.
Morning folks. Must of been fun on the blog last night. Rules and Regs post is usualy a sign somthing went awry. Hope everyone had a good St. Patrick’s Day
Fair enough. I for one and glad my address is not being pass around to spammers. But I have a special address to post on the open web just for this reason
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Nope, nothing went wrong at all. Just wanted to make sure there was an “official” post of sorts for future reference.
I thought we were well behaved last night considering all the St Patty’s cheer that was flying around. I apologize, Nick, if anything got out of control. It is kind of strange the amount of comments that this blog gets. I guess it is a testament to the good people that read your blog and the sense of community that you are building. People are using this blog more like a forum…
Hey MAD, your werent in huvasons’ neighborhood last night were you?
Wow chris k! I hopw Nick’s counter goes into the 4 didgits. LOL!
Hmmm. should I try to find out…lol 🙂
NO was in NYC and was home by 8:00 (believe it or not – that’s the first Paddy’s Day I’ve been home before the sun came up, must be old age) What happend on the blog in the last 48 hours?
Whew, let me think on that question for abit… plenty to read 🙂
Beering and Blogging on St. Patty’s Day? Sounds like a good time.
I can’t believe how the comments have exploded this last month. Just fantastic, but I’m being left int he dust in the top commentators list.
Yeah I was out last nite too. The Pharmacy Ball – to much beer!! Plenty of guiness hats about tho
Good to see rules though
can we have clarification of the word ‘nice’ though please Nick? – just kidding
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Thats the nice way of leaving the door open a bit 🙂
I have sooo much to do today and I do not feel like lifting a thing, except a beer and a few finger taps for the blog
Hey Nick,
Maybe you should open up the blog once a week to let them get their frustrations out.
Saturday Night Extreme Blogging on HSB, a no-holds comments session where you can get out there and tear it up…jus ta thought. 🙂
Well sit down lift up that beer and post away. Do nothing and enjoy it! ha Although we wouldn’t want you to get in too much trouble though 🙂
Hey chris k What happened? I’m trying to read the threads but I’ve been kind of off for the last 48hrs. Give me the cliff notes
I will talk witl you all tonight, got to go and work on the babys room. Thanks Nick for the ‘puter help!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guys just wanted to let you know I’m the proud owner of The Official Hot Sauce Blog Sauce #71 of 144. It came yesterday. It looks so good I really want to open it but this ones for display. My wife barred me from buying any more sauce this month. Hummmmm what should I do?
EMAN! Better get to work, The clock is ticking!
The HSB sauce is pretty good stuff! Maybe you can get Nick to send you one on promise of future payment just so you can taste it lol
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talk to huvason, we helped him figure this out 😉
MAD, let me think a little on the cliff notes, I will get back to you.
OMG I just went bananas! I have a signed Blair’s Jalapeno Death sauce and sombody (and of course nobody knows anything) opened it and took a taste! I’m livid. So appairently I have a gost in my house that likes hot sauce. I can’t believe it. Thank God it wasn’t one of the reserves.
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Signed Jalapeno Death opened on St. Patty’s day, isn’t that sauce green? Sounds fishy to me! Just be sure you put it to good use now that it is open. Even signed, it should still be pretty tasty! Probably will taste a little funny mixed with the tears though 🙁 , I know I would be a little upset if one of my signed (non reserve) sauces were opened. Sorry to hear it Mad.
Hey Nick, Im not feeling so bad now, the St Pattys Day crew is taking the blame (LOL)
Nick,
Anyway to set up a PM (private message) button on the site like what is found on some forums? This would take the burden of passing around emails off of you and give some direct communication between the regulars on the HSB.
Bugger. I can’t believe it. I think it was just the black wrap that split off. Has anyone ever had a black seal just split off? Besides tape how do you fix it. I wonder if Blair can reseal it. Unreal. I feel like my dog just died! Sounds stupid but I really feel like crap. I remember getting from a guy in upstate NY. I think I paid like $300 for it. I just replaced it with an unsigned bottle. Now I’m parrinoid and constantly looking at my shrine. It took me so long and a ton of money to get “the shrine”. My wife said it’s not that serrious I nearly went kookoo. In all these years I only had 2 other mishaps. On was an original Death Sauce – ex girfriend tossed it at me. And the other was The Caldera – it exploded. In both cases Blair was so kind and fixed the sistuation. I just emailed him. I hope we can reseal it. Sorry guys if I’m going on about it but nobody else here seems to understand. They think it’s just another bottle of stupid sauce. 🙁
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OUCH!!!!
Somebody’s in trouble…
MAD, better make sure it wasnt huvason getting back at your for his inet connection 🙂
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hey MAD, this was talked about the other night with pmac. He had the same thing happen to him.
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Sounds good Mad! Mine should be here today or Monday!
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Bizzarre – wrong quote quoted on my last post:)
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You can get black shrink wrap, and re-seal it.
What happened to pmac’s sauce?
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Wasn’t me – I promise 🙂
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Same thing if I remember correctly. I believe some nice folks around here sent him some bands. I guess you will see if yuo have any friends here 🙂 (I don’t have any bands yet sorry).
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Hi. I had the same thing happen this week. I had someone offer to send me a few shrink wrp black (that was the colour i needed) a couple offered actually. and i had a website posted for it as well. I forget all the detials though. But I await it and I will not be unscrewing the top I want the seal in tact.
I don’t know this is a new one for me. I never had a “band” split open. Not to say it cant happen.
Hummm well I think I can reseal it. I don’t know. I going out to the home depot and getting locks and keys now
I think it had to do with the brittleness the age and the cold it encountered in a little package like that.
If you need new black shrink, let me know. My email is on my site (or get it from Nick). Gotta go to soccer now! See you later!
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chris k (850)
Is the tracking program Y1K compatable, we gonna have a rollover here soon.
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you sure 😉
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I dont feel so bad now pmac
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Mad already mentioned that earlier. Maybe I will stop when I get to 999 🙂
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MAD, ask the nice man in the orange apron where they have the bottle sealers? See where he takes you 🙂
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Bad idea Chris. If it became no holds barred, not only would there be a lot of people offended and some bad juju happening, but I would most certainly take back my position at the top of the commenters list 😛
hahaha. You get one guy on here in a session like that who is a bad drunk and everyone would hate him and each other by the end of the session 🙂
Well assuming he came on here drunk hehe I should clarify that.
No alcohol needed here for such things, but I nothing bad to say about anyone on here at the moment so you’re all safe 😛
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Oooooooh yea! ha ha
Is there anyway to block certain chatty commenters from showing up when checking the comments?
Anyone particular in mind?
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Yeah like me last night! Maybe Nick can create a thread just for flapping that doesn’t get put in the list on the left. That way when the flapping starts, you can still see the comments from the other threads. I’ve been on both sides of this issue, especially last night waiting for the email that never came 🙂 …… (until this morning) – not to mention the beer!
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I can’t think anyone ? 🙂
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Mad, we have 5 mil black shrink bands that can be shrunk easily with a hair dryer in a pinch. Same ones we use on the Hot Blog Sauce for Nick. Let me know if you’d like me to mail a couple to you.
Mad, we have some too if you need them, we have the ones for 5 oz bottles and 12 oz bottles, they both work with a hair dryer..let me know
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Yeah I was thinking we needed something like that when folks get to chatting. There is a chat room over at thehotpepper.com. I am gonna try and cut down on my comments cause I can say quite a bit at times. I know Nick will come up with something real good to cut down on the chat
I agree, there is a lot of “chatting” going on that is off topic, but it all starts out in a thread with comments relating to the main topic. Hot sauce is a part of all our lives. Not just in the sense that we collect them and enjoy using them, but we all have made jokes about certain things relating to hot sauce, we talk about how this blog and the money involved in collecting hot sauce has had an impact on our personal lives (both positive and negative). There has been only a couple threads that got TOTALLY off the topic of hot sauce and the HSB itself. Those were the “Caption This” thread (we all know what happened there) and the helmet threads (mine and Eman’s). Nick has not stated that all we can do is talk hot sauce, though that may be the purpose of this blog, but in talking about hot sauce and the various aspects of life that it affects and influences, we are building relationships and friendships. This bound to happen in any situation where you bring a group of very different people together in place. Remember that part of the allure of this blog is that there a lot of good people having a good time. This brings interest from new people and hopefully brings attention to Sweat `N Spice. This blog is Nick’s creation, and since he made such a great site for chiliheads like us, we owe it to him to try and make this as inviting as possible to get people to take interest in his business. I believe there are some stipulations that need to be set, and Nick has done pretty well so far in doing so without putting straight jackets on us. It is difficult to keep up on things these days with all the comments being posted, especially for me since I get up 3 hours after the majority of you do, but its not just because some people post too much, its also due to the number of people posting. This is a popular site and no matter what shackles are placed on us, its going to continue pretty much as it is. I for one don’t read all the comments, as most of it does not interest me. Until Nick puts yet a new feature in that will allow you to eliminate all comments from “certain people”, do as I do and skim the first line or two and if it doesn’t interest you, move on. I may be wrong, but my interpretation of your post Thak is something that would be categorized as “not nice”. That comment I don’t believe belongs on here. You, as we all do, have Nick’s e-mail address and could have asked him about this off the blog, but you took it upon yourself to let everyone know that there are “certain people” that you don’t necessarily care to see commenting.[Comment ID #18845 Quote]
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Comes close to a violation of rule #1
Rule #1 –
Play nice with others.
Ryan I could not have said it better myself.
It seems everyone that checks in starts to talk
(chat) on the most recent post. This does cause the main
idea to become blurred. We have people from all over
that share 1 common interst. most of them like to
check in and comment to see whats going on with each other.
I think thats great.
Maybe there should be a section that could allow a “free form” section. Basically a section labeled “off-topic” or something that you can go to without really a meaning other than a bunch of people all
checking in and commenting about what they
choose. (as is what happens right now just that it would
always be in that same section).
It would just go with what is currently going on at
the moment. The comments would just build as they
currently do.
As for the suggestion to not to include these in the
top 10 recent comments, that is a good idea.
Both sides will be happy. You could even
have a top 10 of the off-topic section as well.
Just a suggestion as it would help newcomers to the site
feel their way around a bit better. And would keep
those of us (chileheads) that enjoy this a way to communicate
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Hmmmmm
wouldnt the easiest solution be like a “chat room” for active talk, then the threads can be saved for comments? No? just an idea, what do I know.. 🙂
Yeah I mentioned the chat room thing like the one at thehotpepper.com . We will let Nick figure something out since it is his place! ha
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I think that is the direction it could be headed Lisa.
There are an awful lot of people that check in on a daily (semi-daily) basis just to see whats happening and what the current “talk” is about. (mainly, its all good fun)
And if the majority of them didnt like it that way, it would not be happening.
A section dedicated to whatever the current topic is would be a great addition here as it would allow the posted topics to contain comments about that actual post. This would allow those that choose to talk about whatever, a place to do so. ryan mentioned that everyone here has at least 1 common interest. In some weird, unique way, they seem to come together (most of them) and talk about their experienceshere.
Lisa, the chat room thing came up once before and was shot down. I can guaranty you that there would be a lot less posts with a chat room, but people would spend most of their time in the chat room and others might miss out on a lot of stuff because you can’t go back and read the past. Not to mention, with the way it is now, people can get up, tend to things, come back and get right back into it. You can’t do that in a chat room. Everyone would be glued to their computers watching the screen scroll by. Some of us have families to spend time with and its nice that we can spend a little bit of time reading over some stuff, get caugt up and make a few comments. A chat room would be perfect for single people, but we’re not all single and I know for a fact that some peoples’ spouses would become very upset if their significant other spent all their time in a chat room.
Ryan and chris, Amen brothers!!!!!!!!
I am there right with you. I look forward to comming home after a hard days work and chatting with all the people I have met on this blog. My wife even has started calling me at work just to let me know what is going on. She is addicted too!!! You have no idea of how nice it is to here my wife laughing out loud over the comments that have been posted. Wether it is “posting” or “chatting”, I like it, and it looks like others do to.
But I do agree that WE (i am totaly guilty also) get off on tangents. I do think we need a general blog heading for us chatters and also think we need to do a better job staying on the sublect.
I love everyone here and hope this incredible thing Nick created keeps getting bigger
Hopefuly all my fellow HSBers will help me do this.
I was thinking of a permanant post that would always be listed in the left column. It would have no subject, just whatever the crowd is talking about. You would neve even have to look at it if you didnt want to.
It would work exactly the same way it does now. Every new item at the bottom. This could be cleaned up weekly to reduce the length of it. This way is would seem as it does now, it just would not interfere with those trying to pay attention to a particualr post.
I’m with ya Eman! 🙂 (btw, I love you too)
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Yep, if we did it chatroom style we would miss all the hillarious stuff going on and would not be able to catch up.
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Excellent. Nicely said my friend!
none of us want to see it change.
That is a good idea. A place for us to comment in and be able to go back and look at posts and cut down on the amount of banter beause that is the downside of chatrooms as Ryan stated.
Staying on topic can be a little hard sometimes eman lol
Just checking in and WOW a lot has been going on today. I am sure all things will work in the end. I think some rules really are just common sense. But, Nick, it is going to be really hard for me to play nicely with others! I am from Jersey, YK! LOL But all in all, things will work out, they always do. Anyway, I’ll check back later to see where everyone thoughts are heading. Later!
Good stuff guys!
I like it here just the way it is….doesn’t matter how many changes Nick may or may not make, somebody will always stick their head in and complain. I’ve witnessed several friendships develope here over the past few months. Many of these folks were even able to MEET in person at the fiery food fest. My hats off to Nick and all of the chileheads on here who make it all happen!!
4 simple rules..PERFECT!
Especially this one..Rule #4 –
I don’t like rules, so don’t make me have to make more. And more important, have fun with the HSB ‘family’ of chileheads. New commenters are always welcome!
AMEN TRACY!
With respect to rule #3, how about BlogBay? 😛
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I like that 1 Ryan. You think way to much about these rules. lol
WOW.. looks like we may have got a little out of hand last night. That was not our intentions. We were just having fun. I hope I was not involved in something that would be misconstrued as being detrimental to Nick’s blog.
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Not at all Dan, dont fret it. 🙂
Yeah, I do not think so, however i did make the comment about Nick frowns on us leaving our e-mail then in the next comment I left it in a different format hoping it would go unnoticed 🙂 … sorry d00d :). So that might be the reason the e-mail rule is there 🙂
Well at least we have an official statement on that one. 🙂
I think I get credit (or blame) here for some of this 🙂 After inadvertantly ‘stepping in it’ the other night with what seemed like a commercial offer, I emailed Nick & asked him if there was a posted list of netiquette for the blog since I was so new to it. He remarked that it was something that he’d thought about & was going to do and it looks like he has.
I’m back yall. Well sorry I went bonkers about my hot sauce. Thank you to all my chilipals that offered me bands. I got a quick hot sauce packing 123 lession from this one. Anyway again thank you all for listining to me in my time of dispare. I just got home for my dinner break – 1 more trip to the Homer and I’m done for the night (yay)
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LOL Holly crap that was long. thaksweat, just say sorry,hug and everyone can play again LOL,
…I am just kidding, but tell us who you don’t want to see the posts of LOL, ohh gossip i love it. Please say me 🙂
Holy cow even longer when you quote it :):)
Hello everyone.
HSBers –
#1 – The Creator and I have been out together all afternoon 🙂
#2 – I do not want to discourage any commenting. Some people have felt excluded, but many more others have been welcomed – it’s all about give and take within the community. I have been working on a ‘general’ thread for you all (and/or a ‘chat’ room) – so it’s in the works, give me a few weekends to work out the bugs.
#3 – This is a community of chileheads, that started as blog and has morphed into much more. Go with the flow.
Sweet, I was figuring that you were working on something like that.
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All sounds great and I am always supportive of “Go with the Flow!”.
I knew that Nick had something in the works. He is always on top of things around here!
What ever you folks decide to do will, I’m sure will be good for me since I spend my time reading more than writing. Just to gain some unknown knowledge.
One thing I have noted is that when I log on, I click Hot Sauce Blog and I get the morning post by the ones in charge.
If I click on Collectors Corner, sometime I get the same posting. No one really knows where to go to see the current going ons.(?) Tonight I noticed that pmac was commenting in a 2005 topic(about LeMillion)
I guess what I would like is a known area that would be used for that given day. The next day it start all over again (new/old topic-new discussion)
Just thought I put my 2 cents in
Good Night All
I certainly did not intend to offend.
I apologize if I twisted anybody the wrong way.
Believe me, I was here when the blog got one comment every two days. The change has been great and the people even better. As the community grows, and it will, just let the newbies feel at home, just as we did to you.
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Henry – check out the “Missed Something” section in the bottom of the right sidebar. This will display the last 10 posts that recieved comments since your last visit. This will keep you looped in on the current goings on.
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Great recipe…luv it guys!!!