Tell Us What You Think About hecklerspray
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March 29th, 2007 at 11:00 by Stuart Heritage
OK, we're just going to come out with it; every day you people come here for the latest nugget of sharply-written celebrity news - and the occasional less sharply-written nugget of YouTube Awards news - and, well, now it's your turn to help us.
The more keenly observant among you will have noticed that hecklerspray is looking for some designers at the moment, since we're lining up a bewitching redesign that will change the way you perceive the internet forever, or - more realistically - change the way you perceive hecklerspray for a couple of minutes. And now we want to know what you want to see on hecklerspray. What you like, what you dislike, what you want to see more of. Features? Subjects? More pictures of the writers standing around crying and drunk in nothing but their underwear? We're listening, and we promise to abide by your every idea. Unless your idea is crap, naturally.
Leave us your thoughts in the comments box below and we'll put them all in a big notebook or something. And there are more than a million of you, remember, so if we don't get at least a million solid gold ideas, it'll be straight to bed with no tea for the lot of you.
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March 29th, 2007 at 11:09 am
I want more Haiku competitions, plus I want to see that badvertising category filled up more. And no podcasts. Podcasts make me want to puke.
Keep up the good work fellas
March 29th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Much as I love Hecklerspray like my first-born, I think you need to go easy on the gratuitous linking to previous stories. Sometimes it does work well, and I imagine that for the occasional reader it serves as a helpful pointer to your hilarious archive, but for the ‘Spray fanatic it sometimes veers into overkill. Please don’t hate me.
Content-wise, I’d be all for more movie, music and TV reviews. Being the cultural barometer that you are, I’m sure a more regular helping of reviews would be a natural addition to the site - but please, review things that are terrible and pointless as well as things that are all hip and trendy, like. Kind of an extension of Creased or Folded, perhaps. Only reviewing obscure stuff to try and show how cutting-edge you are would be boo-ring.
March 29th, 2007 at 11:31 am
I totally think there should be a sports section. It may not appeal to you guys but it will definately appeal to some people, ie me, and that’s all that matters. I would totally write some stuff for the site if you want. There’s only one small problem, I’m pretty crap at the whole ‘writing’ thing. Then again how hard can it be, I mean, if you can do it.
March 29th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Yeah - I agree that should do more TV reviews. The Eurovision review from a few weeks ago was very good. I noticed that The Guardian liveblogged The Apprentice yesterday too. You should rip off The Guardian.
March 29th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
I don’t know about the sports bit. A new hire would probably be in order then to do real justice to the topic, and that means less money for that Thunderdome cheater Laverty.
The Haikus are a definite plus. Does the “Heckler Stuff” T-shirt store section really generate the expected cash flow? Should that maybe be expanded? The name, font and color
palette still looks good. I think on this more…
March 29th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
More eurovision, more x factor. You’re at your best when reviewing stuff like this.
Also rip off Television Without Pity.
March 29th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I think the linking to previous stories is a good idea. Without it I wouldn’t have discovered the video of “Mental German Kid”. Which changed my life. Afterall, if the linking bugs
you then don’t click on the link. Simple.
I don’t suppose pictures of slutty girls here and there could be included?? Stuff like that brightens my day. Otherwise it’s a top site.
March 29th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Think twice - improvements are always a bit of a gamble, you may please some, you will certainly displease others who see change as nothing more than a darn inconvenience. Who wants to get used to a new format and new links ?
For me, the rambling, ill-informed, made-up-on-the spot feel you have arrived at now is perfection - in a similar way that “Silent Running” is perfection (although the soundtrack has admitedly dated)…
Whatever you do, more Bruce Dern would be a plus - maybe a “where are they propping up a bar / pushing up daisies now” section would be a good addition.
March 29th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Not a bad idea that Fegobear. Whatever happened to ‘Rubbish Cars We Love’? I liked that.
March 29th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
A cartoon section with funny original cartoon work a la sickanimation.com?
More stories on the homepage so I don’t have to trawl back?
March 29th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
I think you should redesign your site to be all about me. Oh, wait. You don’t exactly paint people in the most flattering light. Scratch that first sentence.
It would be nice though if you could stop showing the Harry Potter kid nude, as some of us check this from work as we’re lazy slackers. If the IT department discovered that a semi nude 17 year old was in my cache, the supervisors likely wouldn’t be as pleased as one would hope.