So it’s looking like you people will not make it to 1000 stories on the front page by August 31st. However, things seem to be just starting to heat up here. So I have been talked into a deal of sorts. If you all can make it to 250 front page stories by the original deadline of August 31st 2008, my wife (The QueenOfCheese herself) will donate one foot of her hair to LocksOfLove.org. I however will give you all a one month extension on my original challenge. The date will be moved up one month, but everything else about my original deal remains intact.
What’s that all mean? 250 front page stories (on HeavyAsHell) by Aug 31st gets you the extension. If you make that, you will have until September 30th, 2008 to make me shave my head for LocksOfLove.org. In case you are wondering, the counter doesn’t even restart! That’s right, we are talking cumulative. So 250 front page stories by August 31st and you get until September 30th 2008 to get the front page count to 1000. So that is the new challenge and your last chance to see me bald!
On the serious side though, this is all for a good cause. LocksOfLove.org helps children suffering long-term hair loss from the effects of chemo, or any other medical diagnosis. It costs $1,000 to sponsor a child, so (as with the original challenge) we are still going to throw a one thousand dollar donation on top of my 3-4 feet of hair if you all make the 1000 front page stories goal by the end of September, 2008.
So please do everything you can to spread the word. Use your Twitter accounts, Plurk accounts, MySpace, Facebook, text message, instant message, email, phone, and twisting your little brother’s arm to get the word out on this. Do what you can to bug the hell out of every blogger you know to write about this challenge, too. If they do, submit that story, as well! Don’t have a story to submit? Go into the upcoming section and just vote some up. We have a ton of stories just sitting there. Thanks to everyone who has helped get the word out so far, but we are far from done. Things have only begun.
To you bands, watch this blog because we have a special deal for you we will announce very soon, as well. Free advertising? Details announced soon.
So any second now the first ad campaign of the relaunch will begin. The artwork has already been sent and everything. A very humble thank you to Jason Chieng of Phunkn for doing such a great job on the artwork. Not only that but he did it for free because he thinks this is for a good cause too. So please flood him with paying work and tell him why!
CLICK HERE & HERE to see the two banners we will be using this month.
So what sites will you see these ads on? Blabbermouth.net, Blistering.com, BraveWords.com, HardRadio.com, KillerTours.com, Metaleater.com, Metalorgie.com, MetalReview.com, Metalsdarkside.com, MetalStorm.ee, MetalUnderground.com, Rockdetector.com, RockMyMonkey.com, SMNnews.com, Tartareandesire.com, Theomegaorder.com, Ultimate-Guitar.com, UnrestrainedMag.com, & Zrock.com for starters, but it may end up being double that before we are done.
So why pay for ads so we can do charity work? Because so far you people are not coming close to making me shave my head…wussies!
Mark’s challenge has been in full swing since the launch of Heavy as Hell on the 1st. Currently we have 13 popular stories, 987 short of the stories needed to fulfill his challenge which is definitely for a good cause.
So help both Mark make his challenge and help Locks of Love help kids who are less fortunate than most of us. I would totally shave my head for Locks of Love with only 500 popular stories, but alas my less than 1″ of hair doesn’t do much.
Anywho, post, vote, comment, lets make Heavy as Hell the one stop shop to share links, photos, stories, interviews and videos of the music we all love.
Heavy as Hell got its first spam submission, I guess we’ve been noticed by someone. Anywho, if you see Spam on the site, don’t just vote it down, we have a handy link on the submissions and comments, and users for that matter for you to report them for spamming, or violating the terms of service, or for something else not mentioned. It lets us admins know about it in case we don’t see it to begin with. So please, let us know if you see something posted that shouldn’t be.
Currently there is no option to explain why you’re reporting something, but that is coming.
If one thousand ‘on topic’ stories make ‘popular’ (aka front page) on HeavyAsHell.com during the month of August 2008 I will donate my several feet of hair to LocksOfLove.org along with one thousand dollars.
If a blogger does a story about this relaunch challenge, please submit that link as well and we will do everything we can to promote your post.
We need everyones help getting the word out on this, so CLICK HERE to go to the front of the site and get started!
As of Midnight last night the new Heavy As Hell has now been re-launched featuring the SocialVoter CMS (Content Management System). Heavy As Hell is a site for you to submit stories, vote up stories, and comment on stories all related to Rock, Metal, Punk, Industrial, Goth, and industry news in general. So go ahead and register for an account and submit some great stories for the community to read.
On a side note, user avatars currently aren’t working. I’m looking into that now and hope to have a solution in the next 24 hours. In the meantime, enjoy!
