...I’m a man of no wealth and questionable taste.
My name is Dave Hitt. I’ve been active on online forums since the days of single line dial up BBSs. I started a multi-line BBS in the early 90s, and grew it to 21 lines before browsers came along and destroyed the business model.
You can find me at davehitt.com, my digital playground since 1999.
I started the Quick Hitts Podcast in 2005, and recently rebooted it after a four year podfade. It’s designed to be short and pithy - each show is about twenty minutes long. With just one episode every two weeks, it won’t take up a lot of your time. Recent episodes discuss trigger warnings from a different perspective, a plea to atheists to turn away from statism, the inevitable results of police violence, trolling street preachers, how to lie about gun statistics, and wasting your vote. Search for “Quick Hitts” in iTunes or on your favorite podcatcher.
I’m the author of Blood Witness, a novel about a Jehovah’s Witness who becomes a vampire, and World of Tanks - The Missing Manual, the definitive guide to the popular game. Both are available for your Kindle, on Amazon.
This place looks interesting, although, like many other people, I’m skeptical. Paying out $25k for a makeup video isn’t a sustainable business model. While I like the fact that this is mostly anarchists and libertarians for now, I worry that it will become an echo chamber, where well written posts espousing ideas and opinions that aren’t liberty-oriented get downvoted into oblivion instead of discussed and debated.
Could this be the Facebook Killer? FB’s banning polices are ridiculous and getting worse by the day. More and more people are getting disgusted with them. With their huge userbase they’ve got a lot of inertia going for them, but if this place can get their interface working smoothly, and keep things interesting, it could be a FB killer. Eventually.
I see a lot of potential here. It’s going to be fun seeing how it works out.