Mission Statement

www.BigRockCandyMountain.info aims to provide to the best of its ability: voices.

Voices in the darkness.
Personalized voices belonging to a growing number of contributors.

That was our first promise to you.

And these are our other promises to you;


We will not censor you or ask you to write as one in the voice of the site.

We will not ask for work from you only to edit it down to a shadow of a former self because of some misguided faith in our skills as editors or judges.

We will not publish anything that pushes genuine hate or intolerance. There are religious websites for that material.

We want the absurd just as much the serious - be it your drugged up drunken travelogue from Thailand or your beat on the streets of Eritrea. We want it all. Please.

We are not graphic designers pretending to know something about voices. We are only a motley assorted group of coders and writers interested in voice.

Should it get too big, we reserve the right to hire person(s) as fulltime editors for the site.

The only thing we're sure we know is that we don't know.


We are not some sort of hippy minded web collective doing this for free. We unapologetically aim to make money from this so that we may pay our costs and ultimately pay those who contribute so that it helps them along in whatever they are doing.

We will back you wholeheartedly in a fight.

As long as it's the right sort of fight.

We're not out to make friends.

This is not Digg.com - we have no popularity contests, everything here exists on its own merits.

This is not Livejournal.com or any similar blog-site. There will be no communal dramas or whining.

This is not Myspace.com or anything similar, we do not claim to own your work.


Though we'd prefer you didn't, anything we put up that you've given us, upon request, within 48 hours we will remove it.

Should we ever reach the point, we hope that you will allow us to publish your articles in paper format with the clear intention that all contributors to such a work get their fair share of profits.

We will tidy up your articles to the best of our ability, time allowing. If you do not want to appear like an idiot, we suggest you take some serious time to do this yourself.


We are not communists or fascists - we are just a social experiment.

We welcome the voices of activism - so long as those voices are coherent and back-up their facts with links and if possible bibliographies.

Just emailing us a typed up piece does not win our respect. Respect is earned. In saying that, by remaining true to this mission statement and showing you our incomings and outgoings, we hope to earn your respect.

Everything posted upon this site is the personal opinion, educated or not, of its writer.

Unless otherwise stated, nothing is fact.

Although, we the founders are pro-Abortion, anti-creationism, anti-organized religion and pro-drug legalization, we welcome well thought out pieces written by those who are not.^*

We have everything yet nothing to prove.


That should you contribute to our site, we the founders will, if we meet you and you're able to prove it, buy you one drink of your choice, within reason.

That pretty much means no champagne, old single malts or expensive brandy or cocktails.

Which pretty much means, you get a beer, cider or stout.

Possibly a glass of wine though, maybe even a shot.

This will not be deducted from anything you've got coming to you from the site.


We reserve the right for contributors to quote the work of other contributors on the site.

That no one opinion represents the opinion of the majority.

That this is not a social networking site.

That ultimately, you're on your own.

Just as, ultimately, you have the entirety of the mountain behind you, fist clenched and raised.

That this site is run by a group of Finns and Swedes who have had their emotions surgically removed.

And one Irishman who hasn't.

That we have a deep and resolute love of Fjords.

That we are not operating on a higher plane nor do we aim or claim to. There is no higher goal or aim there is only the voices. Nothing more.


That we promise never to sell-out unless everyone who has contributed benefits significantly.

That, within the confines of the site, we promise never to abuse our powers.

That we reserve the right that should we find out that any money we eventually pay you is used for evil, to track you down and beat the seven shades of shit out of and back into you.

You've been warned.

That, one more time for the people in the cheap seats;
We are not some sort of hippy minded web collective doing this for free. We unapologetically aim to make money from this so that we may pay our costs and ultimately pay those who contribute so that it helps them along in whatever they are doing.


This is,

We Are,

You are.

Big Rock Candy Mountain.

^*Except Unfo-, who feels all drug users should be shot and that the rapture is soon coming.