• This is a political forum that is non-biased/non-partisan and treats every person's position on topics equally. This debate forum is not aligned to any political party. In today's politics, many ideas are split between and even within all the political parties. Often we find ourselves agreeing on one platform but some topics break our mold. We are here to discuss them in a civil political debate. If this is your first visit to our political forums, be sure to check out the RULES. Registering for debate politics is necessary before posting. Register today to participate - it's free!

DP needs your help

Status
Not open for further replies.
Hawkeye10 said:
Like Warren Buffet....he who refuses to spend more than $2 on breakfast!
Click to expand...

It's been my experience that (with a few exceptions) the richer they are the tighter they are.


P.S. 50 lbs is a lot of ****ing onions.
 
azgreg said:
It's been my experience that (with a few exceptions) the richer they are the tighter they are.


P.S. 50 lbs is a lot of ****ing onions.
Click to expand...

A ****ing lot of onions to chop is where my brain goes...as a retired chef who has over the years chopped a lot of onions and not enjoyed one bit all the crying about it...

That's dedication to saving money man...

A really sharp knife helps.
 
I am probably not alone here but I must have at least 7 money gift cards such as from VISA and Master Charge with less than $5 on them. I have had some for a couple years probably. Usually the original amount was $25 or $50 and spent some of it but am never going to bother using the rest of it.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could dump them all into the DP fund?

Don't know if this would be more trouble than it is worth but if everyone here dumped in those old gift cards it could be a help.
 
Crosscheck said:
I am probably not alone here but I must have at least 7 money gift cards such as from VISA and Master Charge with less than $5 on them. I have had some for a couple years probably. Usually the original amount was $25 or $50 and spent some of it but am never going to bother using the rest of it.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could dump them all into the DP fund?

Don't know if this would be more trouble than it is worth but if everyone here dumped in those old gift cards it could be a help.
Click to expand...

Shocking that that does not exist...I mean we can get machines to take our pennies (at what...a 22% skim?) so sure we should be able to do this.

Are we sure we can't?
 
RedAkston said:
DP was created 13 years ago and has seen a lot of growth in that time. We've grown from 150k posts in September 2007 to 1.5 million in October 2009 to almost 10.5 million posts as of today. DP has mostly been funded by donations from those in the community (that would be all of you). The site owner presently doesn't have the expendable income to continue to cover the shortfalls. Donations have been down for a few months now and the extra funds we had in our PayPal account are now gone. We are just going to scrape by for this month with nothing in the account to carry over to next month. DP needs your help if it is going to continue.

What DP is asking is for a handful of our users (we had 429 unique registered users visit the site just today) sign up to donate a little bit each month to keep DP up and running. 30 users who can donate $10 per month would cover the cost and put funds away for any future shortfalls. 20 users who could donate $10 per month and 20 who could donate $5 per month would reach the same amount.

It's not possible to please everyone and we know that. DP isn't perfect, but it is one of the largest political debate forums on the internet and we've been able to survive a lot longer than some of the now defunct forums where some of us came from previously. People keep coming back here day after day, not because DP isn't for them, but because it is for them. Lifelong friends have been made here, multiple relationships and at least one marriage than I know of happened from people meeting here. DP has given many of us an outlet to share our love of politics, our disgust of politicians, our love of sports, food and life. We want that to continue well beyond next month.

So I'm asking everyone who can to donate a little bit each month to DP to keep it going. We have our standard Silver, Gold and Platinum memberships which help us out as well, but what we're really looking for right now are monthly recurring donations. They are available in $2, $5, $10 and $20 amounts. I'll take a look at the permission settings for these in the next few days to see if we can make any changes to ensure that you get some perks for donating your hard earned money to support DP.

Thank you for your time in reading this announcement and please donate if you can.

https://www.debatepolitics.com/payments.php
Click to expand...

Set up an affiliate thread maybe. Somewhere we members can go, click a few ads, and you admins get the commission.

Just a thought. I'd click a few links and watch some ads voluntarily to help the site.
 
azgreg said:
It's been my experience that (with a few exceptions) the richer they are the tighter they are.


P.S. 50 lbs is a lot of ****ing onions.
Click to expand...

Greetings, Azgreg. :2wave:

I'm not rich, but it's such an awful, smelly, and tear-provoking two to three day job that I only put myself through that punishment once every two years or so in self defense! Once they're dried and put into quart jars, I throw one of those little silica jel packets in each jar, and I swear they'd be good for 25 years, although mine have never lasted that long! Thank God for Excaliber food dehydrators, though, since they make it simple to have minced, chopped or chunk onions for cooking various foods, and I always thank the genius that thought that one up - while I'm having a couple of bourbon and waters to celebrate the end of another onion-drying job for a while!.... :yes: :lamo :lamo
 
As a businessman I'm a little confused here. With that kind of membership you should make a killing with ads. Knowing what I know about forum websites seems that would be the way to go. One political forum I know of was sold for thousands of dollars. If that's the case how can it be a money pit?

Keep accepting donations but the folks that donate don't get ads.
 
Last edited:
Don't have the donation icon disappear when we reach goal.

Now I can't give a little extra for dp in case they don't make next month.

All month I didn't want to use up someone else's opportunity to donate.
 
Exquisitor said:
Don't have the donation icon disappear when we reach goal.

Now I can't give a little extra for dp in case they don't make next month.

All month I didn't want to use up someone else's opportunity to donate.
Click to expand...
You can always donate whether the bar is there or not. Simply follow the link in the OP to reach the donation page.
 
Crosscheck said:
I am probably not alone here but I must have at least 7 money gift cards such as from VISA and Master Charge with less than $5 on them. I have had some for a couple years probably. Usually the original amount was $25 or $50 and spent some of it but am never going to bother using the rest of it.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could dump them all into the DP fund?

Don't know if this would be more trouble than it is worth but if everyone here dumped in those old gift cards it could be a help.
Click to expand...

Programming- who pays for that?
From what I understand the board needs some free programming just to make certain changes.
Next creates a 2 tier board. Some people are on limited incomes. So from my end, not in favor of that.
 
Exquisitor said:
Don't have the donation icon disappear when we reach goal.

Now I can't give a little extra for dp in case they don't make next month.

All month I didn't want to use up someone else's opportunity to donate.
Click to expand...

Use the link or open User Control Panel near bottom of page left side. You can donate away
 
JANFU said:
Programming- who pays for that?
From what I understand the board needs some free programming just to make certain changes.
Next creates a 2 tier board. Some people are on limited incomes. So from my end, not in favor of that.
Click to expand...

Oh,,,ok. Just a thought.
 
Crosscheck said:
Oh,,,ok. Just a thought.
Click to expand...

Was not meant to be a harsh criticism. Just that many are not aware they needed a programmer to work for free.
 
Today Red thanked us for coming through with the donations and that was great, we are on the right track and it is so cool that owner and staff now see that we care.....HOWEVER....... the long term problem remains, that is that funding has gotten dicey. Now that we have gotten this far I hope that we can make that one last important step and convince someone to let owner know (confidentially one would hope) that they have a donor of last resort, for a limited time, so that all can cease to stress over funding issues.

And seriously, DP is strong enough that this should be doable, this is one of the best online communities I have ever had the privilege to be a part off.

tyvm
 
I smiled after noticing our donation bar moved $50 from yesterday to today! Right on!
 
Ching ching! Ching ching! Hear the sound of DP survival! Wow... nice to see the DP community ante up in a show of vested interested.

That Donation Bar moved Rightward again.... $25 since my previous post... w/ $30 more to go to cover a month. Can we get there by the 15th?

Let's give Schweddy, RedAkston and the rest of our Dedicated Volunteer staff more to smile about!
 
$5 LEFT....CAN WE GET RID OF THIS gd BAR PLEASE!

tyvm
 
Thanks to the DP membership, we reached our goal with practically HALF the month left.
 
A yuuuuge thanks to everyone :peace
 
Rogue Valley said:
A yuuuuge thanks to everyone :peace
Click to expand...

I Concur Sir!




You are a guy right?

I think I heard that somewhere.

This could get embarrassing.

shame.gif
 
Greetings, grip. :2wave:

:agree: I liked that "SPY" feature! :thumbs:
 
polgara said:
Greetings, grip. :2wave:

:agree: I liked that "SPY" feature! :thumbs:
Click to expand...

I don't think we'll ever see that feature again. I could've screened thru it with a fine tooth comb for href= errors and have resurrected it but I wouldn't do it now for all the money in Saudi Arabia.
 
We are at the 13th, and we are 55% funded for the month.

I am not particularly impressed.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top Bottom