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Priorities, good man - priorities! :lamo
Like Warren Buffet....he who refuses to spend more than $2 on breakfast!
Priorities, good man - priorities! :lamo
Like Warren Buffet....he who refuses to spend more than $2 on breakfast!
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.
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.
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
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.
You can always donate whether the bar is there or not. Simply follow the link in the OP to reach the donation page.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.
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.
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.
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.
Oh,,,ok. Just a thought.
A yuuuuge thanks to everyone eace
Greetings, grip. :2wave:
:agree: I liked that "SPY" feature! :thumbs: