Yo Skinner: extend the fund drive.

[WilliamPitt]

I can't donate because I'm moving in 11 days, and had to empty the piggy bank to pay first month/last month/security deposit for my new apartment. That and money is generally tight these days is forcing me to keep my checkbook in my pocket.

It's the 20th, and lots of folks (myself included) are not going to see another paycheck until the 1st of September.

As soon as I can, I'm going to donate. I think a lot of people here are feeling the same way.

Let it ride. We will catch up. This place means too much to us to let this slide.

Keep your chin up, Skinner. It isn't all hate and divisiveness here, not by a long chalk.

:toast: :hug: :toast:

[sazemisery]

1. I agree.

I won't be able to donate until the end of the month. Please extend the drive!!!!

[zipplewrath]

2. You can donate any time

they'll accept donations any time.

[still_one]

19. Absolutely correct /nt

[peace frog]

38. I plan to donate next month

if I get a ahead as expected. This has been a rough year but I will toss a few shinplasters into the DU kitty as soon as possible, count on it.

[peace frog]

39. I plan to donate next month

if I get a ahead as expected. This has been a rough year but I will toss a few shinplasters into the DU kitty as soon as possible, count on it.

[jwirr]

59. I gave my last $5.00 now and hope to donate more after the first. Many

of us are having trouble but still want to support DU.

[Monique1]

5. I agree

extend it please

[WilliamPitt]

3. Wow. Unrec's on a thread to help maintain the site that allows you to Unrec.

Some of you people...well..."suck" is too light a word.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. It is DU

and at this point I am sure there are people with scrips... serious.

[SoxFan]

7. The Swarm has arrived

Some people are a cross between killer bees and 14 year old spoiled brats.

Recc'd.

[liberal N proud]

14. Good analogy

[bain_sidhe]

21. Heh. Call 'em "Killer DUbees"

except they don't get you high, just mad.

[dionysus]

27. ROFL, nice

[daleanime]

35. Cute...

:rofl:

[UpInArms]

51. hahahahaha!

[Monique1]

9. There are too many repukes and teabaggers here

give them the boot! :mad:

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. Trolls

Their favorite pastime.

[SargeUNN]

54. well maybe we should find

them some business to attend to and they wouldn't be so busy trying to attend to ours. :applause:

[mmonk]

12. There were unrec's on another donate thread as well.

I think some just like to click it here.

[Name removed]

42. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[leveymg]

13. Maybe unrec is part of the problem?

And the response it creates in those who post. We can't do away with posting, but I'd happy to see unrec go just because of the sheer divisiveness and ill-feeling it's abuse causes.

You're People's Exhibit #1, Mr. Pitt. Let it go, and have a beer.

But, you're right, some people do suck.;) :+ :toast:

[LoZoccolo]

20. I unreccomended because I want to see us meet the original goal.

Even if some of us need until next week, I think there's enough people that can go this week.

[grantcart]

28. We should make them pay by the unrec

[tavalon]

30. I was very vocal about hating the unrec feature and I never use it,

but I've seen in this last year or so that an unrec here or there doesn't keep a good thread down.

[Time for change]

32. If I was a troll I'd be very wary of unreccing a thread designed to facilitate funding the site

One could get tombstoned for that, I would think.

[ozymandius]

33. That is one item to change ASAP.

Yes, it sucks. Some people love to ding threads by unreccing them without contributing anything meaningful.

I might rec your post but someone will unrec the same thread and take my vote away. My suggestion: only allow the unrec feature for those who have entered +1 first. DailyKos uses that system. It seems to work well.

[Turborama]

49. +1

No comment

[kirby]

47. Or maybe...

it was because you posted 'extend the donation drive', followed immediately by I cannot donate myself...

I just wished people would stop bitching about the unrec feature. Its so tiring.

[NBachers]

61. Maybe there should be an unrec complaining lounge

Many people come onto a thread just to complain that someone unrecced. Sometimes the first comment is to complain about unrecs.

Jeez, just let it go. Why feed into it?

[malaise]

50. I have suggested to Skinner that persons

who are here less than two years who do not donate to keep the site running should not be allowed to rec or unrec.

[kentuck]

57. I think Skinner might want to re-visit the unrec feature...

It is not working as it was planned. Anonymous trolls can now come on make their comment (unrec) without having to expose themselves to a possible pizza party.

It would also be a morale booster for DU, imo.

[ozymandius]

65. Hear! Hear!

I'll repeat what I said in #33. This feature allows people to take someone else's vote from them with no account as to why. It's an unreliable gauge of a thread's worth.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. Why not. nt

[county worker]

8. Don't worry about it

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. Great idea, Will!!

[DevonRex]

15. Great idea. I've seen several say the same thing. nt

[WilliamPitt]

16. My OP has a banner that says I donated. I didn't.

:hug: !!!!!!!!!!! for my star!!!!!!!!

[EFerrari]

17. He won't have to. n/t

[monmouth]

18. What a great idea, it would surely help me out...n/t

[David Zephyr]

22. K&R.

Yes.

[WilliamPitt]

23. .

[madmax]

24. K&R

[david13]

25. Yo pienso que vamos a hacerlo. I think we (me in there) will do it.

Or did you mean yo-yo.
dc

[blaze]

26. K&R! n/t

[tavalon]

29. Actually, I think people are determined to prove him wrong and bring it home

by Sunday. But he's right, there are some painful rifts in the family.

[WillyT]

31. I'm In The Same Boat... Get Paid Once A Month, And...

won't be able to donate until after the 1st of September.

Which I will... and yeah... unrec is part of the problem here at DU.

Time to put that feature out to pasture.

K & R !!!

:kick:

[earthboundmisfit]

34. I wanted to donate, but this week's unemployment check is gone

and next week's is already allotted to utilities :-(
I feel bad about it, but i will have to wait till next time.

[Obamanaut]

36. Right at the bottom of the page, in red letters, of GD is 'donate'. One

can click on that any time.

[dipsydoodle]

37. k & r

.

[peace frog]

40. kay and arrrrr

Will donate next month, hopefully.

[The Backlash Cometh]

41. I donated.

but not as much as usual. Guys, things are tight! It's not about not liking DU. It's about the money. We can't give what we don't gots.

[datasuspect]

43. mi no tengo dinero guey

chale

[DFW]

44. I'm forced to do it the hard way

I don't have a paypal account and the DU site rejects my credit card (no others do). I'll send
a check, but how many others tried to contribute by credit card, got their card rejected and gave up?

[Recursion]

45. Paypal still processes the payment, which is a problem

First off because paypal is a seriously right-wing company. Secondly because people lots of people like me and apparently you simply are locked out of Paypal forever for some reason that they won't tell us and we can't appeal.

[DFW]

52. I HATE paypal

It is, from what I understand, an arm of eBay and therefore has ties to Meg Whitman.
Plus they continually ask for updated account information, which I find unnerving.
It is getting difficult to distinguish between their requests and spam from the
Russian internet mafia. When in doubt, delete. I did.

Plus, I also understand it takes a healthy chunk out of what reaches the intended recipient.
Mastercard just takes 3% or so.

To hell with it. I'll spend the money for a stamp and send a check. It takes longer, but DU
gets 100% of the amount of the check. Sounds like a plan to me.

[LiberalEsto]

56. I hate paypal too

It's not easy for me to donate because I've been out of work nearly 2 years, and don't qualify for unemployment. I write checks and mail them to DU when I can.

DU was a lifeline for me during the 8-year nightmare of Dr. Evil and Mini-Bush, and that is why I donate.

At the moment, most of DU is a source of sadness and frustration to me, instead of a lifeline.

I don't like being trashed by people who jump to the defense of the Obama Administration, when all I ask is that the President and Democratic Party start directly addressing the unemployment crisis and pushing serious job creation programs. I fear that not tackling the jobs issue will cost us seats in the fall elections.

[WilliamPitt]

63. Same with me

PayPal hates me, my card gets rejected, so I wind up buying a t-shirt or something.

[DFW]

64. With me, Paypal is a pact of mutual animosity

Living most of the year in Central Europe, I mostly ignore it anyway.

[dsc]

46. this is a historically tough drive for me

I get 10 pay checks a year, at the end of Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May so I go from 31 May to 31 Aug with no pay check. So this hits me at my lowest money point of a given year. Even if this drive isn't extended I would advise moving the drive to the beginning of Sept.

[Joanne98]

48. Good idea

[aikoaiko]

53. "you can donate any time you want, but you can never leave....".

hehe. to borrow from the eagles.

[mfcorey1]

55. Sadly, if the fund drive was at the beginning of the month when pension checks are issued, it would

be easier to chip in with a donation. The middle of the month is when all funds are usually depleted in these difficult times.

[Snarkoleptic]

58. Unless I knock over a currency exchange, I'll still be too broke to donate.

[Morning Dew]

60. Boy, I relate to that.

My donor status went on the 17th.

I'm moving and have to do security dep + rent on new place as well as another month on the old place. Then I had 800 bucks worth of car repair.

Sucks!

So, I gotta wait til payday or the next one to donate.




edit: speeling airors

[diane in sf]

62. same here--pay day isn't until the 25th