FR is going to just fine. The lights won’t go out nor will the posts. We will see some interruptions which are typical towards the very end of every drive but that is just normal for “OMG!!! Hurry, DONATE!!” type thing.
The owners aren’t hurting and this site is basic by nature with limited bandwidth costs. I’ll probably get banned again for saying so; but the owners should put up their quarterly expense costs; it would make it a lot easier to justify donating (and I think you would be surprised at what they are charging for a perl based site vice the “real” expenditures”).
Clearly, you have no idea what the costs are for colocation services, database administration, systems administration, webserver administration, storage, backups, etc. Bandwidth ain’t the majority of the cost, genius.
Furthermore, your not-so-subtle suggestion that Jim and John are initiating system outages on purpose to get donations would be laughable if it weren’t so damn insulting. I am a DBA, sysadmin, webadmin, and computer programmer. I know WTF is involved in taking servers offline. It ain’t unplug-n-play, b*tch.
Now, step off.
Our expenses are no secret: https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/budget
Just what's that supposed to mean?
It's none of your business. It's nobody's business. We're guests here thanks to the generosity of Patriot Jim Robinson. How he chooses to spend the contributions to Free Republic is solely up to him. If he offers to provide any information, it's an act of kindness. Being nosy about our host is bad form indeed. It strikes me as not much different than visiting a friend and asking to see his checkbook. I have the utmost respect and admiration for the boss and think it best not to pry into his affairs.
On your own dime. Not ours.
In the meantime, you can probably find a more suitable audience for your unhappiness at a website which would be more in line with your shared opinions such as the DU website, or perhaps aljazzeeruh.
Thank you for sharing (/sarc), and mind the door on the way out.
I'm giving extra this Freepathon to make up for those who don't know what they've got 'til it's gone.
Since only 5% of registered FReepers actually support this site, your comments place you in the realm of the 95% who are FReeploaders.
Doing your thing on someone else's dime is not a conservative value, but does fit in with the 'Gibemedats' that are being supported on wage-earners tax dollars.
Going further, your comment seems to lie within the post-type of a certain ilk of antiFReepers who visit these pages to disrupt and discourage. (Could that have a bearing on being banned previously? Are you a retread? What was/is your name of TBL?)
Having said that, it is of note that your name does not appear on the list of Dollar-a-Day donors. It is absent from the 300 club. There is also no mention of your ID in the list of Monthly Donors. While recognizing that these lists are non-inclusive and opt-in only, your absence might be an indication that you are just a FReeploader. Skating on another's dime. Like so many Obamavoters. While attempting to cover yourself with a patina of conservatism.
In case this is an unjust rendering of your wording, intent, and personhood, it is highly recommended that you redeem yourself by performing the following TWO acts.
First CLICK HERE and follow the prompts. A sizable donation will be most appreciated. And needed. And will shorten the FReepathon. You might choose to make that a monthly donation. And when you do so, opt to have your name on the monthly donor's list so no one can call you a FReeploader again or surmise by your lack of donating that you are a TBL DemocraticanimalPosteriorOrafice.
Second, contact the FReepathon Team (or even Jim Rob - he'll give you the info) and volunteer your time and expertise (which you seem to feel you possess in sufficient quantity as to cast aspersions on FR management) to the effort to get the 95% of FR users who are non-donors (you know - FReeploaders, possibly, due to lack of evidence to the contrary, just like you) to donate to the support of this unique Conservative Forum that you are using.
You know, so you won't be thought of as a FReeploader. Or a TBL antiFReeper..
Otherwise, take Buckeye Texan's advise.
That's a lie. There have been no service interruptions since the servers were upgraded....I think about two years ago, more or less.
" The owners aren’t hurting "
Why would you want them to be?
"and this site is basic by nature with limited bandwidth costs. I’ll probably get banned again for saying so; but the owners should put up their quarterly expense costs; it would make it a lot easier to justify donating (and I think you would be surprised at what they are charging for a perl based site vice the “real” expenditures”)."
The expenses ARE posted here. But I guess you'd rather bitch than search, huh?
I hate a freeloader.