ping
I know there are others who might be interested in the topic. Please ping.
forgot to ping The Boss!
It seems we’ve lost some contributors in the flame wars. Many of the people who helped finish off the freepathons quicker are no longer with us, and we’re left with few contributors and many FReeloaders :(
Not sure what the options are to correct this, but I have to say I’m getting tired of seeing those who cannot get along because of different opinions getting the other person banned because of it. It’s happened to many of my friends...and I miss their input here.
A lot of newer FReepers (say less than 5 years) really don’t have a clue about the financial and legal underpinnings of FR. They don’t understand why we can’t have advertising, or why we can’t charge a fee for posting privileges, etc. They also don’t know about the big legal bills of the past, ongoing legal bills for dealing with nuisance threats and suits, or even have a picture of the operating budget. If each of those automated “Please donate” posts that appear on every thread during a FReepathon contained a link to a good summary of this info, I think that would help a lot. It also would help to include a summary of the number of donors vs. number of active posters.
I saw a number of posts during the last FReepathon asking things like “Why don’t we just sell ads?”, and needing somebody to spell it all out for them individually (an awfully inefficient process), and these weren’t from people who’d just joined in the past few months. And I’m sure many more just thought this sort of thing to themselves, and never asked, and so never understood, and didn’t see the need to donate.
ping to revived thread
Donate and you get a nifty E-mail address. (Shhh! it’s secret)
Nobody knows about this.
Direct all of the receipts from the next Freepathon to scratch-off lottery tickets.
Jim is due some good luck.
A prize of, say, $500,000 a year for life would end Freepathons forever, and Jim could use the extra for a turbocharged wheelchair.
Just thinkin’...
Has a join up fee ever been charged? Might keep the people who are only here as troublemakers away as they usually are too cheap to pay for their trolling.
I don’t know much about this kind of thing. Just asking.
