What is the value of Free Republic?

Little House on Unaka | July 10, 2011 | don-o

[don-o]

This morning, I was clicking around on this site to see if I could find anything to help a poster who was having trouble with his display. I was looking for the "Preferences" page which is accessed from the "Account" page.

And, at the very top of the "Account" page is this recap of my own account.

You've posted a total of 842 threads and 40,007 replies.

Now, I have been a member here for a while, but any way you slice it, that is a LOT of use.

I'll simply suggest that anyone who reads this, please check your usage. There is a FReepathon (fund raiser) going on. Every one of those 842 threads and 40,007 replies involved cost that has to be paid for.

I could do the math and post resulting fraction of a cent that I have given to cover that cost. It would be very, very tiny.

But, it would not be zero.

Please think about it. Thank you for reading.

[Fiddlstix]

2011 Q3 Summary
Q-t-D Receipts
	$25,032.57 (includes monthlies to-date)

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   2011 Q3 Scoreboard — ranked by total receipts   

Rank	Location	Receipts			Monthlies
		Total	#	Avg/Per	Total	#	Avg/Per
1	Texas	$3,254.42	78	$41.72	$1,077.42	64	$16.83
2	California	2,747.11	67	41.00	1,184.00	70	16.91
3	Florida	1,355.00	50	27.10	600.00	38	15.79
4	Georgia	1,125.00	21	53.57	285.00	16	17.81
5	Pennsylvania	990.00	24	41.25	355.00	20	17.75
6	Virginia	959.00	33	29.06	711.00	34	20.91
7	Ohio	845.00	19	44.47	270.00	19	14.21
8	New York	815.00	23	35.43	357.50	21	17.02
9	Arizona	685.00	20	34.25	315.00	17	18.53
10	Colorado	680.00	18	37.78	215.00	14	15.36
11	Alabama	592.73	16	37.05	185.00	13	14.23
12	Maryland	567.50	15	37.83	217.50	14	15.54
13	Connecticut	500.00	10	50.00	70.00	5	14.00
14	Washington	490.00	16	30.62	375.00	20	18.75
15	Missouri	451.25	12	37.60	145.00	10	14.50
16	North Carolina	440.00	22	20.00	365.00	23	15.87
17	Michigan	432.00	15	28.80	317.00	15	21.13
18	Tennessee	430.00	13	33.08	230.00	15	15.33
19	Minnesota	395.00	16	24.69	190.00	13	14.62
20	Illinois	383.00	16	23.94	296.00	15	19.73
21	Arkansas	330.00	9	36.67	145.00	8	18.12
22	Mississippi	326.00	11	29.64	151.00	8	18.88
23	New Jersey	321.33	12	26.78	218.33	9	24.26
24	Massachusetts	317.00	19	16.68	175.00	10	17.50
25	Indiana	315.00	14	22.50	200.00	13	15.38
26	Idaho	260.00	8	32.50	180.00	8	22.50
27	Louisiana	260.00	7	37.14	130.00	7	18.57
28	Nevada	255.00	7	36.43	56.00	3	18.67
29	Sweden	250.00	1	250.00
30	South Carolina	235.00	7	33.57	80.00	7	11.43
31	Wisconsin	200.00	10	20.00	135.00	10	13.50
32	Oregon	190.00	8	23.75	155.00	9	17.22
33	Kentucky	170.00	5	34.00	140.00	4	35.00
34	New Mexico	130.00	3	43.33	25.00	3	8.33
35	Montana	127.00	5	25.40	50.00	2	25.00
36	Delaware	116.00	3	38.67	36.00	4	9.00
37	Kansas	100.00	8	12.50	145.00	12	12.08
38	Germany	100.00	3	33.33
39	District of Columbia	100.00	1	100.00
40	Hawaii	95.00	4	23.75	85.00	5	17.00
41	Oklahoma	90.00	5	18.00	225.00	11	20.45
42	Vermont	90.00	3	30.00	56.00	2	28.00
43	Maine	87.00	4	21.75	57.00	4	14.25
44	New Hampshire	83.50	4	20.88	98.50	5	19.70
45	Utah	80.00	3	26.67	80.00	5	16.00
46	Iowa	77.00	3	25.67	40.00	2	20.00
47	Alaska	70.00	3	23.33	60.00	3	20.00
48	South Dakota	55.00	2	27.50	65.00	4	16.25
49	United Kingdom	50.00	1	50.00
50	Canada	50.00	1	50.00	10.00	1	10.00
51	Wyoming	50.00	3	16.67	10.00	1	10.00
52	North Dakota	50.00	1	50.00	10.00	1	10.00
53	El Salvador	30.00	1	30.00
54	Puerto Rico	25.00	1	25.00
55	Armed Forces - Europe	15.00	1	15.00	15.00	1	15.00
56	Australia	10.00	1	10.00	10.00	1	10.00
57	Norway	10.00	1	10.00	10.00	1	10.00
58	Nebraska	10.00	1	10.00	20.00	2	10.00
59	Rhode Island	10.00	1	10.00	50.00	2	25.00
60	Armed Forces - Pacific	5.00	1	5.00	5.00	1	5.00
	West Virginia				35.00	2	17.50
Never Never Land		1,750.73	70	25.01	898.00	68	13.21
62 locations total		$25,032.57	760	$32.94	$11,621.25	695	$16.72

[Fiddlstix]

Free Republic Monthly Budget

Click The Link Above To View Budget Page

Once we get our monthly donations to the point where they will cover all of our expenses, we will not need to have fundraisers.

Est. Recurring Monthly Contributions			$11,621
Monthly Expenses
	Bandwidth and Colocation	$2,430
	System Administation and Programming	7,000
	Administrative and Taxes	10,500
	Legal and Accounting	1,000
	Bank Fees, Credit Card Fees, Processing Fees	800
	Equip, Maintenance and Repairs	300
	Office Expenses, Rents, Insurance, Telephone, ISP, Supplies, Misc.	2,500
	Travel Expenses	800	25,330
Est. Monthly Shortfall			($13,709)

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Est. Recurring Monthly Contributions

This is the amount contributed by the monthly donors only. It does not include one-time donations.

Est. Monthly Shortfall

Amount needed in one-time donations per month or additional monthlies need to meet budget needs.

[JohnBrownUSA]

You do realize that Free Republic is the America’s largest conservative activist chat board, right?

I would state that it is not too farfetched to believe that politicians of all caliber, make, and model, check our article links and comments out to gauge the pulse of the nation.

So, just to reiterate. Any prattling on Free Republic is instead the deliberate discourse of millions of conservative voices reaching out to communicate with other like-minded individuals.

Instead of a narrow confine, Jim Robinson’s Free Republic has become a social media network that connects homes in villages, towns, cities, regions, and states.

Every comment posted and every comment replied to on the Free Republic helps all of us to stay informed and in touch with America.

This is why I believe the Free Republic is a Godsend for all of us.

And in our spirited and intellectual debates here we can fight the liberal progressive propaganda in the media and save America from the ObamaNation!

[don-o]

I happened to be looking at some threads that I had started and came across this one I put up a couple of years ago in support of a previous Freepathon.

[tomkat]

bump-a-thon

[don-o]

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