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I've only been here 12 years and usually at high demand it stops for me in rural middle TN on Comcast with the biggest fattest HP Pavliion made last year..superfast

but dies here

when i came on board during the Gore fight I could barely lurk and it froze most of the time...course I was ADSL then

but it usually does this...elections, natural disasters, 9-11, debates etc

the setup has simply never been adequate for high demand but is satisfactory for just the ho hum...and the ho-hum since 2006 is less than it was

i am not a techie...but I did notice last debate...I got on none of the four...that i lurked HuffPo just to see reactions and it ran fine with 15,000 replies on debate thread...even KOS was ok with a post every second or so

but here I was locked out for 4 hours and I have noticed like the poster of this thread that lately it just seems worse..and more frequent even at low ebb too

now I am gonna jump out here and take a hit

unlike assclown anti freepers that have existed from jumpstreet like pilotfish and who criticize Fresno from making a living here

I do not and in fact do not think they are maximizing their earn from this which would also make a drastic upgrade feasible economically

JR like me...ain't getting younger

and I don't know how many real posters we have but I would guess it's at least 10,000 even though we've had over 20 times that sign up since 1997

that makes this site valuable either for an advertisement rack on the side or top or as a sale(least desirable) or equity slot..like HuffPo..a publicly traded company with enough shares held by founders...one could even sell shares selectively through a sympathetic underwriter based on subscribers and that would bring the value to the founders which i would assume they might not mind and bring the joint up to speed

and I would suggest fresh faces for the financial end...not freepers...my knowledge of getting freepers involved is like a church hiring members for building committee...FUBAR and always leads to intrigue and crap

if they have 10,000 unique visitors...at least daily or once every few days or so in a week then those folks are worth on the books at least a few hundred dollars a piece ...maybe even higher if our demographics justify it

an investment banker will make this judgment based on what they think ad rates will run given the traffic

I'm just giving a skeletal appraisal

I was involved in local server startups once in the boom and those were worth basically 18 months subscription rate each or around 600-800 each...big money made back then..not me so much but a little...Mindspring...Telelink...I think when local Telelink was bought they had 11,000 subscribers and sold for 9M...I don't think FR has the same subscriber value but it would be substantial

I know freepers view commercializing Free Republic with the same eye dog breeders view puppy mills but I think JR and family deserves a payday after 16 years and if folks here want to play then they can damn well buy shares...it could make money even...hell...there is no real competitor.....Blaze forum...nope...NRO forum..lol....does Breitbart have one?

seems like we are the only big time conservative posting joint.

I would like to know how many annual unique contributors we have...folks who actually get off their bloviating asses and pay up....I sure as hell do and always have and I was even banned once but that is beside the fact

Those of you who don't pay have no right to bitch about the equipment...I hate to say it but I bet less than 10% give...I don't care if it's 10 bucks a year or Big Texan's bucket of cash...you wanna play here and it costs to run and oversee the streetfight then you ought to be willing to pony up either what it's worth to you or you can afford in principle...one thing is for sure...the joint needs a serious overhaul and I doubt those are cheap