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| paulycy
Posted on 01/11/2011 5:28:06 AM PST by paulycy
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To: DrC; trisham
According to post #122, this site costs about $360K annually to run. I have no idea whether this is a reasonable number or not. But there are 330,000 members. If everyone donated just $1.10 a YEAR, it would keep FR going indefinitely. According to some others, there are about 20,000 active posters on FR. If every one of them donated $20 a YEAR you'd get $400,000.
With the trouble that it is to get money during FReepathons and the number of people who are monthly or dollar a day donors, it's obvious that a few are pulling the weight in donations.
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posted on
01/11/2011 4:08:09 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Admin Moderator
To: MinuteGal; greyfoxx39; Dr. Eckleburg; metmom; Quix; Alex Murphy; HarleyD; TSgt
However, there are plenty of religious forums on the internet where those who seem to exist only for religious controversy and doctrinal dueling can post their piety or prejudices to their hearts' content. What a perfectly liberal thing to say! You sound like those on the MSM who are howling about the rhetoric in Washington, which of course is a slam on the Team Party movement.
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posted on
01/11/2011 4:09:17 PM PST
by
Gamecock
(The resurrection of Jesus Christ is both historically credible and existentially satisfying. T.K.)
To: RCFlyer
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posted on
01/11/2011 4:09:25 PM PST
by
reaganaut
(Ex Mormon, now Christian - "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see")
To: Sidebar Moderator
" A Mod's work is never done. " That reminds me. There's a dust rag and a broom over there in the corner with your name on them. They await your re-acquaintance. ;)
To: reaganaut
I signed on to a Religious ping list and 8 days later asked to be removed as I can get my fulfillment without dissension elsewhere but I can not get my Consecrative values reinforced anywhere else and I fell that is the mission #1 of FR above all else...
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posted on
01/11/2011 4:13:13 PM PST
by
tubebender
(The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in Eureka...)
To: DJ MacWoW
Please check your FREEPMAIL.
BTW, there’s dozens of ways to help someone see a need they’ve been blind to—even willfully blind to.
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posted on
01/11/2011 4:14:58 PM PST
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: paulycy
"Most of the complaints about the software arise from features that used to be there but have disappeared, or never worked well in the first place such as the search mechanism." I've seen people complain about search not finding something many times. But every time I've done it works. I put that down to people not knowing how to search. They are too specific and include punctuation and other things that might vary.
1,208
posted on
01/11/2011 4:15:08 PM PST
by
mlo
Comment #1,209 Removed by Moderator
To: Admin Moderator; Sidebar Moderator
There's a dust rag and a broom over there in the corner with your name on them. They await your re-acquaintance. ;) Well it's better than being drowned.
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posted on
01/11/2011 4:15:30 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
To: paulycy
Dunkin Donuts doesn't foster a sense of community if you don't belong you are zotted the hell outta there,
Actually, they do. Many locals support their own community retailers to keep them there. Besides start complaining about the coffee/donuts daily - either you like what they serve or you don't. You don't like it, you don't belong there.
FR is a conservative site - the same applies. You want shareholder rights, so you can post whatever you please? IMO, sounds like a control problem.
To: mlo
I put that down to people not knowing how to search.That's certainly possible too. Complaining about the search is common here, though, and many including myself use google or somesuch rather than relying on the in-house search mechanism if we want to find something quickly.
I'm not trying to bash, I'm just mentioning examples.
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posted on
01/11/2011 4:18:12 PM PST
by
paulycy
(The Constitution is a Formal Contract. Live up to it or lose your job, Congress.)
To: onyx
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posted on
01/11/2011 4:18:36 PM PST
by
greyfoxx39
(Don't enter a battlefield with flowers for succor when surgeons are saving the lives of the wounded.)
To: reaganaut
Of course I fiercely support a public thread. The learning can be quite significant.
And, the conregations are anonymous.
Folks who find TRUTH tooooo uncomfortable ought not to call themselves Christians anyway.
And, scroll buttons and page down buttons should still work.
LOL.
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posted on
01/11/2011 4:19:05 PM PST
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: mlo; paulycy
I've seen people complain about search not finding something many times. But every time I've done it works. I put that down to people not knowing how to search. They are too specific and include punctuation and other things that might vary. Google searches are much more forgiving. And tend to show up any thread that FR has going on the topic if you type in "(title) Free Republic"
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posted on
01/11/2011 4:19:11 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: tubebender; Jim Robinson
Regardless of your feelings on the matter, JR has created an Religion Forum and allows it, so he must see some value in it, perhaps part of the mission of FR, I don’t know.
As conservatives, our faith is often a vital part of our worldview and for many the reason they are conservative.
The myth that ‘religion and politics’ don’t mix is part of the reason this country is in the sad shape it is and we have to work so hard to get it back.
courtesy ping to JR
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posted on
01/11/2011 4:19:48 PM PST
by
reaganaut
(Ex Mormon, now Christian - "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see")
To: presently no screen name
Besides start complaining about the coffee/donuts daily - either you like what they serve or you don't.If the local Dunkin Donuts was run by great guys but had a problem with the coffee pots breaking down whenever there was a crowd of people, the end result being that most didn't get their coffee, I do NOT think that it is out of line to discuss with those guys the various possibilities of repairing or replacing their coffee makers.
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posted on
01/11/2011 4:20:36 PM PST
by
paulycy
(The Constitution is a Formal Contract. Live up to it or lose your job, Congress.)
To: Quix; Elsie
Love those scroll buttons, especially during an ‘elsiethon’. LOL
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posted on
01/11/2011 4:21:29 PM PST
by
reaganaut
(Ex Mormon, now Christian - "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see")
To: Jim Robinson
You truly are beautiful Jim. Your comments are as founded on God-given common sense as anything I have ever known. Thank you.. and look forward to a Free Republic for many more glorious years.
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posted on
01/11/2011 4:25:22 PM PST
by
Track9
(Make War!!)
To: PeterPrinciple
If it no longer works, then it needs to be upgraded to one that does.
If the success of freedom and conservatism depend on the right font, color, no hurt feelings, business model, faster computers, and all the other surface things presented in this thread, we have truly lost.....................
Then freedom is not part of who we are. It can be manipulated and bought. The means justify the ends and we are no better than liberals.
I have learned it is worth a few bucks to learn what people are made of. If people won't pony up some bucks to fund FR and buy into it on its merit, but must be sold on frills, then that is very revealing.
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