Dear FRiends, Please help us wrap up this FReepathon! We’re now over 85% with less than $11k to go and 11 days to bring it in! Merry Christmas, everyone! [Thread LXXXI]

[Chris Robinson]

Prayers up.

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Or send in a hundred dollars or more per quarter and join I_be_tc's growing list of 300 Club patriots. I_be_tc sends in $100 per quarter and challenges 300 others to do the same. If we could get 300 FReepers to send in $100 per quarter, these FReepathons would complete much faster. And we have received 170 donations of $100 or more so far this quarter!!

Thank you very much and God bless you.

[M Kehoe]

BuMp.

5.56mm

[jigsaw]

Bumpity Bump ....

[Mark]

There seems to be some who post 10 to 20 articles each day TO GET NOTICED. Do any of them contribute?
I bet contributions would increase if a posting of “To save our costs, this site will shut down 2 days a week”. OR NOT!

[dayglored]

I didn't write the FR software -- all honor and glory to JohnRob for that. But I have been thinking about whether it would be possible to ...

There are some users who abuse this site, posting many threads daily but never contributing to the ensuing conversation. I don't know if they contribute monetarily, of course. But it's clear they're only here for the clicks to their own sites.

Would it be possible to collect thread data in such a way that a user who posts threads pointing to a blog, etc. and doesn't comment on their own thread, could be "throttled", like they can't post more than one such thread per day, and more than that get rejected until they make a donation to FR?

I suspect that this could generate some additional donations; or if it didn't, then at least there would be a few less clickbait blogpimp threads taking up bandwidth.

I know, software feature ideas are a dime a dozen. I'd offer to help write the code, although I'm mainly a C, Bash, and HTML guy, not Perl or Python or whatever FR is written in.

Just thinking out loud. I'm monthly for a small amount, and the freeloaders and blogpimps sometimes get to me.

Thanks Jim and John and Chris, for the best forum website in the world. Thank you for all your hard work, Merry Christmas and God Bless you all!

[Mark]

Great post.

[dadfly]

hi Mr. Robinson. i was trying to contribute tonight, and it’s giving me a card declined error. i was looking at the address and the one field with country says ‘california’ and then ‘non-us.’ when i try to switch it it says ‘us’ but then doesn’t give me a state. i’ll try it again tommorrow. maybe it’s a browser glitch. mine is pretty old.

[caww]

Bump for Freepathon....

[Allegra]

Hi Chris! Is Jim OK? He hasn’t posted in a while and I just want to check.

I hope and pray you’re *all* doing well.

[Salvation]

Please pray for me to stop the coughing and be cured since I now have COVID. On the rapid test at first the LPN said I only had a cold, but the next day all the covid crap was outside my door.

So be warned that the next COVID appears to be a cold with a runny nose and a sweaty night.

Salvation

[Salvation]

And a very sore throat — cold like symptoms

[Allegra]

Sending up a prayer for you. 🙏

[Mark]

Prayers up. Good luck.

[Salvation]

Thanks Allegra, I appreciate your thoughtfulness.

[Chris Robinson]

Woo hoo!!

And this just in:

$20.00 from Ohio
$25.00 from Texas
$20.00 from California
$25.00 from Pennsylvania
$15.00 from South Carolina
$10.00 from Indiana
$50.00 from California
$30.00 from Pennsylvania
$50.00 from Pennsylvania

Thank you all very much!!

BTTT!!

New thread, everyone: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4205198/posts

[Jim Robinson]

Sorry about that, had an unscheduled trip to the hospital to treat low blood pressure and a UTI. All better now and back home. Thanks

[Allegra]

Thank you for responding! I’m glad to hear you’re OK. I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas! 🎄✨✝️

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you very much! And Merry Christmas to you and yours!