When donations are required, I'll leave; and no opus.
ditto...
Improve the site a bit so it doesn't look like something created in 1995 and I might consider donating. Then again probably not. If people want to be suckered into paying someone $250,000/yr to manage a site that should only cost 1/5th of that... power to them.
You might want to leave now (like everybody else has) and avoid the rush. Has it occurred to anybody here that banning everybody who used to support the site might not have been the smartest of all policies?
Professer, I'm really surprised at that statement from you. I hope that you meant that you are contributing "voluntarily". You do know that high powered servers are not free. You don't expect your local newspaper to deliver your paper free of charge. You don't get TV for free. You don't subscribe to magazines for free. Why would anyone expect Jim & John to spend 24/7 maning those machines so that we can get news from around the world faster than any of the three media systems we pay large $$$$ for? I am a monthly donor and I also pitch in extra for the Freepathons. I gave up all my magazines. I didn't have time to read them anyway. I'm too busy getting my news, information and entertainment at Free Republic. I would never dream of expecting so much for nothing. Go donate so we won't have to vote for a membership fee to keep the lights on.
Donations are not required.
Thank you for bumping the thread and thank you for being part of FReeRepublic.