I'd like to take a moment to thank JtC and the other admins

I don't know if a thread like this has been started yet, but I'd like to send a giant THANK YOU to JtC and the other admins/moderators/monkey crew for keeping the lights bright, the doors open, and the bar stocked through last night!

As a web designer-in-training, I've gotten a pretty good idea of what that takes, and the time and effort involved in doing this thing. It's NOT easy! One of the nightmare scenarios when building and operating a website- especially a site that experiences huge traffic spikes, like a political discussion forum on election night- is that the site/servers can't handle the load and goes dark at a peak moment, and can't be brought back until hours or more later. While there were hiccups last night (owing to the aforementioned flood of traffic), they've managed to keep things going, and let me tell you, that's a feat.

So, thanks a lot! You've all done a great job here, and deserve a hearty and enthusiastic round of applause!

APPLAUSE!!!

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elenacarlena's picture

Small ones add up. It's regularity that will provide a decent income stream for our Admins.

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Please check out Pet Vet Help, consider joining us to help pets, and follow me @ElenaCarlena on Twitter! Thank you.

the recurring donations that were set up a few months ago by the Fundraising Team has been steadily declining. Many folks are cancelling their donations, we need help to stay afloat folks.

Please donate folks.

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Arrow's picture

Hey JtC.
This place is way too important to me (and all of us I'm sure) going forward.
I really need the community. here.

JtC - I'll send you a note.

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I want a Pony!

credit card number, had some identity theft and had to cancel the one I've used here. So many things I used that card for all have to be changed! Glad you mentioned this as I can't keep track of it all.

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Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur

the internal traffic (members) has been extremely heavy since last night but the external traffic (non-members/lurkers) has been through the roof.

Here's the "monkey crew" at work:

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Steven D's picture

since you serve up quality content with a side of grace and dignity every day.

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"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott

I keep the place running, but it's you and the so many other great writers and commenters that serve up the quality content that really, truly make this site what it is.

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the one on the floor on the left is goofing off. Needs an intervention.

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kharma's picture

for not being Little Napoleons and telling us how to think. Thank you for a community we can argue with, yet still hold as our own.

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There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams

LeChienHarry's picture

JtC.

POPMoney is a service which JtC has signed up for and avoids PayPal if you don't like it.

Setting up an account for a recurring donation is easy. Your bank may offer it as a free service. If so write a private mail to JtC and let him know you want to contribute.

JtC, I would encourage you to add your POP Money instructions in your line up of contributions at the top right of the front page.

Folks, our Admins and founders are aw shucks and humble people: they need our financial support to continue. A few dollars a month from those who can, will keep this site and the family at home afloat.

Please donate on a monthly basis.

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You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again you did not know. ~ William Wiberforce

If you can donate, please! POP Money is available for bank-to-bank transfers. Email JtC to make a monthly donation.

elenacarlena's picture

the above button, it gives you a "recurring" option.

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Please check out Pet Vet Help, consider joining us to help pets, and follow me @ElenaCarlena on Twitter! Thank you.

With Christmas coming, why don't we?

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

harrybothered's picture

Not sure we'd want to support Jeff Bezos.

I'll donate again soon. I hate things being taken out of my bank account without my control though.

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"The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to those who think they've found it."
Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

When you go to Amazon.com to buy something, you click a link into an account, sayfor c99. Whatever you buy, Amazon gives 2% to the holder of the page. So if I spend 100.00, c99 would get $2.00 from Amazon.

I can understand this for charities, non-profit agencies, etc. I doubt that Jimmy Dore is either of those, and I know c99 isn't. I've tried to google this a couple of tmes to research it. I never have any luck.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

this site is about the 99%. I would like to keep it clean of any corporate/monied influence, including and mostly advertising of any kind.

I would truly like to see us funding this site with people power. If/when donations cease to cover costs then alternate methods will be looked at. Until then I prefer Bernie's method of crowdfunding.

Of the 99, by the 99, for the 99.

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polkageist's picture

I would like to add my "thank you" to the rest. You provide me a place to find kindred spirits. The huge Green Party election turnout shows why we need this site to keep us sane. It's hard to find a site that is polite, articulate, thoughtful, sane, sarcastic, and fun to read. You guys manage to do it.

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-Greed is not a virtue.
-Socialism: the radical idea of sharing.
-Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962

Alphalop's picture

It's a pretty simple program.

People save a special link to amazon as their shortcut on their browser and then, based on volume and item type the site would receive a percentage of each purchase.

With the wife's Amazon Addiction we could have probably funded half the site just with her, lol!

Seriously though JTC, thanks for all you do and I am still on board to help set up that "Crafting for the Caucus" auction thing we discussed if now that the election season is over you have the time or interest in such a program.

Once again, thanks for giving us such an awesome place to park our asses. Smile

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"I used to vote Republican & Democrat, I also used to shit my pants. Eventually I got smart enough to stop doing both things." -Me

After observing the Drupal program that we were previously discussing to house any auctions, I've concluded that it would be a huge resource drain and would probably bog down the site performance.

Your initial idea to host the auctions on a separate site is probably the best route. Send me a PM when you get a chance.

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detroitmechworks's picture

Because this election got to me.

Thanks for fighting the good fight in my absence.

I don't know how you kept going, but kudos.

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

I'd like to think the "fight" is over, but I'm certain it's just beginning.

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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK | "The more I see of the moneyed peoples, the more I understand the guillotine." - G. B. Shaw Bernie/Tulsi 2020

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"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X