...intermittent problems with our tempers.

But I don't push my opinion on anyone else.

If I get bored or frustrated, I find that welcoming members who have been here since Day One is a great stress reliever.

If the intent is clear, it's best to leave the person alone, even if the error makes you cringe. I would argue that this goes for usage as well. There are times I want to say "that word does not mean what you think it does" but refrain if the intent was clear. Nobody asked me to be their writing instructor.

Also it's easier than one might think to misread a person's intent. Sometimes what appears to be inadvertant incorrect usage is actually a stylistic quirk.

As far as bad links go, if you have enough time to post a comment saying "your link is broken," perhaps you have enough time to do a quick search and find and post the correct link.

duly noted. Hopefully we wont have to advertise, but if we do the less obtrusive the better.

If you want to have the right to comment and post diaries here, you should pay something for that right. There is nothing wrong to pay for a newspaper in print, I don't see what is wrong with paying something for having the privilege to write something to or on an online site like this one.

I don't like ads and I don't like "philantrophic rich folks" donating lots of money, if we don't know, who they are. Absolute transparency for donations from a certain amount on up should be a given. You don't want to become dependent on rich, nice people, who we don't know about. So, people who donate above a certain amount and that may be regularly, should be listed for us to know about them.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

The site has come a long way in the last two months, and you've handled things amazingly. Donations to keep the place online are important, but so are you. I know the work is rewarding in itself, but you deserve actual rewards as well.

No one should feel pressure to donate if funds are tight.

Of course that makes sense on first glance, but then I think people should feel some pressure to pay something on a recurring basis, if they want to comment here on a recurring basis. It's just a matter of how much one can afford and is willing to pay for "commenting rights" so to speak. Imo, commenting rights are a privilege to have, because we all know that comments are what people turn to love a place or to hate it. To pay a little for the right to eventually go on people's nerves with comments you can't stand and don't like is imo a good thing. It may also make it easier to keep "the not so benign commentators tamed a bit".

So far you have 1600 plus members. It will take a while til you reach the 10000 member level, right? So, it would be nice, if we knew how much money is needed per month for a membership level of say 2000 people. If we knew, then we could see for ourselves what should be donated to keep the site running and improving. I think it is not helpful to act coply (I hope these are acceptable words to use for what I want to say - my dictionary gave those to me) with stating clearly what amount of money is needed.

I know you don't like me saying it. I will shut up about it now. I think I said it on three different threads. If it really is so much money that 2000 members can't afford to donate a monthly amount to cover the costs, then one needs to think about something else, not before that.

Compare it to this: If you buy a house, you would like to know what the recurring fixed costs of the house will be to maintain your livelihood in there, before you decide to buy it, right?

Do you need $ 4000.00 per month? That would be $ 2.00 per month per registered user. Do you need $8000.00 per month? That would be $ 4.00 per month for for 2000 registered users.

You need to hire people to code some upgrades you think are necessary? Let people know how much it costs and go from there. Just let the users know. (And btw. not all users think that all upgrades some people want to see are essential. At TOP the so-called upgrades had somewhat opposite effects)

If people can't afford a monthly recurring fee for the privilege to comment here, then they still can read and click here. I don't see any problem in that. If nobody would register because he had to pay a little bit on a monthly basis, then you can may be think of ads. But I wouldn't give in to that as the only solution to the problem.

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By the Unprincipled Trolls For Hillary super pac

I went over to kossacks for sanders and searched Jill Stein. 3 or 4 diaries came up, a couple of them discussing Bernie running as a Green. Pretty decent discussion, lots of comments nothing very combative. Mawn-jilla, who I think started the site? had a couple of comments and is against Bernie running as a green. But in no way was her/his comments anywhere near what you'd see at top for the same thing. The authors of these diaries still have accounts and are still commenting...