Admin's Attitude Towards People Who Can't Afford $5

The BBQ Pit
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How very fucking nice it must be to sit up in your white castle and preach down to the peasants. Nice fucking life you must have. Your attitude is despicable. Who the hell are you to tell people what they can afford? Bad enough we have this coming from members, but ADMINISTRATORS? Houston, we have a problem.

Do you know what kind of people your board attracts? Do you think it’s only nine-to-fivers with spare time at work? How aristocratic of you. Hate to break the news to you, but there’s a lot more than that going on with your following. How dare you shame them.

A lot of them walk the streets every day, for work. A lot of them are home sick, being paid a percentage of the wages that once fed their family on a paycheque to paycheque basis. SDMB was a place where they could go, let go of their grief for a while, and zone out. Not to mention, it’s also a place where they can vent, ask for help, and to some degree socialize.

Ed, you’re assuming that people have money to go out for a burger. You’re also assuming that they’ve got so much money, it’s falling out of their pockets and into their couch cushions. That’s a hell of a lot of assuming, my friend. I’ve lived through days that it was either my cats eat or I eat. They ate.

Dex, you’re right. If some can’t afford the $5, they certainly DO have bigger problems than the SDMB. You’re assuming that they’re neglecting these problems to be on the board. Some problems aren’t solved overnight. How pitiful that you’re suggesting to people who are interested in sponsoring those who can’t pay, to set up a food delivery service, clothing, and shelters for this imagined mass of members who can’t cough up the $5 fee." IMAGINED? Get a grasp on the situation.

Your demographics of SDMB are fucked if you don’t see that. And by the way, is my $5 going to pay your salary? Hope to hell that if it is, you gain some respect for the people who made it a success.
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank those of you who have offered to sponsor memberships. I’m glad that some people see that if we leave a few behind, a few is too many. Unfortunately, the administration seems to think differently.

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thank you.
I have had zero income for the past 5 years.

I used to post at my library, which is free.
Someone gave me a computer and AOL still hasn’t charged me(Since Oct.) so its not like I’m wasting my money elsewhere.

2 Nice people have offered to pay for me, I have 5$, and will mail them the money order.

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What part of Please place all SDMB subscription complaints in this thread, you cheapskates! don’t you understand?

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I have a truly hard time believing any of the people who claim they can’t afford $5.

That’s two gallons of milk, a couple loaves of bread, 6 or 7 apples, a sack of rice, a matinee, a tiny bit more then a Blockbuster rental, etc. If you can’t afford $5 to pay for a years worth of entertainment, I have a hard time seeing how you manage to feed yourself, unless you’re on food stamps or something.

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What he said.

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I don’t normally respond to comments in closed threads, but I want to be clear: I used the word “imagined” as an adjective modifying the word “mass”. I do not doubt that there are a few people who are in dire straits. I do doubt that there are hundreds of such, or dozens of such.

I therefore do not want to see us setting up some bizarre administration system to take care of three or four or six members.

And I, like the other mods, don’t get paid for this job.

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Reopening this thread, on condition that all kvetching is done about the Admins and mods, and not about whether the posters are or are not going to join.

Ghod, this has been one weird week. :rolleyes:

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Stay!

Good girl!

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Oy. I’m almost tempted to pit you for capitulating, Czarcasm*.

*You just can’t win, can you?

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Does this mean Cheeky will quit whining about this damn thread being locked now, in every other slightly relevant thread?

On the other hand, way to validate the whining.

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What part of “please quit playing a suck-ass junior mod” don’t you understand?

The post was started by a member, not a moderator. It was sheepishly endorsed by an administrator (shame on you for endorsing junior modding), although it is not a sticky. Just because some member says “post all your comments about…whatever…in this thread,” does not make it a rule here. So go hide behind whatever mod you toady.

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Gee, Road Rash, isn’t telling another poster off for junior modding just another form of junior modding itself? Junior modder, moderate thyself!

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I’d just like to give all the admins/mods a giant hug, as they really seem to need it after all the bitching that’s been going on lately. Egads folks, you’d think the world was gonna end.

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Man… I tell ya… if there’s one truism left in life, other than that we’re all gonna die and pay taxes, it’s this - there will always be someone who can find SOMETHING to whine about.

So in that context, the way I look at it is this… if you can’t afford $5 to be a SDMB member, but you CAN afford internet dialup connectivity? Thats a weird juxtaposition happening there I reckon.

Alternatively, if the cost is a moot point, and it’s merely that Ed Zotti cracked some jokes in his explanation thread? Well, that’s pretty lame for mine.

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Thank you for re-opening this, Czarcasm. Now not only will she stop shitting in every other thread she gets into about the grave injustice that you perpetuated on her and her thread, but now it can die a natural death and take away any justification for further whining from her.

It was worth swallowing your pride, dude. You’re killing two birds with one stone.

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I was toying with starting a thread entitled “Please place all ‘CheekyMonkey613 is a whiny little bitch’ complaints in this thread, you morons!”

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a five-pager for sure

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At least half of the posts being CheekyMonkey’s whiny rants about the stupidity, snarkiness, mod-ass-kissing, and general worthlessness of those Pitting her.

Has she ever posted anything positive?

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Might as well close it up again. Apparently the clique can’t read.

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first rule of the clique,never mention the clique.