For a fellow with 10 more years to go in prison, you have done a remarkable job in gaining respect here. 
[del]I’m just biding my time, setting up my sting, and eventually I’ll be asking you all for money.[/del]
Gee, thanks! 
Count me in with Qadgop. This board provides a tangible benefit to me. It’s highly doubtful that $500 could purchase something of equivalent long-term value to me.
I don’t know if my price is as expensive as his at the moment (hey, I’m young), but it’d have to be something that could secure an equal or greater long-term benefit to me.
Six figures could do it. Possibly high five.
You people do math weird. 
I have to agree with LHD - if someone figured the only way to get me to stop arguing would be to pay me to do so, I’d put that argument in the win column. AND I’d take their money, too.
Right now, $5K would get me out of debt, and another $2K would enable me to completely get my home-based business of fthe ground. So for $7000 cash in hand, I’ll go away today and never come back.
Any takers? 
Okay, let’s raise the stakes a little.
Would you be willing to change the way you post for money? Suppose you’ve been arguing with somebody who holds a diametrically opposing view on some issue you have a personal interest in. And they send you an email offering you a sum of money to publicly change your mind on the issue. You have to recant your past position and agree with your opponent. You have to maintain that position in future posts and you can’t tell anyone else that you got paid to take your new position.
Pick any issue you have strong feelings about: Bush, gun control, abortion, gay marriage, Paul Verhoeven, whatever: Would you being willing to change your tune for money and how much would it take?
Easier, It would have to be a huge amount of money for me not to be true to myself. I would say enough for me to retire now. Let us say somewhere in the $6 to $10 million range. So while I might be a whore, I am a very expensive whore.
Jim
I won’t do this here. Read the post in the Pit.
Sgt Schwartz
I’m not. For a couple of thou, I’ll proclaim Sarah Brady to be the Second Coming, Veroeven to actually have talent, and Bush to be mildly acceptable as a President. Face it, I love you guys and all, but in the end, I’ve only personally met a handful of you, and the ones I have met would understand that there are some things a man has to do if the money is right.
“Who gave you the quarter?”
“All of them, silly.”
I am sure I could find a way to leave the board for even $100,000 grand, there would be no major problem except the void left in my life. I would find a way to fill it.
However, to stay on the board and proclaim ignorant anti-environmental bullshit in thread after thread. That would be torture. Leaving is relatively easy, lying constantly would be hard. I do not believe I could easily keep it up. I do not know what the exact conditions would be, but it sounds like Little Nemo would be asking me to stay on the board and keeping posting to the same threads I do now, but post lies instead. For me it would have to be either the environment or Tolkien I guess. I could not do it easily and would consider it a job. As it would be a job, I want to be paid great for it. I think I could go as low as $3,000,000.
Jim
Oh man, that’s a good one.
You know what, I think I have a price even for this.
I don’t think I have a price for doing anything like this in direct personal interactions. But I think I do have a price for doing something like this relatively anonymously, in a discussion forum such as this one.
I don’t think there is a principled distinction between the two situations, yet, as I search my feelings,* I find the distinction there.
The price is around eighty thousand dollars.
-FrL-
*half-hearted star wars reference, that.
I would leave the board if I was able to meet the real Cecil in person. If you have to ask, it’s because after meeting Wisdom Incarnate (assuming my head does not explode and my genitals do not fall off from overexcitement) the mere glow off my back shall spew out second-hand Enlightenment for ages to come.
Otherwise, it’s one… BILLION dollars /pinky-raise.
So wait, wait, now wait, I’m confused.
Are you in prison or employed by a prison?
I ask because of the wording of the post you were responding to–it said something about you having “ten more years to go in prison.”
-FrL-
$7.95 USD (pro-rated to my anniversary date).
I’m cheap.
Judging from his last post, it might be an evolving situation.
Hell, if someone made me a good offer, I’d likely take it and never darken this virtual doorstep again. There are boards that are just as good, with posters that are just as smart (and often friendlier).
I have lots of money. I have more money than I know what to do with, it just sits there not doing anything. Mostly because I have no interest in doing things that require money, beyond what I already spend it on.
So if someone offered me money to not do something that I spend a lot of my life doing and enjoying, I would have to seriously consider it, and would probably say No, unless the amount was so overwhelming I could actually use it to do something special and important, possibly even selfless, with.
No, money doesn’t mean much to me, so I wouldn’t do it.
What? And post in error? No way!
Well, hey, send it to me. I can think of plenty of things to do with it.
You know, I really can’t see this happening. If there’s something that pisses me off about irl social discourse, it’s that stupid people are allowed to spout stupidity but smart people are never allowed to inject an ounce of intelligence in the conversation because then they are being unpleasant and ruining the nice mood. I can’t see myself contributing to that, for any amount.
I guess if it were enough that donating the money would make a real, tangible difference in some issue that I feel strongly about, then maybe. But just money for myself? I can’t see it.
Besides, this would basically mean either leaving the boards anyway or shutting up about that issue forever.
This is pretty much my answer, except I can retire in 3 years. But I’d still need 7 figures at least. And then I’d have to convince my husband to join and post so I could get my jollies vicariously…