# Make your "pay my subscription fee" request here **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 18, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105 "2004-03-18T22:52:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105/1 "2004-03-18T22:52:29Z")
As I noted over [here,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=4658255#post4658255) I’m volunteering to pay a fellow Doper’s (possible a couple of fellow Dopers’) subscription fee. To save you guys opening the other thread, I’ll repost the rules here: > [@Me](#): > > 1. You have to be somebody whose user name I recognise… not necessarily somebody I like, per se, but if I despise you your chances are not good. > 2. I’d really prefer that it be somebody who’s genuinely broke, rather than someone who just doesn’t feel like forking out five bucks. Obviously I’m not going to go looking through your tax returns, so please be honest about it. > 3. Since some of you will naturally be uncomfortable admitting that you’re broke, you can IM or e-mail me if you think you deserve the free subscription. I’m starting a thread in MPSIMS for the rest of you. > 4. I might pay two or even three subscriptions if enough deserving people are asking. However, if I can’t decide who gets one, I might start asking other Dopers’ opinions in the request thread, so if you absolutely refuse to be mentioned, please let me know. I know there are a couple of other people who are doing or considering doing the same thing- make yourselves known here, if you like. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105/2 "2004-03-18T23:07:59Z")
I’m in to help out. Pretty much on the terms you laid out. I noticed Ed Zotti explained in the sticky abut the change how to go about paying for someone else’s subscription. So, anyone who needs help, my email address is in my profile. I assume you’d rather do this privately, and I’ll respect that. Depending on how many people ask, I may not be able to do it for everyone, but I WILL do as much as I can. SDMB forever! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105/3 "2004-03-18T23:24:08Z")
…that you can, of course, nominate others as well. ---
**Author:** ![lightingtool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@lightingtool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightingtool)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105/4 "2004-03-18T23:24:22Z")
I’ll help out a Doper or two. Email is my user name at yahoo dot com. I will second Mr Bright’s request for people to be honest about their income (or lack thereof). You know, I wonder if anyone has “myusername@yahoo,com” as an email, and how much mail they would get that isn’t for them. ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105/5 "2004-03-18T23:31:49Z")
I will also be willing to sponser a Doper or two by the same terms:D It would be a shame to lose good posters over a bit of money ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105/6 "2004-03-18T23:35:06Z")
Also forgot to mention that you should put SDMB in the subject line, because my spamguard is the cyberspace equivalent of a German Shepherd with AIDS and a can of Mace. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105/7 "2004-03-18T23:36:49Z")
I’m curious-- have any of you “subscription helpers” received any requests yet? Do you think that many people will request help? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105/8 "2004-03-18T23:41:56Z")
> [@I Love Me](#): > > I’m curious-- have any of you “subscription helpers” received any requests yet? Do you think that many people will request help? This thread has been open for less than an hour, but so far, no. One person who I presume wishes not to be identified did e-mail me to offer to pay for four _more_ people of my choosing. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105/9 "2004-03-18T23:48:52Z")
I’ll help out any cute Doper girls who send me bikini phjotos (of themselves). 😃 Or, just email me, and I’ll help out whoever I can. It’s a worthy cause, after all. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105/10 "2004-03-18T23:52:18Z")
I’ve started a [thread in ATMB](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=4658521#post4658521) about this issue of helping others. I’m nagging Ed to set up an anonymous, pooled mechanism NOW. I’d appreciate your feedback there. I’m at work, and won’t get home for another three hours, so I won’t know till then whether anyone’s contacted me about this. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105/11 "2004-03-19T00:14:57Z")
Could a Mod make this a ‘Sticky’? I don’t know if I’m allowed to ask for that, but it would be really nice- I want to make sure everybody knows help IS available. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105/12 "2004-03-19T00:23:37Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > I’ve started a [thread in ATMB](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=4658521#post4658521) about this issue of helping others. I’m nagging Ed to set up an anonymous, pooled mechanism NOW. I’d appreciate your feedback there. I think this is the system I’d prefer most. Without turning this too much into GD, here’s why: 1. The issue of “yeah, well I PAID to be here. You’re on someone else’s ticket, you unworthy person”. 2. The issue of “Well, X person paid for my subscription, so I guess I shouldn’t point out the inherent fallacy in his/her post, and it would be rude to say ‘you’re being a jerk’ there.” 3. The (related to #2) issue of “I’m paying your way, dude. Least you could do is not get in my way”. 4. I quite simply don’t like the idea of people saying “Oh, Pleeeeze pay for me? I’ll be your bestest friend forever!” I prefer to know that X people (assuming the supply exactly meets the demand) are here because of me, or whoever. I think it generates a feeling of communal goodwill, something that specific people being singled out doesn’t do so much. There are people who, if they can’t pay (or if they’d rather not), I’m willing to make sure they’re still posting here come, say, June. Assuming that, of those I specifically want to make sure stay, I have money left over (so to speak), I think it guarantees more of a diverse community for me _not_ to pick and choose who else I offer to pay for. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105/13 "2004-03-19T00:24:56Z")
I’ve been out of the loop and am just now finding out about this subscription deal. I’d like to subscribe but… I don’t wish to impose on any other Dopers even though they’re willing. You guys are very sweet for offering but I’m not going to stay. When does this start, btw? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105/14 "2004-03-19T00:27:51Z")
> [@SanguineSpider](#): > > I’ve been out of the loop and am just now finding out about this subscription deal. I’d like to subscribe but… I don’t wish to impose on any other Dopers even though they’re willing. You guys are very sweet for offering but I’m not going to stay. When does this start, btw? Monday the 22nd, I think. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105/15 "2004-03-19T00:39:34Z")
Well CRAP! I was thinking it wouldn’t be so soon, bleh! I guess anyone who wants to can email me before I fade away. It was great fun and highly entertaining, as well as, being full of great folks. I came, I saw, I lurked… and I posted. I enjoyed the hell out of being here! At least I was able to be a part of the Valentine exchange and killed off a few of the posters with style! I wish you all the best… SanguineSpider signing off… _sniff_ ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105/16 "2004-03-19T00:44:02Z")
> [@SanguineSpider](#): > > Well CRAP! I was thinking it wouldn’t be so soon, bleh! I guess anyone who wants to can email me before I fade away. It was great fun and highly entertaining, as well as, being full of great folks. I came, I saw, I lurked… and I posted. I enjoyed the hell out of being here! At least I was able to be a part of the Valentine exchange and killed off a few of the posters with style! I wish you all the best… > SanguineSpider signing off… _sniff_ **Sanguine** , as of right now there are at least 6 unassigned “subscription buddies”… they won’t know they’re paying for you, and you won’t know who paid… so why not just ask for one? ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105/17 "2004-03-19T00:51:07Z")
As I’ve said, the folks here ROCK the kasbah but I don’t know about asking for a buddy. I’d feel bad. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105/18 "2004-03-19T00:53:18Z")
> [@SanguineSpider](#): > > As I’ve said, the folks here ROCK the kasbah but I don’t know about asking for a buddy. I’d feel bad. I must ask you too. T’Wouldn’t be the same without you. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105/19 "2004-03-19T00:59:46Z")
And I’ll be jonesing badly… _sigh_. Fine… will the kindly “subscription buddies” grant me my humble request and pay for my year? _insert lip-biting, embarrassed smilie here_. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2004, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105/20 "2004-03-19T01:02:32Z")
Yes. We were going to do it on more of a “wait and see how many requests you get” principle, but I guess we’ll go first-come first-served for now. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-your-pay-my-subscription-fee-request-here/235105.md?page=2)