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*Originally posted by clayton_e *
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Since you’ve taken a coarse stance on a delicate subject, and this IS the BBQ Pit, I’d like to add some thoughts on both what you quoted, and what you just said, clayton_e.
There are events daily, weekly, monthly that make Dopers turn to the Boards. They span the range from amusingly mundane to tragically important. Like any thriving community, we are diverse as all hell. It is, in the true sense of the word, a communist situation. We take according to our needs, and give according to what we can. Some of us do a lot of drive-by postings sometimes. I’m in that group. I frequently come here to be a wise-ass and blow off steam, and relax. I’ll also post more serious materials. There are some who only post when they have a serious offering, replete with cites. There are those who ONLY are wise-asses. It’s a COMMUNity. If we all truly believe that all comers are welcome, then your cursing above is a sad retort indeed.
Intellect and finance has never been codependant. You can be filthy rich and truly ignorant. You can be destitute and brilliant. ( Thank god… :D). Instead of cursing the quote you used in your post, why not stop and appreciate the intentions of those Dopers who may very well be able to send twice the subscription fee, to offset the costs of SDMB keeping Dopers in the fold who truly cannot afford to do so.
Would we really lower ourselves to excluding based on money? I understand totally that it’s become a necessity, I don’t even wanna get into that part of the debate. It’s a business.
Why should you curse and attack the very idea of generosity? It tells us more about you than it tells us about the idea of subsidised Dope Subscriptions.
I’d like to offer this idea. Starting with the form that is already provided, and with every form thereafter, the SDMB Administration needs to add a line. They should offer all of us the chance to basically pay for a strangers Doper Membership.
It’s a community. We help each other out, and have here for years. I’m not only not rich, I’m not really middle class. And, I’d damned well make sure I did without various goodies for as long as it took to be able to send a duplicate subscription fee, to support another Doper who couldn’t do for themselves.
This Board is about intangibles. Personally I’d hope fervently that the tangibles we now have to deal with are dispensed with neatly and quickly. Those of us who cannot will be protected from exclusion by those of us who can.
I hope the Administration gets far enough in this thread to read this request.
Sincerely,
Cartooniverse
