Well… We’re ALREADY in the Pit… 
Totally serious here, no sarcasm: gato, I hope you’re not going to be using power tools if you’ve been drinking.
Who am I? I’m right. Who the hell are you?
Who said that I made that assumption? I’m just saying your $5 is better spent elsewhere. Like… I dunno… Lotto tickets. I have a hard time thinking of a worse destination of charity money than someone who won’t pony up $5 to post their ever-so-trenchant insights about funniest menstruation moments. At least schools get a portion of Lottery money, don’t they?
Well, that’s easy. You’re using a computer. Hence, not dirt-poor. Dirt poor = doesn’t have access to a computer.
I’m aceing this test! Give me another one!
I was fucking Mother Teresa, but the smell got to be a turn off.
Okay, but only if you buy me a SDMB subscription. I can’t afford one without your help.
Ya tool.
I really, really don’t see newcomers signing up for the pay board after a month of guest status with no search option.
So, no new members.
I also think the “no searching for guests” rule makes the “fighting ignorance” label a misnomer.
Maybe we need a new slogan. SDMB: “Rehashing the same topics with the same paying members since 2004”
And MrVisible is right on all counts.
I would be willing to pay for the board the way it was, through a donation or something, but there is no way I would pay for the way the board will be once it starts the new rules.
Boy, am I gonna miss posts like this - those self-licking my balls - increase my post count bon mots which we all love so well - aww the memories (sniff sniff)
Man, being relegated to the trash heap of history sure is liberating.
Fuck fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck
Always wanted to do that
Jeff
I’m very sad about this.
I don’t have a credit card, I have a switch card (UK debit card that no one outside of this country has heard of or takes), I very much doubt I will be able to use my Switch card for this. And as I only post very occasionly (yes thats spelt wrong I can never remember how to spell that word), I’m not sure that it would be worth it anyway. (yes it’s cheap, but for me, who only posts about once every 2 months? it’s not worth it)
I did have a little ambition to make a thousand posts. That’s not going to happen now. It’s trivial I guess, but the death of that ambition does make me sad.
I remember when my mother died in July, I was sitting there, alone, with no one to talk to, at least until my boyfriend got to my house, and I was devastated, feeling pain beyond I’d ever felt before. So I went on to the SDMB and posted a thread in MPSIMS, straight away people posted condolences and I was comforted and distracted. (when you’re in a state like that, distraction is good) I needed to tell a large amount of people about how I was feeling, it made me feel better to do so. I could only have done that here. (hardly anyone reads my live journal!)
If that had happened after this change, I couldn’t have done that. I don’t post on any other message boards now (too many nasty incidents at other ones) I couldn’t have got that support anywhere else. And now I’ll never be able to get that kind of support again.
I’m disappointed that no other options were tried. Advertising works for Fathom, why on earth could that not have been tried? As it is, this board will be excluding a lot of people after this. The expense is not the real issue. The fact that Not Everyone Has Bloody Credit Cards is the issue.
-Jackie, [third person affectation] pretty miserable about the fact that she just found a thread on comic book trivia in MPSIMS that she was looking forward to contributing to a lot, and now learns she won’t be able to after Sunday. Great. [/third person affectation]
ps. if by some miracle Switch cards may be accepted (I doubt it) I may consider it. I can afford it, but like I say, that’s not the issue.
-Okay, after Sunday I will have the 30 day trial period, I know, I forgot. But I’m still sad. It’s going to be frustrating just reading and not being able to post.
Ciao, SDMB, it was nice while it lasted.
Why don’t you get a credit card?
Hold the presses!
I too, don’t have a credit card. It’s just not a good idea for me to open myself to that kind of debt. I also don’t have a checking account right now, all my bills are paid for with cash or a money order. It’s much simpler for me that way. Is there any way in which a person could mail in a post office money order to make their subscription payment? I can do that.
You can use a debit card.
I don’t have any kind of bank account right now, therefore we don’t have a debit card. I can’t find a bank that isn’t out to screw me over. Mr. Clawbane and I have been looking into credit unions some of which give you a debit card, but have not decided on one we like, and aren’t likely to have done so by the beginning of April, when I get my disability check. We are currently living on $565 a month, Mr. Clawbane is a student, going to trade school to get a career. We just don’t have a lot of money. I could pay for my subscription with a post office money order, if I knew where to send it in to do so. I know, we’re a rarity.
I’d just like to throw out one situation for all you people saying that it’s ‘just five bucks’, which I was in myself a few days ago, where I would not have been able to pay even the five dollars necessary.
I am a university student. That is not an issue. I do not have a credit card or PayPal. That is not an issue, I’ve been thinking of getting PayPal for a while now, this is just incentive (I wouldnt’ bother with a money order even if it were possible, costs almost as much as the subscription fee). My problem would actually be without that small amount of money needed to pay.
See, I was planning on living in residence next year. There is a $400 downpayment to secure your room, so I was keeping that much in my bank account to pay that fee. Currently, my balance is at roughly $410. I have no income until at least late April, when I am home for the summer and it will cost me fifteen dollars instead of five.
So what changed? I found an apartment. I don’t need the $400 for residence anymore. So I actually have disposable income again. If I hadn’t, well, I just woudn’t have the money (for any of you who are gonna nitpick that ten dollars extra, remember two things–one, I’m Canadian, and two, I do need a little extra just in case something comes up between here and next month).
I’m going to pay, simply because this is the forum with most knowledgable, erudite, helpful, witty, clever, funny, honest and interesting threads/posts that I’ve ever come across.
I just hope that’s as true next year as it is now.
Have you tried a tinfoil hat?
Libertarian quit being an ass! You know damned well there have been plenty of threads on this forum (even by posters you respected) about how their bank is screwing them over with the way the have their system set up, not counting the money as being in your account until a day later etc. It was costing us too much in fees, and to me, it seemed to be set up in such a way that being overdrawn was an eventuallity no matter how careful you were. Jerk!
We made a responible choice, to stay out of debt, and cancelled our bank account. For this same reason, we don’t have a credit card. At this point in time the only “debt” we owe is an emergency room fee of $700 from the time Mr. Clawbane had a swollen hand with redness traveling up, due to an infected inflamed tick bite! (We can’t afford insurance to cover him right now, but at least I have insurance coverage. This will change once he gets fully certified as a welder.)Can you say similar?
Back on track, I will subscribe, if a method of alternative payment is available.
I can use the sponsorship method to sign you up. To pay, you can buy a sandwich for someone who is hungry and cannot afford one.
No, not being self righteous, but you are being a judgemental prick. It is quite possible that he doesn’t buy himself a fucking pack of gum at all you shithead. He said it is about being able to justify. You can be broke and still have inet access because it is something you can both use, together even, both for enternainment, communication and job seeking. A SDMB would be something for him alone, that can actually be simulated for free (reading it for free and having a blog for the self expression aspect), so if the choice is putting 5 bucks on here or 5 bucks to rent a movie to watch together with his wife then doing something “just for him” might feel selfish. Him being any hypothetical spouse, not specifically Mean Joe of course. I have been there fucking plenty of times.
If you aren’t broke, great be glad. If you are singel and don’t have to think of anyone but yourself, well… I am not exactly surprised.
Oh and gatopescado, go fuck yourself you snotfaced prick.
Apology accepted.
In that order.
Libertarian Sorry, I don’t think I want “conditional” help offered in such an arrogant way. I’ll pay my own way, somehow. I wasn’t asking for a handout in the first place. I pay my own way, when I can. If I can’t pay my way, and it’s not a neccisity, I do without, if it is a necissity, I’ll ask for help, and find a way to “make good” later. I can here, I just need an address to mail the money to.
You do come off as being high handed, and arrogant. Maybe you do mean well, but your phrasing is off. Your last comment came off as a backhand, not an offer of help. Your last sentence would have been better said in private “person to person” and not publicly. Can’t you see, that it’s not good form, and in fact is a bit humilating to the person that the offer is aimed at? It implies that the person somehow doesn’t do good works on their own.
What makes you think I don’t do stuff like that already? You don’t know me, but you’ve read my posts. Have I shown myself to be a self absorbed ass all the time, or have I shown that I have a passion for life, compassion, and a desire to generally help people? I’ve given food from my own meager stock to help someone that I knew had no food at all. (They’d just started a job, but their paycheck was not going to come in for 2 weeks.) I’ve found ways to help out a friend who was proud, who needed gas to search for a job without hurting their pride. (I asked for a ride to the store, and gave them ten dollars for the gas, saying I might need more rides later. They accepted this reasoning, and I didn’t ask for any other rides.) I realize the actions in real life are just my word, but you can also look over my posts, and find that I’ve offered comfort/condolonces, different perspectives aimed at helping a person decide something, and helpful information to aid a person in need of it.
I give of my time, and myself frequently. My motto is “if you can see that it needs to be done, and you can do it, then pitch in and help out”. This ranges from helping a friend clean out their garage, or move, to comforting them after a tragedy, to helping carry in some groceries for the old lady down the street that I just know by sight. I just do these things as a matter of course, because I’m a member of society, and I want to be productive somehow. I see it as a sort of “civic duty” if you will. I don’t even ask for thanks, just seeing the person smile is enough.
You didn’t want charity and I don’t need your money. Someone could have benefited from our action. Why you’re flying off the handle is your business, but I’m not to blame for your big pile of problems.