# The SDMB "pot o' gold" **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 11, 2000, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pot-o-gold/25193 "2000-07-11T08:43:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pot-o-gold/25193/1 "2000-07-11T08:43:29Z")
Ok, we all know that the board is taking a poop lately. My question to all of you is: Who here would donate money to the Chicago Reader, c/o Ed Zotti, toward the sole purpose of upgrading the system capablities of the SDMB to make it run much faster and increase load capacity? I would šŸ˜ƒ I am poor, but I will pledge whatever I can muster if anyone else will back me up and do the same. Come on guys and gals! You know you want to! ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pot-o-gold/25193/2 "2000-07-11T12:09:03Z")
While Iā€™m not against the idea ( I really like this place and would like to see it working better). I would draw your attention to what Ed. already said about this matter . From [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=29404) : > [@](#): > > Folks, we appreciate the thought, but weā€™ve done pretty much all the cheap hardware fixes we can think of. The next step, I gather from Jerry, would be to upgrade to some kind of industrial-strength server costing 40 grand. Youā€™d have to pass a mighty big hat to pay for that. Now that would be a good collection . ---
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pot-o-gold/25193/3 "2000-07-11T16:13:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimbo \* > \*\*While Iā€™m not against the idea ( I really like this place and would like to see it working better). I would draw your attention to what Ed. already said about this matter . > > From [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=29404) : > > > [@](#): > > > > Folks, we appreciate the thought, but weā€™ve done pretty much all the cheap hardware fixes we can think of. The next step, I gather from Jerry, would be to upgrade to some kind of industrial-strength server costing 40 grand. Youā€™d have to pass a mighty big hat to pay for that. > > Now that would be a good collection . > > \*\* According to my calculations, a mere 5 and a half dollars from every member of the SDMB would result in such a total of 40K. Not bad at all ---
**Author:** ![T\_G\_I\_F](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9a140/32.png) [@T\_G\_I\_F](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T_G_I_F)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2000, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pot-o-gold/25193/4 "2000-07-11T17:26:16Z")
To speed up the board, you should do what every other board does and erase old threads. Keep the ones on Cecil and the Mailbag, and let all the rest go after 2 weeks or a month of no new posts. And just let the Pit stuff die after 1 or two days. Itā€™s all repetative after that anyway. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2000, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pot-o-gold/25193/5 "2000-07-12T14:06:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MagicalSilverKey \* > According to my calculations, a mere 5 and a half dollars from every member of the SDMB would result in such a total of 40K. Not bad at all Oat Willie ( or whatever its name was ) would have to pay about $2000 . Now I would really go along with that šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-pot-o-gold/25193/6 "2000-07-14T05:04:49Z")
Yā€™know, the other day it occured to meā€¦ Thereā€™s a lot of folks on the boards who want to send money to help support the Straight Dope, but who complain that thereā€™s no system set up for them to do soā€¦ Except that there is, in fact, such a system. Go to the ā€œ[Buy Stuff](https://securesite.chireader.com/cgi-bin/dopestore/buystuff.bat)ā€ link from the main page, and, well, buy stuff. We could all complete our collections of the books, and heck, I need more t-shirts anyway. Cecil gets money, we get stuff, everyoneā€™s happy. Whattaya say?