primitives wonder how long they'll last

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002698395

Oh my.

Paper Roses (4,448 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

How long will will I last? I have been a contributing member of DU since 2005.

I gather my contribution has run out. Ads showing up now at the top and side of the pages. I will have to go along with things the way they are, ads and all, until --hopefully--life gets better.

Don't know when that may happen. Social Security only goes so far.

It is not too bad, at least not yet.

I will try and ignore the ads and see if I can proceed to be a reader until I decide that DU comes before my phone bill or the like.

I can no longer give hearts or donate in the name of another member. That makes me sad.

$60.00 is too much for me right now. I will persevere.

lunatica (22,153 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

1. I got my star on the $3 dollar special

When mine runs out I'm with you.

cynatnite (24,739 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

2. I'll get my star when the money is in the bank...

I go from month to month. If the extra money is there, I'll get it. If not, I'll wait until I've got it.

We will all persevere

NightWatcher (17,932 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

3. The ads aren't too bad. I've been star-less for months

I do so miss posting polls however.

DU3 is still pretty friendly with ads. You hardly notice them if you're on a mobile device. Since my laptop died I only have the iPhone and the ads don't get in the way.

CaliforniaPeggy (94,979 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

5. It is completely beyond my comprehension why we can't buy stars for anyone else.

And I don't know why they haven't addressed this, either.

It's very frustrating.

The Wielding Truth (7,311 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

7. Can't we?

XanaDUer (12,753 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

34. We cannot buy stars for other members, nor they for us? Didn't know that.

obamanut2012 (2,694 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

6. I can't afford one, either

Money is just too tight this year.

You can post without a star.

I'll bet the primitives had plenty of money to donate 2001-2007, when Republicans ran the country.

Raine (18,291 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

9. Mine ran out a couple of months ago. I would donate but they don't take checks anymore. I don't want to use a credit card or paypal so I'm going starless for the foreseeable future. It's not that bad and anyway I don't mind having the extra 60 bucks for myself.

Paka (283 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

24. When did they stop taking checks?

That's the way I have to pay. I may lose my star later this year. I am a retired ex-pat living in Thailand on my social security because I can't afford to live in my own country. We live a cash life over here. I've been saving up so I would have the $42 to pay when the time comes around, but if I can't send a check it will be the end of my star in September.

Raine (18,291 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

28. When they switched over to DU3. I have looked and looked and can't find anyway to send a check. People have asked in the H&M section and it seems they have no plans to allow checks again, anyway not in the near future.

rug (36,746 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

29. It's only $42 if you use Paypal to make a recurring monthly $3.50 payment.

Otherwise it's $5 a month.

I don't understand why you can't make a one-time payment of $42 by check.

Control-Z (6,184 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

12. I tought I had paid a year but my star is gone too, after 3 months. Plus I've been trying to pay but the payments haven't processed.

ellisonz (19,253 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

40. Have you contacted Skinner?

HappyMe (4,205 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

14. I can't afford to get my star back either.
I'm sure there will be better days ahead for all of us.

Yeah. 

Probably after January 20, 2013.

KT2000 (8,771 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

16. Same boat here

I would like to make a donation but the $60 is out of reach right now and there are not any alternatives.

Here's hoping for better times for all!

longship (11,182 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

17. Starless, too. $1,014 a month isn't enough for me

And my 23 year old car is barely drivable. I dunno what I'll do if it dies. It's over 30 miles round trip to the nearest grocery store. My roof leaks. My septic system is ancient. My furnace is cranky, but runs inexpensively, except the oil to burn. I am behind in my property taxes.

No star for you!

Kaleva (7,514 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

23. Yes. I get $1071.00 a month.

I have an old scooter my ex lets me use for transportation (she kept the car). It's going to be about 2 more months before I can seriously think of donating to DU.

Cleita (58,156 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

21. I hope somebody will help you out.

I would but I recently lost my job and am pretty strapped myself.

mvd (59,517 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

30. Sure do wish they would go to the old system

You can't even post a poll unless you pay $60. I can't do it and hope they re-evaluate.

great white snark (1,713 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

32. It is expensive. Thankfully a wonderful Duer gifted me my star on DU2.

Whoever you are know that I appreciate your generostity and I vocally "thank you" every time I log in.

Curmudgeoness (7,060 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

33. You and I both....

you will realize how many people are running around starless, and it will become a greater number by the end of the year.

You will learn to ignore the ads---they are not as intrusive (usually) as I thought they would be. (I just had one pop-up at me and those are the only ads that totally piss me off.)

I hate not having a star, and not donating. I want to support DU. But I am just not willing to play by the rules set up---they ask for too much money for a membership star. Oh well.

We look forward to having you post anyways. At least we are not blocked from that!

scarletwoman (23,768 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

35. Dear Paper Roses, as a GD host, I would prefer to lock this thread, since it doesn't meet the SOP of GD, which is "Discuss politics, issues, and current events... No whining about DU."

While I do not want to insult you by saying that you are "whining about DU", I will point out that you are clearly not discussing "politics, issues, and current events." I also want to point out that discussions about DU itself (which includes "bemoaning" the current cost of purchasing a Star) properly belong in the Help and Meta-Discussion forum.

I brought your post to the Host Forum looking for consensus before proceeding with a lock. While 4 out of 6 hosts weighing in so far agree that your OP belongs in H&M, only 2 hosts (including me) wanted to lock it.

I am posting this to give fair notice to other DUers that this sort of OP does not meet the SOP of GD, and that similar posts may very well be subject to being locked and being asked to re-post to H&M.

I am sorry that you can't afford a star, and I have advocated since the very beginning of DU3 that DUers be allowed to donate stars to others who can't afford them. I will continue to advocate for this - in the Help & Meta-Discussion forum.

mopinko (38,021 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

41. we can't donate stars?

wtf?

jwirr (19,609 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

37. Do they notify us when our donation is due now?

Raine (18,291 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

39. No, mine just disappeared. You can check under "my account" I think the info on when it expires is there.

progressoid (23,010 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

42. A very kind DUer gave me my current star.

Even though I would like to, I won't be able to renew it when it expires.

Hang in there. We're all in the together.

Too bad for the stingy miserly niggardly skinflint primitives.

[obumazombie]

Niggardly is a good descriptive useful word. Too bad I will have to ban it when I publish my list of "Politically incorrect or similar or rhyming  words that are now banned to prevent possibly offending anyone".

[JohnnyReb]

Niggardly is a good descriptive useful word. Too bad I will have to ban it when I publish my list of "Politically incorrect or similar or rhyming  words that are now banned to prevent possibly offending anyone".

  I had never heard that word until Walter Williams explained it to me.

[jukin]

First, the DUches will pay up just like they will pull the lever for 0bama the promise breaker.

Second, Without the DUmp the misfits of society will be isolated as they properly should be.

Third, how can the economy be bad under the Wyle E. 0bama , Economic Super Genius.

[Karin]

Oh my Lord, Paper Roses sounds like one of those needy, passive-aggressive elderly relatives that drive you nuts.  "I guess I'll have to look at ads.  Poor, poor me.  But I'm fine, don't worry about me.  Sigh." 

[Ballygrl]

And how are they all going to vote?

BTW, doesn't adblock on FF block all the ads? I don't see ads anymore since I installed it.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I'll bet the primitives had plenty of money to donate 2001-2007, when Republicans ran the country.

Excellent, sir, excellent!

 

[USA4ME]

$60 divided by 365 days equals 16.5 cents a day.

16.5 cents a day!!!!!!!!!!

You dolts can't cough up 16.5 cents a day you don't need to hold a political opinion, and especially opinions that are as stupid as those offered by liberalism.

.

[GOBUCKS]

I'll bet the primitives had plenty of money to donate 2001-2007, when Republicans ran the country.

Well yes, it was during the Great Bush Prosperity that they spent tens of thousands on the andyscam, after spending hundreds of thousands on the Bev Harris scam.

They had lots of money to waste back then.

[Traveshamockery]

Wow - DU is becoming quite the fascist discussion forum.  Scarletwoman will allow the little serfs to complain but just this once. 

Wow. 

[dane]

$60 divided by 365 days equals 16.5 cents a day.

16.5 cents a day!!!!!!!!!!

You dolts can't cough up 16.5 cents a day you don't need to hold a political opinion, and especially opinions that are as stupid as those offered by liberalism.

I wonder how many of those destitute denizens of the DUmp manage to find a few cents per day for smokes (of any sort) or cheetos, or good rigs,
 or organic veggies, or donations to various Belleview wannabe politicians, or pizza for occupiers - but cannot find <17 cents per day for a precious star.

I almost worked up a bit of sympathy.  Almost, but not quite.

[franksolich]

Well yes, it was during the Great Bush Prosperity that they spent tens of thousands on the andyscam, after spending hundreds of thousands on the Bev Harris scam.

They had lots of money to waste back then.

This is where my fellow alum Skins fails as a capitalist.

Before the new DU, there were plenty of options for donating money.

Now, for all practical purposes, there's only one channel through which he'll take money, and he'll take money only in specified amounts.

Skins would get a Hell of a lot more dough if he made avenues of donating money as wide as an eight-lane interstate highway.

Damn, freerepublic figured that out from the beginning.

I've always sent personal checks or money orders through the U.S. Postal Service, and oddly the recipients never complained.  If that option hadn't been available, I wouldn't have donated.

<<does not transfer money over the internet, no way.

[obumazombie]

This is where my fellow alum Skins fails as a capitalist.

Before the new DU, there were plenty of options for donating money.

Now, for all practical purposes, there's only one channel through which he'll take money, and he'll take money only in specified amounts.

Skins would get a Hell of a lot more dough if he made avenues of donating money as wide as an eight-lane interstate highway.

Damn, freerepublic figured that out from the beginning.

I've always sent personal checks or money orders through the U.S. Postal Service, and oddly the recipients never complained.  If that option hadn't been available, I wouldn't have donated.

<<does not transfer money over the internet, no way.

The U.S.P.S. is very reliable in many aspects.

[I_B_Perky]

Paper Roses (4,448 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

How long will will I last? I have been a contributing member of DU since 2005.

I gather my contribution has run out. Ads showing up now at the top and side of the pages. I will have to go along with things the way they are, ads and all, until --hopefully--life gets better.

Don't know when that may happen. Social Security only goes so far.

You only live on SS? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Loser. Sounds to me like someone would have rather lived high on the hog instead of saving for your retirement. As for me dummie... if SS is still there when I get there, assuming they don't start means testing and I suspect they will, then that will just be gravy for me. If not? No skin off me.

longship (11,182 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

17. Starless, too. $1,014 a month isn't enough for me

And my 23 year old car is barely drivable. I dunno what I'll do if it dies. It's over 30 miles round trip to the nearest grocery store. My roof leaks. My septic system is ancient. My furnace is cranky, but runs inexpensively, except the oil to burn. I am behind in my property taxes.

But you have internet access and I'll bet a big screen TV and a good cell phone.

Kaleva (7,514 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

23. Yes. I get $1071.00 a month.

I have an old scooter my ex lets me use for transportation (she kept the car). It's going to be about 2 more months before I can seriously think of donating to DU.

But you have internet access and I'll bet a big screen TV and a good cell phone.

Cleita (58,156 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

21. I hope somebody will help you out.

I would but I recently lost my job and am pretty strapped myself.

Translation: I got fired for not showing up on time and when I was there, I expected everyone to kowtow to my every whim.

[sybilll]

$60 divided by 365 days equals 16.5 cents a day.

16.5 cents a day!!!!!!!!!!

You dolts can't cough up 16.5 cents a day you don't need to hold a political opinion, and especially opinions that are as stupid as those offered by liberalism.

.

Compare this to the thread where the 300lb people bitch about not being able to literally over indulge in All You Can Eat buffets.  Skip one of those per month DUmmies, and tada! 

[obumazombie]

Compare this to the thread where the 300lb people bitch about not being able to literally over indulge in All You Can Eat buffets.  Skip one of those per month DUmmies, and tada! 

This type of post is adding impetus to my desire to start a thread called "everything I know about weight loss".