Build Your Own Bikini! Don't Pay For White Teeth! Coupons Schmoopons! Free $$ from the Government!

[Skinner]

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• Experience the thrill of helping support this amazing progressive community.
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Thank you for your support.

Skinner
DU Admin

[Blue_Tires]

1. first

[SIMPLYB1980]

2. Second.

[MissMarple]

3. Young man, this sounds like extortion.

[Soylent Brice]

4. kickety

[Laelth]

5. k&r for exposure.

I am only mildly disappointed that there was no mention of bikinis in the body of the text.





-Laelth

[NYC_SKP]

6. You left out the part about improving our love life...

[spinbaby]

7. Wait...

I'm missing a chance to build my own bikini?

[Dr. Strange]

8. Actually, I'd like to hear more about building my own bikini.

[kirby]

9. Big Board needs to go...

If I donate, why do I have to have 1/8 of my screen taken up with the Big Board. The way you coded the HTML, I cannot adblock that section either. I will need to resort to some CSS filtering or something.

[MissMarple]

10. Seriously!

[Fedja]

39. Blame screen size.

[kirby]

56. LOL

I'm running a huge monitor at 2560x1600 resolution. Granted my font is set a little larger to be easier on the eyes, but still...

[Fedja]

62. AHA!

Then it's you 27-30" types that need to donate more for that particular feature.

[Hannah Bell]

11. those white teeth ads are creepy. they don't look like real mouths.

[Canuckistanian]

12. I do it for the DU "street cred"

You can't buy it anywhere else.

[Hekate]

13. It's all good, but Grovelbot keeps telling me I didn't donate and can't post a sticky.

What is life without stickies?

Poutingly,

Hekate

[Skinner]

15. This should be fixed now.

Thanks for donating.

[Hekate]

64. That was fun! I never did a DU Sticky before. Thanks, Skinner

[Mika]

14. Doing our part in busting the economy.

Those ads represent businesses needing customers or they're done for, and America needs commerce to grow. Ads work. That's why businesses create and spend money on them.

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Why do donating DUers hate America?

[omega minimo]

16. You're good, Skinner. You're good.

:mustdonatenow:

[SoCalDem]

17. Bummer! I donated a star to someone else, and did not get to make MY stickie pic.

I thought I followed all the directions, but when I tried to go back & do my stickie, it said I had not donated :pouting:

I had hoped to donate some more, to get a few more, but I'm holding off for now.. DI will have to be satisfied with my monthly automatic donation



the message I get:




Sorry, you don't have any credits to use on GrovelBot's Big Board. Donate to DU to get credits!

[Skinner]

18. I just gave you credit.

Thanks for donating.

[malaise]

19. I want to make some stickies too

Help!

[Skinner]

24. Did you donate during this fund drive?

[SoCalDem]

23. I got both emails, but it still won't let me "create"

I just keep getting that same message.

If I donate $50 at once, can I split it up with $10 for 5 people, and get 5 stickies?

[Skinner]

25. Just a sec.

Elad needs to figure out why you didn't get credit.

[Elad]

27. It should be working now, SoCalDem

Lemme know if you have any problems.

[SoCalDem]

36. Thanks..it finally worked.. Now I'll make my other donations

[NMDemDist2]

37. I'm having trouble too, I sent you a PM n/t

[LynneSin]

20. But damnit, I want whiter teeth

[Hissyspit]

21. The DU Sell Out (Decca Records - 1967)

[PVnRT]

22. I just donated, yet I see ads and no star

I did logout/login, that didn't seem to work.

The Eye-Spy Government (ALL THREE) seems to be punking me.

[Skinner]

54. Looks like there was a glitch.

I found your donation and gave you credit. Thanks.

[Better Today]

26. Not to be a buzz kill, but what ads? Sorry, wishing I could but I can't, going into foreclosure and

bankruptcy soon it looks like. Thank goodness for Firefox, no ads, only a little guilt.

[greguganus]

45. How do you turn off ads in firefox? n/t

[Better Today]

55. You get an add on called adblock. After install, right click any ad

and tell it to block it. That ad will never show up again, it also blocks images, which I like because some images on sigs and avatars on many forums are just awful and/or annoying.

[greguganus]

63. Thanks! n/t

[Lifelong Protester]

28. Hey guys, I donated but have no red sig line

nor have I had the chance to make my two stickies (I'm in for $20). Could you check that? I used PayPal, and I believe it was Sunday I donated.

[Skinner]

57. Looks like there was a glitch for you, too.

I gave you credit for the donation. Thanks.

[Lifelong Protester]

60. Thanks, Skinner, you guys are the best!!

[pipi_k]

29. How much do I have to donate to get bigger breasts?

ummm...just curious

[johnnie]

30. I donated about 19 hours ago

And I still see the ads.

[Skinner]

58. You should have credit now.

Thanks for donating. Sorry for the glitch.

[johnnie]

59. Thanks Skinner!

I got it.

[rug]

31. I'm tempted to not donate so I can see the bikini ads.

[backwoodsbob]

32. why doesn't grovelbot have a bikini?

[DU GrovelBot]

33. ## PLEASE DONATE TO DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND! ##

This week is our third quarter 2009 fund drive. Democratic Underground is
a completely independent website. We depend on donations from our members
to cover our costs. Please take a moment to donate! Thank you!

[Occulus]

41. Oh come now, Grovelbot. MUST you? On THIS thread?

Alerting.



I actually sent that. Maybe it'll amuse someone.

[Lerkfish]

34. um... where can I stuff my wild bikini?

Just kiddin.

[TygrBright]

35. This thread is useless without pictures of Skinner in a bikini built by Elad. n/t

[Luminous Animal]

38. I like seeing the ads. I like knowing, the good and the bad,

what kind of businesses financially support this board. It pisses me off when people donate a star for me because then I have to continually log in and and if I want to monitor the advertisement.

[Skinner]

51. Just so you know...

...virtually none of the advertisers on DU specifically chose to advertise on this website. They purchased advertising through a broker like Google (or ValueClick or Chitika), and that broker automatically distributes the ad to a bunch of websites based on some computer formula.

And we here on DU don't pre-screen any of the ads either. We just accept them automatically. We can block ads after they start running (if we are aware of them, which is rare).

In short: Nobody on either side of the transaction is deliberately supporting the other. It just happens more-or-less at random, with virtually no direct involvement from the advertiser or DU.

[Luminous Animal]

61. I know that. But even so, I did manage to get

a particularly ignorant & offensive ad removed from DU some time back.

[EarlG]

40. kick (nt)

[TexasObserver]

42. Recommend

[snot]

43. Just sayin'

just looked at the repliers in a thread I replied to recently, and the % of other repliers who'd donated was shockingly tiny.

[comtec]

53. some of us are just quiet about our donations

D'OH!
you found me out!

[chascarrillo]

44. You know what could make them go away? Not accepting them.

Radical idea, I know. But, if you're okay with your site looking like trash, well, it's your site.

[pipoman]

48. Uh, maybe if everyone who could, would contribute

to the tremendous cost of maintaining a hugh site like this there would be no meed for ads...'til all those able but not willing either quit wasting band width or pony up...

[pipoman]

52. Further

If you had come to this thread without the tude you would already have a star..I would have purchased one for you (actually likely someone else would have beat me to it), instead you come here looking a gift horse in the mouth, it is quite apparent you wouldn't appreciate it anyway..

[taterguy]

46. I'm mildly curious if anyone has been ballsy enough to unrec this thread

But also enough of a suck-up to give it a gratuitous kick

[liberal N proud]

47. That cool gold star is the most important benefit of donating

It lends some credibility.

Thanks to those who have donated and given me a star in the past.

[Vinca]

49. Will send a check tomorrow. I'm committed to not using my credit card.

[stlsaxman]

50. "For your convenience- we offer 'Monthly Auto-Pay' so you can rest in the knowledge that

you hard-earned money is going to support DU year-round and hassle free!"

[BumRushDaShow]

65. Help! I want to smack the living daylights outta Steele

and put up a couple stickies with a donation, but it's not registering. I do have a receipt.

[BumRushDaShow]

66. I'm fixed! THANK YOU!!!