Extend the fund drive?

[EarlG]

Last edited Wed Feb 14, 2024, 04:22 PM - Edit history (1)

Happy Valentine's Day DU!



This year's Hearts fund drive is scheduled to end tomorrow (February 15), but I've received a number of requests asking that we give people a few more days to give and receive hearts. That's fine with me -- it's a fundraiser after all! But at the same time, I don't want to annoy people if you think it's gone on long enough already.

Tomorrow is Thursday, so if we extend the fund drive we'd just go through the weekend and end on Sunday night.

What say you, DU? Move on as planned, tomorrow? Or keep hearts going through the weekend?

[mercuryblues]

1. Sounds good to me.

Happy Valentine's Day!

[tblue37]

2. Keep it going. It's fun.

[underpants]

3. Keep it going I say

[crazylikafox]

4. Through the weekend please!

[Glorfindel]

5. Keep it going, please.

I think it's great fun!

[tanyev]

6. On the 12th day of Valentine's my true love gave to me...

[piddyprints]

7. Keep it going!

A fund drive is wonderful when it allows us to give to each other. It strengthens our community while supporting the best site out there!

Now, how about some shamrocks or spring flowers, etc? Sort of a fund-drive-of-the-month?

[mvd]

8. Just keep it going

The posters like it and it has helped DU.

[Tree-Hugger]

9. Please extend it

This was my first year being able to afford a few hearts. I love it and want to be able to give out more when I get paid on Friday.

Have you thought about seasonal events like this? I bet many, if not most, DUers would be happy to participate.

[planetc]

10. Extend, extend!

Hearts enable you to express what it's not socially acceptable to say. These days, people give their friends "a hard time" to show their affection. Hearts enable you to throw a kiss at a stranger from behind a bush.

[ThoughtCriminal]

11. If Grovelbot begs me

sure.

[DU GrovelBot]

16. ### PRETTY PLEASE ###

[niyad]

50. hugggs for GB!

[multigraincracker]

12. Still have lots to give.

Keep her going.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. I Suggest You Let It Run Thru The Weekend (nt)

[herding cats]

14. Please, extend it. I still have hearts to give.

[ornotna]

15. Keep it going

Tomorrow’s payday.

[Hekate]

17. Extend!

[KarenS]

18. extend. nt

[japple]

19. Keep on going with it!

[Tumbulu]

20. I wish it was for the entire month! It is a really lovely tradition

It is a really lovely tradition which I thank you all for !

[Raine]

21. Extend, please. 🥰 nt

[Shipwack]

22. I have no problem with extending it, FWIW. nt

[godsentme]

23. Extend thru the weekend

Thanks. I have extra hearts to give away!❤

[Rocknation]

24. You mean you HAVEN'T been running them through the weekends?

Rocknation

[spanone]

25. YES

[rurallib]

26. Extending it sounds like a win-win to me

[democrank]

27. Keep it going

What the world needs now is love, sweet love.

Thanks for all you do.

[W_HAMILTON]

28. Yes, absolutely.

In fact, I was always disappointed in previous years how quickly it seemed to end. Maybe start to get in the habit of letting it run two weeks, say, one week leading up to Valentine's Day and one week after. Or something like that. But, yeah, longer is better.

[XanaDUer2]

29. Keep hearts nt

[rogerballard]

30. Extend...

Please

[Cha]

31. I say Yes.. Why not!!💕💝💘💙🌊🕊️🕯️🇺🇸

Dems are on a Roll!

[lostinhere]

32. Keep, please...

[Hope22]

33. Yes to extending!💗

[Ocelot II]

34. Yes, keep it going!

[radical noodle]

35. We are DU supporters

Keep the fund drive going. The hearts are always popular and fun.

[ificandream]

36. Keep it going ... and do this more than once a year ....

It really brings the community together.

[MiHale]

37. 3, 2, 1,.....GO!

[livetohike]

38. Keep it going please! n/t

[MustLoveBeagles]

39. Keep it going

[TygrBright]

40. Yes, please. Can it run through the weekend?

I'm quite busy at work this week and haven't had the chance to distribute even half of the hearts!

hopefully,
Bright

[3catwoman3]

41. Yes, please.

No naysayers so far.

[NJCher]

42. extend

eom

[intrepidity]

43. Yes, please! nt

[Think. Again.]

44. More time for hearts please!

(The timing was bad for me last week anyway!)

[niyad]

45. Please extend it! It will give me more time to give away my hearts.

[blm]

46. Yes.

[Pas-de-Calais]

47. Keep now and also in the future as well

[Chicagogrl1]

48. How @ a St Paddys Day Fundraiser ☘️☘️

[GoCubsGo]

54. And/or, an Easter fundraiser.

Instead of hearts, why not Easter eggs or chocolate bunnies?

[Bucky]

49. Thanks. I'm just getting paid today and can finally kick in. ☘️☘️☘️

I like the shamrock idea too.

it's a pot of gold caliber idea 🍯🌈

[crickets]

51. Yes! Please extend through the weekend. Hearts season is so much fun! 💙

[StarryNite]

52. Keep it going.

[FemDemERA]

53. Yes!

I still have a few and have been trying to find people who have none. By extending, hopefully there will be a few weekend DUers to give to

[blogslug]

55. I support more love

[gay texan]

56. Wheres the grovel bot? N/t

[Liberal In Texas]

57. Extend Please. I still have hearts to bestow.

[Marthe48]

58. Thank you for asking

Nice to extend it

[lpbk2713]

59. Thru the weekend please.

I still have about a dozen hearts left over.

[dmr]

60. Keep it going. I'll buy more to give out.

Thank you!
❤️ ❤️ 💙 💜 💖 💗 💘 ❤️ 💙 💜 💖 💗

[KatyaR]

61. I'm all for it!

I have hearts to give away but haven't had time to do so. That way they won't go to waste!

Thank you for everything you do for us.

[Ms. Toad]

62. I don't have any objections to extending it.

It's fun for most of us - and it will raise more money for DU.

I do have a tiny bit of reservation about it being a bit of a popularity contest (which at least some of us lost with the physical valentine's box growing up). But there are a lot of people intentionally giving hearts to those without many - and there are several in this thread with fewer hearts than average who are cheering extending it.

[mentalsolstice]

63. I have mixed feelings about extending it.

I support an extension if there was a sub-forum where everyone can share their thanks. GD and the Lounge are clogged with DUers putting out a thank you for every heart they receive. Honestly, I’m not trying to be cranky about this, I appreciate every heart I have received, but I don’t want to take up space in forums where others are trying to express something important, besides getting a heart, just to give a thank you. I know I can trash such threads, but in my heart it just doesn’t feel right.

[Skittles]

64. YES PLEASE

we like seeing the hearts longer

[Hermit-The-Prog]

65. Let it roll on.

People enjoy giving out hearts.

[Rhiannon12866]

66. Definitely through the weekend! We always hate to see it end... Plus, it will benefit DU!!!

[AnotherMother4Peace]

67. Keep it going at least through the weekend. Heck I would make Feb. Hearts Month for Heart Health & Valentine's Day.

That's what a lot of teachers do for thematic lessons in February.

AND it would help procrastinators like myself. Here's a REC & another heart 'cause I'm making the DU team our Valentine.