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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 05:31 PM
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I just figured out a great way for DU to raise cash
Edited on Wed Aug-24-05 05:33 PM by DS1
Charge DU'ers 50 cents for every deleted message they want to restore. It doesn't mean the Deleted Message is restored, it just means that those that coughed up the half dolla can see it.

Like the Hide Thread function, but backwards, and for individual posts.

CHa-Ching!

Come on, you know you'd cough up a couple bucks to see the roots of some of the bigger Christmas tress of "Deleted Message"
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 05:33 PM
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1. As long as we get to choose our own deleted messages to restore.
:thumbsup:
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 05:33 PM
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3. Yep! I edited for clarity
It appeals to the voyeuristic nature I believe is in everyone, on one level or another.
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 05:35 PM
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5. Yeah well, ok, I'd pay for that too... but not as much as I would pay
to restore my own messages for everyone to see. x(
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 05:36 PM
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7. That's a dollar even
:rofl:
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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 05:33 PM
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2. That is a rocking idea.
What I would pay to see some of those deleted responses to my posts...
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 05:34 PM
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4. Then nominate the thread
}(
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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:56 PM
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16. dun. nt
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 05:35 PM
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6. nominated
but why buy the cow when you can get the miLk and private messages informing you what you missed, for free?
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 05:36 PM
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8. Why do you hate DU?
:grr:
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 05:37 PM
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9. it's my french roots
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 05:44 PM
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12. your roots are showing
but i still love you
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 05:48 PM
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13. damn it!
you make me bLush. :blush:

mwah!!

and i Love you of course. :loveya:
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 05:58 PM
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15. i love making you blush.
someone made me blush last night!
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 05:42 PM
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10. I'll sign on
Every time I see Deleted Message or get the annoying "thread no longer exists" message... I become powerful curious. Could it really be that bad? So bad I need Daddy Skinner to protect me from it?

Like all forbidden things.... it holds powerful sway over my imagination.

Khash.
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 05:43 PM
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11. you mean when I click into a thread and find a load of deleted I can find
out what all the fracas was about?
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 05:48 PM
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14. yep, for 50 cents a post
it could get pricey, I suppose every 5th one could be free, I dunno, I'm not an admin, I'm just the guy handing them a FREAKIN GOLDMINE !!!
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philosophie_en_rose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:57 PM
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17. I though you were going to say Naked Calendar.
But your idea is better. :)
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 07:12 PM
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18. why do you want to make me poor?
oh wait. you aren't gonna CHARGE ME for posts that GET deleted?

ok. cool. *whew* :P
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 07:17 PM
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19. think bigger - make it a subscription service
$100 a month gets you total access to every deleted message, AND you get to lurk (but not post) in the mod forum. And since regular donors already have stars, these people could have little Gladys Kravitz icons next to their names...

;-)

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GCP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 07:19 PM
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20. What a great idea!
What a smart guy you are!
I'd love to be able to read some of those threads, I'm always too late for all the fun, but one question:
At 50 cents a time, how would the payment go, would we have to have a "bank" in place that we could draw from, as credit cards would be a little reluctant to take on 50 cent charges!
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 08:41 AM
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22. It could work like a pre-paid credit card
drop 10 dollars in the pot, and you've got access to 20 deleted messages. It would be like gambling, addictive as hell!
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 07:35 PM
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21. GENIUS.....
:hi:
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Trigger Hippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 09:25 AM
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23. I'd pay to see those deleted messages.
I hate when I miss a good fracas. :(
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 09:27 AM
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24. Skinner could retire tomorrow just on YOUR deleted messages
DS1
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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 09:37 AM
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25. That's for sure
I always kick myself when I leave my computer to eat, sleep, accomplish some other unmentionable bodily function, walk the dog for her bodily function part of the day, go to doctor's appointments or work in the yard, only to come back to DU to find that DS1 has been having at some asshat, and it's all 'Message Deleted, Name Removed,' except for the odd post with no personal attack in it that lets you KNOW it was DS1. x(
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 09:37 AM
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26. Yeah, retire to a cardboard box!
I haven't had a deleted message in weeks!

STOOOPID! :hide:
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-05 09:41 AM
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27. Ha. Just for that, I am going to delete that one.
:hi:
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