Another in a long line of gratuitous BUMPS. :p :lol:

Oh, an IDEA: Make a small donation and make a small funny post and you too can earn the privilege to make a GRATUITOUS BUMP. ;) :lol:

( Funny posts, but keep it clean, keep it nice, but try to find an original pretext to bump this back up ! HELP: I'm running out of ideas. ;) :D )

And another small donation !

Yia-hoo !

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Thank you to all those who have donated during this impromptu donation drive. It really helps. You've no idea how much...

Anyway, I'm quite busy these days so I often only have a few minutes for anything lately, but I wanted to quickly say that any person involved in this donation drive who's donated $10 or more will be automatically entered into a contest.

This means that any new donations coming in will put you into the contest. Any donors who have already donated in this donation drive are already entered.

The prizes will be books and another surprise or two. If the donation drive goal is reached, I'll even throw something really good into the mix. The current donation drive results can be seen at the bottom of the forum index.

I'll announce details in the next few weeks as I find the time.

There are currently only 25 donors. I'd love to see this number reach 100. Thanks to everybody who's already participated.

Nathan,
That is very generous of you! Thank you. Now, if that's not enough added incentive to give, I don't know what is. Let's keep the momentum going!

Jonathan

Haha:
1. Nathan puts in huge work-hours on the site which we get for free
2. Jonathan Hopkins starts an early donation drive to give people a chance to pay back some tiny portion
3. Nathan gives us more free stuff
Awesome.
-GLL

Nathan: Let us know how the cat is doing. :\

I'm not a cat person, as far as owning one, but I seem to get along well with the cats of friend. ( Even cats that usually don't warm up to strangers ).

Well, the contest is a great idea and appreciated. As far as guilt is concerned you really shouldn't be embarrassed by donations considering all that we members get out of the site which included friendships as well as information.

Well, I donated $10 to get us to the halfway point. ;) :cool: And paying for the RIGHT to make another BUMP. ( So this one can't be called a gratuitous bump ).

And thanks to all those who have donated so far. :cool:

I gues that upgrading your membership also will help on the cash situation.
Not to mention all the nice features that are open to paying members of this site.

Good things dont come free

chers
Klaus

Just noticed after a few days of no activity that some new donations have just come in and that the amount is now over the midway mark.

So, here is the usual bump just to keep the topic disappearing to page 2 in the posts chronology and thanks again.

Remember that small donation are O.K. don't avoid making a contribution just because you think $5 is too small an amount. ;)

I don't know if there is a minimum amount that is practical as a Paypall contribution where some minimum handling charge would cancel out the donation ? But even $1 would be an O.K. donation if large numbers of people would do it.

Obviously if someone really rich or just won a large lottery prize want to go the other way with a ridiculously large contribution I'm sure that Nathan would deal with the " guilt " and accept the gift graciously. ;) :lol:

Thanks goes out to those who have contributed.

Words only go so far. I put up a new contest to really show my gratitude:

http://www.myArmoury.com/talk/viewtopic/10815.html

Wow, nice! I was going to donate purely because I wanted to post a silly picture in this thread, per Jean's request. :) I'm not even kidding about that! I just moved, and I want to make sure everything is settled first, which should be soon.

Well I have to admit that the contest did get me to get off my butt and go ahead and donate.. I had been meaning to for the last week or so... thanks Nathan

My initial donation was due to the desire to see this sight continue. The work Nathan and others (lots of you!) have done here is a treasure to me. That being said, I think the contest is a good idea, and I may very well contribute again out of sheer greed :)