DU has "Grovelbot," FreeRepublic has...sit down, kids..."GRAMMIE."

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1378673/posts

Attention All New Posters on Free Republic...and others..you know who you are.
Grammie ^ | April 6, 2005 | Brad's Gramma


Posted on 04/06/2005 1:17:48 PM PDT by Brad's Gramma


OK Boys and Girls! You've now become Freepers. You're feeling a part of the family, which you ARE! But as with everything in life....nothing is free.

So! Do you see that bar at the top of each and every thread? That's a gentle kick in the rear to donate to FR to keep the lights on.

There's ALSO a bunch of you who've been here for years and haven't donated. Do you know that there's over 200,000 Freepers now? Do you know that you can become a monthly donor and PAINLESSLY donate? Do you know that $5.00 a month by a large number of us will STOP these stupid Freepathons?

You NEVER worry about a thing. It's automatically withdrawn from your credit card, checking account..however you want it set up.

So? Get off your duffs...don't be a FReeloader anymore. It'll make you fell AWFUL good about yourself.

*Disclaimer* To those of you who flat out can't even afford that $5 a month....this message is NOT for you! :) We'd sure appreciate it if you'd just come on over and bump the thread.

Go FORTH! Donate NOW!

Or come on over HERE! and bump the thread!

Consider yourselves nagged.

[SmileyBoy]

1. Man, how pathetic...

That post looks almost like begging. Grovelbot never begs.

[ewagner]

2. Hehehehehe

FRloaders........

freeloaders on society.....

[ET Awful]

3. I wonder how much profit RimJob suckers them out of every year

and I wonder if he declares the income.

[terrya]

4. Do the "Grammy" people know about this?

It's lawsuit time! :-)

[Fenris]

5. Robots beat old people.

http://www.robotcombat.com/video_oldglory_hi.html

[crispini]

6. They have 200,000 members?

They're raising $66,000 this fund drive?

And their site still looks like shite?

Man, that guy RimJob is TOTALLY ripping them off.

[Fenris]

7. Their budget is something like 2X the size of DU's.

Where is that money going?

[Zuni]

9. yup. He collects a fortune from them

their site hasn't been updated in years. When I see how every couple of months skinner and EarlG and those guys add new features, I wonder how FR stays afloat

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

13. Doesn't his son do the Web Site?

I seem to remember his son did the Swift Boat Motherf**kers Web Site as well. If that's the case, his overhead for running FreeRepublic is "0" and all of that money is going straight into his pocket. Servers are much cheaper these days, too...I'm sure he's not paying to have the site hosted.

[DS1]

8. Right, there are 200,000 freepers just as there are 60,000+ DUers

:eyes:

[Anarcho-Socialist]

10. The website's interface is, well... pretty 1992

Rimjob is getting these people to buy him a new yacht.

[Zuni]

11. Jim Rob needs a new pair of shoes. Cough up some money

He hasn't provided 1/10 of the value that Skinner provides with DU. DU constantly updates and adds new features.
FreeRepublic still has an ultra low budget format, 1997 technology and what not.

[lpbk2713]

12. They ought to take some of that money and invest in new software.

So that their website doesn't look like a grade school HTML class project. That is honestly the most pathetic excuse for a forum website I have ever seen. Nothing else comes close to being that crude.

[Zuni]

14. Jim Rob has a gambling problem

he spends the FR money at roulette wheels on Indian reservations near Fresno

[underpants]

15. How does that fit into Project :Vatican

:bounce:

Seriously?

[Zuni]

19. Guess who actually runs the Indian Casinos.

Michael Jackson. A close comrade of Cardinal Law. O8)

:patriot:

[redqueen]

16. This makes me fell happy.

Idjits. :eyes:

[Gemini Cat]

17. What a scam.

Fools and money and all that.

[Bouncy Ball]

18. I'd be saying "I'll donate when you can update the format

of this website and provide some better (more user-friendly) features."

And yeah, right on the 200,000 freepers. If that were true, and even 1% of them (2,000 members)donated five bucks a month, that would be $10,000 bucks a MONTH. Which would be about $9,000 more than what they'd need to run that crappy eyesore.

They are getting used like $2 whores over there. No wonder they spend more time lurking here. Can't say I blame 'em.

[northzax]

20. see, what you all don't understand

is that Freeperville has to be a low bandwidth site. You simple can't get dsl or cable in the one-room wood stove shotgun shacks yet.