Hello new goats & old - I am writing this as I know that the site owner is too proud to ebeg, well I am not.
Voat's BTC account 3NZvuAk3Csf1UP1KCmzN9dhiXTwvhTgr9k is empty totally empty not a cent in there.
You probably think that this website is kept alive with advertising, but I am afraid we have been cut off from all payment processors. As a result the store has been shut as it cannot accept cards & the advertisements on the side bar have remain unchanged for several years and are largely there for comedic value at this point.
As you can imagine hosting a website with tens of thousands of active users is costly, we managed to reduce the overheads earlier this year when some dedicated goats with more skill than I rewrote the code and moved the site to better hosting, but the costs are still there and we cannot allow the site owner to take the brunt of this.
The cabal have been after Voat for a very long time, many times we have barely hung on by a thread & now we need your help. Please help keep your new home alive as it wont survive without all of our assistance.
Godspeed - @lostandfound
view the rest of the comments →
14033921? ago
If this operator/staff/community needs coins and this is a legit mention of the fact, many of us will donate, sure. I don't know how to use crypto-currency so let me satisfy myself the need is real, the mechanism is real and then learn how to contribute...
Q or some supporter with abilities might oughta set up something we can all easily throw monies into, a tip jar or account. In fact, one of the wealthy persons of interest in all this might establish something to make sure it rolls along smoothly, Don Jr. or someone who can write the check painlessly.
We are the citizens, the honest taxpayers who DO pay all the bills, we pay the freight for every program and giveaway our double-damned government runs, every dime that gets paid gets paid because WE honest taxpayers do pay our bills. We even pay so that monies can be freely given away to our enemies, such is our willingness to pay our fair share. Thanks for mentioning it, check will be in the mail.
I don't really wanna use crypto, would that not be contributing to black market, semi-illegal conspiracies...? I DO hope someone with skilz figures out a way for us to donate safely.
WWG1WGA
14034000? ago
Thanks for your reply, he did when you first joined - https://voat.co/v/whatever/2715711
But there's certain legal complications at the moment with actively going out and asking for money, so I am going to take one for the team here and give ebegging a go :o
Not sure of a physical address to even send anything to if we had a cheque
14102301? ago
Legal complications? No way http://www.newscastnow.com/voat-sold-to-reddit/
14034328? ago
Well, as it happens a guy we use for our IT needs claims he trades in bitcoin, I'll ask him to send something and then pay him cash, he may well be in here somewhere anyhow.
I saw where someone was discussing how they didn't want to ask for cash, and it was mentioned that 'monies would come'. I thought that might have been a cryptic suggestion that finances were arranged, donor or what-have-you.
We'll gladly tithe, most of us, as soon as we know how. Don Jr. can open a bank account...something! Heck open a James Wood Fights Censorship account, give him the publicity and VOAT money for servers. Something can be done, this is America, money isn't supposed to be a problem. The IT friend I mentioned told me once that banks are starting to accept bitcoin, if that is true they have to allow 'us' to set up an account, we can pay them and they put it right in there.
WWG1WGA
14034531? ago
I hope you are right, IMO /v/QRV cannot ask for donations for two reasons a. neonrevolt mess b. if this is MI then there's a few complications with them asking for money in general. I think that putt cannot ask for donations as so long as this is not a profit making enterprise he gets some leeway in terms of the legality of whats going on here.
I could be totally wrong I just don't want to see one of the last bastions of free speech on the web sent to the old goat farm on the hill.