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dang. All the way to the top.

yes... if we had no power all of those things would be happening... rofl.

Wait a second....

This just happened.

It's the first bill at full price.

Exactly, I asked several times for additional transparency months ago, and got a decent amount of attention, but no response. I've donated myself several times, and as much as I don't want to see this place go, I feel at this point, seeing that nice big 6.6k a month number, that, unless I see actual progress towards financial stability. Money is tight, and I don't want to simply piss it away, seeing as that comes to nearly 10 bucks an hour to keep running. The ads, too, even if we filled up every day (and I can't remember the last time we had an ad buy), aren't nearly enough, seeing as for a full day of having your ad run, we get less than 3 hours of time.

Something needs to change. Either we need to get a sponsorship (which won't be all that appreciated by the voat community, though if we were able to get the attention of a free speech group like journalists without borders or the EFF, or a similar group, I imagine backlash would be minimal), or we need to dramatically reduce costs.

Even if we do cut costs, we still need a reliable source of funding. Much as I know many here hate the concept of price gating features, a "reddit gold" style of monetization might be highly effective. If, again, our costs at current capacity are $10 an hour, and it costs, lets say $3 to guild yourself or someone else, then we MIGHT be able to generate enough income.

As far as sponsorship shit goes, this is really the only thing I could find with an organization that aligns with Voat's beliefs in regards to free speech. https://rsf.org/en/supporting-media-outlets-and-ngos

We aren't a media outlet in and of ourselves, and this is CLEARLY more intended for those trying to publish accurate news in repressive countries, but its worth a shot. It seems likely that reporters without borders recognizes the need of free discourse on the internet, and the rate at which that discourse is disappearing.

Seems like ransom...A goat appeared on my desktop last week and said voat was now financially independent. Why then say its failing? Odd to me but hey, "you da boss".

I guess I just saw the previous cries for help. never saw any significant resolution to those cries, and assumed voat was still on the path to insolvency but perhaps at a slowed rate. admittedly a little warning about this before all the discounts and promos wore off may have been good.

Absolutely. I always loved the fact that r/The_Donald put in a lot of automods so we could give our fellow pedes coats to show appreciation instead of letting Reddit get our cash.

I've withheld giving Reddit gold for about two years now, as have all the new kids. We are ready to contribute to protect free speech. Please do your part to make it faster, easier, and fun. I've donated via credit card, but that was cumbersome. Awarding bitcoin on a post, maybe? And from I could see, there was a past issue with PayPal. Could you possibly resolve that? I'd say 'press the reset button', but I don't want to get suicided in the back of the head with a dumbbell.

A lot of the new TD members feel this way. We would love to donate, but a Gold analog would also go far.

Anything is possible rly... although I don’t really want to do business through Voat nor doxx myself by doing business with new Voaters outside of Voat.

Thx for the offer, I've been working on it with /u/hell since yesterday and pricing is started too.

I'll keep it in mind though.

Love the idea !

@Hell was gonna give it a go, whoever has the most free time go ahead & have fun.

As for the drawing (me no cad draw), it needs a frame & stencil like bars for the "o", basically a 2d dwg of a plate with cut out letters & hole for keyring (protruding in a lobe maybe or on corner ?).

I was thinking the goats head or whole goat maybe as a desk trinket, could be sweet.

A bigot ? I though we were Nazis...

Brain activating

"NiggerFaggot" keychains !

Now this is something to look into !

Heck, why not a modular design you can assemble/modify to fit your mood. The R&D could be... intensive ,)

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A life sized stainless steel VoatGoat ?

Sweet, couldn't wait for someone to finance that !

Sweet, I could do pricing within a few hours of getting that :)

Stainless Guitar? Gimme that!

Yes, that is a definite possibility !

Pretty sure I have all the materials on hand except for a few trinkets.

Why is the bitcoin link dead? I would donate bitcoin.

I would prefer to donate ether.

I asked him about that before, and he didn't seem like that was a viable option. Hope he can find a non-bitcoin option as I think it would generate a lot of funding. I'm more than wanting to donate, but I won't start bit-coining and don't want my info exposed. There has to be a way. Put on the thinking cap Putt.