123 Responses to Membership Drive

  1. 10 Cents10 Cents says:
    4 Mar 2017 at 11:19

    How can you give away free Memberships?

  2. 10 Cents10 Cents says:
    4 Mar 2017 at 11:21

    It is free but I hear you vet people coming in. Are your standards high?

  3. billybilly says:
    4 Mar 2017 at 11:22

    I’ll just email you my credit card number and let you do what you think is best.

  4. AvatarEThompson says:
    4 Mar 2017 at 11:27

    Dime, what are you saying exactly?

    Nobody has asked me to pay for membership, but I’m more than willing to do so. Just tell me how much and where to send.

  5. 10 Cents10 Cents says:
    4 Mar 2017 at 11:28

    Of course if you want to pay we will give you select Dreamium Podcasts.

  6. AvatarEThompson says:
    4 Mar 2017 at 11:33

    Cut out the snark; if you need members to pay, then just say so and give us the details.

    This is a business like any other; I get it.

    • 10 Cents10 Cents says:
      4 Mar 2017 at 11:37

      Liz, I am doing a parody.

      I am with you about supporting this financially if it needs it. I am new here so I don’t know what BDB pays. If there’s one thing I know about BDB it is that he has a sense of humor. I’ve been kidded by him and I have kidded him on the AMUs.

  7. PencilvaniaPencilvania says:
    4 Mar 2017 at 11:40

    There are three levels of membership: the Ball Level, the Diamond Level, and the Ball Level.

  8. PencilvaniaPencilvania says:
    4 Mar 2017 at 11:41

    Let’s just say it up front, you don’t get a free mug with any level.

  9. PencilvaniaPencilvania says:
    4 Mar 2017 at 11:47

    If this is a membership drive where are we driving to?

  10. PencilvaniaPencilvania says:
    4 Mar 2017 at 11:48

    Our first Member Cruise better the heck not be to Japan.

  11. PencilvaniaPencilvania says:
    4 Mar 2017 at 11:51

    I hope I get to sit at the table with Bill Crystal. He hosted the Oscars once I think.

  12. PencilvaniaPencilvania says:
    4 Mar 2017 at 12:15

    Speaking of potential new members, if anyone knows jeannebodine at the old site it looks like she will not renew there. I can’t read why, but her titles still show up on my notifications page.

  13. NandaNanda says:
    4 Mar 2017 at 16:04

    Who let Rod Serling in here? Just curious….

  14. AvatarXennady says:
    4 Mar 2017 at 16:47

    It’s not really a membership drive unless you keep a fail-o-meter at the top of the site for months, so everyone will know that you’re failing, and then you ban TKC for no reason.

    Otherwise, you’re just messing with us.

    • 10 Cents10 Cents says:
      4 Mar 2017 at 17:04

      Xey, can’t I just ban TKC and skip the fail-o-meter?

      For a limited time only we are giving TWO FREE MEMBERSHIPS for the price of one.

      • AvatarEThompson says:
        5 Mar 2017 at 05:03

        Sorry Dime; once again, you manage to compel me to act the humorless heavy (which is so not me!) but TKC was one of my favorite members of Rick O’Shea and one of the significant reasons I enjoy this site.

        • 10 Cents10 Cents says:
          5 Mar 2017 at 05:12

          Liz,
          Xennady brought this up. He was joking and I responded to his joke. He could have used any name.

        • DevereauxDevereaux says:
          5 Mar 2017 at 12:28

          So, ?may I have this dance, Liz. You seem in need of a tango or waltz to take that snarl off your face and replace it with a smile. Little exercise is good, too, and at my age, about the only exercise I can tolerate (other than driving cars fast). Music will do that.

        • AvatarXennady says:
          5 Mar 2017 at 17:37

          Sorry, that was perhaps too obscure.

          I was referring to the bad place, and their never-ending membership drive, which for a long time had a progress bar on the homepage, visible to everyone.

          We were frequently warned that the site was about to shut down, unless they reached 1500 new members- and yet there was it was, plainly showing that they weren’t reaching the critical number. Sometimes that number declined. Gosh, I’m sure that made people want to join up, knowing the place could vanish at anytime, but whatever. Eventually, someone figured this out, because they took it down just before I quit visiting.

          About TKC, I referenced him because that’s what they did to him, in my view. He was also a favorite of mine there- and here- and I think he helped keep a bunch of unhappy customers around with his commentary.

          Banning him was quite stupid, especially if you’re attempting to build a nice home for center-right commentary on the internet, as we were oft told. But if you want a place for the nevertrump fringe to preen, it makes perfect sense. You can’t have anyone harshing the mellow by noticing reality, so he had to go, I guess.

          • 10 Cents10 Cents says:
            5 Mar 2017 at 17:49

            Xey, I thought you hit the right notes for this thread. Those who know you know your respect for TKC. Thanks for getting the joke.

            I put up a donut chart in the OP just so My Membership Drive would get some respect.

          • AvatarXennady says:
            5 Mar 2017 at 20:51

            Dime, I just wanted to explain to EThompson what that was about, as she wasn’t around the bad place when the stuff I mentioned went down.

          • 10 Cents10 Cents says:
            5 Mar 2017 at 21:21

            Xey, good call. It is easy to forget that we don’t have all the same experiences.

            I was over there reading about someone leaving and was tempted to comment. What is the point if things never change. A wise person told me to not waste my time repeating what has been said over and over again. I am trying to follow that.

    • PencilvaniaPencilvania says:
      4 Mar 2017 at 21:45

      lol

      or, for Vald — llo

  15. AvatarXennady says:
    4 Mar 2017 at 17:21

    No. The fail-o-meter is mandatory.

  16. PencilvaniaPencilvania says:
    4 Mar 2017 at 21:49

    Yes but make the fail-o-meter a pie chart instead of a bar graph, ok? Pie is much tastier. Maybe some whipped cream on it.

  17. BrentB67BrentB67 says:
    5 Mar 2017 at 00:06

    What is it all the cool kids do? Kickstarter? GoFundMe or some such stuff.

    The challenge is that small donations don’t move the needle much.

    We are approaching a critical mass where we are too little to be big and too big to be little.

  18. BrentB67BrentB67 says:
    5 Mar 2017 at 00:07

    I’ve a meeting with LureStudios this week on a new economics/investing subscription project. They could be a lot of help, but that costs $

  19. BrentB67BrentB67 says:
    5 Mar 2017 at 00:08

    Feature Request: If we make the Member Icon’s much larger I will post a real photo of myself.

  20. NandaNanda says:
    5 Mar 2017 at 00:49

    Titheness, when people asked for more “original” content, this wasn’t it…Incidentally, your “Do not adjust…” opening is from “The Outer Limits”. “The Twilight Zone”: “You are now entering a dimension not merely of sight and sound, but of mind…You are now entering The Twilight Zone”. Get it straight, wouldja?

  21. 10 Cents10 Cents says:
    5 Mar 2017 at 05:02

    We just had Billy put up his first post. Let’s congratulate him.

  22. billybilly says:
    5 Mar 2017 at 05:09

    Please don’t call attention to it, Dime. Otherwise the PTB will just take it down.

  23. 10 Cents10 Cents says:
    5 Mar 2017 at 08:42

    Would someone make the graphic so I can have a cool “progress meter”?
    Bar chart or pie chart is okay. I think we have had about 10 New Members since I showed up. The count is around 80 so 20 more to get to 100.

  24. 10 Cents10 Cents says:
    5 Mar 2017 at 13:15

    I really think it is wrong for people to think that I would write comments to pad my comment count. How dare they.

  25. Mike LaRocheMike LaRoche says:
    5 Mar 2017 at 17:32

    Never fear, LaRoche is here.

  26. 10 Cents10 Cents says:
    5 Mar 2017 at 17:53

    For those too lazy to look at the OP again. I have given Pencil a donut.

    http://balldiamondball.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Fail-o-meter.jpg

  27. Whiskey SamWhiskey Sam says:
    6 Mar 2017 at 03:14

    All we need now are little banners proclaiming how much money we pissed down a hole, er, what level we signed up for, to display under our names for bragging rights.

  28. 10 Cents10 Cents says:
    6 Mar 2017 at 03:21

    How are people to know how superior I am with a badge under my name?

  29. AvatarXennady says:
    6 Mar 2017 at 04:10

    What’s with these symbol posts?

    ****

    I had to search my keyboard to find that thing. Are you guys hiding stuff from me? Is there a conspiracy??

    Why? What I have I done?

    • 10 Cents10 Cents says:
      6 Mar 2017 at 04:26

      Xey, you have not shown proper respect to the Minky. You better come up with some bananas or we are going to have to deal with a lot of ape poo being slung. (#100)

  30. AvatarEThompson says:
    7 Mar 2017 at 03:13

    BTW, speaking of people I’d adore to hear from again is my previous partner in crime… the only Rodgers fan this Brady fan could ever tolerate.

    You know who you are C*******e, so pls step forward and join the conversation. God knows MLR and I could use another sports fan who truly knows of what she speaks.

    Even if you don’t like hockey! :)

  31. 10 Cents10 Cents says:
    7 Mar 2017 at 08:36

    We are up to 83 Users. How often should I update the fail-o-meter?

  32. 10 Cents10 Cents says:
    7 Mar 2017 at 19:12

    Any bets on when we hit 3 digits and the BIG 100?

  33. 10 Cents10 Cents says:
    8 Mar 2017 at 11:44

    We are up to EIGHT FOUR users.

  34. PencilvaniaPencilvania says:
    8 Mar 2017 at 11:45

    The donut is working! The donut is working!

  35. 10 Cents10 Cents says:
    9 Mar 2017 at 09:39

    Up to 88 users.

    “Looks like I am going to need a bigger donut.”

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