I missed the negativity in the tone when reading it as well. I personally didn't see the idea itself as too negative -- a list of stuff in the works. No promises, just "I think this is a good idea. Maybe some day." or "Never gonna happen."

While I have seen lots more prominence given to the Offering Plate recently, I wasn't aware of the gravity of the current situation, and I thank you for bringing it to my attention. Personally, I can't do much about it as I have literally $0 to my name. (And 0 €, for that matter.) Other than encourage others to support the site, which seems almost hypocritical when I can't.

Would there be a non-tacky way to put up a list of donors/"responsable members of the community", as a sort of incentive to have people support the site? I'm not talking about anything drastic involving the experience system, like $50/year => max level 5, $100/year => max level 6... Just a list of the monks who've donated, perhaps separated into levels of giving. Like the stuff the college alumni association always sends you, with the lists of all the people who want to show off how well-off they are or how much they love their alma mater. Maybe this would be too crass and materialistic for the monastery, though.

P.S. Click here to prove you're a real PerlMonk.

In reply to Re: Why did people vote for this? by mpolo
in thread Why did people vote for this? by tilly

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.