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The only discussions about money here are when it is brought up by one of you (you are constantly worried about money money money, when you never donated a dime. You claim we only support those who donate. Please show me this special treatment? The list of donors is there. Most of them do not even post here, but they appreciate the other places we support our active members. The board is the beneficiary. It was a non user here who paid most of the money to keep this alive this year. Board users weren't enough. The regular usual suspects who donate each year (again, their names are all listed) are never the trouble makers or "S H I T" posters or trolls, they are almost always the friendly and helpful few. You are not restricted in any way. This complex you have worrying about donations is quite odd when none of it is your money. You are a taker, not a giver. What efforts have you made to be positive and useful here? I have given you one chance after another to be a positive, helpful, useful member. Mostly you just whine and complain on posts like this. Each time you DO post about something else, you are still right back here and elsewhere fighting with someone, or complaining.

Be a part of this positive change you claim you want. I would be happy to add boards, IF there is a need. The only reason we have 3 lyric boards is because people used to NEED them to keep stuff on page one. Because they are full of posts, I have left them but there isn't really a need for 3 anymore. We have readers and lurkers, but not many people posting. For another "AI" forum to be added, we would need posters and responders to make it useful. If you can find 10 people who state they need another AI board, I would be quite surprised. But give it a try. I just don't see the interest. And frankly 10 people is a really low bar. I just looked and the bottom post on page 1 of the AI board was made in March! That clearly proves there isn't a need yet. If traffic picks up, I am happy to add whatever.

As for the other boards, most users go directly to the board they frequent. That means they never even see the list of boards. We get internet traffic on every single board every single day. So there is no benefit to changing. In fact, because our content is so stable, we get way more traffic. I am not running ads, but I view this site as a collection of documents recapping this century. That is it's #1 value. If I added ad's. we likely could easily pay for the site, but I have taken the loss to keep it as clean as possible. I would love to add functionality, but I am not willing to invest more with zero avenue to recoup the investment. If those who DO use the site are unwilling to contribute, then I can't do more. I have put nearly 40 years into running a free organization with a free message board, thousands of free live events in 42 countries and over 1000 different cities and neighborhoods in the USA and Canada. I have done free to enter music awards which saw over a million songs submitted. I think I have put my actions, time and effort into this enough to expect some folks to chip in to pay for this message board. You say I only come here and do all this to ask for money. That accusation is so laughable and deranged it could only come from an idiot or a troll. Or perhaps both.

Brian