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Shadowself
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(Date Posted:04/01/2006 11:16:15)

As I have no experience with operating web pages and running forums, I am ignorant of the costs of such an operation.  Can you toss me a ballpark figure as to the expenses incurred in keeping Walk Away afloat?  Just curious, as I've certainly noticed the invasion of advertisements sprinkled throughout the threads. 

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Shadowself
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(Date Posted:04/02/2006 14:41:19)

Especially the floating advertisements.  I really hate floaties.

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(Date Posted:04/02/2006 18:43:38)

The way it works is the forum owner (St. Thomas) pays for a given number of page views. Once this number is used up, the advertisements automatically start appearing. They disappear when we pay for more page views.

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Zombies, Unicorns, Devils, Sea Monsters, Satyrs, Dragons, Six Winged Angels, Gods, Demons, Witches, Astrologers, A walking & talking snake, Magical fruit, Talking donkeys, human headed six-winged beasts, Ghosts. All that stuff is in the Bible and yet they tell me it"s not mythology?

snakechic
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(Date Posted:04/03/2006 02:20:20)

Oh dear....those floaties are bad news!

I'd be willing to donate a bit but I don't think its worth it. The owner hasn't changed or moderised anything around here for years. I guess its up to him how he runs his own chatroom so there you go...

Volt does a great job moderating! but its silly that he doesn't have full control over the board *shrugs* He is the person who is here day in day out!

 ....YaY VOlts!......

(Drum too)......

 

 

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In exchange for obedience, Christianity promises salvation in an afterlife; but in order to elicit obedience through this promise, Christianity must convince people that they need salvation, that there is something to be saved from. Christianity has nothing to offer a happy person living in a natural, intelligible universe. If Christianity is to gain a motivational foothold, it must declare war on earthly pleasure and happiness, and this, historically, has been its precise course of action. In the eyes of Christianity, woman(man) is sinful and helpless in the face of God, and is potential fuel for the flames of hell. Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

-- George H Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God

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(Date Posted:02/13/2007 02:04:36)

Reply to : snakechic

Oh dear....those floaties are bad news!I'd be willing to donate a bit but I don't think its worth it. The owner hasn't changed or moderised anything around here for years. I guess its up to him how he runs his own chatroom so there you go...Volt does a great job moderating!but its silly that he doesn't have full control over the board *shrugs* He is the person who is here day in day out!....YaY VOlts!......(Drum too)......

Forgot that I'd written this kind of sentiment before!

Silly me doing it again now.......wasting my breath like this.

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In exchange for obedience, Christianity promises salvation in an afterlife; but in order to elicit obedience through this promise, Christianity must convince people that they need salvation, that there is something to be saved from. Christianity has nothing to offer a happy person living in a natural, intelligible universe. If Christianity is to gain a motivational foothold, it must declare war on earthly pleasure and happiness, and this, historically, has been its precise course of action. In the eyes of Christianity, woman(man) is sinful and helpless in the face of God, and is potential fuel for the flames of hell. Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

-- George H Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God

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Shadowself
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(Date Posted:02/13/2007 07:27:46)

What kind of changes should be made?

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snakechic
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(Date Posted:02/13/2007 08:03:23)

Reply to : Shadowself

What kind of changes should be made?

Isn't it obvious.....http://www.aimoo.com/forum/postview.cfm?id=319472&CategoryID=214905&ThreadID=925159&tolast=yes#bottom

and by the current action of the troll now calling himself "the persecuted'..... ...electrocuted would be nice.

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In exchange for obedience, Christianity promises salvation in an afterlife; but in order to elicit obedience through this promise, Christianity must convince people that they need salvation, that there is something to be saved from. Christianity has nothing to offer a happy person living in a natural, intelligible universe. If Christianity is to gain a motivational foothold, it must declare war on earthly pleasure and happiness, and this, historically, has been its precise course of action. In the eyes of Christianity, woman(man) is sinful and helpless in the face of God, and is potential fuel for the flames of hell. Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

-- George H Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God

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