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posted by on Sunday April 19 2020, @03:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the economics dept.

So, COVID-19 (coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, whatever you call it) sucks a bit for your health but it turns out it sucks a lot for the economy. So we're extending any subscriptions that were going to expire before then out to June first (this may be extended a time or two depending on how well our savings hold up). Yeah, we know we're an extremely small cap entity and that's not going to make a whole lot of difference but it's something we felt we should do anyway for a couple reasons.

First, we as a corporation do not have paid employees. The only people we give money to are our hosts, our registrar, our CPA, and the revenooers. Which we're going to have to continue doing regardless and which we can currently afford to do for a month or two without dire risk of having to make infrastructure cutbacks. Putting money into us during this nonsense doesn't help much in directly putting food on someone's table or keeping jobs from going poof, so we'd prefer you guys put anything you were going to send us to work where it will help at least a tiny bit in keeping the businesses that your neighbors work at afloat. Which is to say, spend it locally.

Second, we're quite fond of the folks who've chosen to financially support the site and we don't want them to get dinged because of something that wasn't remotely their fault.

Now we're not shutting down the site's subscription functionality. If you feel a desire to contribute anyway, we're happy to oblige and we're not going to tell you that you can't. We're not the bosses of your wallets and it would mean extra work for me when I don't really have time to do much of anything code/admin-wise.

Also, we're only doing this automatically for current and new subscribers; we don't want to hit people who weren't interested with an unsolicited email about subscription expiration when we have to shut the extensions down. They may have quit subscribing or even frequenting the site and it's annoying as all get out to keep getting emails from sites you stopped doing business with on purpose. We're happy to handle it manually, though, if your subscription ended any time since the first of the year. Just drop a comment to this journal entry (NOT to THIS story!) and I'll take care of it as often as I have time (at least once a day).

That's all. We now return you to your regularly scheduled mix of discussion, debate, yelling at each other, and trolling.

(Oh, and you can still submit stories, too! Hint hint! --martyb)

 
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  • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2020, @03:24AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2020, @03:24AM (#985336)

    Nobody takes you seriously since your fake name accounts that do replies by anonymous troll brigade treachery failed in trying to down mod one of the useful posts on corona virus here from APK you mentioned https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=37033&page=1&cid=981802#981802 [soylentnews.org] but lo and behold despite your gang up tactics and trolling from behind anonymous replies APK's post was still up modded and obviously useful, unlike your kind.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2020, @06:31AM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2020, @06:31AM (#985356)

    The parent comment is spam, posted by APK. Yes, it's APK, even if he didn't sign his comment. During APK's last round of spamming, you added a lameness filter to thwart spam like the parent comment. Have you guys considered putting that filter back in place for awhile as a temporary measure to curtail the new onslaught of APK spam?

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 21 2020, @02:01PM (3 children)

      We usually don't bother with even temporary spam filters unless they're hitting half the stories with them. They just take it as a challenge and it takes them longer to get bored with it.

      --
      My rights don't end where your fear begins.
      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2020, @11:09PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2020, @11:09PM (#985581)

        See subject: I'm so sick & tired of SoylentNews BULLIES just like the /. & ArSeHoleTechnica bullies. You SHITWEASELS have nothing better to do than HARASS, STALK & IMPERSONATE little ol' me. I've done absolutely NOTHING wrong & just try to make everyone's lives better w/ my work that stops ads & malware.

        * As soon as I post, I'm CENSORED to -1 w/ ABUSED spamdownmodpoints by FAKENAME bullies like The Mighty Buzzard, Runaway1956, Azuma Hazuki & Tom "Barbara" Hudson. I caught c6gunner mocking then IMPERSONATING me on /. when he forgot to log out. Zontar The Mindless mailed me a postcard w/ THREATS on it, then LIES & STALKS me. All because you JEALOUS JOWIE "ne'er-do-wells" KNOW I'm World-Class & you're shit. It's why you hide behind FAKE names & UNIDENTIFIABLE ANONYMOUS.

        I caught Tom "Barbara" Hudson IMPERSONATING me too. The OLD NOT-MAN soyboy weezil is JUDEN TRASH and knows nothing about computers so IT LIES about me instead. This is one sick in the head IDLE HANDS ARE THE DEVIL'S WORKSHOP abomination, no questions asked. You wish you were me & that's why you IMPERSONATE & ATTACK me.

        I'm even improving my already GREAT PHYSIQUE & SUPERIOR INTELLECT while you weezils & soyboys sit around all day on SoylentNews STALKING & HARASSING your BETTERS. I repeatedly dust the no-mind bullshit blatherings you BULLIES post to attack me. Like always I WIN & YOU LOSE. That's why you keep spamdownmod HIDING my posts & STALKING me w/ FAKENAME accounts. You CAN'T stop me any better than whipslash @ /. & he knows I could STOP HIS SERVER whenever I want. Martyb KNOWS he CAN'T DO BETTER than I w/ APK Hosts File Engine instead of some TOY website based on someone else's ABANDONED & BROKEN code from another site FULL of "ne'er-do-well" fakename forum focks.

        Now I have the PILL-PUSHING SELF-PROCLAIMED "SiDeWaLk-ShRiNk of SOYLENTNEWS" LIBELING me & saying I'm MENTALLY ILL. ALL of you SHITWEASELS are mentally ill & can't stop BULLYING me because you WISH YOU WERE ME. PROVE you've done better than I. You can't & you know it so BULLYING & LIBELING is all YOUR KIND has left.

        APK

        P.S.=> This BULLYING of me is SO UNFAIR & I've done nothing to deserve it from you people. I'm tired of CASTING PEARLS before SWINE with my work that you CAN'T do better than. GROW UP... apk

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2020, @11:47PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2020, @11:47PM (#985593)

          LmAo: Impersonating me doing what I'd never do (which is "play victim" when the truth is you made YOURSELVES my victims being STUPID ENOUGH to try "take me on" only to go "SPLAT" after I knocked you all flat via facts vs. your errors - classic case? Barbara Hudson https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=33430&page=1&cid=889582#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] as just 1 single example thereof as proof, no questions asked & undeniable, concrete, & factually verifiable on all grounds of how I TOTALLY SPLATTERED that fucking tranny weirdo).

          * I do like what you PROJECTED though about my type of person vs. "your kind" (SLIMY little SLINKING worms that play BITCH games like IMPERSONATING me).

          APK

          P.S.=> What a pack of SERIOUS BOZOS lurk around this shithole - glad I'm NOT one of you, that's certain... apk

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2020, @12:36AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2020, @12:36AM (#985613)

            Then stop being a crybaby and whining about "impersonation" when you already have a way to prevent it. You have an account [soylentnews.org] already. Logging in would prevent any impersonation. Instead, you choose to post AC and whine when people are supposedly impersonating you. Stop pretending to be a victim.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2020, @04:33PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2020, @04:33PM (#985474)

      Does your bs matter when what you replied to is fact apk overcame your downmod bombings by others up modding him. You jews are scared of facts you yourselves supply out of your satanic talmud also I notice https://soylentnews.org/meta/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=37148&page=1&cid=985345#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] and that only proves when jews are against the wall (or in the gas chamber) they lie or hide facts and truth. Censorbeams on maximum. Don't wonder why you've been booted out of 109 nations for thieving, lying, killing and being satan's little minions. Azuma Hazuki went wild on apk libeling him https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=37033&page=1&cid=985463#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] and he and others destroyed her bs instantly. Now the second jews horrid beliefs were put out here and in other threads jews here went nuts (how odd - sarcasm) hiding facts they put out in their talmud. Azuma Hazuki is simply tipping the fact she's probably a NYC jew that doesn't like facts about them put out that they supplied themselves in stupid arrogance that gets them killed or banned from countries. I love how they delusionally think they are superior in their mass megalomania too. If they are so superior why then do they shave off those snouts of theirs by rhinoplasty trying to be the goyim cattle they put down then? Answer that.

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 22 2020, @01:31AM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday April 22 2020, @01:31AM (#985634) Journal

        Uh...have you seen, like, *any* of my posts about religion? I am a rabid anti-fan of the entire Abrahamic corpus and not shy about stating that this includes Judaism. Christianity and Islam do more damage in the modern world, but Judaism is where it started. They all have the same demented psychopathic God-concept, and holy hell does it show.

        I've had a few run-ins with the Hassidim from when I still lived in NYC, and as you can imagine, got plenty of hostile stares. They creep me the hell out honestly. Of course, I also had runins with the subway preachers :) Remember in 2011 when the world was supposed to end (again)? I asked one of them the day before the supposed event for his wallet, saying that if he really believed what he was selling he wouldn't need it. Needless to say he didn't give it to me, LOL.

        --
        I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...