Yes, I have donated to IMPA - I speak my mind but I also back up my mouth
I also carried a sig for IMPA for months over at GFY until WillyB died and still do carry a sig for IMPA at Netpond.
Brandon I'm not trying to cast doubt on your efforts, hell I applaud your efforts.
What I'm saying is - your approach is wrong. The people you are targeting are the wrong people.
Yes, keep getting the word out, but quit trying to shame beer money affiliate webmasters into forking over any cash. It's not gonna happen. You need to be contacting the small to medium-sized paysite owners and program owners and getting *them* to make pledges. IN PRIVATE, not out on the boards where Acacia will see them pledging money to you or IMPA and thereby making themselves targets.
Your efforts are putting the very people you're trying to save at risk! Can't you see that?
On this board alone you've brought attention to Trev, MikeAI, Nick, Vick, Colin and JR... god you even put their names into the subject of a thread and challenged them to pledge to you out in the open for all of Acacia's goons to see. Do you think they're not watching this board? They are - they're watching all of the boards.
You need to re-evaluate your method of operation here and on ALL of the boards. You need to take your pledge drive to private email and save the boards for informing folks as to what's going on and giving them an addy where they can pledge without having their name displayed publically. Quit trying to get all of those beer money webmasters to give a shit... this is 2003, not 1997. It's not gonna happen.
Whenever someone asks you a question it would also behoove you not to take on the GW Bush attitude of "if you're not with me, you're against me" and/or play the martyr. Just answer the question, already. People are asking because they WANT to know. That shows an interest in what you're saying and what you're doing, but they want more information - yet you act as if they're putting you on the spot and trying to put you down.
Just... arrrghhh.
