Thank you for helping NT donate $7,000 to the HSUS' End Dogfighting Campaign!

Re: Thank you for helping NT donate $7,000 to the HSUS' End Dogfighting Campaign!

feeds@yuku.com (kash55) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:30:58 PST

Nice...one of the reasons why I love NikeTalk

Re: Thank you for helping NT donate $7,000 to the HSUS' End Dogfighting Campaign!

feeds@yuku.com (MaZA4eVeR14) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:18:22 PST

Nice, as a responsible American Pit Bull Terrier owner, I applaud your choice to donate to, not to take away from the other places NT has donated to.

Re: Thank you for helping NT donate $7,000 to the HSUS' End Dogfighting Campaign!

feeds@yuku.com (Joe Cool23) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:12:17 PST

iteration after iteration of ugly and underwhelming signature sneakers,

Some of them were decent.

Re: Thank you for helping NT donate $7,000 to the HSUS' End Dogfighting Campaign!

feeds@yuku.com (Method Man) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:16:37 PST

Methodman, why not bring back the old voluntary donation chest? It did generate a few thousand and that was before the charitable giving began.

The old community chest you're referring to generated about $2,000 per year at peak. It wasn't even enough to cover basic hosting costs, which is why the ads had to be implemented to begin with.

If users are interested in making direct donations, I'd greatly prefer that they learn about the charities we've selected via these announcement posts and offer donations themselves. Someone just contacted me recently to ask how they could donate to the HSUS End Dogfighting campaign, and rather than saying "well, you could buy a t-shirt and we'll donate the proceeds to charity," it's far more efficient to simply direct them to the donation page at the HSUS website. They even have a donation page specific to the End Dogfighting...

Re: Thank you for helping NT donate $7,000 to the HSUS' End Dogfighting Campaign!

feeds@yuku.com (Rexanglorum) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:13:31 PST

Methodman, why not bring back the old voluntary donation chest? It did generate a few thousand and that was before the charitable giving began. With more people and the understanding that donated money would go to various charities, we could hopefully expect a similar yield. I know that technically the money first has to go to running the site but since cash is fungible, every donated dollar is as good as donating to charity. Furthermore, with so many questionable and fraudulent charities out their, NT could essentially and in a costless manner (since the research and selections selections are already being made anyway, the marginal cost of directing an extra dollar is basically zero) become both the agent of aggregation and the escrow agent for those who want to contribute but who feel that their donation is too trivial (even in a recession many want to give even if the individual amounts are unimpressive and are too embarrassed to give anything in that case) and/or their knowledge...

Re: Thank you for helping NT donate $7,000 to the HSUS' End Dogfighting Campaign!

feeds@yuku.com (OGMIKEY) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:26:27 PST

An informative wall of text indeed. Thats a very interesting dilemma the community is faced with.

Re: Thank you for helping NT donate $7,000 to the HSUS' End Dogfighting Campaign!

feeds@yuku.com (Method Man) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:22:25 PST

I know that revenue is collected through ads, and I have never had a problem with the ads until recently. Through NT's ads, my computer got infected with some very annoying malware, and I resorted to using an ad blocker. I don't know if the problems with ads has been addressed yet, but I've seen recent complaints in the General forum. I want to get back to helping NT donate to charity, but I can't take off the adblocker until I'm 100 percent sure that this problem has been addressed. I'm sure you all have done all you can to address this issue, but I'm sure others have resorted to using adblockers as well, and I think if we can regain confidence in the ads, we will be able to increase revenue. I would say PM me your response, but I'm sure that there are many others who feel the same way I do, and they need to read the response as well.

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Re: Thank you for helping NT donate $7,000 to the HSUS' End Dogfighting Campaign!

feeds@yuku.com (kyrac2) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:47:58 PST

edit: thanks for the response meth

Re: Thank you for helping NT donate $7,000 to the HSUS' End Dogfighting Campaign!

feeds@yuku.com (Lrrr) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:21:50 PST

Is it safe to turn off my no-script yet? I really don't need a virus on this PC

Re: Thank you for helping NT donate $7,000 to the HSUS' End Dogfighting Campaign!

feeds@yuku.com (I AM KNOWLEDGE) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:59:59 PST

Meth, I appreciate this donation good sir. I know we've donated to a vast amount of charities, but this one caught me by surprise.

I know that revenue is collected through ads, and I have never had a problem with the ads until recently. Through NT's ads, my computer got infected with some very annoying malware, and I resorted to using an ad blocker. I don't know if the problems with ads has been addressed yet, but I've seen recent complaints in the General forum. I want to get back to helping NT donate to charity, but I can't take off the adblocker until I'm 100 percent sure that this problem has been addressed. I'm sure you all have done all you can to address this issue, but I'm sure others have resorted to using adblockers as well, and I think if we can regain confidence in the ads, we will be able to increase revenue. I would say PM me your response, but I'm sure that there are many others who feel the same way I do, and they need to...

Re: Thank you for helping NT donate $7,000 to the HSUS' End Dogfighting Campaign!

feeds@yuku.com (JoseBronx) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:44:58 PST

NT

Ive seen what happens to those dogs in NYC

Re: Thank you for helping NT donate $7,000 to the HSUS' End Dogfighting Campaign!

feeds@yuku.com (kevmook) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:37:17 PST

dog fighting is so cruel; this is very moving!

Re: Thank you for helping NT donate $7,000 to the HSUS' End Dogfighting Campaign!

feeds@yuku.com (CertifiedSW) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:02:56 PST

Good job NT

Re: Thank you for helping NT donate $7,000 to the HSUS' End Dogfighting Campaign!

feeds@yuku.com (SURE LOCK 510) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:52:31 PST

we do work

Re: Thank you for helping NT donate $7,000 to the HSUS' End Dogfighting Campaign!

feeds@yuku.com (That Guy) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:07:43 PST

Nice! Way to go NT.

Re: Thank you for helping NT donate $7,000 to the HSUS' End Dogfighting Campaign!

feeds@yuku.com (Mister916) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:33:53 PST

Sweet.

Re: Thank you for helping NT donate $7,000 to the HSUS' End Dogfighting Campaign!

feeds@yuku.com (18th letter) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:00:50 PST

^ad revenue

Re: Thank you for helping NT donate $7,000 to the HSUS' End Dogfighting Campaign!

feeds@yuku.com (TeflanDon) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:59:14 PST

How do you collect funds to donate? From NTers?

Re: Thank you for helping NT donate $7,000 to the HSUS' End Dogfighting Campaign!

feeds@yuku.com (Method Man) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:51:20 PST

Since someone always asks, here's a list of our previous donations:

Thank you for helping NikeTalk donate $19,000 to build a library in Nepal!
Thanks for helping NikeTalk donate $10,000 to the WWF to join the Amur Leopard Conservation Society!...
Thank you for helping NikeTalk donate $4,056 to Habitat for Humanity!
Thank you for helping Free The Children build a school in Kenya! ($17,204)
40,000 Americans engage in dogfighting. It would be convenient to brand these 40,000+ people as monsters for inflicting such unspeakable cruelty on other living, feeling, caring creatures - yet doing so only ignores the root cause. Caring about our fellow species doesn't require us to be unfeeling toward the plight of our fellow human beings. Compassion is not a limited resource.

Considering the number of Michael Vick fans who've frequented the site over the years, some of whom continued to stand by him even after his arrest and iteration after iteration of ugly and underwhelming signature sneakers, we...