Any member posting a public message, private message, or sending email to Susan or another staff member complaining about the monthly goal, or the two forum private messages we send out per month, will find their welcome here ended.
That includes messages like:
QuoteSusan,
Can you please explain what the monthly donation goals are for? I have a website myself and it only costs me $90 a year to maintain. The constant messages asking for donations is really baffling to me, and I'd like to understand it. Thank you.
When your web site has saved hundreds or thousands of lives; and/or is doing 300,000 unique visitors per month, and transferring over a terabyte of data per month, for $90 talk to me, but believe me it's not happening.
For the last time...
The monthly goal covers both the direct site expenses, equipment, and the costs of our one full time staff member, me.
I am getting roughly $1,600 per month or $400 per week with over 60-100 hours per week worked for myself. At minimum wage with overtime I should be making a minimum of $290 in regular wages and $217.50 in overtime, a total of over $500.00 per week or $2,000 per month. However with the type of highly skilled work I am doing wages generally run $25-$50 per hour ($2,000-$4,000 per week), not counting additional benefits (Health insurances, retirement, etc) which I don't receive either. The $400 per week is to meet my personal expenses; no more, no less; and I have not had a raise in my portion of the monthly goal since 2013.
An additional $400 per month pays the electricity, heating and air conditioning, Enterprise internet service, and part of the rent (The server equipment has it's own dedicated room)
500$ of the $2,500 monthly goal is in place to try to build an operational buffer, something we haven't had much luck with, so far... Ideally I would like to have 3-6 months of monthly expenses in the bank ($6,000-$12,000) for monthly goal shortfalls, and other emergencies.
This subject has been repeatedly discussed:
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,145185.0.htmlhttps://www.susans.org/forums/index.php?topic=187063.0https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php?topic=211188.10And this will be the last time.
No one is required to donate or subscribe. If you choose to do so, know that it is appreciated; I will also put the money to good use, either directly for the site, to cover my expenses.
With that all being said, eventually it would be nice to be able to get some of the money I have put into Susan's Place over the years (Estimated to be around $200,000 over 17 years in time, labor, lost wages, and cold hard cash up till the time the members began contributing to support the site.) back out, but don't worry I am not asking for it back any time soon...
The reason a ban is warranted is that at the bottom of every newsletter we tell you how to ensure that you no longer receive these notifications, and I am just tired of hearing about it.
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