What's this new "site supporter" banner on avatars?

You missed my point. If I want to share something with people, I make it easy to share with them.

Well, I guess, but maybe not everyone is savvy enough or has enough time to do that? A click is pretty easy, but I'm conditioned to do that because I do most of my surfing on my phone.

I visit this board from a computer and it's just easier to scroll through a thread than click back and forth on tiny pics like these.

2peasrefugees.boards.net/thread/66523/little-fun-hair-today

annabella, I see what you're saying... clicking on the photos, then having to click the 'back' button to get back to reading the thread.

I have to admit, I don't really like the 'site supporter' badge either, since it does have a bit of a us/them connotation- TO ME. That's on me, I own it.

And my BF would hate it if someone gave him a RAK of a free breakfast-- he just doesn't like feeling like he 'owes' people, in general, at all, ever. Guess I don't much like it, either, since the site supporter badge kind of rubs me the wrong way. lol.

I really don't care how people post things.  If I'm on my computer, it's quick to click on a photo and then click the back button.  If I'm on my phone, I just pinch the screen to enlarge it.  Some people have trouble figuring out how to post photos.  I'm just happy to see the photos being shared.  It's ok if you just scroll on by.

Thanks to everyone who contributed and to Admin for setting up the Fotki account. I was all set to donate and by the time I made it back to the thread it was all paid up. I sent $5 to an animal shelter in Houston in place of my 2Peas donation.

I'm not the least bit miffed or upset about the banners, it was such a small amount of money it isn't surprising it was raised so quickly.

and that might be the case if more than 18 people had donated, but unless you are writing them all down as you cross them, are you really going to think about that going forward? I can't imagine that not being one of the 18 is going to get you judged. It sounds more like the 18 are going to be judged.

Unless we don't make it one. 

Thanks to admin, and thanks to the 18. Thanks to everyone who posts pictures in whatever way they know how. I was not on the boards when the call came out, so I will continue to participate in the board w/ my sarcasm, worthless info, and occasional recipe. Wear your site supporter badges with honor. Peace, Love, and Scrapbooking.

If I had just skipped over this post I never would have noticed the banner.  Sometimes things should just be left unsaid.

Unless we don't allow that to become an issue.  Even if the 18 were to lord it over us (which I doubt they will), we are thousands next to the 18. We, as a group, don't have to allow any "privilege" to come of being one of the 18.  

I'm one of the ones who offered money, but I was too late to make the first 18.  It's all ok.  I wanted to support this place if the Admin needed money.  But I have A LOT of other places to spend my money.  I'm ok with missing out on the banner.  And would like to offer a big thank you to those who stepped up so quickly to keep us running smoothly!

Best idea here. Everyone do it. Send it to UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief) or PDA (Presbyterian Disaster Assistance), my two favorite disaster relief organizations.

for god's sake, we have surpassed all previous pea ridiculousness with just about every fucking thing on this thread!

thank you admin, thank you contributors

Ah Peas. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

I'm tired so I'll keep this as brief as I can.

Whilst well-intentioned, there is bit of misinformation on this thread, so I'll try to clarify.
- The photo hosting that's just been paid for to replace Photobucket is where we (will) keep smilies, anniversary badges, badges from the old board, and any other images used across the whole site. They don't take up much space but as every page that's loaded tends to have many of them they use a lot of bandwidth.
- Signature images are either hosted somewhere by the individual user, and/or are the badges mentioned above, which anyone can use. There's no option to upload signatures here.
- Avatars are either hosted somewhere by the individual user, or uploaded directly to Proboards. There's no cost for the latter.
- Images in posts are again either hosted somewhere by the individual user, or uploaded to Proboards and added as an attachment to the post. We have limited but generous free space for attachments - when we run out old / irrelevant images will be deleted to make space for newer ones. Attachments are uploaded full size, the software only displays a thumbnail version in posts initially (most likely to save on bandwidth by only showing the full size to those who request it). To see the full size version you just need to click on it, and my preferred method is to open in a new tab.

As for the banner, I didn't see it as substantially any different than our posting ranks or anniversary badges - all visible ways in which we differentiate between ourselves. It was intended as simply a way to acknowledge that a few people did something nice for us all. More fool me.

Drama of some kind follows just about everything I do here - too many people with too many views for me to ever please everyone. I'm used to it. Whatever. But it seems to me pretty sucky to make people who by pure chance happened to be in a position to help feel at all bad for doing so.

Eh. I don't do brief.