New Server Drive - donation and prize thread (Final total: $13,310!)

[Poster Bard]

He's on vacation on the left coast right now, so I would say don't expect anything this week.

Is he going to Gencon straight from there or will he be stopping at home in between?

 

[BSF]

Letting this stuff hang for almost a year is really not cool for anyone involved, especially those people who donated books and are still waiting to send them out. I think Sean Reynolds has had to move at least once and had to haul them to the new place.

I think Alsih2o had a bunch of stuff he was going to send out as well. Wasn't he organizing the mailing for the donations? He just moved across states as well.

 

[thalmin]

He's on vacation on the left coast right now, so I would say don't expect anything this week.

I no longer expect anything. Period.

 

[Wystan]

Whats sad is that I was considering buying Spycraft 2.0 from the EN Store and decided not too, and went with Amazon instead, because of the memory of items not followed up on.

 

[Cheiromancer]

Every time I see this thread I feel disrespected by Piratecat. Is "disrespected" even a word? Ignored, devalued, taken for granted, neglected.... I don't believe he has any malice towards us, of course, but benign indifference isn't a whole lot better than malice.

Maybe I should stop browsing the threads in General.

 

[reveal]

I've asked any mod to step in and try to tell us what's going on. Here's hoping it works.

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=142536

 

[Morrus]

Notice on the front page says they're running a fund-raiser for the ENnies.

Not quite the same - no donations are being asked for. It's just selling product. "Fund-raising" is possible a bad term to use there.

Anyway, I've posted in the Meta thread that was linked to by reveal, but I'll quote my post here for those who don't read that forum:

We're aware of it -- and I've pinged PC in the staff forum. I'm sorry I can't be any more help than that - I've no control or input in it all. Right now, PC is away, and he has had one hell of a year so far (deaths, illnesses - it seems to just keep coming) which is why he hasn't been on the boards very much for the last few months.

We're all very aware of how patient everyone has been, too, and we're grateful. The reason I haven't posted anything useful in that thread is because, to be honest, I'm no more involved in it than you are and have nothing informative to say on the subject.

When he gets back (I think he went for a week), I'll ping him again. In the meantime, I'd recommend keeping this thread alive with bumps, comments and whatnots to make sure it remains visible.

We'll get it sorted one way or the other! If I had a bunch of cash, I'd just buy everyone who is waiting something cool, but I can't. Although I have just got a new job which starts a week Monday!

So, if I get any info, I'll share it. I wish there was something useful I could do directly, but I can't think of anything. It's not something any of the admins or mods can actually affect in any way, other than to pass the message on - which, of course, I'm doing.

 

[Mark CMG]

I wish there was something useful I could do directly, but I can't think of anything.

I can...

Go down the list of donators and extend their Community Supporter accounts by the same period of time since the last fund drive? (What's that? Nine months since last November?) That'd be a fine gesture and one that would certainly have anyone with bad feelings about donating doing a quick one-eighty. They'd probably feel honor-bound to donate again if it ever came up...

 

[reveal]

Thanks Morrus!

I think all that most people wanted, myself included, was an indication that this wasn't being forgotten. Obviously it hasn't been.

 

[Morrus]

Gladly, but I don't have the list! I'll ask PC for it, though, and see what I can do.