Challenges and fundraisers

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The 78 full pages, at 25 Members each, gives us a total of 1950 Members. I guesstimated that half of those Members are non-participants or have  participated only a few times, which gives us a rough total of 975 active Members (and once again, I'm guessing that's a very optimistic number).

If every one of those participants donated $1.00 per year, would that keep Big Blue operational?   A buck-a-year doesn't sound all that onerous to me.

Wayne

Some statistics that I've gleaned from the members list and the back room, we have a total of 2273 members, 2179 that are fully registered. 77 are banned spammers and many are our fallen flag members and others that we don't know that are gone. Out of what's left, 1567 have never posted, and 169 have logged on by username in the past year (this includes spammers and a few that haven't posted). We have thousands of non-registered, or registered but not logged in viewers stop by frequently, I've seen threads have 300 and more views in a matter of two days, (The most users online at one time was 1,005 on January 21st, 2020) I'm not sure how many are bots and spiders though. It would take me a lot more time to weed out the spammers and none posters, but just figuring 100 or so active members that have logged on, weren't spammers and had posted this past year we would need more than a buck a year from them to keep Big Blue afloat. I've not gone through this exercise before, but now I can see why we have auctions and that some of our members are much more generous than that. We never ask for donations unless we are in need, we never expect donations from those that can't for whatever reason.

For those that stop by here frequently, but don't registered, they are welcome, but by the same token, maybe a buck-a-year from them would put us well over the top.