Which one of you pessimists told the campaign to quite showing the dollar amount???

[reduen]

Which one of you pessimists told the campaign to quit showing the dollar amount???

Ghemminger?... Yongrel.... lol

 

[remaxjon]

yes I am also a little bitter the dollar amount is gone

 

[ItsTime]

wtf? why would they do that it was making people donate more for sure!

 

[Zydeco]

I just called and told them to put it back up! Everyone do the same! They have to know how important this is.

703-248-9115

 

[tiznow]

it's technical difficulties of some sort i'm sure don't call them....guessing they got swarmed with internet traffic after they sent out the following e-mail and something got messed up.

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33 minutes ago

September 25, 2007


Your efforts to raise $500,000 online for the Ron Paul 2008 campaign by September 30th are quickly paying off. Thank you!

We now have a real-time counter on our website http://www.ronpaul2008.com that updates as soon as a donation is made. It also flashes the names of recent donors.

Take a look. It's fun to watch.

Keep up the great work. Thank you again!

Jonathan Bydlak
Fundraising Director
Ron Paul 2008


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and soon after this e-mail it broke

 

[erowe1]

Well, it still shows the level graphically. Does it make that big of a difference if you know the exact number?

 

[ctb619]

I'm boycotting the campaign until the dollar amount is back. Who's with me?

 

[reduen]

yes I am also a little bitter the dollar amount is gone

Heck yeah, it was my amusement for the day!!

 

[hopeforamerica]

Maybe they're having trouble with bandwith handling all the donations and us watching at the same time!!! That would be good news.

 

[OptionsTrader]

Probably technical difficulties. I cannot even connect to the page.

 

[Dave Wood]

I think it was having problems earlier because it kept saying "blah, blah,blah"

Maybe hacked? Or maybe the money is growing a little too fast to be exposed in that manner over the internet? Kent Snyder is a smooth operator and I think he has been very careful to make sure that the other campaigns dont know how well we are doing financially until the exact moment that HE wants them to know.

Remember Mccain called Ron for $ after the last disclosure.

 

[tiznow]

here's an idea everybody quit hittin reload and get off the website for 10 minutes and maybe the traffic can die down and they can fix it.

 

[ItsTime]

he is getting slammed right now because of MSNBC interview

 

[Lord Xar]

I "like" the dollar amount, BUT I don't think strategically it makes sense. I mean, all other campaigns taking a look, making plans and such... sometimes IF you allow others to see the deck you are holding -- then you soften the impact.

 

[American]

If your giing to call, ask them to get a strategic speech writer for the rest of his campaign.

thx

 

[ctb619]

here's an idea everybody quit hittin reload and get off the website for 10 minutes and maybe the traffic can die down and they can fix it.

good suggestion....done

 

[Johnnybags]

Probably changing it to 1 million goal

heck go for 40 million in a month. I'll sell all my trinkets hanging around on Ebay.

 

[cac1963]

Now the thermometer is empty and there are no recent donors. Must be tech difficulties.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Well, it still shows the level graphically. Does it make that big of a difference if you know the exact number?

yes

 

[Ninja Homer]

I still have the thermometer, but it's been at $196968 for a while.

Refreshing the page now, and... Doh! Timed out... Now I got it again, thermometer is still up, but it isn't picking up the updates.

I think they're getting server timeouts because the Flash calls back too often to get updates. It looks like it updates about every 10 seconds, and that should be moved to maybe a minute to cut down on the number of server hits.