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Chainspell
10-18-2011, 08:59 PM
Just a reminder to those who don't know.

#1: Even if the clock is past 12am, you HAVE to wait for the ticker to be put up before you make your BlackTHisOut Donation. Whenever the ticker goes up, it always starts at 0 dollars. So wait until it is up before you donate.
#2: If in the slight chance the ticker is up BEFORE 12am EST. Wait for it to get past 12am EST. Because they will reset the ticker once we enter a new day. I think the reset is done manually from past observations, which is kinda stupid but oh well.

Also last constitution day money bomb the ticker was not put up until 12:20ish. and it was reset again after 30 minutes of it being up and we lost close to 40k in donations not being counted in the EARLY hours of the day. So to be safe wait 30 minutes or atleast wait until they put the ticker up.

To those who don't know what it might look like, well it's always different, here are the 3 examples from previous tickers:

http://i56.tinypic.com/1ikcn5.jpg

http://i54.tinypic.com/33zb9fr.jpg

http://i54.tinypic.com/zufvkh.jpg

the ticker will be up in the front page of http://www.ronpaul2012.com/

I do not know for a fact if they will add donations that were not counted before the ticker went up. But I know as a web developer point of view that you don't change data while the data is constantly being refreshed. So most likely if your donation is not counted in the ticker, they're just gonna leave it alone.

BUT... early hours is Important!! I cannot stress this enough! we the die-hard grassroots support need to punch through this thing and lead the way!! So donate atleast before 3AM-4AM EST, before America wakes up!

nyrgoal99
10-18-2011, 09:01 PM
Agreed, but make sure you donate before you go to sleep

ItsTime
10-18-2011, 09:03 PM
I wish they would go to the thermometer style again.

wstrucke
10-18-2011, 09:03 PM
As the guy who has been tracking the donation totals for the past two months I can assure you this is complete bull shit. The total is currently $1,840,083.44. Typically it's reset sometime before midnight but at T-58 minutes it's hasn't been yet. Historically the ticker starts somewhere near or above zero b/c they reset it on the day before. Regardless offline donations are included, etc...

If all you care about is the number on the day of, then sure, wait for it to hit zero or something below 1.8 million.

SlowSki
10-18-2011, 09:04 PM
We may want to remind people on the Facebook group about this. I saw a few comments where people were confused about when they should start donating.

Chainspell
10-18-2011, 09:20 PM
bump