"FIRST BLOOD" Linus Tech Tips Forum Contribution Campaign
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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want a portable power bank Wireless AP SD card and USB reader for your mobile
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devices check the link in the video description to learn more about the Ada
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DH Drive air ae400 we've been reached out to many times with people asking how
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they can support Linus Tech tips particularly The linch tips.com Forum
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other than disabling ad block liking on Facebook following on Twitter watching
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more videos uh clicking on the videos more and just generally um following our
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every moves at every possible waking moment which not everyone wants to do
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and we totally understand but that doesn't mean that you don't want to contribute in some way and there are
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costs associated with running a community Forum such as the one that we
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have on linest Tech tips.com I find it funny that Linus decides to bring up
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costs of the Forum when he sure hasn't paid me anything but there have
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definitely been a lot of cost to The Forum I pay you some not
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much um anyways those of you who might remember
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the Forum started on a test bench under my desk at my house hoping that it might
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be able to withstand what was thrown at it running a beta version of V Bolton 5
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which was a horrible idea made by lonus
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um but it has moved multiple times is
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now sitting on a rack in a Data Center and has a plethora of other things that
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are helping us keep it up if you're one of the veterans who are around forever
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again you'll remember the immense amount of downtime that we had we've mostly
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been staying alive lately and that's not cheap speaking of staying alive valve is
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a bunch of geniuses because digital items are apparently worth real currency
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and are a way to show your support for something that you really enjoy so on
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the line is Tech tips Forum we have implemented a badge or pin system that
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goes next to your posts now there are some that you can't buy such as being a
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member of the folding at home team or being a moderator or other examples like
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that but for the first time ever this campaign will be running for a month you
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can contribute to the lineus tech tips Forum to earn an exclusive First Blood
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badge we're calling this the first Blood campaign because it's the first time
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because that those weren't even words because this is the first time that
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we've ever taken donations to support anything that we've ever done so by
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being one of our first supporters you will have one of these badges no one
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else can ever get one ever so there's four tiers of Badges and you can
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contribute whatever you want but if you rute at least $10 you get a bronze badge
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at least $25 you get a silver badge and at least $50 you get a gold badge now
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they have the right corresponding backgrounds but the Blood on the color
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increases depending on which badge you get and these badges are designed to be
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more exclusive they aren't that cheap but we don't expect that many people to
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get them because they are supposed to be like the first time thing they're only
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available for this month and like most
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Kickstarter and Indiegogo this isn't one but like most of them they have that
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insane tier thing at the bottom that like no one should realistically buy if
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they have any amount of logic but it's there and lus so the logic process here
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was what could possibly represent higher
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than bronze silver or gold Platinum you
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might say to which I would reply no wrong the answer is of course Pink So
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for $500 and that would be like we said I we
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we aren't really expecting anyone to buy this um I will hand draw you
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as close as I can possibly get in Ms paint which will be terrible which will
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be terrible so let's set the expectations where they should be uh we
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will film the process and create a dedicated video for you thanking you for
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your purchase of the pink level badge so
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it'll be handdrawn by me we're going to video it we're going to uh call you out
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and say thank you very much at the beginning of one of our other videos and
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uh that's what you get for uh for for a $500 contribution which I I really don't
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think anyone's going to do this but if they do then Color Me Color Me surprised
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speaking of colors guys get your badges now click on the link in the video
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description or check out the banner on the top right of the linest tech
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tips.com forum and thank you very much for
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um letting us know what you think of this idea because I'm sure even by the
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time you've made it this far in the video you've already posted a comment saying whether whether you like it or
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dislike it under the video so thanks in advance for that