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Today we have setup a GoFundMe page for our beloved reporter @Chary.

Krista and her family have lost their entire home and all worldly possessions in the floods caused by Hurricane Harvey.

Please help us to help them by donating on the following page, any amount will help!

Donate on GoFundMe
Donate via Paypal to [email protected] and we'll match it on GoFundMe

Houston Red Cross

[-UPDATE 2-]
Chary and her family have now received the cash from the fundraiser in full. Thanks again to everyone who donated and helped out!

[-UPDATE-]

After 2 weeks 82 donations have helped to raise £2022 (roughly $2670) to help Chary and her family to rebuild their lives.

A massive thanks to all of the following tempers who donated, and those of you who wished to remain anonymous:

@CreeperdivoHomebrewer
@BlackWizzard17
@Montgomery Von Goochums
@Becky McAndrew
[USER=31]@shaunj66
@thomas Hugh
@DinohScene
@Yudowat
@Disse
@Foxi4
@linuxares
@Bubsy Bobcat
@Depravo
@bjaxx87
@Mário Liberato
@RayD97 Dean
@eric Cobb
@Shadowfied
@sandra Hughes
@Majin Cubyan
[USER=290925]@frogboy
@nEx Y
@exangel
@Rebekah Davenport
@XxShalevElimelechxX
@mohammed Al Rashedi
@SuzieJoe Bob
@andre Trek
@lilaznkilla
@Aneki S
@Bu2d85
@Munchlax Brunchlax
[USER=30028]@Julio Lizardo
@Eris
@Catsinabucket
@sarkwalvein
@drazenm
@xfxmrl
@Lia
@GamerzHell9137
@x65943
@Elrinth
@BowlOfSpiders
@jerbear64
@cearp
@VinsCool
@Minox
@Roify
@Apathetic_Discord
@Deathwing Zero
@Dennis L
@GearCross
@Joshua F
@draxoon
@Issac
@B_E_P_I_S_M_A_N
@Yu Lu
@Gallito
@misterion
@8BitWonder
@deakphreak
@Armadillo
@matpower
@H.F.H Peeters
@Taleweaver
@p1ngpong
@anon nano
@Alephas Enum
@DarkFlare69
@Todderbert
@HaloEliteLegend
@nastydsi
@ian Mc
[USER=317601]@mbcrazed
@elias Jackson
@6 x anonymous

Also a massive thanks to everyone who has streamed to help this fund.

You are what makes GBAtemp such an amazing community to be a part of!


Now, as for GoFundMe, they have still not released the funds to Chary, despite saying they would, over 10 days ago. The excuse is their engineers need time to convert the raised amount to dollars, and their payment processing team are trying their best to get it done. To me this sounds absurd, but here we are, 14 days since the fund started, waiting for the cash to be paid out in this emergency situation.[/USER][/USER][/USER][/USER]

 

[astronautlevel]

I seriously don't get the need to discuss the conflict of rules there either appears to be/is in this thread. This thread is about coming together to help a victim of a natural disaster, and you all are instead trying to be dicks about it.

There may be valid issues with the rule as is, and maybe it does need to be re-evaluated. I don't know. Either way, this isn't the place or time to discuss it.

 

[Kafluke]

Yes I agree @Kafluke need to ask permission. but he made A LOT of contribution to this forum too, but I think it's better to discuss this on another thread.. Lets focus Chary's help

It's okay. I know where I stand in the pecking order. Someone's house got flooded. We lost a human life. But I guess I didn't ask first. How dare i.

 

[Deleted User]

We weren't given the evacuation. Check the Mayor's twitter. There's an uproar. Houston was NEVER told to leave. We were told it was going to be okay. The forecast we were given was 2 inches in the house max. Which I planned for. I'm not expecting anything, either. I was fully unaware that the staff had planned this, and I woke up to see so much generosity and kindness from everyone here, unwarranted.

You're accusing me of doing things when you're misinformed. I'm not saying it's unwise to be wary, but at least have all the facts in line.

And if you oh so really need to know, my mother spend all of her money on paying rent for the destroyed ruins of my house, a day prior. My father is unemployed. I live paycheck to paycheck, so yeah, all I've got is $30.

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I'm not saying I should get special treatment. I don't want special treatment either. Posts begging for donations ARE usually shady in nature, (remember Xuphor) so I get why the rule exists. But still, I'm not going to turn down everyone's love and generosity.

at least not everything is soaked

 

[DeadlyFoez]

GBAtemp has been a wonderful community that has helped me through the years in many ways even though I have in the past treated this place as my pissing grounds. I understand the rules about begging because they are for a good reason as many people would make things up just to beg for money and be scum bags. I feel when there is a true need that can be verified with a member that has a history of being on this site for a while and not someone that just created an account last week.

I recently was in a bind with our family pet. Either the mods didn't know that I had asked for help or they were gracious enough to look away when I posted my thread. I guess the main difference is I wasn't asking for handout, but instead I was asking for work and asking if anyone was interesting in purchasing some of my belongings. It wasn't until someone asked me to post a link to a crowd funding thing did I actually do so. Luckily in my case, I was given some work. I was doing what I could to help myself.

There is one thing that is true to people needing help, when you are trying to help yourself then people are more likely to help you as well. If you are broken down on the side of the road and just try to wave down a car for help then it could be quite some time before someone stops to help. But if when broken down you are actually doing what you can and pushing your vehicle down the road, many many more people will stop to help you. People need to see you trying to help yourself.

Although the above situation does not apply to Chary and her needs, I figured it might help explain why others whom have asked for help have had their threads closed.

The rule of not being allowed to "beg" should be reassessed as this community is great and can really come together to help those who are truly in need.

 

[sp3off]

Well since I do not have a credit card I cannot do that much than saying that I'm sorry about your current situation. But what I do know, is that our Temp family is solid and we will always be there to help another. Especially when that person is a trusted and quality Temp reporter.

 

[DeadlyFoez]

It's okay. I know where I stand in the pecking order. Someone's house got flooded. We lost a human life. But I guess I didn't ask first. How dare i.

Please dont take this as me being a dick as I am trying not to be, I am only trying to make sense.

Chary and family have lost their home and belongings (essentially) and community support can keep their bad situation from going from bad to straight up hell and chaos where someones could lose their life without proper shelter, food, and medical treatment.

Now, I am saddened by your loss and I can not begin to understand how you all felt when that tragedy occurred, the only real difference that stand out to me is that in your case it was already too late to save the life of the little girl, but in Chary's case there is still the opportunity to help someone from dealing with what could turn into a tragedy.

Again, I am not trying to be a dick, just trying to maybe put some logical reasoning as to why the mods chose what they chose. I would certainly chose differently if I had it in my power.

 

[BlueFox gui]

i'm sorry, i wish i could donate : (

 

[suzsuzuki]

Please dont take this as me being a dick as I am trying not to be, I am only trying to make sense.

Chary and family have lost their home and belongings (essentially) and community support can keep their bad situation from going from bad to straight up hell and chaos where someones could lose their life without proper shelter, food, and medical treatment.

Now, I am saddened by your loss and I can not begin to understand how you all felt when that tragedy occurred, the only real difference that stand out to me is that in your case it was already too late to save the life of the little girl, but in Chary's case there is still the opportunity to help someone from dealing with what could turn into a tragedy.

Again, I am not trying to be a dick, just trying to maybe put some logical reasoning as to why the mods chose what they chose. I would certainly chose differently if I had it in my power.

As I said before, I think we can not measure the suffering between people and choose who can receive donations or not. I understand your position, but's that's a matter for other thread...

 

[SANIC]

I wish I could donate but no CC ;-; I'll still find a way to tho

 

[SANIC]

I can feel the angst emanating from these bad comments

 

[The Catboy]

Not to me but it is worth noting that to a pessimist this can translate to "Mods are more important than membrs lol fuck you". Just sayin....

6 years ago before I was even remotely what one would consider a "popular member," Costello hired me onto Filetrip in order to help me get internet and get my life in order. I didn't ask for help, I didn't "beg" on the forums, I didn't even bring much attention to the situation I was in. Costello noticed that I needed help and reached out to me.
The Staff has helped members before, be it public or private, they have reached out to people who clearly needed help. But at the same time they can only do so much to help. Like what was said before, asking them is an option. Including a link in your signature is an option. There are options for users to get help on the Temp, but they can't allow another Xuphor to happen. It's unfortunate to say that some people do exploit the kindness of others and GBATemp doesn't want that to happen to their users. This isn't to say every case is a bad apple, which is why they are willing to work with people who are willing to work with them,

 

[DeadlyFoez]

What was the Xuphor situation?

 

[Issac]

What was the Xuphor situation?

https://gbatemp.net/threads/my-medical-condition-finally-got-the-best-of-me.350870/

part 2 and part 3 is linked at the very top of that post.

But let's not stray from the topic at hand.

 

[Elrinth]

I'll donate some. Please stay safe! I feel for you, I'm so lucky I'm where nothing ever happens.
It's just insane how everything you take for granted can be taken away from you in just a moments notice.

 

[Joom]

I wish I could help, but since I was in a terrible car accident yesterday I'm about to be up to my neck in medical bills. There's been entirely too much tragedy as of recent. :/

 

[linuxares]

Wow Houston didn't warn about it? Then again, how the heck could that massive city even prepare their infrastructor for that amount of rain.

@Chary hows the situation at the moment? Are you guys alright?

 

[SonyNintendoGamer1]

I'm planning to go to houston next week to help with the relief efforts lmk if you need anything.

Do you not have home insurance? It should cover everything.

 

[paperhammer]

If I weren't such a poor pauper , I would donate. Best of luck, my friend, and stay classy as always!

 

[Jonna]

Ignoring the negative posts and a couple negative users, I hope this becomes, at least, a stepping stone towards helping you get back to some sort of normalcy. It's going to be a while before we get to seeing some Chary posts up on the front page, but I'm confident we will see them return in no time with a strong person behind them.

With that being said, I will not be able to donate until Friday (pay day time), but then I shall. I'm also willing to help out replacing items that were lost. I have family living in Tennessee (I'm in Canada) that can help with mailing items out to you when you've gotten your living situation secure.

All the best to you, and keep us updated as convenient as possible for you!

 

[The Catboy]

On topic, I don't have anything to donate as of this moment. But I can see if I can spare anything in the future.
So I will just continue to share this thread. I am part of several groups with less active Tempers that might be able to help or at least spread awareness.