On 2016-06-12 at 23:29, Green Dream wrote:
Do you guys really run relays just for the t-shirt? Aren't there more important reasons to run a relay, like serving the community, being an advocate for privacy, and acting against surveillance and censorship?
Is this t-shirt issue *really* a problem that needs to be solved? The Tor Project has many other problems that need attention, and their time is a limited resource. Can we please just stop worrying and complaining about the damn t-shirts?
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It's not like I said "give me the damn t-shirt now or I'll quit providing my exit node". Of course I will run the exit node for a longer time and I even plan to provide a second one as soon as I have spare money to afford another cheap server (I already run 3 servers in total while 2 of them should not have their IP used for TOR unfortunately; there are reasons for that, but maybe one of them will at least be a relay soon; the other one does not have enough performance to run Tor additionally to that what it does now).
It's just that the Tor Project promises t-shirts for exit node owners and as such, they should at least respond to such questions and request in a decent time (while I think 1 month is doable and still decent enough). But some people wait for 7 months for something that is promised, at least they wait for an answer. Even a simple "Sorry, the Tor website is wrong. There are not t-shirts for exit nodes anymore" answer would be great.
It's not only about the t-shirt itself (although having one would be nice, it looks just awesome), it's more about the communication to the community itself. And isn't it the community that is running Tor? That's exactly what you said here.