As many of you know, our beloved PT Think Tank was hacked two weeks ago. The hack consisted of copious amounts of comments being posted, and some code inserted into the database that returned pharmaceutical ads when any page on our blog was queried on Google. It was annoying, expensive, and a real bummer that we would be victims of random trolling.
We never thought spammers could cost real cash on a free blog site! Boy did we learn!!
We are all fixed, thanks in no small part to the very excellent skills of one Aaron Brazell. However, talent like that does not come inexpensively, and so we quickly realized help was in order. And to that notion, you, our readers, came through wonderfully!
The purpose of this post is to publicly thank all who donated to our GoFundMe campaign and express our deep gratitude. To date we have raised over $1200 to repair our site and recover from the hack. THANK YOU!
Without further ado, we present to you the “Benefactors of PT Think Tank,” after all, without you we would not exist. In no particular order:
- Eric Robertson
- Jason Silvernail
- Tim Noteboom
- Kyle Ridgeway
- Kathleen Nestor
- Karen Litzy
- Mike Bade
- Mike Pascoe
- Matt Moretta
- Chris Bise
- Lauren Kealy
- Mark Powers
- Janice Ying
- Jonathan Walton
- Kory Zimney
- Sam DePaul
- Naomi Cook
- Tyler Shultz
- Mary Derrick
- John Marrujo
- Nick Parton
- Amy Pakula
- John Synder
- Eileen Li
- Mary Hartenstein
- Lorien Appman
- Wesley Miller
- Aaron LeBauer
- Chris Hinze
- Sturdy McKee
- Cody Peterson
- Joel Anderson
- Several who wish to remain anonymous, but who still rock!
This was touching, and inspiring. The authors of this site are indebted to you.
Please don’t hesitate to say hi and introduce yourself one day if you happen to be some of the folks we don’t know. We’ll be glad to shake your hand in person.
We’re going to leave the campaign open for another week and then close it and move on. With your collective help, we certainly made lemonade from these lemons!