This site should be up and running as fast as possible... it shouldn't be a monthly begging pool for money to keep the site up. If you have problems with this then consider the hits and sell out to the man and collect pennies on the dollar and make it up that way. I have run sites before and none of them cost $5,000-$8,000 a year to keep online and if yours does then the hits should be where the money comes from. Stop begging- the authority bestowed to you, the siteholder, should be enough of a burden to bear for the rest of us.
Well, then don't donate if you don't want to. Wait ... you don't. What's the problem again? Right. Nothing.
Yes there is. People who donate often comment they have more right to influence how the site is run than people who don't. It's heading right at the OP any minute now