I should have responded to the whole payment suggestion thread as well.  Here is my take on it.  While those of you that suggest a payment/gift methodology to help reduce spammers etc it also prevents individuals such as myself that are looking to get into bitcoin mining.  If you're new it will take a while to get to the point where you can actually spend a fraction of a BC to donate.  If I had a mining setup already running then it may not be an issue.  Yea I know late to the party as usual.  Well at least I'm trying to attend