Public Donation List or Putting Peer Pressure to Good Use
The recent top level post encouraging people to donate in support of Luke had a lot of a comments saying that it helped remind them to donate at all, simply by bringing it to their attention. I think this is a useful function, and the more people that publicly state that they are donating the stronger the peer pressure on people to donate. I have a recurring monthly donation of 500 dollars, and recently donated 2000 in support of lukeprog and because it is currently getting doubled. Please, if you are willing, comment on this post with donation amounts! Any amount is useful to talk about, even if you think it’s less than what other people are donating, because for every person that can donate a large amount there is a large amount of people that can donate a small amount. We should encourage and reinforce donation behavior at all levels.
Hey, wait. I just noticed this Discussion comment thread you started just before making this post:
Well, at least drethelin is testing his beliefs.
I applaud your effort, but this post is seriously rubbing me the wrong way, particularly these bits:
Perhaps I’m simply getting the “this really shouldn’t be on top level” feeling.
People are already doing this in the comments to the relevant threads; it doesn’t need an extra post. Kudos to you on your donation, though!
This post seems more appropriate for the discussion section of the site.
It is awesome (important and well structured) enough that I would be dissapointed if it was in the second class section, even if people will technically be discussing rather than being preached at. I want my vote to count as 10 (when and if it comes time to reverse the downvote to an upvote!)
Discussion level article available here: