You should also pledge that you won’t donate unless you do so to match another donation, otherwise the value added of a matching donation is an illusion here. Though, the illusion may be all that is needed to motivate donations.
Good point. While I hit my full total before reading your comment, I hereby regardless pledge that I wouldn’t have donated unless it was to match another donation, and that this also holds in any counterfactual or parallel worlds where people don’t get up to the full sum.
You should also pledge that you won’t donate unless you do so to match another donation, otherwise the value added of a matching donation is an illusion here. Though, the illusion may be all that is needed to motivate donations.
See http://blog.givewell.org/2011/12/15/why-you-shouldnt-let-donation-matching-affect-your-giving/
Good point. While I hit my full total before reading your comment, I hereby regardless pledge that I wouldn’t have donated unless it was to match another donation, and that this also holds in any counterfactual or parallel worlds where people don’t get up to the full sum.