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Site/Forum Features / Re: March 2009 Fundraiser Wrap-up
« on: April 10, 2009, 09:04 AM »
Hello app103,
Thank you for your response. The underlying principle on which the site runs and on which donation-credits work seem to be quite honorable and I appreciate you trying to explain this to me.
I feel the site can be a lot more transparent about it's finances without divulging any personal details.
Where is the harm in stating a few general figures annually, like:
a) How much has the site recieved in donations in that year.
b) How much has actually left the site (been cashed out) by the authors.
c) A brief break-up of the annual expenses like hosting costs, and the amount spent on gifts and prizes, any other major expense category.
d) How much is currently lying in donation-credits but hasn't been cashed out.
e) How much went exclusively to the site fund.
Putting out statistics like these will inspire confidence and actually encourage donations by showing your potential contributors that donationcoder.com is a community, not just on the working end of things but also on the recieving end - and that the donations don't just benefit one person who runs the site but everyone who contributes to it and goes to making it the great place you describe it to be.
In other words, it'll show in black and white that the donation system that looks so good in theory, actually works in practice.
Dubbing a direct question as "good" and then not giving a straight answer when one has been promised seems careless at best and evasive at worst. I think the site owes a little more accountability to everyone who has reached out and made the fund-raiser such a spectacular success in these tough times we all face.
Thanks.
Thank you for your response. The underlying principle on which the site runs and on which donation-credits work seem to be quite honorable and I appreciate you trying to explain this to me.
I feel the site can be a lot more transparent about it's finances without divulging any personal details.
Where is the harm in stating a few general figures annually, like:
a) How much has the site recieved in donations in that year.
b) How much has actually left the site (been cashed out) by the authors.
c) A brief break-up of the annual expenses like hosting costs, and the amount spent on gifts and prizes, any other major expense category.
d) How much is currently lying in donation-credits but hasn't been cashed out.
e) How much went exclusively to the site fund.
Putting out statistics like these will inspire confidence and actually encourage donations by showing your potential contributors that donationcoder.com is a community, not just on the working end of things but also on the recieving end - and that the donations don't just benefit one person who runs the site but everyone who contributes to it and goes to making it the great place you describe it to be.
In other words, it'll show in black and white that the donation system that looks so good in theory, actually works in practice.
Dubbing a direct question as "good" and then not giving a straight answer when one has been promised seems careless at best and evasive at worst. I think the site owes a little more accountability to everyone who has reached out and made the fund-raiser such a spectacular success in these tough times we all face.
Thanks.