On 30/12/06, The Cunctator <cunctator(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/29/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Yeah, but you need both. As I said earlier,
donations almost always
> follow a power law, like Alexa ratings or whatever. And you don't get
> the first without the thank-yous, because they're used to them.
So let's retrain them. Don't charitable
entrepeneurs want to break the
traditional paradigms?
Note that the first round of donations was matched by precisely the
sort of anonymous donor you describe.
But you know, I have no problem saying "thank you" quite loudly to
someone giving us tens of thousands of dollars - if it was someone we
would have a problem saying "thank you" quite loudly to, then we
wouldn't accept it. And I understand Danny has said "no thanks" to
more than a few bad ideas that might have netted us substantial cash.
- d.