--- Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com wrote:
Daniel Mayer wrote:
However, some people have given either their name and/or user name in the one of the two comment fields ('Subject' and 'Note' columns). I think we should contact those people to ask permission for us to publish their comments. For example, the person who donated money for European domains gave his user name in the 'Note' field.
Why not just delete those fields entirely? I don't see much purpose to publishing them, even where they are anonymous.
Because it gives our donors the opportunity to say nice things about us or otherwise give some direction on how they would like us to spend their donation. It also gives them the opportunity to optionally let everyone else know they donated by signing whatever message they leave in a comment field (not to mention it makes it easier to find their donation and confirm that it was in fact received). Best to have that info in the public, IMO.
I'd say just a daily breakdown of donations received would be more than adequate to answer people's legitimate curiosity about how the fundraising went. Even breaking it down to individual donation amounts seems a bit much to me, although I don't really see any harm in it either.
It would in fact be easier for me if the detail is retained in some form. Then I can keep just one set of books - the public one.
--Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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