[Foundation-l] Minimum donations?

[Sue Gardner]

Andrew Gray wrote:
> On 25/10/2007, John Reaves <johnreaveswp at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> The donation reporting bot in #wikimedia-donations reported a rather
>> disturbing donation a few minutes ago: [00:42] <Donations> jason birring
>> LEGALIZE MARIJUANA ($0) .  Perhaps we should set a minimum donation?
>>     
>
> Causes no harm, really - the silly comments won't be visible to anyone
> not digging through the donation log, and if they do that they'll be
> aware enough that they're personal comments.
>
> I suspect it's someone figuring that our sitenotice is updated live
> rather than running off preselected comments, and hoping they can get
> a message in there... and if so, let's not tell him and see if he
> tries again with more money ;-)
>
>   
Yes, exactly :-)

This is one of several reasons the comments aren't updated live in the 
sitenotice.

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