[Foundation-l] Donation banner and strongly negative reactions

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Walter Vermeir <walter at wikipedia.be> wrote:
> It could be useful to include on the donation page something like;
>
> "Every donation, how small it may be is welcome ... but know that by
> donation only $1 means we get only X% of your money after transactions
> fees. If you donate $5 then we receive X% of your donation."

Most of the really tiny donations (especially in USD) are criminals
attempting to verify stolen credit cards. There is no point in begging
them to donate more. :)

For the non-fraudsters use JS to set a currency dependent minimum
which makes sense for the typical users of the currency.  Trying to
get people to understand paypal fees is just too much complexity, and
is likely to just bring crys about why we don't offer a lower overhead
option (I think the google payment service is less costly than paypal,
for example).