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Talking with friends and potential users, a significant number of people independently suggested letting users automatically donate some of their Gilded earning to charity.
It's not that hard of a technical problem, and I think it would go a long way.
logistics:
we can give the user a config setting, called donationRate, 0 < x < 1, for a percentage of their earnings to automatically donate to charity.
the whole thing is opt-in so we're not forcing anyone to give anything away.
we can tell them their total earned for donation, as another incentive for them to continue using the service.
benefits:
it keeps the signal-to-noise filter in place
it immediately defuses cynical notions of the service
it might allow senders to feel more comfortable paying for messages, knowing that their money is going to charity too
it makes the whole product's narrative easier to market
the revenue earned by any one user of the service is probably not all that substantial, anyway, so the good-will earned with this may be more valuable overall
and making the whole service more emotionally palatable might end up re-couping the losses with additional usage, anyway
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auto share with charity feature
auto donate-to-charity feature
Mar 6, 2015
Talking with friends and potential users, a significant number of people independently suggested letting users automatically donate some of their Gilded earning to charity.
It's not that hard of a technical problem, and I think it would go a long way.
logistics:
donationRate
, 0 < x < 1, for a percentage of their earnings to automatically donate to charity.benefits:
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: