Whats the deal with these .io domains? How is that supposed to be talked out "ask eye ooh", "ask input output", "ask eye yo"?
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> That's rarely how wifes work. Sigh...sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't change my username to "tokenwoman", a la "tokenadult". :P This should go without saying, but not all "wifes" (sp) work the same. I had surgery recently and I would have loved this. Plus, I think it's awesome that the OP managed to score ask.io--a great, short domain name--and is using it for charitable purposes. Cool! Also, I think I'd have enou…
And are you sure all cards will be nice and fluffy? Or, I'm sure an Atheist would receive a lot of "I'm praying for Jesus to make it better" cards (or any other way around really, this is just an example)
> an Atheist would receive a lot of "I'm praying for Jesus to make it better" cards
I'm an atheist. I've had believer friends ask if they could pray over me during a time when I was navigating difficulties. Do you know what I said? "I would be honored". Do you understand why? Because, while I don't share their belief system I recognize their request comes from only one place: love and caring. It would take a pedantic asshole to reject something coming from such a place. So, they did, and they felt better for it. And I did too. Good friends.
I am not necessarily critical of your comment. Just wanted to point out that not all atheists are militant fire breathing monsters. I do get upset when religion gets in the way of scientific truth and social justice (vaccines, gay rights, etc.). That said, in general terms, I am having trouble thinking of any believers in our group of family and friends whom I'd consider to be undesirable people. I would, without a doubt, be happy to receive a "I am praying for Jesus to make it better" card from any of them during trying times.
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#73OP... I love this.
Well played!
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#74There's a whole sub-reddit that's dedicated to exactly the same thing at /r/favors That's not to discredit this project though. Some things might work better on Reddit and some might work better on a dedicated website.
didn't know about it, thanks! :)
I think any project worth doing will have some competition. "competition" can also mean "market validation". I understand you're not trying to get rich off this, but I think you'd like it if someone used it :) In my opinion, the fact that reddit already does it means you're probably onto something.
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#75I really dig it! And I like sending/receiving postcards from all over the world, I'll post one tomorrow.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
And are you sure all cards will be nice and fluffy? Or, I'm sure an Atheist would receive a lot of "I'm praying for Jesus to make it better" cards (or any other way around really, this is just an example)
> an Atheist would receive a lot of "I'm praying for Jesus to make it better" cards I'm an atheist. I've had believer friends ask if they could pray over me during a time when I was navigating difficulties. Do you know what I said? "I would be honored". Do you understand why? Because, while I don't share their belief system I recognize their request comes from only one place: love and caring. It would take a pedantic…
As I said, it is only an example, and could go in a lot of different, but similar ways.
I wouldn't be offended if that happened to me.
"It would take a pedantic asshole to reject something coming from such a place"
Yes, that's the main problem, as there would be people sending offensive cards there's also "overly sensitive people" that would be beyond themselves because of something like that.
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#77I hate to be the....umm...what's the opposite of naysayer? Yaysayer? I hate to be the yaysayer here, but...
1) The design is great! Simple, fast, easy to read. I understood the point immediately.
2) There's a use for this. I won't say "need", because you know there isn't a need. But, people will find it nice and will use it.
3) If you're doing this to get rich, then I misread you and you should quit now. But, if you're doing this to do something good, then I think you nailed it.
Now, for some naysaying: 1) As others have said, putting your wife's real name and address up was simply stupid. Take it down, now.
2) Moderation? How do you choose which ask to feature?
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#78I think this is a fantastic idea, great job!
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#79People are getting hung up on the card favor. A couple unsolicited suggestions:
- Show more than one idea on the homepage and allow people to up vote what they think is best
- Idea with most votes gets sent out to folks every X
Advantage is this let's the community pick what is relevant, makes your life easier (less editorial), enables you to grow to more than 1 idea per week as there might be runner ups, likely to increase the quality of what people submit as there will be competition.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you think most online communities have rules against posting real addresses? Because exactly these kind of things happen.
Online communities are sources of passion, emotion, argument, conflict. There's a big difference between that and knowing basically nothing about a person other than that they're in a hospital and having a birthday.
Some people are really, really nasty. For no real reason. Unfortunately you only need an extremely small minority to fuck up a nice act.