Donations make up a quarter of my income
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Re: Donations make up a quarter of my income
#2For OP: the about page is 404'ing https://method.ac/about/
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#3For OP: the about page is 404'ing https://method.ac/about/
This reminds me of a dream from 2019: https://method.ac/writing/work_journal/08-01-2019_work_log_t...
I'll just remove the link, thanks for letting me know.
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#4$0.25 sounds less than benevolent.
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#5when I had post-adolescent support systems in place, long ago, the donation system made so much sense to me.. now, long after, its not a pretty picture w.r.t. cost of living
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#6> backers receive no benefits, rewards, or access to exclusive content. They don’t even get a thank you email.
I've sent donations (e.g. $25-$100 via papyal) to open source and technical folks and only once received a reply (thank you) back.
I suppose it shouldn't disappoint me, but it does and thus I'm much less likely to bother.
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#7> backers receive no benefits, rewards, or access to exclusive content. They don’t even get a thank you email. I've sent donations (e.g. $25-$100 via papyal) to open source and technical folks and only once received a reply (thank you) back. I suppose it shouldn't disappoint me, but it does and thus I'm much less likely to bother.
The "thank you" is in the thousands of unpaid hours they put in their projects.
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#8> backers receive no benefits, rewards, or access to exclusive content. They don’t even get a thank you email. I've sent donations (e.g. $25-$100 via papyal) to open source and technical folks and only once received a reply (thank you) back. I suppose it shouldn't disappoint me, but it does and thus I'm much less likely to bother.
If you want someone to send you a nice email, you can hire someone to be your pen pal.
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#9> backers receive no benefits, rewards, or access to exclusive content. They don’t even get a thank you email. I've sent donations (e.g. $25-$100 via papyal) to open source and technical folks and only once received a reply (thank you) back. I suppose it shouldn't disappoint me, but it does and thus I'm much less likely to bother.
The "thank you" is in the thousands of unpaid hours they put in their projects.
I assume this is why the parent poster said "I suppose this shouldn't disappoint me". People shouldn't need a thank you email, but it's apparently valuable enough to at least one person to make a difference for them. How people actually behave and react to things is what you should design around, not how people should ideally behave. Given this (admittedly extrapolating from one data point), and because the cost of configuring a bot to send thank you emails is so low, I'd probably set it up if I were accepting donations.
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#10> backers receive no benefits, rewards, or access to exclusive content. They don’t even get a thank you email. I've sent donations (e.g. $25-$100 via papyal) to open source and technical folks and only once received a reply (thank you) back. I suppose it shouldn't disappoint me, but it does and thus I'm much less likely to bother.
Does the author actually get your contact info from PayPal in way that they can respond?
Normally, if I send anything like $50-$100 to a creator via any of the "normal" mechanisms for this (Patreon, Venmo, Zelle), I get a very nice response.