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Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

the cash-for-non-goons thing has actually come up and been dealt with in the uk version of this fund, which has been running successfully on the same model for a number of years. iirc small requests have sometimes been accepted, larger ones have been bumped back; there was a big edge case relatively recently that one particular goon just personally sorted directly rather than the fund doing it.

i think the core question is, why do you want people needing help to jump through more hoops to access that help? why should lurkers starve in preference to those with the leisure to actively post, and why do you think pivoting to a closed in-group fund would increase usage and donations?


anyway, hopefully there emerges some mechanism for Other Countries goons to donate, op; it's unfortunate that only US-based donations are possible at the mo.

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