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Would the Beehaw community be interested in some pay-it-forward action? (beehaw.org)
submitted 10 months ago by admin@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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Currently, we have $6,500.91 in our hopper.

It just seems weird having all of those, mostly, unused funds sitting there doing nothing.

I just wanted to start the conversation about the possibility of paying-it-forward in some capacity. For example, a certain percentage of monthly contributions could go to a charity.

What are your thoughts?

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[โ€“] renard_roux@beehaw.org 15 points 10 months ago

I agree with everyone saying "donations are for running the server, use as intended", although I like the idea of the tiny mod-team getting a small monthly stipend or something. Maybe consider adding "5% of donations are divided among the mods for coffee and therapy" to the donation info text? ๐Ÿค”

A compromise, in regards to charity, could be a community-based effort of some sort โ€” everyone votes to pick a quarterly charity, and it's promoted as a stickied post:

"The Beehaw community has voted to support ~~X~~ [insert charity] * for this quarter, please support it if you can"

* Ugh, can't believe fucking Elon ruined a whole letter, and one of the cool ones, at that ๐Ÿคข