[HN Gopher] Donations make up a quarter of my income
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       Donations make up a quarter of my income
        
       Author : duopixel
       Score  : 64 points
       Date   : 2021-09-14 15:23 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (method.ac)
 (TXT) w3m dump (method.ac)
        
       | mistrial9 wrote:
       | when 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
        
       | dewey wrote:
       | For OP: the about page is 404'ing https://method.ac/about/
        
         | duopixel wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | canada_dry wrote:
       | > 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.
        
         | vorpalhex wrote:
         | If you want someone to send you a nice email, you can hire
         | someone to be your pen pal.
        
           | samschooler wrote:
           | I suppose people who accept donations are under no obligation
           | to send a thank you email, or anything if it is not
           | specifically specified. However I can say with certainty if
           | one is sent, and they go the extra mile, it is much more
           | likely they will either get another donation, or a
           | recommendation for someone else to donate.
        
         | goodpoint wrote:
         | The "thank you" is in the thousands of unpaid hours they put in
         | their projects.
        
           | cylon13 wrote:
           | 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.
        
         | bsder wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | smitty1e wrote:
       | $0.25 sounds less than benevolent.
        
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