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Author | Topic: Charity of choice |
Armin High Priest of Athlon |
posted March 01, 2000 07:34
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Slapyo Follower of Athlon |
posted March 01, 2000 10:17
World Food Programme http://www.wfp.org/ --------------------------------------------- http://www.savethechildren.org/ --------------------------------------------- http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Cultures_and_Groups/Children/Organizations/Relief_Organizations/ ------------------ IP: Logged |
Matze Follower of Athlon |
posted March 01, 2000 12:11
I think it would be cool if we could sponsor "The Hunger Site" for one day (or more). If this is too expensive, I think we should give the money to Greenpeace. [This message has been edited by Matze (edited March 01, 2000).] IP: Logged |
Other, Esq. Follower of Athlon |
posted March 01, 2000 12:55
http://www.gunowners.com/index.html Gun Owners of America Foundation These guys work hard to preserve our IP: Logged |
adam04 Follower of Athlon |
posted March 01, 2000 19:30
Dear Other,Esq, In case you hadn't noticed, there are many non Americans working on Gamma Flux and we don't all share your obession with guns. RE: 6 yr ols shooting other six year olds in Michigan? Need I say more? IP: Logged |
Chipster22 Wish I had an Athlon |
posted March 01, 2000 20:42
How about the Red Cross. http://www.ifrc.org / IP: Logged |
Slapyo Follower of Athlon |
posted March 01, 2000 21:14
Matze, The World Food Programme that I metioned above is what The Hunger Site pays. The Hunger Site has companies give them money per click and they donate that money to the WFP. Heh, that is where I got the WFP link from, is the Hunger Site website. ------------------ IP: Logged |
Matze Follower of Athlon |
posted March 02, 2000 02:56
Donnie, you´re right, but sponsoring The Hunger Site would mean both promotion for DCypher (on The Hunger site) and for The Hunger Site (on the DCypher Homepage). We won´t have this effect if we give the money directly to WFP, but the money that goes to the WFP would be the same (I think). IP: Logged |
Arete Wish I had an Athlon |
posted March 02, 2000 13:19
I think that the Dcypher guys should cash the check and carry the money directly to the local food bank (wherever they are). I doubt that the amount is going to be more than a couple hundred dollars (but maybe I'm wrong ) and I think that a local food bank would be able to do a lot more with that money than a huge organization. My two cents. IP: Logged |
Postmand_Per Follower of Athlon |
posted March 02, 2000 16:59
I think WFP should have the money. ------------------ IP: Logged |
Postmand_Per Follower of Athlon |
posted March 02, 2000 16:59
I think WFP should have the money. ------------------ IP: Logged |
Armin High Priest of Athlon |
posted March 03, 2000 05:37
Well guys, if we want the charity money to be "a couple hundred dollars" there have to be significantly more visits to the site and stats (including more click-throughs). So far the advertising income is not even close to covering costs, we just decided that it is more important to give something back to the contributors to keep going :/ IP: Logged |
Other, Esq. Follower of Athlon |
posted March 03, 2000 08:33
Dear Adam04, I replied to the topic at hand. Your Need I say more? IP: Logged |
adam04 Follower of Athlon |
posted March 03, 2000 14:45
Other, esq It was not off topic. I would hate any money generated by even my small efforts to go to the "charity" you nominated. Armin asked for the our views as to where the money should go. Not wanting the money to go to a particular organisation is just as valid. What would your thoughts be if I wanted the KKK or Islamic terrorists to get the loot?
On another point (on or off topic!!)it would seem that only a few "regulars" ever contribute to this forum and this is particularly true for this topic. There are now over a thousand members and each is entitled to their views. How can we be sure that the majority of the contributers will agree with the final choice? Mass email perhaps? As the disagreement between Other, Esq and myself has shown this could end up losing Dcypher.net valuable support.
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Guru Follower of Athlon |
posted March 03, 2000 16:50
Gamma flux and Chernobyl. http://www.recorder.ca/cac/ IP: Logged |
spoonish Wish I had an Athlon |
posted March 03, 2000 19:50
amnesty international IP: Logged |
Shoe Lace Follower of Athlon |
posted March 05, 2000 17:54
I think WFP should have the money. IP: Logged |
Arcane Follower of Athlon |
posted March 05, 2000 19:52
Amnesty International IP: Logged |
Armin High Priest of Athlon |
posted March 19, 2000 12:38
The vote is on at http://dcypher.net/whatsnew.shtml IP: Logged |
adam04 Follower of Athlon |
posted April 01, 2000 04:26
Yo Armin, I note that the poll on the charity of choice indicates that the Gun Owners of America is marginally ahead. If this charity does gain the most support, will you make the donation to it? I thought you wanted to give the cash to international charities to reflect the worldwide membership of GF. BTW do you have statistics on the nationality of participants? If GF is dominated by US citizens then perhaps it will be acceptable to donate to a US charity, but I know that there is a large European membership as well as Australian participants who may well object. (although I seem to be the only one who is concerned!!) Adam IP: Logged |
Imitation Follower of Athlon |
posted April 01, 2000 10:34
No, you're no the only one man. I'm an Aussie and the fact that it's 1) not a charity and 2) american just puts me off giving them the money. I do agree with you that if the majority of participants are from USA then let the Guns Owners get the money. But this isn't just for those of you in the US. No offense to you dudes way over there but I think Red Cross actually does something to help people - unlike Gun Owners which i guess is there to protect your rights and make's sure you people are allowed to bring guns to school and stuff heh.. nah but well it doesn't really do anything. Seeing as though this is an international thing I think it should at least be going to some large well known international organization. Hmm... whatever. While we're on that subject. Anyone who's seen those ads on TV about Australian's being forced to live in fear since we aren't allowed to carry automatic weapons and all that cool kind of shit... it is complete and utter garbage. That was one of your wicked arse gun organizations... cool huh? So... we are not getting broken into and getting threatened and stuff.... hah... yeh. ok. It's more likely that I'll get jabbed by some guy with a syringe full of blood at a petrol station or something. Wait I don't own a car.. wait, I don't even have a license (yet, just 1 month ). hehe. - Matt A smoke is a smoke [This message has been edited by Imitation (edited April 01, 2000).] IP: Logged |
Postmand_Per Follower of Athlon |
posted April 01, 2000 12:47
Well said Imitation. Guns sucks IMHO. ------------------ IP: Logged |
MikeHen Wish I had an Athlon |
posted April 02, 2000 14:23
I agree with the suggestion of sponsering The Hunger Site, even if it's only for one day. The Dcypher site will get so much exposure that it could double it's membership overnight - just what's needed. It's my experience that when 'odd' sponsers appear on Hunger Site, people really do click through! And that's >200,000 potentials per day! So how many people have really thought it through and voted Hunger Site - 7 = 3%. And how many crazy people need to have their rights to own guns defended - 82 (32%). If any gun based charity(?) wins, I for one shall move back to Prime or dnet. Is everyone voting for this as a joke? Here in the UK where gun crimes are so rare that just about every instance makes the news, I think you'd have a hard job getting 82 people in the whole Country to vote this way!!! [This message has been edited by MikeHen (edited April 02, 2000).] IP: Logged |
Ken_g6 Follower of Athlon |
posted April 03, 2000 12:36
Gun Owners of America?! Edit: Suffice it to say that I do not believe guns are a charitable cause. I wanted to vote for Canadian Aid for Chernobyl, but I voted for the Red Cross just to compete with Gun Owners of America. And finally, has anyone other than Other, Esq. heard of Gun Owners of America before? How do we know they're legit? Ken [This message has been edited by Ken_g6 (edited May 05, 2000).] IP: Logged |
Armin High Priest of Athlon |
posted April 03, 2000 04:23
Ken, As I said prior to opening the nominations, I'll put all nominees up for vote. This is whether I like them or not, I will not exercise censorship of the election process. There's a really simple way to push your favourite charity: recruit more friends of yours to do Gamma Flux and have them vote for your favourite IP: Logged |
Maciek Follower of Athlon |
posted April 03, 2000 04:26
Just remember it's international project, guys. People in Poland (probably in other countries, too) just do not want to support such charities. We'd like to support Red Cross or any other organisation that gives people all over the world hope for better, peaceful and healthy live. IP: Logged |
Maciek Follower of Athlon |
posted April 03, 2000 04:35
Armin, Do you have a possibility to check who votes for this charity??? I doub't it as you use some kind of public voting company (vote.pollit.com) instead of making something yours only. IP: Logged |
Wojtek Wish I had an Athlon |
posted April 03, 2000 04:43
I agree with Maciek. Personally I have been voting for "Doctors w/o borders" - but red Cross is also a good choice. BTW I have noticed that only 262 persons has taken their vote while according to stats there are 1300 GF participiants and over 4000 generally. So let us make a rumour in our group to vote on a international interest. Have You noticed that "Guns..." wins only by two points over "Red Cross" ??? Everything can change in future... Greetings, W. IP: Logged |
Matze Follower of Athlon |
posted April 05, 2000 05:48
Most users with dial-up connections use dynamic ip-addresses, so with (nearly) every online-session you´re able to vote. Additionally I have the impression that even users with only one browser and a static ip-address are able to vote once per day (I tried it at work). I think that´s the way the gun owners got so many votes. I would have loved to vote for the Hungersite, but Red Cross was the only organization who was able to compete with the gun owners so I voted for them. Perhaps we find a better way to choose the charity next time... IP: Logged |
Armin High Priest of Athlon |
posted April 05, 2000 08:35
The poll works with both IP and cookie blocking, means that it sets a cookie and bans the ip from voting again. That's the highest level of security that can be accomplished without tying the poll into the user database which, at this point, isn't feasible simply because we don't have the time to code it. We may be able to do it for the next vote in 3 months, though, when we expect a much higher voter turnout and hopefully donation. Mind you we are talking about 10% of income that is just barely sufficient to pay the prize money (with site costs and work hour we are writing thick red ink). IP: Logged |
Matze Follower of Athlon |
posted May 04, 2000 04:45
Ok, maybe it´s too early, but I´ve got candidate #1 for the next vote http://www.therainforestsite.com / IP: Logged |
Ken_g6 Follower of Athlon |
posted May 05, 2000 03:58
While this thread is at the top, I need to apologise to Armin for my tone in my previous post. While I still believe what I did then, I should not have blamed you the way I did, and I'm sorry. Ken IP: Logged |
krs Wish I had an Athlon |
posted May 06, 2000 13:07
My favorite charities: http://www.trickleup.org http://www.longnow.org For another approach to charitable giving see IP: Logged |
Arcane Follower of Athlon |
posted May 08, 2000 09:37
I agree with the other posts that Gun Owners of America should not even be considered a charity because it really is not a charity, it's a political organization. Also, something really does need to be done about the polling system. I didn't cheat, but it would have been extremely easy for me to do so since I could keep disconnecting and reconnecting, my domain switches so often you would have to ban all of *.att.net to stop me. The only way I could see to actually have a secure system is to poll people by e-mail address and weight their votes according to how many WUs they have submitted in the past 30 days (or whatever time period). Obviously this is not a democratic poll but the reason I think this is a good idea is because this prevents people from altering the vote by creating a large number of accounts that do one WU per day (similar to the way the current prize system allows for abuse :P). [This message has been edited by Arcane (edited May 08, 2000).] IP: Logged |
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