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Because they are spending donated money on something with a huge chance of failure and limited upside. Some probably even suspect that it is a vehicle for funn
by devit 11y ago
Because they are spending donated money on something with a huge chance of failure and limited upside.
Some probably even suspect that it is a vehicle for funneling the donated money to the top management's personal pockets since that's a good explanation for why they would go ahead with something so ill-advised.
- mathattack 11y agoAnd while this may sound far fetched, the lack of transparency hurt the cause of the executives. "If you aren't hiding something, why are you hiding something?"
- stordoff 11y agoEven ignoring how the money is used, some of the recent donation drives have been really off-putting. Multiple times I've been scanning an article on my phone to find the section I need, only for the page to grey-out and become non-interact-able because a donation request banner[1] has loaded over the top of the article. It's not a huge deal (scroll to the top, close it, and continue), but annoying your users is a pretty poor way to solicit donations IMO. [1] Similar to https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/FY1415MobileBannerTestExample.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/FY1415Mo...