3 ms·
Thanks for the feedback. I'm building one useful feature a time. No to amazon affiliates.
by gits1225 8y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I'm building one useful feature a time.
No to amazon affiliates.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- gt_ 8y agoI like this. Thanks for sharing. I hope you will consider one thing, and please don’t mistake it for political correctness. The phrase “from good people” is distasteful and I think we’re all better off not implying such a thing as “bad people”. If the intent is to define a division, it’s important to be specific lest we undermine our egalitarian goals. I know you don’t mean it to be exclusionary, and probably instead aim to evoke positive feelings. But, for me it does the opposite. People accustomed to being excluded are likely to read “from good people” and wonder if that includes them or not.
- gits1225 8y agoI agree. I settled on the word good because I wasn't able to find a good word (no pun intended).
- amadeuspagel 8y agoI'd use great. Good people is usually used to mean decent people, whereas great people is used to mean impressive people, which may or may not be moral, as in great man theory of history.
- cagmz 8y agoMaybe "notable" people?
- Darkenetor 8y agoConsider smile.amazon.com links or affiliates for charities like electronicfro-20 (EFF) though.
- gits1225 8y agoThanks for the suggestion. I will.
- mynewtb 8y ago> No to amazon affiliates. Thanks you! This shows character and actual, proper altruistic intentions. Before reading this, I was not even going to click the link.
- sanderjd 8y agoPersonally, I prefer not to use any project that has no way to make money. Life is expensive and time consuming. Projects require at least a little time and money. If that isn't reimbursed in any way, the rest of life will nearly always take precedent at some point. Affiliate links seem like a good way to solve this. I don't see where the conflict of interest lies.
- kovek 8y agoI wonder at what ROI do we consider an investment something more like philanthropy and at what ROI it is more like capitalism?
- sanderjd 8y agoPhilanthropy is great when it's done by independently wealthy people. If that's who the author of this project is, then that's great and I've misjudged this. But that's not usually the case. The majority of mildly useful little unmonetized projects are not made by independently wealthy folks, they are made by (usually younger) folks who are optimistic and whose expenses and responsibilities have not yet accumulated. I don't mean to be a debbie downer - fun little projects are great - I'm just saying that I don't associate something unmonetized with "great! this is altruistic!", I associate it with "bummer, this will probably not be sustained", and when I come across something with a natural and well-aligned monetization scheme, I feel positively about it and am more likely to use it.
- gits1225 8y agoI want myself and others to contribute because of the desire to contribute. I don't want to bring affiliates into the equation lest it brings the wrong incentives (however glimmering it may be). There are other ways to make money.