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The same argument could be made that it opens Kickstarter up to the mainstream and can help get more eyeballs on the other smaller projects.

• Scottopherson 13y ago
  I think it'd be interesting if Kickstarter projects were required to (or maybe strongly encouraged to) donate a percentage of their earnings to another project(s) on the site. Making these percentages visible to users would be interesting as well; smaller projects might get some extra visibility from larger projects like Mr. Braff's.
  • chc 13y ago
    This would be really onerous for small projects that are barely making ends meet. They already have enough trouble budgeting as is.
    • mostly_harmless 13y ago
      well, maybe for projects that cross their goal, the surplus can be partially and optionally passed forward
      • chc 13y ago
        That's already the case, isn't it? If somebody who's running a Kickstarter is concerned about holes being burnt in their pockets, they already have the option of donating some of their money to another Kickstarter, don't they?
• __--__ 13y ago
  I think this is what most people are really afraid of. They want kickstarter to be this small, odd thing that few people know about but they think is cool. By opening kickstarter to the mainstream, their cool, hip "mission district" is being gentrified. In case that transition caught anyone off-guard, this same pattern is seen over and over in otherwise unconnected things. Punk was cool, before it went mainstream. SoMa was cool, before it was swallowed by condos. Facebook was cool, before my mom started using it. etc.