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So there are no actual "perks" for the $1 and $8 contribution levels listed under the "Select a Perk" table? $1 Binary E-mail User: You're part of the revoluti

So there are no actual "perks" for the $1 and $8 contribution levels listed under the "Select a Perk" table? $1 Binary E-mail User: You're part of the revolution, baby! - the revolution that started in the 1960's with the creation of the first e-mail systems. $8 Futurist Telegrapher: Having not spent a dime on webmail for the last decade, you've realized that the telegraph operators of the world have been keeping copies, and it's time to change that. Thanks for helping us help you! So what do the contributors actually get for $1 or $8?

roryokane 13y ago
They get nothing. I think those “reward” levels are just a cute way to trigger anchoring (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring) and make the job of choosing how much money to give easier by suggesting some choices. In fact, the $13 contributors don’t get anything extra either – they get “access to Mailpile's online source code”, but that’s already available at https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile.