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RE: Questions for Steemit Community RE: Charity

in #charity • 8 years ago

Charity seems tricky at this stage in the site's development. Lack of trust is surely part of it. But the daily reward pool is already small relative to the number of site users, and allocating any significant portion of this reward pool to charity while this remains the case may threaten this site's long-term viability.

It may be that charity framed as social entrepreneurship would do better here than charity framed as giving away money. Perhaps this will change as the site grows and becomes more successful.

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    I understand what you're saying, @mada, and appreciate the thought. It seems incongruous to me though. Maybe I'm missing something. Here are a couple of examples:

    • I picked the next one totally randomly from hot articles, based mainly on the current payout and topic in comparison to charitable articles. This is a great article and lots of fun. I absolutely do not want to take away from it. But I also want to question the value of it, in the scheme of things. I'll also point out the fact that people are "trusting" this person to do whatever they want with the payout. It's currently at $145.
    • Here's another post from a group that works hard to feed homeless people in the Dallas area, posting often about their endeavors. Rather than take from that work, they've asked for help to get a floor repaired. They can do most of the work themselves, but asked for $300 in upvotes to help them finish it. They have a good reputation on Steemit already. This post paid out $2.53.
    • This one is from @steemitcharity, so the reputation is already decent. It's to help a homeless woman with a skin disease. It paid out $5.97.

    If the high payout posts lost a few bucks due to more votes going to these charity posts, it wouldn't hurt anyone. It's not like the pool is miniscule. It's odd to me that these charitable efforts are often paying out pennies though, even when present from authors that normally get a decent payout. It's almost like an aversion to charity.

    Maybe you see something I don't. It's just not adding up to me. But it may be because I'm focused on it too, whereas it's just not on others' radar.

    Thanks again for your response. It's good to have discussion.

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