CRVL and fundraising posts

Posted byfrater jasonPosted inbackchannel explication, UncategorizedTags:,

from a recent mod post:

Consider helping vandweller [redacted]* with her financial need for eye surgeries due to Graves Disease. Here are Bob’s 2 latest videos about [redacted] for updates about her current living situation, as well as the link to her Go Fund Me Campaign.

Seems to me that the income from the Amazon links on CRVL could be set aside for “worthy cause” situations like this.   Why dun the poor when the founder is already making money from their posts and purchases?

Bob is making a comfortable income off YT (I have seen estimates of $70k/yr based on views) and seems to have abandoned the forum.  The timestamps on his profile suggest he hasn’t logged in since the forum was resurrected, and his last post was on 5/8.

 

*I redacted the name because the issue is general and not personal.  I don’t know the person referenced and make no judgements about worthiness.

 

Published by frater jason

Full-time boondocker, usually in the American Southwest.

3 thoughts on “CRVL and fundraising posts”

  1. I don’t understand why you find it necessary to offer your opinion on what others should or should not do with the pages/sites/forums they have created. You are doing good work with your wiki page and have useful information to share on subjects other full timers care about. Why not focus more on what you can offer and less on how you think others should behave?

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  2. I am amused that you offer your opinion on what I should or should not do with the blog I’ve created. 🙂 Pot/kettle.

    But to answer your question: I made the “backchannel explication” tag specifically for posts related to forums. In this case “what I can offer” is an opinion on a more appropriate way to handle GoFundMe and similar requests on the forum. In the past I would have expressed it in a CRVL post, but:

    1. most humans react emotionally rather than thinking critically, so challenging ideas get derailed rather predictably into drama and righteous outrage.

    2. Bob has made it abundantly clear that he understands only one style of helping, the “give the man a fish” approach. All other styles are derided and unwelcome. No problem, I move more complex or difficult input here because it’s his forum to do with as he likes.

    I hope this answers your question.

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