Begging for money

tleilaxu · 20th October 2002, 03:24 PM

Is soliciting donations or otherwise requesting money allowed on enworld?

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showt...threadid=28113

Just curious, because if so I'll start begging for money too! I sure could use some more.... I can come up with a weepy story to convince you all to give me some!

Dragongirl · 20th October 2002, 03:27 PM

Where do I sign up for begging?

Crothian · 20th October 2002, 03:28 PM

I think since the other one is an actual organization it is allowed, but individual begging here would be tacky. Just my opinion.

Dragongirl · 20th October 2002, 03:31 PM

But how do we know it is a REAL organization? Anyway, rather not see a lot of organization, real or otherwise start posting asking for donations. JMO

tleilaxu · 20th October 2002, 03:33 PM

that's basically what i posted on the thread. (referring to DG's post)

Crothian · 20th October 2002, 03:35 PM

Well, it's really for the mods to decide. I don't recall anything like this happening before, so we may be setting new policy here.

Dragongirl · 20th October 2002, 03:41 PM

Seem odd that a "reading club" would want gaming materials. I would think they would want novels. :: shrug ::

alsih2o · 20th October 2002, 05:25 PM

i have reviewed the thrread twice now, and don't see them asking for money at all.

MeepoTheMighty · 21st October 2002, 01:09 AM

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Originally posted by Dragongirl
Seem odd that a "reading club" would want gaming materials. I would think they would want novels. :: shrug ::

Well, it is a sci-fi/fantasy club. I'd think they'd want both.

**Darkness** · 21st October 2002, 01:24 AM

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Originally posted by Dragongirl
Seem odd that a "reading club" would want gaming materials. I would think they would want novels. :: shrug ::

They have now clarified what they want:

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One Last thing. I am not here asking for money. We can easily get a grant from the various student orginizations in the form of cold hard cash.
I am here asking for D&D books and d20 books. And we arent a "book club" either. Otherwise we would spend that money solely on books.

**Darkness** · 21st October 2002, 01:33 AM

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Originally posted by Crothian
Well, it's really for the mods to decide. I don't recall anything like this happening before, so we may be setting new policy here.

Not sure what the Admins will decide but personally, I think that unless you are a webmaster of an RPG-related site (at least as much as those other guys, that is) or who needs support for your site, or someone organizing a con or needing stuff for a group abroads (like these soldiers in Bosnia), it's probably not acceptable to ask for money in EN World.
Still, be aware that such a thread is basically spam. (If you are asking for money, at least.)

Or maybe (no, make that maybe) if your existence or health is threatened - but that would have to be decided on a case-by-case basis (also, in that case, ask whether it's okay first).

Also, unless the thread is very necessary, I'd take a dim view of bumping such a thread (no matter whether by the thread starter or not) more often than once a week (and for longer than a couple weeks) - whether by an open bump or "topical" one. (Trust me, I can tell whether a post is a bump.

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So I'd advise the starter of such a thread to make it interesting enough to stay on the first couple pages on its own.

tleilaxu doesn't seem to fit any of these categories anyway, though.

Buttercup · 21st October 2002, 02:33 AM

While I'd be glad to help a group of lonely and bored soldiers stationed far from home, I'm not so interested in helping out a student club. But maybe I'm grumpy.

Krug · 21st October 2002, 03:15 AM

They seem to be the grumpy and rude ones...