My response to 2281 - Charity Platform
A member of our #steemit community has thought about it and raised concerns regarding the issues surrounding fundraising on steemit.
I would like to start of by saying thank you for your careful consideration and recommendation to the steemit community.
I want to raise some concerns regarding you suggestions.
I know you want a better and controlled environment where you target is to ensure only genuine and noble causes benefit from such platform. As right now we are unable to identify exactly where the funds are being sent to and even if they are helping the actual cause or not.
Existing websites
There are existing websites and charity companies that collect money, maybe you have no idea what percentage of their donation policy is. Example I gave in you post was this.
This is direct result of what you are suggesting when organisations are involved they cost money and they take large cuts which I do not agree with nor would I support it.
There are genuine people out there who collect the money and actually give it 100% without keeping anything to the cause funds raised for.
We cannot ignore the ones that are fraud therefore, instead of limiting to the people that collect the money. Steemit can demand the evidence of donation such as receipts, it can also request for identification of individuals those want to fund raise but it should not be limited to companies.
I love how steemit works and how community together can raise funds without costing others any money. This exercise should not be stopped and it should continue, every organisation started somewhere and often started with one person and we should not take this opportunity away from that one genuine person. I'd rather have 100 fraudsters raising funds and 1 genuine guy raising funds and helping the needy. Than left to big organisations that have like 20% donation policy, I have seen charity companies giving bonus to their top employees who use it to buy cars worth £35,000. I am against many corporation charity companies.
I respect you for thinking about the topic and recognising the issue but some solutions look and sound good but they bring other issues with them which people don't like to agree with or want to believe but they are real problems and they are existing problems.
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