Should Solicitations for $$ be allowed on Message Boards? — Page 2

Jose'- Are you the same Jose' that wanted to charge money for an "adults only" board or was that a different Jose'?

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Once again it falls to Namo the Peacekeeper to step in with the perfect compromise solution: The Cause Board!

It'd be a board where everybody who cares about causes and things and stuff could go to talk about causes and things and stuff. They could challenge each other to fundraising duels and EVERYTHING! Probably we could get Corine2 to pull some strings and get a pair of tickets to Forbidden Broadway for the person who raises enough money for Thyroid Awareness, for example.

There could be a thermometer graphic that says "This Here Much Money Has Been Raised for Causes and Things and Stuff by the Good Citizens of The Broadwayworld Cause Board." Because that's what it's really all about, being good citizens.

Is somebody writing these great ideas of mine down?

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Updated On: 1/17/09 at 11:01 PM

"And for those dissatisfied with José's threads they can always follow their own advice and ignore his post."

With all due respect, etoile, in José's thread he asked a question, which one assumes means he's looking for people to give their opinions.

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And I too would expect that he was looking for opinions...on the question he asked.


~~ "Anyone else getting tired of Jose's remarks?"

~~ " 'Anyone else getting tired of Jose's remarks? I haven't been on these boards too long but quite a few of his posts that I've read has been very negative and usually rude.' 'YES' "

~~ " 'Should whiny threads by Jose' be allowed on message boards?'
No, everytime I see a thread made by him I know it will be him complaining about something stupid that no one else agrees with him on."

So again my comment would be that if one is dissatisfied with the style and content of José's post then perhaps they can find yet another Last Five Years Thread to read and debate once again if Jamie or Cathy was to blame or enter any of another hundred threads and ignore his post.

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Yes etoile, this is a post that is destined to become nasty. Being a message board, it is open for anything..like it or not. It was posted to conquer and divide.

Sorry Namo, I didn't mean to single you out. I do enjoy your posts. It was the heat of the moment.

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No one should be nasty to anybody else or bring up unrelated topics in an effort to attack someone for raising a question, I completely agree with you, etoile. (That is what therapists call "unfair fighting.")

Sadly, it happens here all the time. It's pretty ugly...no matter who is doing it.

It certainly isn't "charitable."

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"So let's bottom line it. What exactly is the problem with the question being asked? Or is it just a problem with the person doing the asking?"

There's a complicated question. I think it's pretty obvious that some people just have an issue with Jose. No matter what he posts, those people are going to attack him.

The bigger issue here is that so few people in the world are able to step away from their own egos for a moment and look at something objectively. It's especially true on this board. These people seem to think that any opinion that is in disagreement with their own, is personal attack on them, their reputations, their beliefs and causes.

Jose asked a question that is open for debate, meaning that if you disagree, present the opposing side of the argument with inetlligent reasoning as to why it is a good thing. People act as though Jose posted something condemning charities or saying that certain causes are unworthy of funds. That's not what happened. I wish people could learn to read something without allowing their egos to read more inro it than what is presented.

Now, to answer the question Jose raised. I have mixed feelings about it. I think it's fine for people to tap into any resource they ahve available to them. However, it does open the doors for hundreds of threads, which could become difficult to navigate and it provides opportunity for the kind of scamming mentioned in the posts from Sueleen and Etoil.

I think it should be allowed but monitored to ensure it doesn't get out of hand and that people are not taken advantage of.

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I made a donation (a couple of weeks ago) to support someone from this site who is doing the AIDS Walk. He is someone I don't know and have had minimal interaction with on the board. But I noticed a link in his sig, figured "why not support someone I am familiar with", and followed the link. It took me to the official AIDS Walk site, and allowed me to contribute in a very non-threatening and secure manner. If he were to move the link to an actual post announcing that he is doing the Walk, would that *really* be a problem?

That is significantly different from a thread someone started a while back looking to borrow $50.00.

I may have missed something over the past couple of days that triggered this issue, but aside from a handful of annoyingly inappropriate solicitations in the past, has it really been a problem? In the situations I can recall, the posts were either eliminated pretty quickly, or else the poster had the virtual stuffing kicked out of him, and I suspect garnered no financial support.

I understand that it *could* get out of control, but at this point it hasn't. In fact, it makes me feel good to see that there are people out there actively involved. Yes, by all means be careful because, lord knows, scams do exist. But I'd still rather function on the belief that the majority of people who post here are honorable. (And that comes from someone who has met a denizen or two of the dark underbelly of BWW...)

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Oh, bway, darling. With irritable bowel syndrome, every day is a race.

Emcee, I wish that I could have expressed my observation as succinctly as you did. Thank you.

Didn't mean to rile anyone up, I guess adding "in my opinion" is necessary for the more sensitive posters.

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Is there a Moderator in the house?

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