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by DigitalSea
4943 days ago
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Yeah and those damn pesky charities who have the audacity to ask for donations to help sick children get better or provide clean water and food to families in third world countries... /sarcasm To answer your question: yes, you are the only one that finds appeals for donations for worthy causes to be irritating. The Internet Archive might not get as much attention as Wikipedia or other donate-able causes, but what they're doing is a very worthy cause and something that will be commended and finally recognised one day in the near distant future. When someone is willing to match a donation 3-1, you can't argue that even the minimum donation of $25 which I am sure most HN users could afford would help them out a lot. It's attitudes like yours that are the reason sites like Wikipedia have to resort to plastering Jimmy Wales' face over their site and beg for donations to keep the site running. Have some heart, man. I just donated $50, please consider donating even just $25. |
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Also, please keep in mind that the Internet Archive isn't plastering this donation campaign everywhere - and that this is completely user submitted.
They have a blue banner on http://archive.org asking for donations on some pages. But they do not for example;
* mail every user that is registered
* add the banner on all wayback machine pages
In other words, they're pretty subtile.