On 27.06.2016 03:55, Aaron Wolf wrote:
> I think the *vast* majority of pledges will set their limit for none of > those reasons. They will set their limit to be conservative and know > that they system will ask them for permission to go any further. > > If people are really broke, we want them to feel minimal obligation to > pledge at all and lots of gratitude for *any* participation. > > For most patrons, The initial $10 limit works as "okay, I accept right > now that up to $10 may just happen, but if things go beyond that, I want > to be notified and have a chance to accept or reject the idea of going > beyond $10." The way I understand the proposal of notification would be: "Hey! $10 a month seems to be ok with you, and you're currently only using $5 a month...., but.... as we want to ensure that projects get funded in the future when even more people join maybe you can up that limit to $15 already, because you know crowmatching works that way that things grow kind of. After all you're just spending $5, but your limit of $10 should better be higher." > Nearly all of them will be able to possibly spend $12 or > $15 or $20 just as easily as they spent $10, but they won't be okay > trying this new system with a high commitment level. > > So, we don't want to shame them for not raising their limit, but we *do* > want to say: > > "We hope you feel your part of this crowdmatching success was worth it > and the projects you support have shown good progress and good use of > their funds. So, if you're now comfortable with this pledge being worth > it, please consider raising your budget, if you can afford to, and > continue participating as the crowdmatching grows further and makes even > that much more impact!" That is the sugar coated version of: "Hey you actually seem to like spending money with us. If you spend more you'll probably like that more! .... just a reminder ...." To which I could reply: "Yes of course, you set up a system that raises my participation at a growing speed without me having control over it - no WONDER that I start get closer to the limit and end up spending money. That is what the limit is *for*." I propose to not make a big fuss about approaching the limit at all. Let's stay completely quiet until we hit it and *then* deal with consequences. Not having to deal with constantly adjusting the limit to projects (which you really want to see grow) is a better motivation than pointing out how crowdmatching works, and that it *kind of* is expected to behave a certain way (wich is always to give more) just to do the right thing in general.
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