Re: [Discuss] [Funding Mechanism] How to accommodate lower and higher pledge levels

On 10/19/2015 08:20 AM, Stephen Michel wrote: > In short, I don't believe we actually need any change to the mechanism; > we just need to lower the minimum and encourage donation at > above-minimum levels. > > We should do this by keeping in mind that *the average user will tend to > stick with

[Discuss] [Funding Mechanism] How to accommodate lower and higher pledge levels

In short, I don't believe we actually need any change to the mechanism; we just need to lower the minimum and encourage donation at above-minimum levels. We should do this by keeping in mind that *the average user will tend to stick with the defaults.* Therefore, if we set the recommended

Re: [Discuss] [Funding Mechanism] How to accommodate lower and higher pledge levels

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Aaron Wolf wrote: On 10/19/2015 08:20 AM, Stephen Michel wrote: In short, I don't believe we actually need any change to the mechanism; we just need to lower the minimum and encourage donation at above-minimum levels. We should

Re: [Discuss] Fwd: What makes a team member?

On 10/19/2015 11:05 AM, Jonathan Roberts wrote: > Aaron, what are your thoughts about that? > From here on, try to remember reply in context at the *bottom* of an email / below the thing in context. It's much easier to follow that way. Anyway, I think that it's okay to say that employees

Re: [Discuss] Flagging comments in the forum

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Jonathan Roberts wrote: I don't like the way flagging is currently presented in the forum. To check a box that labels another comment as "defensiveness" or "hate speech" has a lot of potential for escalating conflict...see every

Re: [Discuss] Thoughts on pledge matching

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Stephen Michel wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Jonathan Roberts < > robertsthebr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > These things may have been discussed already, but these are initial > thoughts from friends looking at the system;

Re: [Discuss] Flagging comments in the forum

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Aaron Wolf wrote: > > > On 10/19/2015 03:29 PM, mray wrote: > > > > > > On 19.10.2015 22:47, Bryan Richter wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:40:04AM -0700, Aaron Wolf wrote: > >>> > >>> On 10/19/2015 11:14 AM, Jonathan Roberts wrote: >

[Discuss] PSA: Don't worry, I will be summarizing all these emails

If the volume of emails today has been overwhelming, don't worry about reading it all. I am going to make a summary of the important points from each thread, some time in the next few days. Cheers, Stephen To avoid further volume, please do not reply to this message.

Re: [Discuss] Fwd: What makes a team member?

While we're going meta... One thing that stands out to me is that this whole discussion is predicated upon the assumption that these 3 classes must exist. I haven't spent enough time reading the bylaws, etc, to determine if this assumption is valid; I just wanted to make it explicit. I will

Re: [Discuss] [Funding Mechanism] How to accommodate lower and higher pledge levels

On 19.10.2015 17:47, Stephen Michel wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Aaron Wolf wrote: >> >> >> On 10/19/2015 08:20 AM, Stephen Michel wrote: >>> In short, I don't believe we actually need any change to the mechanism; >>> we just need to lower the minimum

Re: [Discuss] Flagging comments in the forum

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Aaron Wolf wrote: On 10/19/2015 03:47 PM, mray wrote: On 20.10.2015 00:36, Aaron Wolf wrote: On 10/19/2015 03:29 PM, mray wrote: On 19.10.2015 22:47, Bryan Richter wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:40:04AM -0700, Aaron