I would never donate through here. It doesn't matter what it is, who it is or how convincing they are. If I felt strongly enough about a cause I would seek out someone dealing with it on an existing basis and force some BTC on them.
Great thinking, I have somewhat of a similar idea. Donating to people here in the forum is simply not an option for me but it seems several users have done it. Just feeling strongly about a cause should not be enough to part with crypto, there is so much more to it than just sending your donation.
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People are welcome to do what they want but I will never give BTC to people on here claiming it’s for charity. No offence to anybody involved but I like to see where my money is going.
Same case here! I do appreciate ppl helping others, but I usually do my own charity; I formed a small group here in my town and helped people get food and stuff; but always verified them personally; that's how I like it.
I wish you success in your charity work. I hope the small group you work with manage to get larger in scale and manage to help more and more people who are in need. The fact you verify them before parting with food stock is an excellent thing, I hope you continue your excellent work.
I hate charities in real life too. Most of them are scammers.
I agree with you, though I wouldn't go so far as to use the word hate to describe my feelings, since at least
some of them do some real good in the world. The problem I have with charities in general is how they use their donated funds--you think all the money you give a charity is going toward whatever the charity's purpose is, but the reality is that most of it goes for administrative funds or other uses that don't help anybody but the charity itself.
As far as people on bitcointalk asking for donations, I thought that was against the rules--though I'll admit I haven't read the rules in a while and don't remember a specific rule about charity-giving. The no-begging rule I'm well aware of, and I've reported a few threads for that even though the members were claiming the funds were going to go toward a good cause.
But even if it's allowed, I'd be extremely careful sending bitcoin to anybody here no matter what they say or who they claim they are. There are scammers everywhere, and the way I see it is that it's more likely it's a scammer asking for your donations than a legitimate charity.
Just like I also have a problem with large charity organisations because they take a huge share of donations to pay staff salaries and for various administrative costs and how much of that actually goes to good causes?
I never considered about whether asking for donations was against forum rules but there are threads created specifically for the purpose of charity, they have been around some time therefore safe to say "asking for donations" threads are not considered the same as "begging" otherwise they would have been removed by now.
