A small proposal to support the forum team/community.

[AlexPCS]

I think that our discussion here brings us to a logical conclusion to create the donation fund for active community members, and not for the moderators. Any further thoughts on this?

Most of the people here are not social cases, they don't need to live from some donation fund, last time I checked this is not a socialist-communist forum, and you should stop thinking what other people need to do with their own money.
Helping forum by reporting plagiarism, spam and other crap is activity that is helping everyone and if you feel so generous you can find address of most forum members and send them you Bitcoin donation.

I would allow myself to disagree with you here. As some of the reputable forum members already mentioned above - all this should be impersonal and unbiased. Community must decide who will be encouraged - not me or any other particular user.

As Lucius also correctly noticed such initiatives can and will be abused - that's why distribution mechanism needs to be agreed upon.

[hilariousandco]

Indeed as isaac_clarke22 has mentioned, the non-moderator part of the community is putting a great effort into reporting plagiarism, ban evasion and malware, making Bitcointalk a great place. It's impressive. I think that our discussion here brings us to a logical conclusion to create the donation fund for active community members, and not for the moderators. Any further thoughts on this?

P.S. I have adjusted the OP title as well.

I'm sure your heart is in the right place but I think it's just going to be too complicated to do. Who holds the funds and who decides on how to share them and based on what criteria? Once money is involved people will do things just for the monetary aspect of it and there are always ways to cheat or bend the rules etc. If people think someone deserves some money then send just them a tip, but most people probably don't want to give their money away even if it's to a good cause, but there are far better causes that could do with your money than bitcoin posters or reporters. I think if anyone was going to do something like this it should probably be theymos but if you wanted to try set thing thing up or organise it yourself there's nothing to stop you from doing so, just be careful if you're asking to hold on to the funds or make sure that it doesn't come across as begging or asking for donations.

[dkbit98]

I would allow myself to disagree with you here.

Please enough with this empty talk, lead by example and send Bitcoin donation if you want so much.

[AlexPCS]

I would allow myself to disagree with you here.

Please enough with this empty talk, lead by example and send Bitcoin donation if you want so much.

It's a pity that some people are trying to find an evil intent in this whole discussion. I am making the first step to prove my intentions. Donation sent to the user I have not known of before this and isaac_clarke22 pointing to his thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=805820 I see a lot of dedication and effort which Lafu puts into this. TXid: 690b7f81978a3f5192d3c739666709700cb0496c4aa531e6dab8ae55f7649a69

I want to underline once again that this donation is not something I was aiming to achieve with this thread. My only goal is to create an unbiased, impersonal donation fund, where funds would be distributed within active and contributing members in a fair and decentralized way, just how we all like it with crypto!

[Pmalek]

Community must decide who will be encouraged - not me or any other particular user.

That will become a popularity contest where the most popular become even more popular. If you introduce a voting system, we can already predict the possible winners or some of those who will be in the top 5.  You are looking at one of the most merited and most frequent posters earning most of the votes. It's like when a famous singer or movie star walks into a shop. They close the shop down so he can shop freely and he gets everything he likes for free. His rich ass doesn't have to pay for it.   

Or, you will witness another phenomenon where the biggest local forums will vote for a member from their own local. Battle of nations. 

[Lafu]

I am making the first step to prove my intentions. Donation sent to the user I have not known of before this and isaac_clarke22 pointing to his thread: I see a lot of dedication and effort which Lafu puts into this. TXid: 690b7f81978a3f5192d3c739666709700cb0496c4aa531e6dab8ae55f7649a69

I want to underline once again that this donation is not something I was aiming to achieve with this thread. My only goal is to create an unbiased, impersonal donation fund, where funds would be distributed within active and contributing members in a fair and decentralized way, just how we all like it with crypto!

Thank you for your donation , i really appreciate this kindness of you.
I confirm that i got the donation , but i will donate the half or the whole amount to an charity project .
So if anybody know a good charity project let me know it please.
Maybe i donate it also to the Bpip or other helpfull services that we all using here for Bitcointalk.
There are so many Users , Moderators and helpers here that making a lot of effort for helping new Users and others in here on there one way and the Forum.
All this Users are making there part to it that we have a great Forum , a Community with so much Information about everything that is Crypto related. They all deserv it .

[Pmalek]

I confirm that i got the donation , but i will donate the half or the whole amount to an charity project .
So if anybody know a good charity project let me know it please.

When I got accepted in ChipMixer I asked the same question because I wanted to donate my first week's signature payment to a good cause. I got some decent responses in my thread Offering my avatar space for FREE and donating my 1st-week signature earnings. 

There are several projects operated by Bitcointalk members, like Royse777's Project Covid - 19 or the Bitcointalk Charity Program by cabalism13. Have a look, it might help you further. I remember seeing a donation fund by someone who wanted to build rice farms in Vietnam if I a not mistaken. I tried to look for it, but I wasn't able to find the thread.

[LoyceV]

I've no idea how much Theymos pays the moderators here

That's the beauty of a blockchain: addresses are in their profile, and any amount they receive is public.

I would allow myself to disagree with you here. As some of the reputable forum members already mentioned above - all this should be impersonal and unbiased. Community must decide who will be encouraged - not me or any other particular user.

As Lucius also correctly noticed such initiatives can and will be abused - that's why distribution mechanism needs to be agreed upon.

The best way to avoid any abuse is by sending a donation directly to whoever you want. There's no need for a "middle man" forum community to decide who to donate to.

My only goal is to create an unbiased, impersonal donation fund, where funds would be distributed within active and contributing members in a fair and decentralized way, just how we all like it with crypto!

Again: the best way to decentralize donations is by omitting the fund, and making the donation directly.

Or, you will witness another phenomenon where the biggest local forums will vote for a member from their own local. Battle of nations.

Good point, I've seen that happen too. I can imagine most of the work Mods do happens quietly in the background.

[Pmalek]

It's a pity that some people are trying to find an evil intent in this whole discussion.

I have a feeling like you are taking it personally. You shouldn't. It's nothing against you. People have evil intentions and will look to exploit every little thing that can be exploited. One should never generalize because not everyone is that same, but imagine you posted your private key in a public post by mistake instead of your address. What do you think how many people would try to sweep the funds and steal them, and how many people would make you aware of your mistake and ask you to correct it or send the coins to an address under their control and ask you how to return it to you? I think 2 or 3 out of 10 would do the right thing, the others wouldn't. Money corrupts people.    

[Lafu]

Good point, I've seen that happen too. I can imagine most of the work Mods do happens quietly in the background.

For sure , a lot of the Work is done by the Moderators and the Global Mods quietly behind what we see.
They doing an awesome work and job.

There are several projects operated by Bitcointalk members, like Royse777's Project Covid - 19 or the Bitcointalk Charity Program by cabalism13. Have a look, it might help you further. I remember seeing a donation fund by someone who wanted to build rice farms in Vietnam if I a not mistaken. I tried to look for it, but I wasn't able to find the thread.

Thanks , i will looking at it and thinking about where i going to do the donation.
Probably i doing an amount to the Charity Program and an other Amount to the Bpip website and team.

[AlexPCS]

It's a pity that some people are trying to find an evil intent in this whole discussion.

I have a feeling like you are taking it personally. You shouldn't. It's nothing against you. People have evil intentions and will look to exploit every little thing that can be exploited. One should never generalize because not everyone is that same, but imagine you posted your private key in a public post by mistake instead of your address. What do you think how many people would try to sweep the funds and steal them, and how many people would make you aware of your mistake and ask you to correct it or send the coins to an address under their control and ask you how to return it to you? I think 2 or 3 out of 10 would do the right thing, the others wouldn't. Money corrupts people.  

Thanks your response.

Nothing personal, Pmalek I certainly do agree with you that money corrupts people, you are spot on. I was only responding to dkbit98's post. I assume he is the one who took all of this personally, but it's ok.