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Re: support for babble

Posted by Dr. Bob on January 24, 2004, at 15:10:45

In reply to Amazon Honor System, posted by allisonm on January 24, 2004, at 12:34:30

> as PB continues to grow, at some point you'll *have* to have some assistants (who in my imagination would be U of C undergrads), and over years there will have to be successor if you burn out, become ill (God forbid), or make a career change. Those are likely possibilities.
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> Then there's Visa & the banks & their employees. And a paper trail theoretically open to the subpoenas of divorce lawyers, lawsuit defendants (and plaintiffs), overzealous law enforcement, etc. Those are unlikely possibilities, but they're also perfectly real. I don't think you can maintain that the ID disclosure would just be to you.
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> -bhc

Fair enough. But the main point I wanted to make was that posters wouldn't automatically know each other's names...

> I know I recently made a payment to someone via paypal, and they didn't find out my name
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> Nikki

Hmm, are you sure about that? Have they changed the way they do things?

> In an earlier post I pointed out that "therapists" could be affilliates and make a small amount for their referrals to Babble.
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> Rod

Interesting idea, but that could potentially be considered an illegal kickback...

> To generate revenue for the site, I do think that prominently advertising for donations on the site (PayPal button, etc.), Amazon referrals and/or ad revenue programs should be checked into before requiring a subscription
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> socialdeviantjeff

You don't think the Amazon and iGive links are prominent enough? I don't want to pressure others...

> I recently visited a web site ... that has a new feature at the top that allows people to donate money to support the site through Amazon.com.
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> I emailed Dr. Bob about it a few days ago but got no response.
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> allisonm

Sorry about not having gotten to that yet. I've really appreciated the donations I've received over the years, but as Dinah mentioned, it's not solely a financial issue...

Bob

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