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Hey! I have another question, though this time it's about something a lot bigger than censorship differences.
How would you guys like to start a charity drive with me?

See, gogoicarus had an awesome outcome with her drive, and I was really inspired by it and decided to try and do something similar to that, where people donate to charity and show proof of it to "commission" artwork and stuff, right? I was originally going to fly solo, but then I got to thinking, and-- well, why not see if other people wanted to join in? We could start a community for it, let anyone who wanted to lend a hand volunteer. And hey, why stop at artwork? People could write, make icons, make videos, play songs, whatever they want. Use their talents for good and all that. They wouldn't have to be MASTERS at what they do, they'd just have to be willing to do it. There's no better time for it, man; the economy's in the pits.

Would you guys be up for it?

Like I said, I don't have all the details worked out or anything (would this be an event or year-round, what would "prices" be and how much would each charitable act be worth, etc), and I don't think this is something I could manage all on my own so I'd need a few people willing to help mod, but. Those are minor. WE CAN WORK IT OUT

Spam this post with ideas, thread-hop, go for it. LET'S MAKE SOME MAGIC GUYS dude what if we do it and it gets all huge and famous that would be so cool

EDIT: supercharitygo YESSS
EDIT #2: Hey guys, I could really use some co-mods! If anyone's at all willing to help run this, please leave a comment. (As a note, modding pretty much consists of keeping an eye on things to make sure there's no trolling or shadiness or anything, answering questions, and also meeting with other mods from time to time to help make decisions. It's nothing extremely labor-intensive, but you have to be willing to help!)
EDIT #3:

1. Adult Content - Should it be allowed/disallowed for certain mediums (i.e.: disallowed for videos, allowed for art/writing)? Should it be allowed at all? What should the maximum rating be?

2. Runtime - For example, we could start accepting apps all through April to give people plenty of time to get ready and spread the word and all that, then it could start in May, end on June 1st, and volunteers will be given an extra month to finish any remaining requests. This isn't set in stone or anything, it's just to kind of give us a rough draft to work on. What do you think? Is an extra month too long, should it be a week sdjgfk

3. Request Limits - I don't want the volunteers to get swamped, so I was thinking that people could set a maximum amount of requests they'll take at a time. So you could, say, take up to five requests initially, then take another five later on, and so on and so forth. You can change this number around, make it different for each medium, whatever you want.
On that note, the volunteer could reply to their thread with "Closed" or "Open (5)" in the subject line so people can quickly know their status.

4. Reserves - For if someone REALLY WANTS to commission a certain volunteer but is worried about them running out of spaces, I guess. I don't want tons of people squatting or anything, though, so maybe just have it last for a day and not allow them to reserve the same volunteer? Or maybe not allow it for a week or something? Or not allow it at all? idk
*Let volunteers specify whether they want to allow/disallow reservations for their post?
*Only allow people to make one reservation? (dia_aren_marie)
*Only allow people to make one reservation per week (lasts one day), and not allow them to reserve the same volunteer for the rest of the event?

5. Leftovers - For if someone commissions a volunteer but still has some "cash" left over to commission another one. They would have to link to their previous request post, though, so we know they aren't trying to cheat or anything. This might get tricky to moderate, haha.
*Have a Current Commissions post that keeps track of everything that's going on. Volunteers could notify the mods whenever they get a new commission (be sure to include how much they got), and the mods add that info to the Current Commissions post. (dia_aren_marie)

6. Value - As in, how much each donation is worth (all currencies are obviously fine, but will be translated to USD to make it easier to measure). Uhhh, let's start with...
Money donation = amount donated
Blood donation = $20
Plasma donation = $25
Charity work = $20 per hour? EVERYTHING IS $20
Donated items = $10 per item
Do these need to be higher/lower? Got any more ideas?

7. Prices - Volunteers can change these around for their posts, but let's debate on some default prices to use as reference:
Art-
Sketch = $5
Lineart = $15
Color = $25
Finished = $35
And maybe +$5 for each extra person and +$5 for a background?
*Only have the "each extra person" thing count when it's more than two people?

Writing-
Drabble = $5
Short story = $15
More?

Icons-
Three icons = $1?

Videos-
Not sure?

Music-
Not sure?

Uhhh, anything else?

8. Have an ~Official AIM Chat~ - Just as a quick way for people to keep each other updated, and also for participants to get to know each other and all that stuff. IT'D BE NICE?

9. Banned Charities - Any skeevy charities we shouldn't support? Why?

10. Random Volunteer - For the donors who don't know who to choose. Volunteers could specify what they want, such as art, and the mods could randomly select a volunteering artist for them to go to. Could also do it by fandom, so donors could just say they want something from Zelda (to steal oldsneakers' example, har har) and we could randomly select any volunteer to do the job--art, writing, whichever! (oldsneakers)

MORE AS THINGS COME UP I hope this doesn't sound overly-complex dkjfhg hopefully everything will settle down nicely once it starts

Comments

[doxinator.livejournal.com]

AWESOOOOME

I'll make an official volunteer post in the comm as soon as we get things a little more organized, ahaha 8> SO MANY DECISIONS

[jaimonster.livejournal.com]

So, Pretty much Ill be putting my services for sale and then the moneys go to Charity, right?

[doxinator.livejournal.com]

Pretty much! It's like-- people will donate something to the charity of their choice (and "donate" doesn't just mean money, it could mean giving blood or working at a homeless shelter for a while, things like that), then go to a volunteer with proof that they helped, and then they can get stuff. None of the money will actually go through us or anything, haha.

[jaimonster.livejournal.com]

Oh Good! I like this system!
Im all up for it!