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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

[oldsneakers.livejournal.com]

Hmm... Well, I'll get down to business this afternoon and brainstorm more ideas, but I've got just one right now. I'm a fan of lotteries and surprises, so I thought it'd be swell to have a "random artist or author" option for donors. For example, a donor would like to contribute to a charity in exchange for a fic but are unsure of who to choose for the job, so we choose a name from the pool of writers. Or, we could also do this by fandom: Someone would like something Zelda-related, so we randomly choose an artist or writer to create something, anything, as long as it's Zelda-related.

*yawwwn* Man, I need some peppy music to PUMP ME UP THIS MORNIN

[doxinator.livejournal.com]

Whoops, sorry for the late reply.

Oh yeah, you bring up a good point! That's a good idea; whenever a volunteer is accepted then one of us could just throw their username in a hat or something :B Or get a program to do it, I think there's some out there.

I'LL ADD THAT TO THE LIST in a second i'm being rushed adjkfhgjk

[oldsneakers.livejournal.com]

It's cool! I've been quite busy myself lately.

Yeah, I think it'd be tons of fun. :D And program is good. How's things lately? Feeling a little better about the whole life...uh, thing? /Da I didn't reply to your entry, but I wanted to say on the whole I agree with Icarus. That's good advice, there. It seems scary, and it is, to live life that boldly, but I guess it's all about the whole "no regrets" thing. It was harder for me to do until I started to... Damn, how do I put this... Listen more to my values, I think. What made me unique as a person. Nothing ground-shaking and, ffff I dunno, SPACE PONY-ish, but something that made me a little different from everyone else. I latched onto that and listened to it more. There's some quote out there, like "if you don't stand for something, everyone will stand on you," which seems appropriate here.

Anyway, I hope that's a little helpful and I wish you luck! ♥ No rush about the charity thing either. Expediency doesn't change the nature of the deed, so...take it on when you're good n' ready.

[doxinator.livejournal.com]

Haha, I'm a lot better, thank you. I keep wanting to bump that entry off the top since I'm not angsty anymore, but I don't really have anything to update with sfkdjg

But yeah, I've been trying to keep that attitude--jump in, try it out, leave if I don't like it, y'know--but that night, Mom talked with me for hours and was just so serious and... I don't know, she just made it sound like this huge thing and kept showing me all these different schools and tried to talk me into going to them and made the one I wanted to go to sound scary and all this stuff, and I just got really spooked, I dunno. I forgot my whole motto for a while. Then after I was done worrying about that, I got a SECOND WIND of angst and was generally unhappy with MYSELF, not college, so it was just this one-two punch of emo, hahaha. But I'm doing better, now.

Thank you, though :> That does help a lot. And nah, I don't want to rush into the charity thing at all, haha. Everything must be nice and plaaaaanned

[oldsneakers.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear that. ♥ When I need something to update with, I usually post feel-good songs or quotes and recipes.

hrrrrrngh parents can be really...disorienting. 8| If speaking with your mom made you feel bad about yourself, well...I'd say that's normal, especially at this stage of your life when you're unsure about your direction. It's tied to your sense of self. You can't realize direction without realizing yourself, too, so it's inevitable that both will get a little bruised and battered before becoming stronger together. It's like when two good buddies go out for a night on the town and one gets jumped, the other's gonna fall in no matter what, 'cause they're tight, bro. |B

Swell! I'll post the pimpin' announcement today, fer sure. Last couple a' days have been chaotic, but this is circled in red on today's to-do list. >8D