Profiting from webmaster donations

[Carrie]

It's on another board, that's where she'll respond so I'll just link to it (no referral code Serge *smile*)

Kayla made a comment today that she's taking the donations she got for her car accident and "splitting them just to be fair" with Sleazydream.

http://www.justblowme.com/showpost.php?p=3...053&postcount=1

[Mike AI]

Carrie you should just copy and paste your post here....

I will help you:

I might be reading this totally wrong, and if so I'll gladly apologize and eat crow. Got no problem with eating crow - in public even.

Here's the situation.
Kayla of Kaylacam got into a bad accident recently. Got bruised up pretty badly but no serious injuries and her car is totalled. She has insurance, but her deductible is $1k.

So Sleazydream gets on GFY asking for donations to cover the $1k, saying he's going to send her $100 to start it off. Webmasters start sending money like crazy and there was a big drama attached to it.

Now today, Kayla posts this:
Quote:
Originally Posted by kaylascams
Sleazy is the best. He got 12k for his sig this month and was able to help me raise about $3500 when I only needed $1000 but we are splitting the rest just to be fair


I asked her if my reading of this is correct and she hasn't answered yet... but it sounds like she's taking the extra $2500 of money that people donated to HER and splitting it with Sleazydream. That would be $1250 of webmaster donations that go to Sleazydream when they're meant to go to Kayla to help her cover rental car costs, string her along until she feels well enough to work on her site, etc...

Does anyone else see what's wrong with this picture or am I just being a prude by thinking that letting someone else profit from webmaster donations is just totally fucking wrong ?!?!??!

[Mike AI]

Originally posted by Mike AI@Mar 6 2004, 03:19 PM
Carrie you should just copy and paste your post here....

I will help you:

This is classic....

I wonder if anyone is going to report this as income for IRS?

[Peaches]

I don't think that's the real Kayla.

Kayla posts as kaylacam - no "s" - on both JBM and GFY.

[TheEnforcer]

That was a troll.

[TheEnforcer]

As Peaches pointed out she posts as Kaylacams and the troll posts as kaylascams with the obvious intention of implying kayla scams. Troll.

[Mike AI]

Originally posted by TheEnforcer@Mar 6 2004, 03:36 PM
As Peaches pointed out she posts as Kaylacams and the troll posts as kaylascams with the obvious intention of implying kayla scams. Troll.

GOOD CATCH! Only thing worse then people who beg for money are people who try to spoof other people to cause problems.

[Carrie]

Yeppers, Peaches caught an imposter.
I've apologized to Kayla over there and I'll gladly do it here too.
Sorry for falling for that, Kayla.
Fuckin' imposters.

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by Carrie@Mar 6 2004, 02:57 PM
It's on another board, that's where she'll respond so I'll just link to it (no referral code Serge *smile*)

Oprano has no problems sharing the wealth...
JBM is behind Oprano once again,
we are here to help...

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_.../www.oprano.com

Traffic rank:
Today
8,136



http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_....justblowme.com

Today
10,036


because if Brad had wealth to share,
he would have done the same thing,
I'm sure....

[Mike AI]

Serge I am waiting for you to dig deep into your wealthy pockets to fund some prizes here for posts!

I have had tons of e-mails and ICQs asking when Oprano is going to start giving out prizes for post totals. Seems a lot of people want to start making cool threads like: " What watch do you own?" " Who is your favorite boy band?" "SallyJoBob need a liver trasplant - paypal here" "ARS sig whore post here" "I think I am gay" "Lensman read this"

Maybe we should start a collection of the favorite thread titles from places that pay for posts or have active sig whores....

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by Mike AI@Mar 6 2004, 03:50 PM
Serge I am waiting for you to dig deep into your wealthy pockets to fund some prizes here for posts!

I have had tons of e-mails and ICQs asking when Oprano is going to start giving out prizes for post totals. Seems a lot of people want to start making cool threads like: " What watch do you own?" " Who is your favorite boy band?" "SallyJoBob need a liver trasplant - paypal here" "ARS sig whore post here" "I think I am gay" "Lensman read this"

Maybe we should start a collection of the favorite thread titles from places that pay for posts or have active sig whores....

Mike,
fuck sig whores.....I attribute recent Oprano's rise in stats to those lurkers who had enough of bullshit on the other boards...
quantaty vs quality....and NOTHING in this world will ever change that.

Board is my hobby, giving me the opportunity to communicate with people I care about,
money I don't care about,
and I wouldn't turn Oprano in post production factory to satisfy one's ego.

it's THAT simple......

[JR]

i once stood on the street in a Seattle neighborhood with my Mercedes parked on the sidewalk next to a scruffy looking "Will work for food" guy at an intersection and held a sign that said "Need new 24K wheels, every little bit helps... God Bless"

i could not believe how violently upset people got.

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by JR@Mar 6 2004, 04:31 PM
i once stood on the street in a Seattle neighborhood with my Mercedes parked on the sidewalk next to a scruffy looking "Will work for food" guy at an intersection and held a sign that said "Need new 24K wheels, every little bit helps... God Bless"

i could not believe how violently upset people got.

welcome to liberal west coast
;_)

[Mike AI]

Originally posted by JR@Mar 6 2004, 04:31 PM
i once stood on the street in a Seattle neighborhood with my Mercedes parked on the sidewalk next to a scruffy looking "Will work for food" guy at an intersection and held a sign that said "Need new 24K wheels, every little bit helps... God Bless"

i could not believe how violently upset people got.

HAHA Wish we had pictures of that!!

[Hell Puppy]

Whole thing smells like a new program is in order....

You start a service that trolls for donations for "worthy causes". Sign up affiliates, they get 35% of whatever donations they recruit. The "worthy cause" and the program owner split the remaining amount.

And of course run the whole thing thru MPA so the shave can be used to cover unexpected expenses and short falls.....gotta pay for the trade show booth, etc, ya know.

[gonzo]

Originally posted by Hell Puppy@Mar 6 2004, 10:43 PM
Whole thing smells like a new program is in order....

You start a service that trolls for donations for "worthy causes". Sign up affiliates, they get 35% of whatever donations they recruit. The "worthy cause" and the program owner split the remaining amount.

And of course run the whole thing thru MPA so the shave can be used to cover unexpected expenses and short falls.....gotta pay for the trade show booth, etc, ya know.

Who all runs MPA these days anyhow?

[chodadog]

Originally posted by Mike AI@Mar 6 2004, 12:50 PM
Serge I am waiting for you to dig deep into your wealthy pockets to fund some prizes here for posts!

Totally agree. He should send me to Antalya.

[Hell Puppy]

Originally posted by gonzo+Mar 6 2004, 11:34 PM-->