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Re:Yelp to stop auto-creating fundraisers after outrage from... by stevula on Friday March 27, 2020 @05:18PM (#22706996)
Gofundme sets the default “tip” (kept by Gofundme) to 15% of the donation.

> However, critics of the partnership fast discovered that GoFundMe was setting the recommended tip, which is how GoFundMe funds its own operations, at 15 percent.

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Re:Yelp to stop auto-creating fundraisers after outrage from... by wk_end on Friday March 27, 2020 @10:52PM (#22708793)
Yeah, that's pretty slimy. That wasn't in the original article that was posted, which was in Eater and very short on details [1], consisting mostly of jwz's expletives. At some point the mods changed it to point to the better Verge article.

(It's a little frustrating that me and several other early commenters are getting hammered with downvotes because we pointed out how lousy that original article was, context that's now been lost. And unlike the mods, I can't go back and change my post retroactively.)

[1] https://sf.eater.com/2020/3/27/21197236/yelp-dna-gofundme-wr...

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