Gittip - Set up recurring tips to people who do great work.

Re:Gittip - Set up recurring tips to people who do great work. by albertsun on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @12:51PM (#4069443)

It appears some of the people who you can tip on the site actually had the tip jars set up for them without their knowledge. I think this was on HN before about why that isn't cool.

http://krisstraub.com/2011/11/20/kachingle-and-the-transgres...

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Re:Gittip - Set up recurring tips to people who do great work. by carols10cents on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @01:09PM (#4069551)

What if you could pledge a tip to someone but your card wouldn't actually be charged until they accepted?

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Re:Gittip - Set up recurring tips to people who do great work. by whit537 on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @01:26PM (#4069667)

Hmmm ...

I imagined money accumulating over time until it was significant. Then finding out about it would be like getting a call that you won a genius grant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program

I could see this as a possible compromise if opt-out turns out to really suck as bad as with Kachinga.

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Re:Gittip - Set up recurring tips to people who do great work. by whit537 on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @12:54PM (#4069457)

Thanks for the link. Reading now ...

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Re:Gittip - Set up recurring tips to people who do great work. by whit537 on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @01:25PM (#4069658)

First off: Yes. The premise is that you can tip people without their knowledge, "crowd-sourced genius grants."

https://www.gittip.com/about/

I see a few differences with Kachinga:

- With Gittip, recipients receive the full face value of their tips. The donor is responsible for credit card fees.

- The fees are minimal: $0.10 + 3.9%. Right now I'm using Samurai for payments, and they charge me $0.10 + 2.3%. My margins are thin.

- My margins are not going to be "my" margins. If this gets traction, we're going to organize it as a cooperative, not a corporation. The plan is for everyone who tips through the site to be a member of the cooperative, the purpose of which will be for the escrow of gifts to individuals.

- Gittip tipjars are tied to people, not companies or websites (you can currently send tips to Github organization accounts, but that's ticketed to fix: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/4). I can imagine changing that but for now it's designed for people, natural persons.

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