{"id":1856,"date":"2007-10-18T09:50:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T09:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/18\/you-are-horrible-nasty-people\/"},"modified":"2007-10-18T09:50:13","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T09:50:13","slug":"you-are-horrible-nasty-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/18\/you-are-horrible-nasty-people\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are Horrible, Nasty People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, let&#8217;s review the week in DonorsChoose fundraising:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/make_me_suffer_for_charity.php\">Atheist baiting<\/a> netted about $60, from three donors.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/donorschoose_better_viewing_fo.php\">Appealing to your better nature<\/a> brought in zip, zero, nil, nada. Not one person donated to the highlighted proposal after I posted that.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/give_till_it_hurts.php\">Offering to stab myself with a fork<\/a> brought in $200 yesterday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You all suck.<\/li>\n<p>No, that&#8217;s not true&#8211; your generosity has been very impressive. The Uncertain Principles challenge currently stands at $3,118 raised, from 39 donors, second among <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/leadershipboard.html?category=17\">ScienceBlogs<\/a>, after Pharyngula, which gets more than 20 times as many pageviews as this blog. I&#8217;m flattered to have such generous readers.<\/p>\n<p>But, honestly, &#8220;I&#8217;ll stab myself with a fork&#8221; is what spurs contributions? If I promise to post pictures, will that get me another $200? Because I will&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/viewChallenge.html?id=17166\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-bc34b702798f01b10409f7481ac9dc21-link_donorschoose_small.gif\" alt=\"i-bc34b702798f01b10409f7481ac9dc21-link_donorschoose_small.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For those keeping score at home, the &#8220;stab myself with a fork&#8221; threshold is $3,552, and &#8220;read and review atheist screed&#8221; is $3,802. &#8220;Allow Richard Dawkins to stab me with a fork&#8221; threshold is $4,802 plus whatever it takes to get him here to do it, and &#8220;a year without atheist baiting&#8221; is $6,000. The deadline for all of those incentives is the end of the day Friday, so act quickly if any of those things appeal to you.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/donorschoose_buy_this_blog.php\">standing offer to write blog posts for $30 donations<\/a>, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/donorschoose.php\">chance to win Seed\/ ScienceBlogs swag<\/a>. So there are plenty of reasons to donate, even beyond the obvious &#8220;helping needy school children&#8221; thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, let&#8217;s review the week in DonorsChoose fundraising: Atheist baiting netted about $60, from three donors. Appealing to your better nature brought in zip, zero, nil, nada. Not one person donated to the highlighted proposal after I posted that. Offering to stab myself with a fork brought in $200 yesterday. You all suck. No, that&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/18\/you-are-horrible-nasty-people\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You Are Horrible, Nasty People<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donorschoose_fundraiser","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}