Yeah, seems like a reasonable critique. In general I feel confused how to best do this kind of social proof. I know that many (especially lower-context) donors care a lot about it, but it’s hard to communicate the exact level of endorsement in an email that already was straining the lengths of what is reasonable to send out to lower-context people.
On reflection, I feel like I shouldn’t have put you on the list, given that the $1,000 feels too small to be called “unusually large”.
For what it’s worth I think this accurately conveys “Zac endorses the Lightcone fundraiser and has non-trivially donated”, and dropping the word “unusually” would leave the sentence unobjectionable; alternatively maybe you could have dropped me from the list instead.
I just posted this because I didn’t want people to assume that I’d donated >10% of my income when I hadn’t :-)
Yeah, seems like a reasonable critique. In general I feel confused how to best do this kind of social proof. I know that many (especially lower-context) donors care a lot about it, but it’s hard to communicate the exact level of endorsement in an email that already was straining the lengths of what is reasonable to send out to lower-context people.
On reflection, I feel like I shouldn’t have put you on the list, given that the $1,000 feels too small to be called “unusually large”.
For what it’s worth I think this accurately conveys “Zac endorses the Lightcone fundraiser and has non-trivially donated”, and dropping the word “unusually” would leave the sentence unobjectionable; alternatively maybe you could have dropped me from the list instead.
I just posted this because I didn’t want people to assume that I’d donated >10% of my income when I hadn’t :-)