What’s the best charity (in utilitarian terms) that might get 50,000 supporters? ISTM that starting a Facebook group is a good way to find 50,000 to request Craig’s list ads.
I think I have a good answer for this, but I’m going to be trying to figure out a better one. By now I know the people running most of the rational philanthropy orgs.
Maybe something against nuclear proliferation? Even then, that cause does not seem to inspire people deeply anymore. I had planned on letting the users themselves pick where the money goes, something like proportional voting charity distribution. Basically, if we lead this, I think we’d have enough control and influence that we could convince users to vote for the money to go to our pet causes, even if the majority is going to mainstream causes.
There might be enough work involved in community management that it made sense to hire a full time employee to organize the charitable distributions—if someone from the community took that job, it would again give our causes more influence.
Twitter will also be a useful tool. Craig obsessively checks his Twitter and replies to most messages, so once we get what we feel to be a useful mass we can start aggressively tweeting at Craig. But to me, it seems logical to get the users organized on Facebook before moving on to Twitter, as I don’t want to blow annoying Craig on Twitter by annoying him just enough to ignore us, but not enough to do what we say.
What’s the best charity (in utilitarian terms) that might get 50,000 supporters? ISTM that starting a Facebook group is a good way to find 50,000 to request Craig’s list ads.
I think I have a good answer for this, but I’m going to be trying to figure out a better one. By now I know the people running most of the rational philanthropy orgs.
Maybe something against nuclear proliferation? Even then, that cause does not seem to inspire people deeply anymore. I had planned on letting the users themselves pick where the money goes, something like proportional voting charity distribution. Basically, if we lead this, I think we’d have enough control and influence that we could convince users to vote for the money to go to our pet causes, even if the majority is going to mainstream causes.
There might be enough work involved in community management that it made sense to hire a full time employee to organize the charitable distributions—if someone from the community took that job, it would again give our causes more influence.
Twitter will also be a useful tool. Craig obsessively checks his Twitter and replies to most messages, so once we get what we feel to be a useful mass we can start aggressively tweeting at Craig. But to me, it seems logical to get the users organized on Facebook before moving on to Twitter, as I don’t want to blow annoying Craig on Twitter by annoying him just enough to ignore us, but not enough to do what we say.