Command and Conquer: Renegade Official Forums: Heated Discussions and Debates

Home » General Discussions » Heated Discussions and Debates » something you may not know

Show: Today's Messages :: Polls :: Message Navigator

Re: something you may not know [message #425676 is a reply to message #425635]

Tue, 13 April 2010 21:34

a000clown
Messages: 363
Registered: May 2005
Location: Canada

Karma:

Commander

R315r4z0r wrote on Tue, 13 April 2010 20:23

a000clown wrote on Mon, 12 April 2010 23:36

The only reward for donations should be self-satisfaction. Expecting something out of a donation is basically extortion.

That doesn't make any sense. In fact, its insulting the way you put it.

How is the rewarder expecting anything out of the rewarded?

If I ran a server, how is me giving a reward to people who donate to the server translate into them expecting a reward? Why should MY thank you gift be considered extortion on THEIR part?

The server owners are giving the people who donate rewards of THEIR own free will. The people who donate aren't expecting a thing unless it was advertised that they would get something.

I think your last sentence about sums it up...

Perhaps I'm just bad at explaining my point of view. I was just trying to show my distaste and the often misuse of the word "donation" when in reality many are simply substituting this word because it sounds less negative than other words.
If it is advertised or common knowledge that you get a reward by "donating" then it isn't really a donation at all, it's simply a trade/deal/purchase.

As for my implied insult I apologize if I offended anyone, that was not my intention. You're right, extortion is too strong a word, after all, the funds gained do go directly back to the server (I assume) which means there's no personal gain.
Like I said earlier, I see nothing wrong with what they're doing but now I'm just repeating myself so I'll stop.

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		something you may not know By: crazfulla on Mon, 12 April 2010 17:14
		Re: something you may not know By: InternetThug on Mon, 12 April 2010 17:20
		Re: something you may not know By: DRNG on Mon, 12 April 2010 17:25
		Re: something you may not know By: R315r4z0r on Mon, 12 April 2010 17:48
		Re: something you may not know By: crazfulla on Mon, 12 April 2010 18:41
		Re: something you may not know By: zeratul on Mon, 12 April 2010 18:51
		Re: something you may not know By: a000clown on Mon, 12 April 2010 20:36
		Re: something you may not know By: Goztow on Mon, 12 April 2010 23:46
		Re: something you may not know By: R315r4z0r on Tue, 13 April 2010 17:23
		Re: something you may not know By: HaTe on Tue, 13 April 2010 17:32
		Re: something you may not know By: zeratul on Tue, 13 April 2010 17:38
		Re: something you may not know By: HaTe on Tue, 13 April 2010 17:44
		Re: something you may not know By: zeratul on Tue, 13 April 2010 17:47
		Re: something you may not know By: HaTe on Tue, 13 April 2010 17:50
		Re: something you may not know By: zeratul on Tue, 13 April 2010 17:54
		Re: something you may not know By: HaTe on Tue, 13 April 2010 17:56
		Re: something you may not know By: zeratul on Tue, 13 April 2010 18:01
		Re: something you may not know By: DRNG on Tue, 13 April 2010 17:44
		Re: something you may not know By: a000clown on Tue, 13 April 2010 21:34
		Re: something you may not know By: BlueThen on Wed, 14 April 2010 14:12
		Re: something you may not know By: a000clown on Wed, 14 April 2010 16:14
		Re: something you may not know By: raven on Mon, 12 April 2010 23:31
		Re: something you may not know By: HaTe on Tue, 13 April 2010 17:14
		Re: something you may not know By: SSADMVR on Tue, 13 April 2010 04:47
		Re: something you may not know By: reborn on Tue, 13 April 2010 04:54
		Re: something you may not know By: liquidv2 on Tue, 13 April 2010 18:14
		Re: something you may not know By: dr3w2 on Tue, 13 April 2010 19:48
		Re: something you may not know By: zeratul on Tue, 13 April 2010 20:06
		Re: something you may not know By: Jerad2142 on Tue, 20 April 2010 07:40
		Re: something you may not know By: Goztow on Sat, 24 April 2010 01:11
		Re: something you may not know By: Jerad2142 on Wed, 05 May 2010 09:14
		Re: something you may not know By: Goztow on Tue, 13 April 2010 23:58
		Re: something you may not know By: snpr1101 on Wed, 14 April 2010 05:03
		Re: something you may not know By: Canadacdn on Wed, 14 April 2010 22:52
		Re: something you may not know By: snpr1101 on Thu, 15 April 2010 01:05
		Re: something you may not know By: Hex on Sat, 24 April 2010 01:08
		Re: something you may not know By: crazfulla on Sat, 24 April 2010 19:03
		Re: something you may not know By: Hex on Fri, 07 May 2010 08:10
		Re: something you may not know By: crazfulla on Fri, 07 May 2010 15:51
		Re: something you may not know By: Sir Kane on Fri, 07 May 2010 06:53

Previous Topic:	What Hitler had to say
Next Topic:	building bar derail - again

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Sun Dec 15 18:28:49 MST 2024

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.01153 seconds