Continuing the discussion from Options for next step for new approach to crowdmatching,
Consensus so far
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Projects set goal(s)
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Patrons pledge what they will contribute at that goal
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Each month’s donations will be proportional to the percentage of the goal the crowd has reached[1]
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Projects may adjust their goal(s).[2]
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The mechanism will never raise a patron’s match-rate or budget-max without their consent
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Any goal change will be announced to patrons with a prompt for them to consider adjusting their pledges/rate in light of the change
In this thread, I’d like to try to reach consensus on as much as we can without discussing the mechanics/specifics of multiple/changing goals[3]
Here are some questions I think we can agree on answers to within those limitations:
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Should we suggest specific options for donation levels? Which?
I suspect we agree “yes”, but not “which”.
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Should we restrict patron donations to those specific options?
If not, should we restrict them to a specific granularity (eg, whole dollars only)?
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Should we put a maximum on how much any one patron can give?
% of goal, dollar amount, or both?[4]
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For each of the above, should we decide or should the project decide?
Or some combination, where the project decides within limits we set.
Not on this list: $ amount vs patron-based goals?
I have some thoughts on this topic that are related to the specifics of multiple goals, which I don’t want to bring into this discussion. So let’s talk about $ vs patrons in Patron based proposal for mechanism 1.1, instead.
Feel free to request the same treatment for any of the other questions, if you have an argument that hinges on how we choose to implement multiple or changing goals.
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This does not say whether the goal or % is based on $ or patrons or any other details. ↩︎
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At least post-beta. Not yet specifying the options. It could be adding stretch goals or inserting new early-starting-goal (so the initial goal is now the stretch) or a simple change to the one goal number or what other options. ↩︎
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Fine to bring up the fact that they [will] exist. ↩︎
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This is really only relevant if we decide; for any single given project, % and $ are equivalent. ↩︎