Trucker GoFundMe (split from: Covid-19 miscellany)

[Metaphor]

I find it amazing that they so quickly were able to revise their processes to automatically refund $10M to thousands of donors so quickly. It’s not a small undertaking.

My thinking is that it would be easier to automatically refund everyone than to process manual refund requests. In fact, it is my understanding that this is already built in to GFM's platform. If a donation goal doesn't reach some pre-determined level by some pre-determined time, all donations are automatically refunded.

You are familiar with the operations systems of major corporations?

Holy shit what a condescending, sleazy response.

I explained why I thought automatic refunds would be easier, knowing that crowdfunding platforms can automatically refund all donors if something does not reach a 'goal'.

You then go and post this sordid response, which ignores the specificity I explicated and implies I'm claiming to be the COO of GFM.

Give me strength.

 

[Toni]

I find it amazing that they so quickly were able to revise their processes to automatically refund $10M to thousands of donors so quickly. It’s not a small undertaking.

My thinking is that it would be easier to automatically refund everyone than to process manual refund requests. In fact, it is my understanding that this is already built in to GFM's platform. If a donation goal doesn't reach some pre-determined level by some pre-determined time, all donations are automatically refunded.

You are familiar with the operations systems of major corporations?

Holy shit what a condescending, sleazy response.

I explained why I thought automatic refunds would be easier, knowing that crowdfunding platforms can automatically refund all donors if something does not reach a 'goal'.

You then go and post this sordid response, which ignores the specificity I explicated and implies I'm claiming to be the COO of GFM.

Give me strength.

You could use some. Maybe you would not feel the need to rely on poor reading, poor me memory and insults.

 

[ZiprHead]

I find it amazing that they so quickly were able to revise their processes to automatically refund $10M to thousands of donors so quickly. It’s not a small undertaking.

My thinking is that it would be easier to automatically refund everyone than to process manual refund requests. In fact, it is my understanding that this is already built in to GFM's platform. If a donation goal doesn't reach some pre-determined level by some pre-determined time, all donations are automatically refunded.

Oh, good lord! Those terrible dishonest bastards!

 

[Metaphor]

I find it amazing that they so quickly were able to revise their processes to automatically refund $10M to thousands of donors so quickly. It’s not a small undertaking.

My thinking is that it would be easier to automatically refund everyone than to process manual refund requests. In fact, it is my understanding that this is already built in to GFM's platform. If a donation goal doesn't reach some pre-determined level by some pre-determined time, all donations are automatically refunded.

You are familiar with the operations systems of major corporations?

Holy shit what a condescending, sleazy response.

I explained why I thought automatic refunds would be easier, knowing that crowdfunding platforms can automatically refund all donors if something does not reach a 'goal'.

You then go and post this sordid response, which ignores the specificity I explicated and implies I'm claiming to be the COO of GFM.

Give me strength.

You could use some. Maybe you would not feel the need to rely on poor reading, poor me memory and insults.

Whereas you need rely on your insults. What strength!

 

[Toni]

I find it amazing that they so quickly were able to revise their processes to automatically refund $10M to thousands of donors so quickly. It’s not a small undertaking.

My thinking is that it would be easier to automatically refund everyone than to process manual refund requests. In fact, it is my understanding that this is already built in to GFM's platform. If a donation goal doesn't reach some pre-determined level by some pre-determined time, all donations are automatically refunded.

You are familiar with the operations systems of major corporations?

Holy shit what a condescending, sleazy response.

I explained why I thought automatic refunds would be easier, knowing that crowdfunding platforms can automatically refund all donors if something does not reach a 'goal'.

You then go and post this sordid response, which ignores the specificity I explicated and implies I'm claiming to be the COO of GFM.

Give me strength.

You could use some. Maybe you would not feel the need to rely on poor reading, poor me memory and insults.

Whereas you need rely on your insults. What strength!

My apologies. I should not have followed your example.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Yes. You and Loren keep talking about it as if it were one.

Huh? What has anyone said that implied it was a charity?

It's normally used for charitable purposes but the company itself is an ordinary company in the business of providing the logistics for donations.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

My thinking is that it would be easier to automatically refund everyone than to process manual refund requests. In fact, it is my understanding that this is already built in to GFM's platform. If a donation goal doesn't reach some pre-determined level by some pre-determined time, all donations are automatically refunded.

You're thinking of Kickstarter, not GFM. And my memory is that the charges don't actually go through until the time is reached and the conditions met.

 

[Metaphor]

My thinking is that it would be easier to automatically refund everyone than to process manual refund requests. In fact, it is my understanding that this is already built in to GFM's platform. If a donation goal doesn't reach some pre-determined level by some pre-determined time, all donations are automatically refunded.

You're thinking of Kickstarter, not GFM. And my memory is that the charges don't actually go through until the time is reached and the conditions met.

GFM already had the infrastructure for automatic refunds.

https://support.gofundme.com/hc/en-us/articles/204119238

 

[Metaphor]

Yes. You and Loren keep talking about it as if it were one.

Huh? What has anyone said that implied it was a charity?

It's normally used for charitable purposes but the company itself is an ordinary company in the business of providing the logistics for donations.

I misread a paragraph Toni wrote in an earlier post as implying she thought GFM was a charity. I have explained in a later post that I was mistaken.

 

[TomC]

I misread a paragraph Toni wrote in an earlier post as implying she thought GFM was a charity. I have explained in a later post that I was mistaken.

This is a big part of the problem.
GFM is not a charity, but it funds charitable stuff.
It's not a government agency, but it's got more clout than many government agencies.

It's a private company. But it collects and disburses huge amounts of money, from whoever donates to whoever they decide to give to. GFM is a new and different type of entity and it's really hard to say which rules should apply.
Tom

 

[ZiprHead]

Rand Paul urges truckers to "clog up cities" in U.S.

"Peaceful protest, clog things up, make people think about the mandates," Paul said.

www.axios.com

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said this week that he hopes anti-vaccine protestors in trucks "clog up [U.S.] cities."

Driving the news: "I’m all for it," said Paul, a vocal critic of masking and vaccine mandates. "Civil disobedience is a time-honored tradition in our country, from slavery to civil rights to you name it. Peaceful protest, clog things up, make people think about the mandates."

• "I hope the truckers do come to America, and I hope they clog up cities," Paul told the conservative Daily Signal in an interview Thursday.

Unless black folk do it.