Clicking on Free Donation sites

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Hello all,

Quick question. I like those “free donation sites” like the Hunger Site, where you can click a button once a day and the sponsors give something to charity.
Often I click at home as well as at a library. My favorite sites anyway.
Sometimes I don’t feel like going to the library too. Other days I click on several computers at the library.
How do I justify not clicking at all possible computers every day?
a) because that’s not the way it was meant to be, it was meant to be one click per person?
b) because I just have to realize I cannot do everything all the time, there are too many good deeds in the world for me to do them all?
c) I can’t justify it. It just means I’m lazy like most people;) .

Kathrin
 
Kathrin said:
Hello all,

Quick question. I like those “free donation sites” like the Hunger Site, where you can click a button once a day and the sponsors give something to charity.
Often I click at home as well as at a library. My favorite sites anyway.
Sometimes I don’t feel like going to the library too. Other days I click on several computers at the library.
How do I justify not clicking at all possible computers every day?
a) because that’s not the way it was meant to be, it was meant to be one click per person?
b) because I just have to realize I cannot do everything all the time, there are too many good deeds in the world for me to do them all?
c) I can’t justify it. It just means I’m lazy like most people;) .

Kathrin
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I’m not sure if we should be doing multiple clicking.

Catholig
 
The reasoning PRO multiple clicking is: Every cent might save a child’s life. Or an animal’s life. Or a piece of rainforest. depending on the site and the cause.
I just don’t know how FAR to take this sometimes.

But yes, you are right. So you would say answer a).
 
The question with b) is: When do you ALLOW yourself to stop, realizing you are only one person and maybe don’t have unlimited energy and can’t do more than YOUR part?
Like, if you are already clicked on a site, say at home AND at the local library, and you are very tired, do you make yourself go all the way to the university library too just to click the button one more time? (to make this clear, for those who don’t know: Most such sites allow one click a day per computer, if you click more from the SAME computer it won’t be counted). Or can you tell yourself: Ok, I have done my part, I can’t do everything all the time?
 
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Most such sites allow one click a day per computer, if you click more from the SAME computer it won’t be counted).
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If that’s the case, then the intention is one click per person per day. It’s a great waste of time to run around to libraries to click on other computers. Doing so would be an attempt to “beat the system,” which is not a good thing, even if the underlying motivation is generosity.

Kathrin, do you suffer from scrupulosity? Here’s a helpful link.

Betsy
 
Betsy - I must admit, I do suffer from scrupulosity a bit.
Thank you so very much for the link!
It was both “funny” to read and also very insightful.

Kathrin
 
baltobetsy said:
If that’s the case, then the intention is one click per person per day. It’s a great waste of time to run around to libraries to click on other computers. Doing so would be an attempt to “beat the system,” which is not a good thing, even if the underlying motivation is generosity.

Kathrin, do you suffer from scrupulosity? Here’s a helpful link.

Betsy
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While it wasn’t directed at me thank you very much for this link.

Catholig
 
rpp said:
What the heck is a “free donation site”?
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It’s a way people have used the internet to serve charitable causes. A nonprofit sets up a website and gets sponsors to pay soemthing for every visitor who clicks on a button. When you click on the button, you get to see the sponsor’s banners. So actually the sponsors pay for the advertising, but since the site is non-profit all the money goes to charity.
The first one was thehungersite.com. Now there are “tons” of them.
I think it is a very good cause.
But it can be addictive for somebody who doesn’t know where to stop…

Kathrin
 
can somone please post some links of such sites?

(I would google it but I would fear coming up with people pulling pranks or else those stupid buttons that just tell you not to click them.)
 
I got a reply from somebody from the “Hunger Site”:

"You can click once daily per site, per browser per computer. That means, you can click from your home computer on Mozilla and from Internet Explorer and both will count. Then you can go to the library and click as well. You can click one time from each computer that you can access per day.

I hope that I have answered your question, please let me know if I can be of further assistance at all, and thank you for your support!"

So this, at least for that particular site, answers the question whether it is OK to click more than once daily if you can access different computers. (Years ago, somebody from another site wrote me that was not the purpose.)

It doesn’t answer my question on how much I am MORALLY obligated to “click until I drop” (exaggerated, now, of course).
Since I have a tendency toward OCD and srupulosity, I immediately sensed that I might have a problem with the moral implications of such sites. A priest told me, that just “somebody is doing a nice thing” and it is good to support it “without making a moral obligation out of it”. That was a long time ago. Sometimes I am still struggling with it.

Kathrin
 
My thoughts per clicking more than once a day: The money that goes to charity because of the clicking is not simply given away. It is money collected from advertisers. If you click more than once a day you are making the advertiser pay more (more is being donated after all) without reaching more people.

Catholig
 
Catholig said:
My thoughts per clicking more than once a day: The money that goes to charity because of the clicking is not simply given away. It is money collected from advertisers. If you click more than once a day you are making the advertiser pay more (more is being donated after all) without reaching more people.

Catholig
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As someone who pays to advertise her business in google’s program, I 100% agree.
 
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