Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (74295)	2/9/2000 11:17:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Yes, greatergood.com thinks it can help the hungersite. I replied to that email with the suggestion that if that is true, they consider also taking over SaveRainforest.com, and got a nice email back. Just as a reminder, or as new information to any new eyes (and admittedly, I'm using your post as an excuse, Michael!), hungersite.com contributes a staple food to the hungry each time you click on their site, at no cost to you. (Corporate sponsors donate the food for viewings of their banners.) The amount of food being contributed by each of us who clicks at this time is 2 1/4 cups. The more sponsors, the more food contributed by each click-- and of course the more clicks on the site, the more sponsors become interested, making each click yield more food! You might be interested (and saddened) to know that during the few weeks Sherry Fox and I were promoting the hungersite on SI, the number of clicks rose, and the number of sponsors rose, until the amount of food contributed each day by one click reached 4 cups, but although I didn't really think at the time that the steady rise during that period was from the clicks of SI members, when TraderAlan from the Daytrading Fundamentals thread insisted to SI Bob that we be stopped from our after-hours OT hungerspams (two a day), the amount immediately began dropping. It drifted gradually back down to 2 or 2 1/4 cups a day. So I've concluded (on the basis of only this unscientific, non-controlled study) that enough SI people were clicking on the site, and sending it to their friends, at that time, that a lot of empty bowls got filled. I think it is neurotic how often I think about TraderAlan and the others on that thread and wonder what it was in them that made them determined to stop the violation of the TOU represented by the hungersite posts, and made them find so hilarious jokes about how much food they would have for Thanksgiving (it was just before Thanksgiving at the time), and how much rice they would throw at weddings, when others were starving. I have this feeling that if I could just understand this phenomenon, I would have the answer to a great mystery about the nature of humanity. saverainforest.net is the site on which corporate sponsors will buy, for a click, a piece of the rainforest. It's an exercise in futility, of course, as the estimate is that 2 acres of the rainforest are being destroyed each second. The amount of the rainforest purchased for our clicks by corporate sponsors today was 7.5 square feet. Fifty per cent of the oxygen we breathe is produced by the rainforest. Oh well. Gasp. greatergood.com is an interesting site if you buy online. If you go to your site of purchase from one of greatergood's links, the merchant from whom you buy contributes from 5% to 15% of your purchase price to the charity of your choice (they offer a whole list.) I get all books from Amazon.com, but because I go there via greatergood, the Nature Conservancy gets a contribution for each book I buy. They have a long list (70 I think) of e-merchants you can go to, after naming your charity, via one of their links. Then on future links, they know automatically what your charity is. Please excuse me for this! I've been off for so long, but I couldn't resist the temptation of your message!