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« on: July 05, 2012, 11:56:42 AM »
I like it Moe. Victims Defense Fund has emotional appeal and using it to fund a class action suit to put a serious hurt on Trolls should strongly motivate the followers of this forum.
One key question is, Do we have the critical mass to get this off the ground? Oatmeal had a large following and he engaged them by using the very reason they follow him. He made fun of the situation and demonstrated that the situation could be a threat to him (and the reason his followers read him). That meant that a high percentage of his readers got interested in helping and making a donation.
In my case, my readers are techies who usually are not in business for themselves. Getty, HAN, et al are not necessarily a threat to them, but might be a threat to their companies. But these firms usually don't go after good sized businesses. And, if they did, it's not a "going out of business" threat. How do we get them to feel as emotionally about this as those of us who have had our livelihoods threatened by the Trolls?
April's readers are people putting on auctions. Will they feel strongly about Trolls? Besides ELI readers, where can we find ways to emotionally connect outsiders to our cause. We don't want this to steer money that might have gone to ELI to our class action fund. I think we want a larger source of funds.
What Oatmeal did really well was to use the David/Goliath story to endear people to a philanthropic cause anyway - the money was eventually going to charity. He was only going to borrow it to take a picture. That made it almost a no lose situation for his readers. They get the tax break of a charitable contribution and they get to have a little fun by helping David slay Goliath.
I feel like we are on to something good here, but are missing an element or two that might make it truly successful and status quo changing. Anyone have other ideas to contribute?
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