WHwhit537·Jan 8, 2013
Fair enough. I've added a +1 for you here:
https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/5
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| Jun 18 | 2012-06-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-06-25 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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| Jul 2 | 2012-07-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-07-09 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Jul 9 | 2012-07-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-07-16 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 0 | 9 |
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| Jul 30 | 2012-07-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-08-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 6 | 2012-08-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 13 | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-08-20 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 20 | 2012-08-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-08-27 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 27 | 2012-08-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-09-03 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Sep 3 | 2012-09-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-09-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 10 | 2012-09-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-09-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 17 | 2012-09-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Sep 24 | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Oct 1 | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-10-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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87 sourcesHelp me pick an int'l payouts vendor for Gittip, eh?
3 points · Open discussionI expect it will move closer yet before all is said and done. E.g.:
https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/316
However, the primary distinctive is that Gittip is funded on itself, whereas Flattr is for-profit and takes a hefty cut. I don't see that gap closing anytime soon.
In Gittip Anyone on TwitterThe minimum got upped to $1/week:
https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/180
The tip structure needs work. Hoping to revisit after landing international payouts and visual revamp.
In Gittip Anyone on TwitterWe had a big go-round on the name a while back:
https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/138
We decided (in part) that "gittip" doesn't mean anything at all to non-geeks. "All names are stupid until you become rich and famous with it." http://barry.warsaw.us/software/laws.html
We'll reopen the name discussion when either GitHub or Oprah complains.
In Gittip Anyone on TwitterShould Gittip use an ORM or raw SQL?
9 points · Open discussionWePay: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/69
Authorize.net is pretty old-school, aren't they? I think of them as complicated credit card payments. Do they also do payouts?
In Why I Love BalancedMarketplaces are higher risk and don't fit the agreements that Stripe has with their bank partners. Deets:
https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/67
In Why I Love BalancedIf anyone's interested in contributing, one of the next things we've got lined up for Gittip is integrating an ORM (It looks like we're going with SqlAlchemy).
Join the discussion at https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/129
In Why I Love BalancedGittip doesn't have profit, but it does collect a fee, and that fee needs to cover reimbursements and chargebacks. Here's the ticket:
https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/152
In The Delpan Incident> But scale does funny things to good intentions.
This is great feedback, thanks! You really nailed the ways that fraud burns both good people and good companies. What's the right thing to do, then?
In publishing a detailed report about this incident, I hope to establish a pattern of adjudicating these things in public:
https://www.gittip.com/about/fraud/2012-11-05.html
Everyone who was affected by this incident is listed right there on that page. If someone wants to make the case that they're a false positive, they are free to do so, and we can all decide the case together.
I think that's different than PayPal.
> You will wind up with insufficient funds to staff an adequate support desk.
Gittip is a community-managed resource, not a closed product. Right now I'm the support desk. As we scale, the support desk will be staffed by members o
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f the community, chosen by the community, as the community has need.
> You will wind up with bogus users trying to do shady things with your service, and they will be very convincing and make you want to help them.
If they ask for help they'll be doing so in public, and I'll have you to help me spot them. Many eyeballs, etc. For example, here's a brand new GitHub account asking for details of Gittip's anti-fraud measures and making recommendations:
https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/364#issueco...
https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/357#issueco...
https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/347#issueco...
https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/357#issueco...
Waddya think? Fraudster? :^)
> And you will wind up with legitimate users who love your service and want to use it the way you've designed it but end up tripping your heuristic.
This has already happened. Half the accounts I originally suspended last week, I ended up reinstating with an apology:
https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/329#issueco...
Again, that was done in public, as is the matter of recovering stolen money that was passed off on innocent bystanders:
https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/371
> if you do that to the wrong user it will quantitatively affect your business and the public perception of your organization.
Again, Gittip is a community-managed resource, not a business. The wrong user can say very little that I wouldn't welcome them to say publicly.
Yeah, sorry. We have a new visual design waiting in the wings.
https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/66
Hopefully this fraud thing dies down long enough for me to implement it, and/or someone else steps up to the plate.
In The Delpan IncidentWe'd love help implementing it.
https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/search?q=bi...
In Stolen Money on Gittip, Part 1Good call. I've made a ticket for this, "roll our own automatic fraud prevention," and have included this suggestion: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/360
In Stolen Money on Gittip, Part 1Thanks, I started a ticket for this:
https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/357
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