The Bloggers Challenge Starts Today

[theljstaff]

Wow. Once again, LiveJournal members have shown what a powerful force you can be. On Friday, we invited you to request gift certificates to apply to DonorsChoose.org, the non-profit organization where you can choose a classroom project in need of funding that's been submitted by public school teachers.

Your response has been overwhelming. A BIG

Comments

[mlyn]

I think a lot of people would have complained about getting spammed if this had been in news. :/

[randomposting]

Ding ding ding. You know they would have.

Sooo irritating, that even when a company does great things people still will find things to bitch about on those projects too.

[xb95]

So very true.

[randomposting]

Doesn't make me real optimistic for the LJ community.

[xb95]

I think the community on the whole is pretty good. It's just the vocal minority being ... well, a vocal minority.

[randomposting]

Good point. *nod*

[saralogan]

I didn't see anyone bitch about spamming when there was a post in news about the donations from perm accounts.

[empezar]

I don't think that's true. Yeah, people would have complained, but not about being spammed. Probably more about LJ itself.

I personally don't know why this wasn't posted to news, but I do know that something of this caliber doesn't exactly fit the cutesy more colloquial theme of news. So maybe that's it. news has kind of devolved into a joke.

[flashfire]

People complain when things are posted here, and they complain when things are posted there.

I think I know where the pattern begins.

Anyone complaining about something like this that's intended to help kids is very shallow.