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The One Million Project: Showcasing the power of the internet

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13 pointsjoshferrara23 comments

Hmm, what's to say that they haven't inflated their stat of how much has been donated in order to encourage more people to just give them money?

Wait you mean they're trying to manipulate us with "Social Proof"?

Wow, last time at least they were selling one pixel for 1$. Now world advances 1$ for nothing?

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

For some reason this doesn't sit well with me. We've seen the internet used for some pretty amazing charity purposes before but I feel like internet citizens have a limited interest in rallying together and doing so for its own sake will make it less likely to happen for other's sake.

It's like the Million Dollar Homepage, except more brazen.

The goal seems to be to raise a million dollars. The secondary goal seems to be to treat the Internet like a basket of schmucks.

My advice: save your money and give it to a good cause instead.

I gotta get me one of these pages. I'm gonna call mine "The Ten Million Project".

This is the worst thing I've seen all day.

There aren’t any plans for the money, because this isn’t about the money. It’s about accomplishing a goal.

And that goal is "raise 1 million dollars". So yes, it's about the money, about nothing but.

Would be clever if in return for your donation of $100 they let you set up a blank-slate mirror on the domain of your choice. I call therealtenmillionproject.com.

    How many would choose to give $25 instead?

If you want to do some good with $25: http://kiva.org

If they released the code they used to make the page, basically for the stripe and social button integration, I'd probably donate.

Like many (any?) new environments, the Internet is rife with fools and charlatans. They make an ecosystem, in their own way.

And now there seems to be a decent bit of actual happening now. People are really buying it?

What if they donate all the money to the KKK or something?

Absolutely. Fucking. Genius.

I wish I had thought of this.

What the fuck?

I'm in. $10.

I am also trying to make $1M for no reason, could you donate me $10?

That depends on the cause... What are you trying to prove?

My original comment was tongue-in-cheek. I am not going to donate any money to a (questionable) organization that's not going to publish what it is going to do with it.

I'd rather spend it on something more noble. Like giving it to a charity.

wow, bold as hell and ballsy but cool idea...i want in

Right? I'll be interested to see how far this goes. What the heck, I'm donating!

Yeah, I'm sure you are. :)

The sad thing is that this will probably work. He's not going to make a million bucks, but I'm sure the number of idiots who will donate will make it worth his while.

You are a new account, created 3 min after the submission, showing support and encouraging people to give money to some unknown person. Sock puppet?

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