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- SQLDigger, on 06/10/2008, -2/+94Wow, I'm great! I just gave someone else's money to charity!
- Bilabrin, on 06/10/2008, -2/+88Then there's
this as well:
http://freerice.com/index.php - sethm13, on 06/10/2008, -6/+63Yeah. As you guys all said, it's so easy, yet it can make such a huge difference. Using Firefox, I set this site, and the one from http://digg.com/environment/Click_To_Save_The_Rain ... as my homepage, then I simply click on those every time I launch Firefox. Easy way to help the world, one click at a time.
- doctechnical, on 06/11/2008, -4/+47Where can I click to donate money for guns and ammo for these kids? Because until they can fight the dictatorial ***** that keep them starving, they will continue to starve.
- Halukard, on 06/11/2008, -2/+44So... by using AdBlock Plus, I'm starving children ?
- iCallShotgun, on 06/11/2008, -0/+40If I get a word wrong do they take away rice from the children?
- douggmc, on 06/11/2008, -8/+43If I click to feed a starving child ... will the mother agree to quit reproducing like a rabbit?
- alapoet, on 06/10/2008, -6/+37Worth a click, folks!
- Surferess, on 06/10/2008, -4/+35I have been going here for years. Like Seth said, If you make it your home page you remember, and it is pretty painless.
- BabyHulk, on 06/10/2008, -7/+35i feel good now. great idea so simple to help.
- sethm13, on 06/10/2008, -1/+20Yeah. This is a lot faster, plus we don't have to do any of that dang learning along the way :)
- aznpwnzor, on 06/11/2008, -0/+19no they just take it away from obese american children
- Aurabolt, on 06/11/2008, -3/+22Firefox FTW
http://i27.tinypic.com/11mduz9.jpg - gavinhudson, on 06/10/2008, -1/+20Thanks for this link. I use this sometimes as extra credit for teaching my students new words in English.
- hpfreak26, on 06/11/2008, -0/+17erm... good one?
- sethm13, on 06/10/2008, -3/+18Literature: http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.face ... along with
Child's Healthcare: http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.face ...
Animal Rescue: http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.face ...
Breast Cancer: http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.face ...
Rainforest: http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.face ... - zinc6471, on 06/10/2008, -1/+13woot 4100 before i got tired...
- inactive, on 06/10/2008, -5/+16For all of you who don't think this is real, http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/charity/hungersite.a ...
However: "The Hunger Site probably doesn't make money for every click, only on clicks to the sponsor's sites, and those clicks might be worth 30¢ each. Each click on the "feed the starving" button he estimates as worth 0.7¢" - bryanricker, on 06/11/2008, -1/+11Why don't they just give the people these piles food that they have apparently locked away in some warehouse waiting for someone to click the link?
- Zyphon, on 06/11/2008, -1/+11Why do they need me to click some random button to donate money, exactly?
- chuckDontSurf, on 06/11/2008, -1/+10You're talking about the forthcoming zombie apocalypse, right?
- TheSilentNumber, on 06/11/2008, -0/+9A complete list: http://www.infoanarchy.org/en/Click-to-donate-site ...
- Rally603, on 06/11/2008, -1/+10That only happens in fairy tales.
- hpfreak26, on 06/11/2008, -2/+11You, sir, are an *****.
Seriously. Either this works and people's lives get saved, or it doesn't. Saying that it doesn't work help nothing. All it does is lowers people's belief in the good of people. God knows we have too much of that!
If you don't think it's real, just don't do it. Don't ruin it for other people. - l800LEMMINGS, on 06/10/2008, -2/+10this is a great site unfortunately i forgot about it over time so i added it to my bookmarks toolbar thank you
- kappuru, on 06/11/2008, -0/+8In a similar vein as the hunger site, which has been around for as long as I can remember, there is also freerice.com .
It takes a bit of brainpower, or at least rote memorization of vocabulary, but has the added benefit of being fun too.
http://www.freerice.com/ - explnx, on 04/27/2009, -0/+8Hpfreak26 isn't going deep enough. What does MforMike mean when he says that he will "guarentee" the claim that the site is ineffectual? Let us temporarily ignore the spelling error and examine the idea itself.
A guarantee is most commonly used in marketing to say that reimbursement will be provided when a product or service is defective of unsatisfactory. In the less common conversational usage it is a promise to assure that a given condition is met.
MforMike is either saying that (a) he personally will feed starving children if the Hunger Site does not or (b) he will make sure that the Hunger Site is unable to feed starving children. Impossible or sadistic, take your pick. - DeskFlyer, on 06/11/2008, -0/+8You get a date.
- sethm13, on 06/10/2008, -2/+10http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/charity/hungersite.a ... (Your link didn't work for me for some reason)
Here's the text of the website :
rue.
Origins: Over the last few years we've seen a plethora of altruistic appeals circulate on the Internet, each one claiming that you could donate money to a worthy cause or right some terrible injustice — at no cost to you — merely by taking some simple action, such as forwarding an e-mail message. (See our Jessica Mydek page for one example.) All of these messages were hoaxes — until The Hunger Site came
along.
At The Hunger Site, you can "donate" money to hunger relief simply by clicking a button. How? The Hunger Site, the creation of John Breen, a 42-year-old computer programmer from Bloomington, Indiana, was funded by various companies who sponsored the site for a day. Every sponsor donated the approximate cost of 1/4 of a cup of food to the United Nations' World Food Program for each user who clicks on the site during the day. (If multiple companies were sponsoring the site, the amount of food donated was multiplied by the number of sponsors.)
Breen created the site in June 1999 as a personal project to help deal with hunger in developing countries, and the response was soon so overwhelming that he spent most of his time administering the site even though he received no income, loans, grants, or donations to compensate him for his time and effort or pay his expenses. Eventually The Hunger Site became part of GreaterGood.com, a shopping portal where customers could direct up to 15% of the cost of every purchase to causes they selected. GreaterGood.com ceased operations in July 2001, and The Hunger Site was temporarily shut down until CharityUSA.com took over its operations a few weeks later. Other sites also offer similar means for visitors to aid various charities: - slightlygifted, on 06/11/2008, -0/+7not without a fight
- salculd, on 06/11/2008, -0/+7Unspeakable horrors.
- norman619, on 06/11/2008, -3/+10You don't get it do you? These empty gestures to try and "feed the children" have done nothing at all the fix the problem. I've grown up seeing the commercials and the weekend telethons and so on to "feed the children." If you want to truly put an end to this problem you have to put your money where it will do the most good. That would be to help EDUCATE the people in these countries. Help fund groups in those countries who's goal is to motivate the PEOPLE to make positive changes in their lives to help stop this. Help them understand why just because you can have babies does not mean you necessarily should have babies when there isn't enough food to feed them and you can't even take care of yourself. Too many people in these countries view procreation as a right which is part of the problem. Our hand outs do not help them in any way. If anything it only serves to keep this problem going. Judging from how I'm being buried for speaking the truth, too many diggers here value the good stroking their egos get from clicking to "feed the children" more than they care about learning how to truly help these people.
- caLt, on 06/11/2008, -1/+8This should be on the front page regularly
- msmayhew, on 06/11/2008, -1/+8For the first time ever, i regret having Adblock Plus w/ Filterset.G
- Stupidumb, on 06/11/2008, -1/+7norman, you can't change the minds of arrogant, stupid people. They'll ignore every argument you make and just exclaim how you must hate all the needy people because you don't want to help, at least, not the same kind of help they have in mind. If you're not doing it like them, you must be doing it wrong.
- Shawshanksr, on 06/10/2008, -2/+8is this definitely the real deal?
if it is, its such a brilliant idea... - Sonof8Bits, on 06/11/2008, -0/+6iGoogle gadget
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open&num=2 ... - Soniti, on 06/11/2008, -1/+7Because slacktivism is so much easier.
- geneticlemon, on 06/11/2008, -0/+6Except there's a shortage of rice in southeast Asia, sooooo ... I guess it's good for the word game?
- skaspud, on 06/11/2008, -0/+6oh boy. i knew that auto-clicker and auto refresh would come in handy! prepare for a flood of food children!
- inactive, on 06/11/2008, -0/+6Too bad you weren't an abortion.
- MacBookForMe, on 06/10/2008, -4/+10Thank you my friends for clarification! I'm available for a good cause, anytime...
- theOster, on 06/11/2008, -0/+6am i the only one that doesnt understand how this works? "I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS"
- theOster, on 06/11/2008, -1/+6i just read the snopes article...so i guess i'm hurting the corporations?? so confusing! why dont the corps just give some amount to an organization?? why do they need a click to validate the donation? i'm drunk and going to bed
- theOster, on 06/11/2008, -0/+5dugg for alt 0162
- jp12380, on 06/11/2008, -0/+5When you say these companies do you mean the click to save rain forest etc? What makes you think they aren't giving as much as they can? They have to keep paying for their costs or running the site.
Yeah IMacros could be used to automate it, or something similar but the point is the reason you click is giving money is that they assume a person is on the other end clicking and viewing the advertising.
So if someone created a script and distributed it and they advertising companies found out they may pull out or give less for each click so it would not be a good idea for someone to make and distribute a script. - inactive, on 06/10/2008, -4/+9just imagine how many lives pc gamers can save
- aznpwnzor, on 06/11/2008, -0/+5much easier than freerice
- sk1ll2, on 06/11/2008, -0/+4and they lived happily ever after
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