xhonzi said:
Bingowings said:
I meant the donations should be tallied each with a target number.
When the target is reached the prize should be unlocked to the general public.
So when enough donations of $500 are reached there should be a limited cinema release for all.
If enough donations of $1000 are reached there should be a general cinema release for all.
A single donation of $1 Million should trigger a general apology from Lucas.
A single donation of $10 Million should trigger a specific apology from Lucas in person to the individual donor.
The lower scale donations should be entered into tombolas and the winner of the lower drawer should be entered into the drawer two grades up.
This would allow for a small but probable chance that donating $1 could result in a personal apology from George Lucas.
Now I understand. I don't think Kickstarter works that way, but I could be wrong.
Sorry if people are sick of me pimping the Tex Murphy kickstarter, but I promise this is on topic.
If you went over to http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/texmurphy/tex-murphy-project-fedora/posts/241765 and watched update #19 of the Project Fedora Kickstarter, you'll see that they sort of did what Bingowings was suggesting. I'm still relatively new to how Kickstarter works, but I think this might have been a first.
Before this post was made, which added a new "twist" to the donations, the campaign had totalled $380k and had only made ~$7k the day before. Once they announced that they had lined up a special reward (a $4k backer) everytime the community raised the total by $6k, the donations blew up, and $6k was earned almost instantly, triggering the first $4k backer. By the end of the night, about 10 hours later, they had earned a total of $40k from "regular joe" backers, old and new, and $20k from the special backers. Several hours after that, they had raised an addition $20k from the regular joes, and they crossed their goal line. At the start of Wednesday, they were ~$80k short of their goal. Thursday morning, they had already crossed it. Not by offering new rewards for individuals, but for offering community rewards based on the total donation.
Pretty fascinating stuff.