Quote Originally Posted by Frankie_Says_Relax View Post
Would we stand in the way of anybody who wants to run 12 days of Christmas, the Mystery Sound contest or the Zine? I don't think so ... at least I've never seen any such resistance from those who are in the position to say "Go for it!" ... so, why not just let this one play out on its own?
I'm all for letting this "play out on its own," but all the things you mentioned were done by people who volunteered their time. I don't believe anyone paid Kid Ice's rent while he was editing the zine, or bought Grand Am Chandler a computer for running the 12 Days of Christmas. And I know I never got a cent for running the MAME Club ... or writing for the Zine ... or writing for the DP Wire ... or writing Extended Play ... or writing MAMExpose ... or managing the articles section ... or writing the original DP Mailing List from scratch ... or getting the DP Room of Doom Gallery up and running ... or calling tech support night after night to have the DP server rebooted ... etc.

Like anyone else who's ever donated any of their talents of time to making DP a better community, I gladly did all those things for free because I felt like I was reinvesting my time into a site that I loved. To be honest I'm sure I'm not even in the top 20 list of people who have worked on this site for free in their free time. Guys like Stonic and Arcade Antics and some of those guys have put hundreds if not thousands of hours into this site.

So, sorry, it seems a little like apples and oranges to me. And it feels a little awkward to donate toward an app that's using the DP collection lists, which (a) are available free here for download, and (b) were compiled by a bunch of DP forum members, none of whom were (as far as I know) compensated for their hard work.

The outcome of this specific Kickstarter (not the museum one) will be interesting, and I wonder how many people will continue to work on DP projects without being compensated?