a gentler way to say no

[Brett Williams]

Finance should create a system to facilitate autonomous personal
donations to projects. If consensus can't be reached to fund
something collectively, the proposer should be asked if they want it
on that list of projects, and then anyone who does want to fund it
would be free to contribute money specifically towards that cause.
(For causes that require a particular amount to succeed there should
be a sunset point at which if there isn't enough the money is given
back or put into the general fund so we don't have partially-funded
projects on the books forever.)

Practically I'm not sure that would change things that much really.
People are already free to autonomously raise funds and do things.
But I think it would be useful to Finance just because it makes it
clear that "no" doesn't mean "no your project is bad" but really just
"no, this isn't something that EVERYONE totally supports, but that
doesn't mean there aren't lots of people who DO support it, and we'll
help you find them, no worries." It's like the Opportunities Credit
Union slogan: "We don't say no, we say when!"

<3,
mungojelly