I think you are OK. Maybe could have worded a little bit better. But you did highlight a valid point.
Lack of transparency and consistently shifting goals is never a good way to organise crowdfunding, regardless the reasons, imo.
To be honest, I did entertain the idea of donating and it leads me to checking out the crowdfunding site and it's process.
I was taken aback the goals was $400+. (Cos the last of my knowledge, it only two BD titles. Now, I know more titles were added obviously.)
Point is... it does turns people away.
And also, there are other ways to contribute to the community beside monetary.
I understand this completely, but until I/we can come up with a better solution, then this is how it must be.
The more crowd funds I create the more likely I am to be investigated by the crowd funding site. Using PayPal will mean zero anonymity and could possibly get me hit just like Des did. Plus I'm fairly certain that if you read the entire post about the crowd fund in the request section, it will tell you a bit about the crowd fund. "*Crowd fund updated. Previous goal before the addition of these 2 titles was $290, new goal is $415"
I never said that they didn't contribute, merely that it didn't appear that they have. And, no, you don't have to contribute by giving money. However, if I review some member's posts and almost every single one is them asking for something (new to site or re-uploaded) and not a single one of them sharing anything new to us, then they have not done much beyond leech. I know that I had not shared much until recently, but I have contributed tons to this community. I have been funding media for years when I had the money to spare. I also have a seed box that I fund myself. Due to financial changes I can no longer just fund media out of my own pocket, so I have turned to the community to see if we can come together to get the media. So far, we have had quite a few successes, but we still have some kinks to work out on the process. We will get there eventually. Thanks.
I expect these posts to be moved or deleted in the near future as they are obviously off topic for the thread.