Financial Support of Republibot

I made the suggestion in another thread on this subject. If people can ruin you via Paypal, what if you set up a dedicated email account to which Paypal donations can be made, after the donor contacts R2 via email and answers a passing question in order to recieve the donation box address? Only R2 would know this email address and the password question.

If a person realy wants to donate, they should be willing to go through a security check.

Read my comments under the WHOA! subject heading.

(edit) A second dumbass thought is to actually use snail-mail and take donation checks mailed to a postal address. I doubt any spammer could get ahold of that!

Mama Fisi's suggestion leaves out the opportunity for amiable passerby with pure intentions to donate, however the more I think on it, if they really like our little site here enough to support it financially, then they will probably register. Personally, I like the points idea because it would require someone be active in the discussions, and those people are more apt to legitimately love the site enough to want to contribute. The paper check thing is a downer, I think, because it might turn people away. Even if they think they might want to send a payment, they might forget or whatever, whereas if it's electronic, they can do it right then and there. No backsies.

It kinda sucks that PayPal would hold a merchant responsible for what a criminal does. They should go after said criminal, seeing as how they should have all of their information same as the merchant's.