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Originally Posted by Furniture
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your trying to make a semantics argument but you are wrong about what a donation is:
donation [dəʊˈneɪʃən]
n
1. the act of giving, esp to a charity
2. a contribution
[from Latin dōnātiō a presenting, from dōnāre to give, from dōnum gift]
I don't know why you think that when someone says "porting for donations" that it is optional. Maybe you would be happier if every druid rewrote their message to say "porting for optional donations", but people do not generally like to waste hours of their playtime porting people around for the chance to not make any money.
There is no confusion. People do not "port/buff for donation" unless they are trying to make money. If the person does not have a donation to give then that person should tell the porter and see if he will do it for free, but it should absolutely not be expected.
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The act of giving means exactly what it says, to GIVE. Not to PAY. A GIFT is given freely from one to another, not as a mandatory fee of service. Your understanding of the word and the meaning of "donation" is seriously flawed.
You want to be paid for your services? Say something like "porting to so and so for 25pp per person." Then people know it's a mandated fee and can decide whether they want the service or not. When I see someone saying "porting for donations", misusing the word, then I'll ask them for a port and donate them 1000cp to piss them off.
Donating and tipping are one and the same, and tipping means voluntary, not forced. Free, not FEE.
Here, read this:
http://mostlywater.org/mandatory_don...ree_versus_fee