For every one person on Fedi who asks for help, there's probably a dozen others who are afraid to ask, for the very reason that they don't want to be looked down on and dismissed as liars.
Your attitude is unhelpful and also really disappointing. :/
@xenophora I wouldnt have minded so much but almost every post was asking for money. They were new and right out the gate asking for money. How can I verify its real need for help ?
As others have said, if you're sure one person is only here to ask for money, you can deal with them as an individual. Why a blanket ban on everyone asking?
And I'm not even sure that newness would itself be the mark of a scammer, though I'm not psychic. But I have been in major financial holes, if not actually poor. When that's a thing, it can easily become the only fucking thing a person can think about. Because, y'know, Capitalism & hunger & shit. :/
@Whiskeyomega@xenophora So it's like the inversion of "better ten criminals go free than one innocent person be punished" then? Better ten people who need money not ask for it, than one person whom you "can't verify" ask for it, apparently.
@Whiskeyomega@xenophora You have a donation link right in your profile, every time people see your profile you are "e-begging." You would prefer others "help out." How do we know you aren't sitting on a million and you're just running this instance as a scheme to make money because you simply roleplay as this person you claim to be? Why is it that that comes across as silly, but somehow it's not silly for you to make the same claim about others to go after all "e-begging?"
@petergriffinkinnie@xenophora I have deleted the rule. Plus have you seen my carpet in my photos. No one with a million in the bank would have this carpet. I'm also quite happy to share any receipts with anyone that asks for them I also dont get an awful lot and run this on my time.
@Whiskeyomega So you are preventing people needing financial help to ask for it, just because some of them might be trying to scam you 😐? Honestly, I would rather be scammed from $5 once in a while, than to let people starve and die.
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