MrHen comments on The Craigslist Revolution: a real-world application of torture vs. dust specks OR How I learned to stop worrying and create one billion dollars out of nothing - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MrHen 10 February 2010 04:31:27AM *  5 points [-]

Craigslist Saves the World
Craigslist Banner Drive
The Billion Dollar Ad
$10^9

EDIT: I am upvoting any idea for a name, even if it is stupid. We can sort out the better ones after we have stuff to choose from.

Comment author: Jack 10 February 2010 07:15:22AM *  3 points [-]

Also, I've notice that the groups with their target in the name seem to do well. So like:

50,000 To Help Craigslist Save the World

50,000 For Craigslist Charity

50,000 People for One Billion in Charity

Comment author: Kevin 10 February 2010 08:20:52AM 0 points [-]

I like those name suggestions. As far as 50,000 people, we could try to get a firm answer from Jim about how many people it would take. You're certainly welcome to email him and/or Craig and ask. craig@craigslist.org and jim@craigslist.org

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 10 February 2010 07:09:27PM 12 points [-]

Wait. Steven0461 points out that which firm answer we get, if we do manage to get one, might depend on framing. It may be better to think through the email first.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 February 2010 07:35:21PM 2 points [-]

Yes, wait.

Comment author: Kevin 10 February 2010 11:49:05PM 0 points [-]

I agree, I'd downmod myself, but the morale of a community activism effort is very important and I didn't want to squander the energy people had to go and do something. I'm glad to see people are still excited...

Comment author: CarlShulman 10 February 2010 07:45:20PM 4 points [-]

Spamming these folk with a bunch of uncoordinated emails at this stage seems like a big risk to the idea for little benefit.

Comment author: Jack 10 February 2010 06:37:00AM 1 point [-]

I love the first one. My alteration:

Help Craigslist Save the World

Comment author: childofbaud 22 February 2010 04:16:59AM *  0 points [-]

Slight rewording: "Save the world with Craigslist".

This rephrasing puts the reader at the forefront rather than Craigslist (while maintaining the collaborative aspect of the venture) and reduces the number of verbs to one.