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What purpose do you think this arrangement might serve?
Firms that sell low marginal cost products face the problem of how to get the most revenue from customers when some customers are willing to pay a lot more than others. One solution is to just sell to customers willing to pay a lot, which seems analogous to EA not recognizing soft-core donors. Another solution is to sell different quality products to customers in the hopes that you get soft-core customers to pay a bit, but still can get lots of revenue from customers that place a greater monetary value on your product.
Interesting. So the implication would be to draw a clear difference between softcore and hardcore EAs, and give appropriate plaudits to each?
The purpose of market segmentation is to maximize revenue :-/
It seems like a valid application to me if one takes people to be paying some kind of cost in terms of their time and money in order to receive recognition for being a good person. You would like people to be able to spend a moderate amount of time and money to receive a moderate amount of recognition, and a large amount of time and money to receive a large amount of recognition. Having terms for different levels could help with this.
Let me rephrase it as 'I can buy the status of "a good person"'. Still fine?
http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst_argument_in_the/
You're arguing by analogy: http://lesswrong.com/lw/vx/failure_by_analogy/ and trying to do guilt by association. It's an appeal to emotion, not reason.
Literally every other website on the internet will allow bad arguments like this... are you sure you don't want to hang out somewhere else? Seriously, give it some thought.
LOL. You have to try harder :-P