While I appreciate the investment thoughts in this post, I strongly downvoted it because I don’t think the EA forum is an appropriate place to advertise specific financial products.
Thanks for your comment. We plan on adding EA-specific donation features that would sell-off a certain percentage of your portfolio to automatically donate to a highly effective charity. Also, we are working on a retirement calculator that would take your donation goals into account. Would either of these be useful to you?
Thanks for your comment. If I may ask, would you have upvoted if we had split sections 1&2 into their own posts and only linked to sections 3&4 externally? Regarding your point on advertisement: If, for example, I wrote a post on how to run local groups more effectively using the productivity software that I also happened to sell, would this also cross the line? Is it ever OK for an EA to want to share their solution with the community if it is a for-profit?
If sections 1 and 2 were their own post, I wouldn’t have strongly downvoted, but I probably wouldn’t have upvoted either. Investing advice isn’t new or interesting to me.
There is some interest in investing; our local group even ran a 6-week course on socially responsible investing in the fall that was well received. Importantly, the person giving it didn’t use it as an advertising opportunity. They were just genuinely interested it the topic and sharing what they learned.
Is it ever ok for EAs to share one of their for-profit solutions? Yes, but generally only in response to a specific request. For example, if someone posts on the EA groups slack channel they are interested in productivity resources, it would be ok to mention your productivity tool in response. Unprovoked advertising is never well received, because advertising doesn’t have the best interest of the audience in mind.
While I appreciate the investment thoughts in this post, I strongly downvoted it because I don’t think the EA forum is an appropriate place to advertise specific financial products.
Or at least, I don’t understand why I should use this one over others.
Thanks for your comment. We plan on adding EA-specific donation features that would sell-off a certain percentage of your portfolio to automatically donate to a highly effective charity. Also, we are working on a retirement calculator that would take your donation goals into account. Would either of these be useful to you?
Not useful enough to make me use it.
Thanks for your comment. If I may ask, would you have upvoted if we had split sections 1&2 into their own posts and only linked to sections 3&4 externally? Regarding your point on advertisement: If, for example, I wrote a post on how to run local groups more effectively using the productivity software that I also happened to sell, would this also cross the line? Is it ever OK for an EA to want to share their solution with the community if it is a for-profit?
If sections 1 and 2 were their own post, I wouldn’t have strongly downvoted, but I probably wouldn’t have upvoted either. Investing advice isn’t new or interesting to me.
There is some interest in investing; our local group even ran a 6-week course on socially responsible investing in the fall that was well received. Importantly, the person giving it didn’t use it as an advertising opportunity. They were just genuinely interested it the topic and sharing what they learned.
Is it ever ok for EAs to share one of their for-profit solutions? Yes, but generally only in response to a specific request. For example, if someone posts on the EA groups slack channel they are interested in productivity resources, it would be ok to mention your productivity tool in response. Unprovoked advertising is never well received, because advertising doesn’t have the best interest of the audience in mind.