06-19-2016, 06:00 PM
Lately Kickstarter has moved from a nice altruistic place where nice people back interesting projects created by nice people, into an odd place where not particularly nice people, or sometimes just incompetent people, feel that they can avoid any responsibility to the nice people putting up the money by simply saying "Forget it, Jake...it's Kickstarter"
And indeed that's true - - Kickstarter is a weird system where you agree up front that the person taking your money can give you nothing and that's just too bad.
What I'm AFRAID is going to happen...or rather what I'm afraid will someday NEED to happen, is for some form of regulation or oversight over crowdsourcing...the last thing I want is more/bigger government, but the more KS projects turn up to provide nothing, or really inferior products or services, the more likely this becomes.
And indeed that's true - - Kickstarter is a weird system where you agree up front that the person taking your money can give you nothing and that's just too bad.
What I'm AFRAID is going to happen...or rather what I'm afraid will someday NEED to happen, is for some form of regulation or oversight over crowdsourcing...the last thing I want is more/bigger government, but the more KS projects turn up to provide nothing, or really inferior products or services, the more likely this becomes.
