Originally Posted by
bykimbo
I think a mechanism to prevent one or two charities from dominating would be a great idea. And I say that despite being an RNLI official! One of the things I loved about YDC when I first started using it was the variety of causes, large and small, that were benefiting. And how a small charity could receive a really significant amount of cash by their lights.
Something to keep the nominations fresh would be good. I like the idea of not being able to nominate the same charity two times running - that could be either over-all, or per "winner", I suppose?
There also seems to be an issue with the repeat "big ticket" items, as I see it. It's lovely that things like the signed t-shirt are so popular, but the rules do say that you should not expect your item to raise more than £10 if you wish to be included in the competition side... yet the same few items win over and over - the person selling cannot honestly say they thought it would make less than £10, can they? So it should, by the rules, be excluded (not from selling & fund-raising, just the competition element to win the right to choose next month). That looks to me as if the rules need to either be enforced more vigorously, and these items not be included, or the maximum expected amount needs to be revised.