Donations to Internet Personas - A Good Idea?

[ChisolmTrailDem]

52. Thank you, I was not aware of a hidden post, though I did read the beginings of trumad's thread and

responses and haven't seen the hidden post.

I am well aware how rare request for financial help on DU are. I've been here since 2006 as a member and lurked for a while before that. The rareness of requests and whether or not the request is from an established DUer is all I need to decide if I want to donate. I don't launch an investigation over whether or not to send 20 bucks to a fellow DUer. If I feel I need to investigate, I simply don't and I don't give either.

Sometimes I may come across as being rude, I'm mostly not trying to be. I am the type of person who just says what I have to say. My friends in RL respect my straightforward, hold-nothing-back ways and often seek my advice because they know they aren't going to be bullshitted and they will get an honest opinion and/or honest advice. Sometimes, in writing, just as I have pointed out my issue with the tone of some of your stuff, it comes across in a way that is not reflected in my concurrent mood.

Again, I apologize for the tone of my own response to your OP. I'm a construction worker from way back, not a writer and, as such, not very good at literary tact. I just say what I'm thinking and, as I have done to you, I am misunderstood.