The word you all want is uninterested, not disinterested.
Disinterested means impartial, like a judge. UNinterested is what I am in other people’s need to broadcast their own selfless generosity.
I’m not going to flame you, but I will say I feel sorry for you that you can only see the bad in people. And that you can only see a limited number of possibilities as to why a thread might exist.
I can’t speak for anyone else in that thread, but I can speak for myself. If you choose to think I’m lying and that I’m an evil puppy-kicker, that’s your problem.
When the hurricane struck, I wished there was some way I could help. That way popped up right in front of my face, a donation box. I stuck some money into it. When the guy manning asked me if I wanted to sign a sheet stating that I had given, I declined, figuring that I didn’t need any glory for it.
Then I saw the thread. When I saw the dollar amount growing, I figured “What fun! And I can contribute something to the thread!” I wasn’t looking for glory there, either. I just thought I could do my part to make the total all the more impressive.
So shoot me.
Disinterested. Common usage wins, regardless of what a word originally meant.
I’m pretty noninterested in this hijack. 
I have to say that this thread merely adds to my experience of unpleasantness on the Board, whereas the donation thread doesn’t.
I see you working here. Those of us who sided in principle with the OP, in order to defend our honor will then need to say that we did contribute and then WHAM we get the hypocrite label. I’m on to you, cricetus.
I, on the other hand, find this thread welcome and objected to the former. The utterly self-centered unreflective defensiveness about being called on the tackiness of the former and the self-righteous indignation is one more thing on my growing list of reasons not to re-subscribe.
WTF? I agree with the OP too.
I somehow feel it’s tacky. But I also think that people who brags about giving have every right to do so.
And we have a right to say it’s tacky. And they have a right to say we’re wrong. And we have the right to call them names. And they have the right to call our Mama names. It goes on and on like that.
The thing is, I didn’t see much actual bragging in that thread. Just contributions.
I ask again, if you think it’s fun to watch the number rise, and you want to help out with it, what other method could you use? Sock puppet?
Whoops, I got your post confused with #99. My apologies.
One encourages speech; one discourages speech.
Do you think that’s an important distinction?
But you are interested in it. You’re very interested in it. I know this because if you really were uninterested, you wouldn’t even think about it, let alone waste your own time to post about it.
Unless it’s Sean Penn? :wally
Sean Penn bragged about how much money he’s given away?
Cite?
No, his was more along the lines of “broadcast their own selfless generosity”.
I was gonna donate to the Red Cross, but I couldn’t round up my press agent and photographer in time to catch me writing a check, so I blew it off.
And take a chill pill. I think it’s a bit crass to talk about how much you donate to charity on a message board, but not bad enough to pit anybody.
And yeah, Sean rescued actual people, we done been through all of that.
That’s a little precious don’t ya think? I mean, many threads are downright BANNED here (joke threads, fake pittings) and I don’t know that anyone is protesting this as curtailment of free speech. This thread isn’t saying to abolish all “braggartly” threads, just saying such threads are dumb. It’s just a matter of ettiquette. It’s no different from any threads bitching about cel phones or SUV’s. Most people don’t want those things banned, they want people to not want to use them.
Once again, I ask:
Does anybody care to answer that?