# Where should I put a thread asking for charity advice? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 13, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-put-a-thread-asking-for-charity-advice/321443 "2005-09-13T16:40:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-put-a-thread-asking-for-charity-advice/321443/1 "2005-09-13T16:40:00Z")
I’d like to ask if Dopers know of charities which are/will be helping rebuild homes in areas affected by Katrina. Would this go in GQ? IMHO? MPSIMS? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-put-a-thread-asking-for-charity-advice/321443/2 "2005-09-13T17:22:02Z")
Hmm. I think I’m going to rule that this goes in IMHO – please indicate in your first post that you’re putting it there after having asked, so that we don’t have the mods playing “push the thread” amongst the forums. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-put-a-thread-asking-for-charity-advice/321443/3 "2005-09-13T17:38:18Z")
Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-put-a-thread-asking-for-charity-advice/321443/4 "2005-09-13T19:21:06Z")
Not to give contrary advice, but why IMHO for what should be a factual question? It’s not someone’s opinion of a charity, it’s what people KNOW about a charity. Just asking. I could be wrong . . . but I need to be 'splained to here, sometimes I need a little help to see the logic. your humble TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-put-a-thread-asking-for-charity-advice/321443/5 "2005-09-13T20:05:20Z")
Ack! If the mods can’t provide a definitive answer, then all is truly lost! _wanders of to prepare a Hamlet-style soliloquy_ ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-put-a-thread-asking-for-charity-advice/321443/6 "2005-09-13T20:08:29Z")
Oh, we can agree to disagree. Again, I’m willing to be convinced of my error. 🙂 your humble TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-put-a-thread-asking-for-charity-advice/321443/7 "2005-09-13T20:12:39Z")
Very humbly and respectfully (fawning and grovelling between every word, you know, respectfully like) I suggest that the thread might be good in IMHO as, although it is asking a question, it will be seen by those in the MPSIMS/IMHO crowd who have been talking about relief operations in the wake of Katrina,and may have swifter access to the answers because of that. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-put-a-thread-asking-for-charity-advice/321443/8 "2005-09-13T20:14:20Z")
Good point. The important thing is that folks get the help they need, I hope we facilitate that. Forget I said anything. 🙂 your humble TubaDiva See, I told you I could be convinced. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-put-a-thread-asking-for-charity-advice/321443/9 "2005-09-13T20:17:26Z")
Phew! (No lightning bolts from the gods for my impudence!) 🙂 Now, if I can just get back up off this darned floor … ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-put-a-thread-asking-for-charity-advice/321443/10 "2005-09-13T20:29:34Z")
If I may offer an opinion (not that anyone should listen to what I have to say about anything)– The OP seems to be describing what seems to me to be a poll. Therefore, I would say that it fits rather squarely in the IMHO forum. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-put-a-thread-asking-for-charity-advice/321443/11 "2005-09-13T20:36:44Z")
> [@Feydeau](#): > > If I may offer an opinion (not that anyone should listen to what I have to say about anything)– > > The OP seems to be describing what seems to me to be a poll. Therefore, I would say that it fits rather squarely in the IMHO forum. A poll, surely, is “How many of you like Brand X”, or, “What’s your opinion on Item Y?” This is more a straight out “What do you know about --?” question. IMownHO, of course. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-put-a-thread-asking-for-charity-advice/321443/12 "2005-09-13T20:47:08Z")
> [@Ice Wolf](#): > > A poll, surely, is “How many of you like Brand X”, or, “What’s your opinion on Item Y?” This is more a straight out “What do you know about --?” question. IMownHO, of course. 🙂 There is a difference between “What is known about X?” and “What do _you_ know about X?” And, yes, I’m fully aware that I am nitpicking – but I’m just answering in the fashion of my originial misinterpretation of the OP. Since re-reading the OP, it seems more of a factual question than an opinion poll, but it was phrased in an awkward way. IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-put-a-thread-asking-for-charity-advice/321443/13 "2005-09-14T02:13:44Z")
Yes, that was pretty much my reasoning up front. The question was if Dopers know of charities doing such-and-such. That was different from asking (say) which charities have the highest ratio of benefits to participants from contribution dollars, for instance, which I’da put in GQ. Or which charities have the most entertaining ads, which would have gone in Cafe Society. Or whether the Red Cross has religious overtones, which would have gone in GD. Or why those goddam charity phone-soliciters always call just when I’m sitting down to dinner, would go in the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-put-a-thread-asking-for-charity-advice/321443/14 "2005-09-14T08:32:38Z")
> [@Feydeau](#): > > Since re-reading the OP, it seems more of a factual question than an opinion poll, but it was phrased in an awkward way. IMHO. No worries. In the end, we’re agreeing as to where it goes. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-should-i-put-a-thread-asking-for-charity-advice/321443/15 "2005-09-14T13:08:24Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Not to give contrary advice, but why IMHO for what should be a factual question? > > It’s not someone’s opinion of a charity, it’s what people KNOW about a charity. > > Just asking. I could be wrong . . . but I need to be 'splained to here, sometimes I need a little help to see the logic. > > your humble TubaDiva If you’re going to dispute the decision of an administrator, shouldn’t you open a separate Pit thread? [sub]prepares to be smited[/sub]