I expressed repeated (positive) interest in the experiment (post #42 and #47).
Someone wanted the thread closed and deleted. I didn't think that was fair to the donors and I expressed that (post #44)
It would have dropped at that point... Except that the OP started posting in a defensive/snarky manner about how OP could actually just disappear with the funds and (in my mind worse) denigrating valid posters to this thread. That, in my opinion, was unprofessional and I voiced a defense of the community (post #49). If you look at my posts, I have not tried to derail OP's experiment, rather, I've tried to counter OP's statements like in post #48:
This requirement of a donation is a key part of the experiment and is already yielding good results more so in the form of people so jaded and blinded by skepticism that they cannot bear to watch anyone even part with a few cents. I might just need to run another experiment on that aspect of human nature alone.
But, OP seems to be up to 7 donors at 0.00689843 BTC / $5.80-ish (
https://blockchain.info/address/1FxQJWfQm1g6eQjDj7KwCp4ovZ1o1QMhjk ). So either way, the experiment should be able to go forward when OP decides they have banked enough BTC users. So, I'll just watch this thread because, as OP has posted in post #32 of this thread:
I will say that great care will be taken to execute the phases in an appropriate manner, and I fully expect much will be able to be written about the results once this has completed. Some concepts will be drawn from past social experiments and some will be new. It is too early to give out more detail until I have more active participants. Everyone else is free to comment and follow along in this thread, so do not feel you will be left out of much by not donating.
So, to comply with the request of
ledmaniak - a donor (post #62), I will just monitor from now on until the publication of this ground breaking information. But, honestly, for all we know, my dropping out of the conversation is also 'breaking the experiment', but such is life.