Hey look at that - I'm in first place.
Donation funds are specifically for mexxer's thread. I believe they are for users who posted their findings in that thread.
Lutpin explained it differently claiming it was to compensate the administrator of the thread for their time spent maintaining the list. (which was mexxer-2 who owes him money)
Lutpin then deflected by not answering why he gifted himself the major portion of the funds.
@HCP If another thread was started and run concurrently to the Known Alts thread and calling itself the Known Alts thread it would then be a case of which Known Alts thread was the *real* Known Alts thread. There is no other thread. The Mk III follows on from the Mk II which follows on from the Mk I.
Were I to close the thread, then naturally I would be asking how the funds should be distributed. QED.