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People donating for some guy to make potato salad is a danger? Really??

That people donate to a potato salad "snowball" rolling down hill, gaining momentum and backers galore, is a danger to no other project on Kickstarter.

The potato salad Kickstarter didn't steal nor take any pledges away from any other project, particularly any of the countless mediocre projects launched by people who do a half-ass job of generating interest in what they are trying to gather funding for.

If a ten dollar potato salad campaign can achieve momentum, then why can't other projects achieve momentum? Maybe people don't find such other projects to be of value or of interest to them. Maybe they never even encounter them, because the project creators won't bother to get up off their respective asses and actually do the footwork necessary to get the word out.

People like to deflect blame for why their projects failed. The potato salad Kickstarter is a convenient scapegoat. It's often a scapegoat, simply because so many people have heard of it. It achieved name recognition on a broad scale. Most Kickstarter projects suffer from creator-induced obscurity.

We're all entitled to an opinion. No one is saying that the potato salad campaign took away pledged. People back campaigns for various and personal reasons. I don't think anyone is blaming anyone and I really don't care for your insinuations on such a slight topic.

True that!

If we're all entitled to our opinions, then I'm entitled to mine.

If you don't care for insinuations, then don't fabricate them out of thin air.

It's a strange thing to see to be sure.

I suppose I'm closest to the camp of 'no hard feelings'. It's hard to deny that it generated a lot of publicity for Kickstarter, which is over-all beneficial for all creators. In addition, it's honestly what inspired me to try to raise money through Kickstarter. I may not succeed, but it gave me inspiration to try ... if potato salad can raise $50k, then my off-the-wall novels could raise 1/50th of that.

Besides, the guy made a minimal goal. He wasn't trying to make a lot of money. I bet he was as shocked as anyone when it went nova.

An original idea, silly yes but still original.

People focus upon the potato salad aspect.

By the end of it, it wasn't simply about potato salad. Real forces of substance came into play along the way.