I'd think that posting a thread would definitely increase donations - albeit temporarily.
More knife requests are coming in every day, so I don't think it would hurt anything to have a few more requests if it means we'd have more donations.
It would be nice to have a thread once we have a button of some kind. That way, folks know where to go when they want to donate.
Threads have a short shelf-life and it would be a shame to have folks willing to give, but not able to find the thread in a search 2 months after it's posted.
Know what I mean, Vern?
Well, Any button we get would link to the current thread, and our threads could have something even more clear at the top. I think our thread headers should have that regardless...
ecurbh and I are also talking about cleaning up the HH blog site to really showcase what we are doing. He's ordered an upgrade to our webhosting to allow more features.
But if you look at the page, there's old stuff that needs to go (moots and flat frodo need to go away - somewhere else, the older projects like the Renegade Chaplain stuff need to be archived to a different place, and all troop feedback needs to be blogged. Who we are and what we do needs to be simplified and made clear on the site.
http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/