My thoughts (Score 1)

I ran a few fundraising efforts for my old fraternity. As it was what you might call a vanity fundraiser, as opposed to something like the tsunami effort, I think I have a little insight. First off, they'd need to figure out a way to be able to return the money if nothing actually happened. All of it. I think that would induce people on the fence to chip in. Second, they should have some tiered donation. In any campaign like this, there are people on both extreme ends. Either giving nothing, or willing to give more than you'd believe a reasonable person would. Have some levels, like $2500 for "Admiral", or something equally stupid. Then list them on the site and send them a t-shirt or a communicator (or whatever). A lot of people live this stuff, so I'm sure there are poeple who would plunk down that kind of cash. Third, you don't need to fund the whole thing. I imagine if they were able to raise 1mil, the tv production folk would realize they had on their hands some seriously rabid fans. Right now they're thinking the show failed because there wasn't viewer interest. Its not the lack of fan support that has caused this show to fail, but the fact that the show is really horrible. I mean, Enterprise sucks bad. I tried really hard to like it, and I can't watch it. If the rabid fans were actually able to put up some serious money just to get the studio to make another season of their show, the studio might wake up, can the existing producers/writers/whoever, and make the next season. Re-open the script submission policy. Get some better writting and story. You know, do the things that get people into the show. For some reason the writting on most of these sci-fi shows is REALLY BAD. It feels like they do that because the sci-fi fans are so into it they put up with the crap writting. The only new show I've been able to watch has been Battlestar G, but even parts of that make me cringe (like using "Fruck" or whatever for cursing. Oh man, just don't curse). For the most part they just feel cheesy. They don't have to be like that, so why are they? As far as the idea of raising 30-40 million by collecting $20 from each fan, holy shut. Turn off the freckin' computer and get outside.