Rachel Weidinger on Tipjoy: Do Micro Donors Still Have Rights?

Rachel is peeved because the controls for privacy for the Tipjoy micro-donation system are not fractured across the app and Twitter posts, meaning that it is hard for users to control what is public and what is private:

[from /Ground: On Tipjoy: Do Micro Donors Still Have Rights?]

Do you want a record of all the donations you’ve made to show up in search results for your name? Do you want to be put on a prospect list and solicited for other microdonations? Do you think of information about your financial transactions with nonprofits as information that builds your online reputation, or as a possible liability? We’d better answer these questions fast, because as Beth Kanter indicates, here comes every microdonor. Do microdonors just get microrights?

Her blow by blow suggests to me that the limitations of Tipjoy visibility might seriously constrain its use, and lead a lot of folks — like Rachel — to abandon the service.