Hmmm. Coyote I'm not sure where you were going with this. I thought this was a suggested topic for an article here on this site and then you go and write one up for your blog.... and I'm guess I'm just a little confused.
Uh... yeah... I just don't understand the "suggestion" to write an article if you were already going to. Were you suggesting we write a different version of your article.... give our opinion on the same subject?
I think the mistake you might have made is that there are "people" here who can offer an opinion for the site. As if I could write an article on the subject and offer.... not my opinion perhaps but "the" opinion" of Webcomics Community.
But that's not what happens here. In fact I've specifically tried to stay away from writing articles from the site because I don't want this to be "Rob Tracy's Webcomics Community" the way Webcomics.com belongs to Brad Guigar. He can express his opinion and it becomes the opinion of the site. For me, I want everyone to participate and the less I shine a light on myself the happier I'll be. I have to do too much as it is (I feel) and I worry about people thinking that I'm "that guy" ... the guy running the show and making all the moves.
Because that's just not me. So when you say "I want to know your thoughts on the general topic of webcomics and charity" I have to say I can't tell you what Webcomics Community thinks of webcomics and charity because no such entity exists. I can tell you what I, Rob think about it. But it would be an awful short article.
It would go along the lines of "I think that if you have the extra money or time it's always good to help out the less fortunate whether it's a disaster or an everyday thing. You just have to remember that the "world in need" is a pretty big empty bucket and the most any one of us can probably do amounts to less than a drop. So remember not to try and fill it all by yourself because that's a path that leads to destruction. All you can do is what you can: sometimes you can't even do that much. You have to know when and how much of yourself you can give."
I will tell you this though. Since you seem to have already sort of written the article you suggested over at your site, if you would like, as a member of this community to have us republish what you already wrote over here on our front page I'd be happy to do that.
And Amanda if you come up with your own take on the subject I'll happily publish that too.
I take all comers here and as long as you have something to say that hasn't been said before and it's decently written (and I can help with that) and isn't insulting or will tarnish the site you will see it on our front page.