Several people have contacted us asking about our intentions regarding the charity review we posted earlier this week.
To be clear, we release negative reviews not because we enjoy calling people out, but because we want problems to be fixed. Everyone makes mistakes, and most mistakes can be recovered from. If every charity shut down after they made a major mistake, there would be very few charities left.
We hope the charities we’ve reviewed address the problems we’ve detailed. In the future, we may review them again, and hope that we are able to recommend them for doing great work.
We acknowledge that we may have not gone about this in the best manner. Still, we hope all of the concerns we have raised are properly addressed.
I downvoted this because I think this isn't independently valuable / separate enough from your existing posts to merit a new, separate post. I think it would have been better as a comment on your existing posts (and as I've said on a post by someone else about your reviews, I think we're better off consolidating the discussion in one place).
That said, I think the sentiments expressed here are pretty reasonable, and I would have upvoted this in comment form I think.
Thanks for the feedback, Ben. This was the topic that most people were reaching out to us about, and we felt that many others likely had the same question. We would have done a comment, but we didn't think it would have the same reach.
That said, we've now added a comment to our original post as you suggested. Do you have any advice on how to handle similar situations in the future?