I understand that you want to catch the ones who've read the whole thing, even if I don't actually understand why. (What if I read 65% of it and thought that part was awesome? Should I not give you money? Should I give you less? Dunno.)
The challenge is that the 'reading-it' task and the 'paying-for-it' task are distinct in most people's minds, and may even be done at different times.
Often I'll get partway down something, think it useful, and interrupt my reading to find out if there's a way to...well, to do more with this person, whether that's buy their book, subscribe to their feed, or so forth. If I happened to have gone by a discreet tip jar at the top, that'll be in my mind as possible ways to further engage with them.
Then I'll jump back up to the top--or bottom--both areas that are easy to get to, and therefore are good places to put interaction elements. (A variant of Fitts's law applying to scrolling, perhaps?)
Currently your interaction element is hiding in the GUI equivalent of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory.
Ambiguous ref: "I do this scholarship primarily for its own sake, but if you feel like sending a small donation my way, I would appreciate it." I could see the sidebar-thing also including some of the first paragraph of Appendix 3.
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Re: Unsolicited advice
Date: 2013-08-13 08:31 pm (UTC)The challenge is that the 'reading-it' task and the 'paying-for-it' task are distinct in most people's minds, and may even be done at different times.
Often I'll get partway down something, think it useful, and interrupt my reading to find out if there's a way to...well, to do more with this person, whether that's buy their book, subscribe to their feed, or so forth. If I happened to have gone by a discreet tip jar at the top, that'll be in my mind as possible ways to further engage with them.
Then I'll jump back up to the top--or bottom--both areas that are easy to get to, and therefore are good places to put interaction elements. (A variant of Fitts's law applying to scrolling, perhaps?)
Currently your interaction element is hiding in the GUI equivalent of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory.
Ambiguous ref: "I do this scholarship primarily for its own sake, but if you feel like sending a small donation my way, I would appreciate it." I could see the sidebar-thing also including some of the first paragraph of Appendix 3.