"allowed a false claim regarding the no, of people who had donated ..."
Let's look at your allegation in detail Benice.
Take a look at any other gfm uk appeal.
Can you show me a single appeal where the "raised by xx people" figure is correct to your high standards?
Why have you criticised only Leanne's appeal for this feature and not criticised the thousands of others with the same feature?
If the same thing is happening on other sites then they too are guilty of giving false information to the public,
It's not a matter of standards high or otherwise. Either something is a true fact or it isn't. AFAIK it's not common practise on such sites for such a large number of people to keep making multiple donations to the same fund. In my experience most people make one donation and that's that.
The one and only purpose of that 'feature' is to show the public how many people have supported the fund. I presume that is because people are interested in knowing the level of the support from the public for a particular person.
In the case of Amaral's fund that is not what has happened. As a result of the large amount of people constantly making repeat donations the total gave a completely erroneous impression of the level of support IMO.
If the 'feature' could have been changed from 'the number of people' to 'the number of donations made' - or failing that - a message stating the true facts about the total being shown on that page, then that would have been fine by me. But IMO that was not done because the total shows more people donating than actually did. A screenshot recently posted asking a person to split their one donation into several smaller donations would appear to support my opinion.
My main reason for pointing this out is because - without a single shadow of a doubt imo - if the McCanns had allowed the same situation to prevail on Kate's fund raising site - they would have been accused of being dishonest and making false claims - faster than a speeding bullet.
AIMHO
