Comments on: Free Rice: Addictive, but is it a scam?

By: Use a Dictionary

Use a Dictionary — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:00:41 +0000

Easy way to keep getting answers and learn at the same time is to look the words up in a dictionary. It makes you read the whole definition. What’s neat is that I’ve discovered words are sometimes used in the wrong context on freerice (although that is rare).

In most cases I wouldn’t “cheat” but I justified it to myself because by cheating, you donate more rice.

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By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:24:27 +0000

At the worst - even if it’s a scam and *no* rice goes to the poor … for me it’s free entertainment with at least a modest amount of learning.

By: Eivind Ravago Dahl

Eivind Ravago Dahl — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:53:19 +0000

Wasting time and energy trying to figure out whether or not freerice.com is making money is wrong! THINK ABOUT IT!! -If he’s making money, WHO CARES!!! All Forbes 500 CEO’s make millions of dollars, nobody scrutinizes that!! Only if their fees exceed too many MILLIONS of dollars.. leave the guy alone! Saving lives, feeding the poor should never be critisized! But I respect the fact that we don’t willingly accept ANY humanitarian initiative -just trying to put things in perspective!!

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Tech, How to, Guitar, Linux, Dog, Make Money Online with AhTim — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:50:16 +0000

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By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:22:09 +0000

This would be a good article, if you weren’t making up numbers out of your head, and trying to bash a charity based on fictional profits.

If this guy is making a huge amount of overflow, then it’s because the site is more popular than he anticipated. I count that as a good thing. Successful charities tend to make money. It is bothersome, but it’s a fact of life.

I would understand how you feel if this charity was asking for your money. When I donate to a charity, I like to hope that a fairly large percentage is making it there. Perhaps advertisers should be wary, but I’m just playing a rice game.

I don’t care if he’s making money. It takes a minute of my time to play a free game (that I happen to enjoy) that betters my vocabulary and donates food to charity. I think it’s a novel idea.

P.S. - If you honestly want to prove a point, to dissuade people from this charity, for whatever reason, then do some research, find real facts and numbers, and CITE them here instead of posting your own ridiculous “estimates.”

By: joy

joy — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:30:41 +0000

After 24,500 grains I reached level 47, starting at 37. So it’s possible, JS - just do some learning. The site doesn’t claim to be a total charity site. Only that it will donate to charity a percentage of it’s earnings. I don’t see the problem, to be honest. Well, maybe it focusses more on the charity side, but it does explain that it’s not only - if you read the small print. Hell, look at microsoft - a bigger scam you will never meet!

By: joy

joy — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:40:11 +0000

Don’t know about scam. It’s a good idea with or without the charity angle. I’ve gone from level 37 to level 45 in 20,000 grains, and at one point even reached level 46! My EFL students are enjoying it and it’s helping their vocabulary levels. Who’s the loser?

By: Pat Thompson

Pat Thompson — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:09:06 +0000

“I can imagine what is going to happen to this rice. It goes into the hands of dictators, and they feed birds with it while people die of starvation.”

I recently saw the Doctors Without Borders traveling refugee camp exhibition, and can tell you that the World Food Program is where DWB’s camps get all of their food.

So it’s likely that this rice is going to refugees and displaced people in Darfur, Colombia, and the (too many) other places where DWB is working.