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@mathew All true. All mentioned.
And if you pay the 3-7% to cover the costs and have the option to just give them that money directly rather than fritter it way... why not?
The core message is: Donate.
The enforced point is: As efficiently as possible
The chorus of purity folk: If you don't do it the easiest way, you're discouraging people from donating at all. Which is the bullshit in question.
@mathew My own trite example of this was suggesting elsewhere that, "If you are considering giving money to a charity, consider writing a check rather than using a credit card so they don't lose money due to the fees." (Clearly, this is in the US...)
A majority of comments were about "you should donate via credit card because ... pick random argument having nothing to do with the fee motivation for the original suggestion".
@futurebird My employer at the ISP I worked for in the 90s used to say that, "Working with computers requires a huge ego. The computer is always telling you that YOU ARE WRONG."
The thing you're trying to teach is harder because it's two things at the same time: Learning how the language parser reports errors. The student learning to debug how they think.
I've been coding for years. Parser errors are hard enough and are often obscure in some languages.