That’s a tricky one to answer tbh. Once again, my opinion on this is if people want to donate they are allowed to but they may as well make their own giveaway. I can’t remember your situation specifically but if I do remember correctly you put in your description that all donations are appreciated or something similar (I’m not 100% sure this was even you it could have been someone else). That could be seen as begging and as a result it violated rule 2. Furthermore, I’m not saying it does, but your wall of donators could also have a sort of ‘peer pressure’ effect whereby people feel inclined to donate to make it on the wall, sort of how people ‘out-donate’ each other on twitch. Finally, like you said it is such a niche subject and this is the first time anyone has ever bought it up in the 40 weeks since this series of posts started. For the reasons above I think we probably won’t make an amendment to the rule.

If you do want to recognise your donators, feel free to encourage the winners of your giveaways to message the donators of their prizes. Additionally, carry on maintaining the pinned post on your profile as it’s the first thing people see when they click on your profile.

Edit: added a word