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Almost anything. Rally does not rank needs, does not decide whose situation counts, and has no opinion on what you should have spent your money on instead. People gave to strangers long before there was a website for it, and they did not run a means test first.
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Every one of these is about what is legal, what is true, or whose debt it is. None of them is about whether a need is worthy. If a request is not on this list, it belongs in the queue.
Anyone signed in can report a request against the list above. A report is not a vote and does not remove anything. There is no counter on the page, no score beside anybody’s name, and no number of reports that takes a person off the queue on its own.
Nobody reading a queue can verify a diagnosis, so Rally does not ask them to. It asks about things a stranger can actually notice: the same request posted on another site, a story that contradicts itself, somebody else’s private details.
A removal is recorded with a reason, and the person is told what it was. If it was wrong, say so through the support page and a person will look again. Nobody disappears from the queue without knowing why.
Before any money reaches anybody, they complete Stripe verification: legal name, date of birth, address, tax identification, and a bank account in their own name. Whatever somebody writes on the queue, the money only ever moves to a verified person with a traceable account. That does more than any amount of reading between the lines.
A longer list would mean deciding whose reasons are good enough, and that is a different product from this one. The moment Rally starts sorting real needs from unworthy ones, it stops being a group of people helping a stranger and becomes a panel handing out grants. Some of what gets funded here will be things you would not have chosen. That is what giving to a stranger has always meant.