What's the deal with all the "Donating" for ports?

[Engraverwilliam]

On my Live druid, I used to say "Porting to all druid locations for donation - Corpse runs and newbies free - charter flights available 10p per jump. (quests runs)"

I usually got at least - 5-10p donated for routine ports from X to X as donations. Multi-questers would use my charter flights to get them around faster and I would travel with them or wait at the rings for their next jump. Sometimes fitting in a quick port while I waited for them to run their errand. i would promptly return to take them to the next location.

I met a lot of very generous and nice folks this way. I was on A LOT of friends' lists.

Sometimes I would be handed 20 gold. i hit accept without complaint. Sometimes folks would ask "How much" after a port. I had a hot key to say /say Pay whatever the flight was worth to you :-)"