No.
Even 1 dollar is too much.
You have to remember, it's not just 1 person doing this, it's several, and this small group can grow into a huge group who will then cause pity donations to occur from his paypigs. Before you know it, he gained 500 dollars.
Just because they got a semi funny reaction out of him does NOT justify giving him money under ANY circumstances. He may be initially somewhat annoyed with the troll names, but he'll immediately ignore it because he got money
You gave him money to "troll" him? You are a ween and automatically a fucking r.etard. Period. This isn't something you can argue, it's a fact.
Even if you, I or jesus christ disagree with it, there's nothing to stop it. And I'm sure for someone like DSP, with a 1700 page thread he has people on all sides of the internet who just want to fuck with him, which means that even though its great to say its a bad thing, there's nothing to stop anyone from doing it.
I'm well aware of why "don't pozload my negholep" exists. Provided these people who spent money don't come on the thread to explain why/how they did it, then it can remain funny to me. When they try to explain it, it's like explaining da joke.
In any case, its 50 bucks for his "once in a lifetime event". He most likely isn't going to be going to Twitchcon or Bronycon or PAX or anywhere else noteworthy in the next 600 lifetimes.
It's really not the end of the world. It's not $500 or $10,000 or $1,000,000 And besides it was pretty funny (so long as no one comes on and tries to explain why they pozloaded my negholep). We all know Phil is going to go buy something stupid in the next while which regardless of this $50 will open the floodgates of criticism yet again about how he spends his money.
This ain't no Lifetime movie special like Shawshank Redemption where Mr. Andy Dufresne slowly takes his bits and cheers from his jail cell $5 at a time and slowly chips away at his debt for 10 years and swims through a river of shit to freedom.
That, up there, that is not Mr. Phil Burnell. Everyone on earth, including Phil Burnell himself, knows that Phil Burnell is royally fucked and screwed sixteen ways to Sunday. Everyone knows he is in an unsustainable financial situation. There is no happy ending to the shit show. Short of a lottery winning, Phil Burnell will never sport the smile you see in the picture above knowing that he chipped $50 off his hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and bills because "da detractors" annoyed him for his once in a lifetime event.