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Summary of the "Getting Paid" panel:
Q: "Don't you have a moral obligation not to do the work of totalitarian governments like Turkey by deplatforming their journa..."
A: "Ha, ha, it's a crazy world, isn't it!"
Q: "Okay, but what are you going to do about people skimming content and then doing a credit chargeba...?"
A: "Focus on the positives! You 'creatives' are awesome!"
(con't)
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(cont'd)
Q: "Hey, I got accidentally tagged as adult, and that took only one day, it took me over a month to get it deal with, and you STILL haven't told me how it happened. You know, it really disrupted my income during a difficult peri..."
A: "Pobody's nerfect!"
Yeah, I'm done with this bullshit expo.
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@Balina @zebratron2084 “We only solved the technical problems associated with micropayment subscriptions for artists, we are hopelessly clueless on the social/people/practical problems” — probably more honest
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@kistaro @zebratron2084 Meanwhile, every fugging month I gotta remind my credit card company that no, Patreon isn't trying to steal my money.
I imagine that's going great with most folks' revenue streams.
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What I'm taking away from this is that Patreon's idea of "support" may as well be a page that just says "Golly gee whiz, Shucks!" and that's it.
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"We may have done a lot to help small creators pay their bills with their creations, but in the end we're just a bunch of techbros, like every other 'platform'. We go wherever the wind blows us and we'll throw you or anybody else under the bus without a second thought."
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@chandra The ONLY part of that I'd quibble is "bros." The teams that we were allowed to see, at least, were pretty diverse and there were a lot of women on the panels, and there was a lot of good lip service to diversity. But...
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@zebratron2084 These are, like, the questions literally everyone asks of the service anyways. You'd think they would have at least practiced some of the routine bullshit instead of just getting stuck like that.