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Important Information Regarding Your Tier Rewards
🕑 Added 2020-06-13 17:15:47 +0000 UTCHey everyone, so we've gone through the first week of rewards being mailed out instead of posted with minimal issues.
Thanks for your patience to anyone that did.
But I wanted to further explain why this happened, and unfortunately it's not good.
2 weeks ago I found out all my $1 Tier stuff on here was being stolen and posted on another site for free. I have actually noticed a downturn in $1 Tier Patrons, I don't know if there is correlation, but it can't be overlooked.
In the old days of Patreon before Charge Up Front they could just pledge whatever the max was, steal everything and then cancel the pledge. Now they do actually have to pay the money and since it's only $1 level stuff that means it's one of my $1 Patrons.
The only way I can both combat this and find out who's doing it is to go the email route.
Believe me if I could just post stuff i would, in order to send out Super Crown last week to everyone it took FOUR HOURS. Nobody hates doing it this way more than me. I despise that website and whoever is doing this.
Will I go back to posting once this thief is gone? I honestly don't know. Going on that website, looking at those forums, these are some of the most depraved and malicious individuals I've come across. Constantly thinking up new ways to grab paid content. If I boot whoever is doing this, who is to say they won't just sign up under a different name and do the same again?
Before you ask:
No Patreon can't step in, they know about them and decided they can't fight them.
Filing a DMCA won't work, they either ignore or publicly mock them. Also they have used some to publicly harass the person in real life.
Their actual web host is well hidden so there's no contacting them.
There is a "Flag Creator" button, but they admit it's just there for show
Is there any good news?
Since I switched to the email system nothing new has been uploaded.
So for the time being we are going to stay with this method.
I did consider other options, but this one seems the best.
If any of you have any others, I'm am open to hear them.
Thanks everyone, look forward to more great stuff.
Comments
a1993
Dunno if it solves the issue though if the person thats part of that tier also gets it and continues to upload it, was definitely something i was thinking of too though.
Emily Smith
Would it be quicker/easier to upload the pic to a private file hosting site, and then send the link to multiple patrons of the same tier? Might be better than emailing a full scale pic to each person individually?
