markgraham
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Important Changes - Please Read and Comment
🕑 Added 2019-11-27 16:15:45 +0000 UTCHello hello!
I received a message from the Trust and Safety team at Patreon that my posts are in violation of their terms of service.
It looks like I'll have to remove all of my posts.
However, I'll still be able to use Patreon and I'm looking at a couple of ways I can accomplish this, depending on how they respond to me:
1. Host the stories on an external site using the Patreon API to validate that users are patrons. Probably at my hidden-shelf.com site.
2. Host the stories on my Google Drive account and post links to them when they're released. Would probably link to the folder itself with the Google Doc and E-Book versions of the story.
3. Post links/images/etc to the Discord server.
Nothing else would change - tiers would still be the same as well as the content. I just need to find the right option to satisfy Patreon.
Of course, if patrons drop en masse and I'm left with barely anything, I may just step back to work on other things and let the Patreon go. So, we'll see how things go!
Let me know your thoughts on the options and anything else in the comments, please!
Comments
Option 1 or 2
John Thomas Veltman
Option 1, I think.
I think option 1 makes the most sense if you plan on continuing to work with patreon in the long term. But sharing of figuring out how to distribute content through other channels probably is worth it depending on why patreon flags your content. I love your work so I plan to support commission and follow regardless of where things end up getting hosted!
I think option 1 or 2
Ariosto1516
1 or 2, but whatever is simpler for you is fine by me.
1 or 2, whatever works smoothest for you.
John Do
I am unfamiliar with option 1, but 2 seems just as safe, neh?
Northwind
Option 1 sounds best
Alex Rider
I think option 1 makes the most sense, no?
DogGirlKari
I really need to go through and post thumbnails for images
Goblinounours
To be honest, that's no surprise to me, as you were posting your stories in clear in your posts. I would've posted them as downloadable files, or just the SFW parts, and sending the full NSFW stories via messages.
