Patreon are some bastards
Actually (don't freak out) I have some sympathy for Patreon's plight. They're in business, and want to stay in business. To do that, they have to stay within the bounds of what their payment processors will allow. I strongly suspect that if they had their druthers, they wouldn't be going through all their Trust and Safety review processes. But if they don't, they'd be forced to run
everything through payment processors that don't have the restrictions that the vanilla MasterCard, Visa and PayPal do. That would greatly crimp the ability of their entire base to contribute, and would also change the economics substantially because of the higher fees, etc. ($1 pledges would be almost useless, for example.) After all, they have a very large non-adult community as well.
In addition, they simply do not have the staff to review every element of every adult-related page they have, so they have to take the "someone reported it, guess we have to suspend it" approach. I'd probably do the same thing if I was in their position.
Note that SubscribeStar, for example, has split into an adult and non-adult platform, most likely for this precise reason - the adult platform uses different payment processors and has a different transfer structure. No PayPal, for example.
That isn't to say that this isn't annoying, particularly because after my first review, the "unacceptable content" boiled down to 1-2 frames of the story that were pretty borderline.
and that possible spy, a traitor.
Well, I certainly take a much more "not for me, but that's ok" approach to content. (Shrug) The fact remains that I was, technically, violating their ToS, so it's hard to complain
too hard when you get called on it.
I think you should register in other platform without censorship. For example,
You must be registered to see the links
.
Looking into it. It's a slow process because they're getting LOTS of applications.
