Fraudulent Accounts and upcoming Changes
Added 2017-10-08 22:31:05 +0000 UTCHello everyone! Rick here bringing you someinformation that my current followers & pledgers will find important.
As you may or may not know, Patreon (like everything out there) has it's small dose of issues or problems that in a way affect creators. In Patreon's case it's the fraudulent pledgers or fraudulent accounts.
Fraudulent accounts it's an issue all Patrons have to deal with, they're basically users who become patrons just to see or recieve the Patron's rewards you offer and then they remove the pledge immediatly after or just before the payout. Basically recieving the rewards after pledging a total of $0.00 in donations.
The Patreon staff does an amazing jobs detecting and terminating these accounts relatively fast. But it's a bit discouraging to known that a huge ammount of the new "supporters" you recieved past month were fraud and your income in pledges was just "artificially" inflated.
Like I said, this is no a problem just for myself, every single Patron and creator suffers these issues. Now I'm somebody who tries to stay positive and look at people in the best way posible. Perhaps these fraudulent accounts are followers who really like my work and want to see it but are unable to pledge (or perhaps they just think my work is not worth giving money for it) so I was "pasive" in regards to the whole situation, at first.
However, let's be honest, I do have real pledgers, tons of people who had actually given me their support, and it's kinda BS for them that the rewards they recieve are also "awarded" to people who offer no support. This is not right and I just can't stand idle and accept it because it would be to disrespect their support.
So, to all fraudulent accounts currently reading, the changes that will come are because of them, not because of you.
Yes, I'm going to implement some changes in the rewards and tiers, in favour of my real pledgers. I'll show all information soon. To all my real pledgers; brace yourselves, tons of new rewards are coming your way!
Excpect more information later this exact same day! ;)
Comments
If I'm not wrong, it is not posible anymore.
2017-10-10 05:49:28 +0000 UTCChange to "charge upfront". All pledgers will be charged the moment they join. Or is that not possible any more?
2017-10-10 05:12:13 +0000 UTCPatron's do monthly payouts. The 1st of every month they'll send the payments to the patrons they support. If you go to your dashboard and click on "Patrons" and then select "view current patrons" you'll see a list of all existing pledgers. Those who just became your patrons or alredy gave you donations appear as "OK", those who supported you but then stopped or could not keep supporting you are shown as "Declined" and those demed as fraudulent are shown as "Fraud"
2017-10-08 23:17:34 +0000 UTCIt sounds frustrating! :/ A quick question tho, if I may: When they go and pledge to you does it IMMEDIATELY show up on your patrons list? or do they take a while? We're worried this may have actually happened to us a few days ago. :/ We got an email someone pledged to us then... nothing.
PillowPrincess
2017-10-08 22:53:30 +0000 UTC
