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Super good news!...mostly, sort of....

  • Stories Yes, Hangouts Yes 6
  • Stories Yes, Hangouts NO 0
  • Stories NO, Hangouts Yes 0
  • Stories NO, Hangouts NO 0
  • Pizza AND Pasta 4
  • 2022-01-24
  • —2022-02-28
  • multiple choice
  • 10 votes
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Content

Patreon got back to me.  And they answered that what I am attempting is not out of bounds so that should be good.  

And, looking deeper.  I should be able to do this:

a) set up a tier for say $50.  2 patreons.  First come, first serve at the beginning of the month.  Blasted on all social media so EVERYONE has an equal chance of snapping up one of those spots.

b) once the 2 are taken, a form is sent out for you to fill out.  Fill out ASAP (there will be a deadline of probably the second week of the month) and send back to me.

c) I make file.  I deliver file by the 3rd or 4th week.  As soon as I have, I unpublish the tier.

d) And send a message to you with the file saying "hey, change your tier" as it will clearly say on the tier that you get the custom audio only that first month.  Give you time to change to a different tier before the end of the month so you don't get charged $50 again (if you decrease your pledge you don't get charged any more sooo).

e) Next month rolls around, 1st of the month you are paying for the tier you want again (or...sob...canceled your pledge).


Now.  This SHOULD work, but I still send another email to Patreon, a different department I was told to contact for this reason, with the above to see.  I don't really want to experiment with you good girls.


So, we'll see but it's looking good!  Which, brings me to the poll.  Custom audio's is just a given.  But, maybe we could try other things too.  So, one month custom audios.  Another month, a different, lesser custom tier for:

a) a 12.5k story of your choosing (a form to fill out)!

b) a NON-HYPNOTIC hangout?  Like a AMA or something?  I don't know, people hear me talking live.  


Let me know below, and if you have ideas beyond those two, put them below OR message me.  Closes at the end of February, I think you can vote as much as you want (just for giggles)


EDIT: for an unrelated art project, I've been looking at Ko-fi.  They DO allow me to do "commissions' whenever I want.  So, if Patreon says no, then we still have a way to make this work...


EDIT EDIT: I double checked, because I always think "sure, who is against adult content?" but I forget what world we live in.  Kofi is a no go.  Sooo let's hope Patreon helps!

Comments

Sarah LoveCuties

So I'm trying again... *sigh* I know a lot of artists who use Etsy as a platform for commissions. PRO: I'm pretty sure it's ok for NSFW, and you can sell digital products so audio would not be a problem (and I know there are erotic hypnotists out there because I check a long time ago 🙄) I didn't fully check their policies though, because 3am here... PRO: you can deactivate but NOT delete a listing when it's sold + you can deactivate if your item is on your shop, but you want to stop for a moment. The listing will still be in your command center, but not on your shop. I don't want to say a mistake but I believe you still pay the quarterly fee if the listing was published and you deactivate it. Or you can pause your shop for "holidays" and everything will be on hold until you decide to come back. CON: Etsy takes a 3% com on each sale + a small fee for the product listing each quarter - less than $1/listing I believe because I paid like $3,5 or something for all my listings each quarter if my memory doesn't fail me. It may be a little different for digital products (I sell templates on another shop but I can't recall for the life of me because it's new vs. I sell "physical" illustrations for 10+ years) In this case, you can make announcements in a community post when you have a spot opened for commissions and closed it soon after. Plus same thing on your social medias, you post something about commissions being opened. I'm probably sure there is other options out there, it's just something that came to my mind (and that I have a little knowledge of) As for other types of things, yes to stories!!! yes to AMA or really just you ranting about what you want, the weather, dom/sub, pizza and pasta... Oh and as an Italian descendant from my father's side (grandmother) I'll dose everything in parmigiano, thank you very much 😍 And for others ideas, since it's 3am and I didn't want to take pills tonight... And now I have troubles sleeping... Anything SFW like sleep aid, not necessarily hypnosis even if I love SFW sleep hypnosis with no wake-up command at the end (like the SFW fireplace) but even just a bedtime story, or just random soothing things to fall asleep (which is what I'm going to listen right now, because I don't want to be addicted to these pills but I can't sleep...)

Sarah LoveCuties

(side note: if you go down the patreon route - which is totally fine and it's not a bad idea at all - be sure to warn people otherwise you'll have a Karen on your back who will throw a tantrum because she didn't change her tier the next month. Not necessarily us already here, but if you have new people here... Definitely something to be wary of!)

MIYM

First of all, get sleep. I know, easier to say. I have nights where i lay down and go "shit, I'm not getting sleep tonight". Usually they say if you can't fall asleep in 15 minutes, get up and do something. Also, CBD oil. I hope it's legal there, because wow, ever since the outbreak last year, what a game-changer for me. As for Etsy! I never thought of that....however, reading on their guidelines: Although pornography can be difficult to define, an item generally qualifies as pornography when it contains printed or visual material that explicitly describes or displays sex acts, sex organs, or other erotic behaviour for the sole purpose of sexual arousal or stimulation. So that's stories out of the picture, and I have a feeling the ONLY reason erotic audio isn't banned is because they don't know about it. I'll check on it in a minute but I don't think it would work, or rather I'd be in a gray area just waiting for them to bring the hammer down at some point (and, living through a lot of bookstores doing the same over the years, it WILL happen).

MIYM

So, the idea would be the tier itself would tell you "Custom audio one-time only, this tier will disappear as soon as you get your audio", and every message (when I send the form, when I send the audio) would also remind the person to change their tier before the end of the month or ...sob...cancel. Is it foolproof? No. I did take a Patreon survey today, however. And one of the things they were asking about is what we are talking about so...maybe sometime this year/next they figure it out?

Sasha

You would think it's foolproof, but unfortunately it's not, some people just don't pay attention to anything. But once the tier is deactivated, aren't they automatically moved back to the tier they were previously at? Surely, when the next month comes, Patreon won't be able to charge anyone for the tier that doesn't exist any longer, or is it not true?

MIYM

So I can do two things with tiers: unpublish or delete. If I unpublish, they are still in that tier and guaranteed the benefits of that tier. It's just that you or I, if we visit my page, will not see that tier available. They're still a part of it, however. If I delete it, they get thrown into a "no rewards" tier and basically would be making a donation to me. Now, I know what you are thinking-why not just delete it? Well, Patreon says that's not the best way (and I do not wish to run afoul of them) and it would mess over a patron if they forgot or something came up, whereas unpublish they would still get the, say $22 tier stuff. Moving them down to a lower tier automatically or just not taking their money are good ideas, but not what they have implemented