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Patreon News Gets Worse, User's Payout FROZEN Without Notice

Timcast News

Timcast Media

News, Politics

4.67.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Patreon News Keeps Getting Worse, User's Money FROZEN for 'suspicious activity"

Following news about a user having his account suspended "in secret" a story in the New York Times emerged with statements from Jack Conte and their head of Trust and Safety. The statements seem to be directly antagonistic toward the community, specifically Sword and Scale, Dave Rubin, Me, and Sargon of Akkad.

They imply that Sargon broke the rules on their platform and Conte implies many of us are simply trying to generate support for a cause of some sort.

But all this is only made worse by the original story of a man who had his patreon account suspended without notice. He only found out because patreon had not paid him in about a month.

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0:00.0

When Twitter, Facebook, or Google do something wrong, who do you call?

0:04.0

Is there a customer service number you can get in touch with to try and solve these

0:07.0

problems? There isn't because they're just too many who's on the platform.

0:10.7

And often these errors, these mistakes, these mistreatments go unnoticed

0:15.6

because the individual doesn't have the ability to generate an outcry and get any

0:19.4

attention. But this can't be excused in the issue of Patreon.

0:23.4

Patreon is now entering the territory where they're becoming so big,

0:26.4

they're neglecting their users.

0:28.2

But we're not talking about trying to post a funny picture of a cat or send

0:31.8

words to another person. We're talking about people's access to resources,

0:36.0

their money, the thing they need to survive in the long term.

0:40.4

If Twitter doesn't respond to you over some issues, yeah, well, get over it.

0:43.4

I mean, it kind of sucks. But for the most part, you're going to, you'll be fine.

0:46.7

When Patreon stops sending you money and you don't know why now you're in trouble.

0:50.7

And this is bad news for Patreon and it's bad news for the rest of us.

0:53.9

In what may be the worst possible timing ever, a story has emerged about a hacker

0:57.7

and researcher who got suspended from Patreon without notice.

1:01.5

And he only realized it when he noticed money wasn't being sent to him anymore.

1:05.8

Patreon was allowing people to still sign up, but they weren't giving him his

1:10.3

money and they never told him. Look, if Patreon needs to suspend someone's account,

1:14.0

in this instance, it was over suspicious activity. I understand that.

1:17.7

But it's becoming a problem when they don't notify the users.

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