I will not be enabling the new "shinies" thing.
6 years ago
Not out of security concerns or anything like that; I've checked, and PayPal itself handles the actual payment process, so it's as secure as PayPal is. No, I have two other concerns.
Most importantly, I don't really trust them when they say that they've worked this out with PayPal and PayPal said it would be fine. PayPal is notoriously unkind to NSFW content, and FurAffinity is pretty NSFW all around. I don't want someone sending me a payment, adding a bunch of falsely incriminating comments along with that payment, and getting my account banned. (Note that I did not test whether you are given an option to leave a comment, so this point may be moot. Let me know if it is.)
The other thing is that nobody is going to give me $5 for no reason. I've got a Patreon page with, at the time of this writing, exactly one subscriber who has pledged $1 per month. And I'm not even wholly convinced that was a good investment, considering the fairly average quality of my work and the scarcity of actual content I make. So there's no point in setting up a $5 tip jar. If anyone really, REALLY wants to toss me some money, they can do it on Patreon and maybe actually get something for it occasionally. (https://patreon.com/reyquiem for those too lazy to read the section of my main page where all the links to other websites are.)
I apologize for the obviously grumpy tone I'm striking, but for this whole week I've been dead tired and obviously grumpy because of it. I would take a nap if I could, but I hear every little noise that goes on around me and it keeps me from falling asleep.
That is all.
Most importantly, I don't really trust them when they say that they've worked this out with PayPal and PayPal said it would be fine. PayPal is notoriously unkind to NSFW content, and FurAffinity is pretty NSFW all around. I don't want someone sending me a payment, adding a bunch of falsely incriminating comments along with that payment, and getting my account banned. (Note that I did not test whether you are given an option to leave a comment, so this point may be moot. Let me know if it is.)
The other thing is that nobody is going to give me $5 for no reason. I've got a Patreon page with, at the time of this writing, exactly one subscriber who has pledged $1 per month. And I'm not even wholly convinced that was a good investment, considering the fairly average quality of my work and the scarcity of actual content I make. So there's no point in setting up a $5 tip jar. If anyone really, REALLY wants to toss me some money, they can do it on Patreon and maybe actually get something for it occasionally. (https://patreon.com/reyquiem for those too lazy to read the section of my main page where all the links to other websites are.)
I apologize for the obviously grumpy tone I'm striking, but for this whole week I've been dead tired and obviously grumpy because of it. I would take a nap if I could, but I hear every little noise that goes on around me and it keeps me from falling asleep.
That is all.
Gabthenostalgic
~gabthenostalgic
I understand. To be honest, I feel bad that I didn't have the opportunity to create a Patreon account before the whole fee change.
SuperMafia
~supermafia
I have no idea what the Hell shinies are. And truth be told, I wouldn't care either way if I knew it existed.
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