September - October News (Patreon)

Important: Due to a family event I will be AFK starting the 25th of September till the 10th of October. During this time I will try my best to upload things but I wont know what my internet or time situation will look like during those weeks. As always you wont have to pay if I don't upload anything! I am trying to work my hardest between now and then to get some pages out. Rewards will also be sent out before I leave.

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Now.....

The Elephant In the Room: It was going to come up sooner or later, I guess. Bots! You may all know that there are bots and false accounts sweeping Patreon. I have known about this for a while BUT, since my comic is posted for free anyway I turned a blind eye to it. I want to create more freely! Not deny people access to my art. Currently though, there are so many false pledges that it is significantly inflating my per-upload number (by nearly $200 a post, currently). I usually wait until payments go through to remove pledges but I am now going to add a new rule.

*If a new account pledges to my patreon that looks suspicious I will be deleting it right away.*

What makes an account suspicious? Generally  2+ things being true will send up a red flag for me for NEW pledges:

- Following a ton of accounts all at once with no 'good' status on any of them OR only following me

- Pledging to the highest tier of all accounts watched (again, with no 'good' status)

- A name-number combination with an unsearchable or newly created hotmail/gmail/yahoo account

- No icon or profile information

*This rule will be in place until Patreon implements a better system for catching bots*

I used to only remove people at the end of each month who popped up as declined or deleted pledges, but now it's gotten to an extreme point (I suspect I have about 15 bots this month).

Due to this: If you are a NEW pledge and feel your account was deleted in error please send me a PM. I will be more than happy to add human beings!