Changes in Patreon (Patreon)

Patreon's been doing a good job listening to their clients and have been implementing improvements. I'm pretty impressed. They've changed the messaging system to be a little easier to track, more like a regular email system, where you can see correspondence with others off to the side, in the order in which they come. This makes it easier to deal with receiving multiple messages without a lot of backtracking.

They've also implemented the ability to ban patrons from pledging. This is a tool to combat people who repeatedly cancel their pledges after viewing and saving an artist's pledge-only content. Creators get email notifications for ever pledge they receive, and if we notice the same name pledging repeatedly, and we visit their user page and find they have no current pledge, we can deduce that they're pledging, saving content, and canceling. Sometimes these pledges correspond with new items added to Patreon, only to be canceled minutes after they're made.  Now, creators have the ability to block user accounts from making future pledges when they notice this.

It's not something that affects my account to a great degree, since we're pretty successful here, and I really love all of you for making a great fanbase for my work. But there were a couple of accounts doing this and it's good to know that it's less of a sure way to game the system, now.