Punishing creators does not help anyone. (Patreon)

You've probably heard by now that Sargon, Milo Yiannopoulos, and James Allsup were banned from Patreon recently. I agree that Patreon should operate neutrally, only taking action in the most extreme cases, and even then only after working personally with the affected creators to give them a chance to appeal and rectify any community guidelines violations. I am very concerned to see them banning people for what they've said or who they associate with. But I am also concerned that people believe boycotting Patreon is a helpful reaction. Boycotting Patreon hardly hurts Patreon financially. The vast majority of your attack is not on the website, but on the creators you don't want banned from it. If you think Patreon wants to silence people who don't conform to their political ideals, for example, then removing your pledge only helps Patreon advance that goal by making it that much harder for people with those non-conforming ideals to continue making a living speaking their mind. Remember, creators take home roughly 95% of all the money paid through this site. When Lauren Southern was banned in July last year, I watched my earnings plummet by hundreds of dollars per video, and not temporarily. I've had to deal with making that much less every single month since. Then I got to experience it double after Patreon's fee structure changes in December of last year. Now I'll get to experience it triple after this new scandal. If what you want is for the patrons you support to survive financially and have their voices heard, boycotting Patreon is the most counterproductive thing you can do. What would hurt Patreon is if creators started to promote a competing platform, but currently there is no real competitor, and we are trapped. I hope this changes someday, and if it does, I'll sign up and promote that other site as an alternative. (Not MakerSupport. That thing was shady and it wanted you to enter your banking info directly on their site just to get paid. Besides which, it's dead now.)
Having said all that, if you still feel that you need to boycott Patreon, but still want to support me, you can set up a monthly Paypal donation here:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=56K2LSM3A8A6N