Rules (Patreon)

Update 1: Thank you all very much for weighing in about the fleeting Patrons. I now have already deleted everything before July ’21, which took me two very long days actually.
It was a lot. I’ve certainly not been slacking here, that much is clear.
And the Patreon interface did not help one bit. It’s slow (became quicker when I was almost through deleting, though) and you actually have to click on images to be able to save them in the right size.

I am organising and sorting the various images and variations for the archives, I will be creating later. That is no easy task either. Will take some time. 

More news as soon as it becomes available

I had 174 patrons by the end of August and lost about 40 by September 1st.

As my genuine Patrons know, I try to make my page an experience. I work really hard to make new and interesting stuff exclusively for Patrons. There’s many special versions, only Patrons will ever see and I try to make something new very regularly, preferably daily.

I think the people joining the page in the last weeks of any month and cancel their pledge the very same day or leave by the first of the next month don’t really appreciate the work (present and past) that goes into making art and they certainly do not respect it.

I am not sure what to do to prevent them from working around the Patreon concept and philosophy.
The managing tools of Patreon are not sophisticated and the patron impersonators that work around the system know that. It's not easy at all  for creators to keep track and some visitors are smart enough to do it in a way that makes it even more difficult to spot. However, it is quite obvious in the bigger picture which Patreon should have.
Patreon algorithms can detect words that might cause problems but obvious fake Patrons that roam the halls of Patreon and leech of the creators are more difficult.  

I can do some things to make this practise less interesting, but it might make things less good for the true supporting Patrons too;

1] I could just block everyone that joins in the last weeks of a month.

2] I can block anyone who joins and cancels on the same day.

3] I can remove all paintings every past month and only post what I make over the current month

4] I can make various Archive files with older paintings that patrons can download when they're here longer (3 months or so) 

5] I can do on Deviant Art what I do here as well. They've just activated a similar system with subscription and tiers. It makes Patreon less exclusive, which is what I like about this, but it's not something like Fansly or OnlyFans. I don't think that is a good option though. Deviant Art changed all kinds of things but I still don't know which features actually improved the site. Chances are that the paywall will not function well either. 

Any advice, ideas or remarks that might help?