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[Jaded Entity]

I've been curious before about donating to the site so I'm happy to contribute to this cause. Good luck reaching your targets.

[TankCop1]

If I gave you money would the Warning from Rob be lifted? Would I be allowed to post pictures here again?

[Tienz]

Congratz on the Fiancee and the new flat.

Don't know if I care about the commissioned pictures would be ok with that money being piled back into the servers or you. I would worry about that becoming a bit of a hassle to do on top of all you and stones do to keep this running.

Would you accept paypal donations to the same address you sent a long time ago?

edit2: I would also watch out about the title. I had heard patreon had cracked down on some smut. May want to double check.

[Ai]

Originally Posted by Izumi

I just pledged $10 a month,how long until I get the code to give Stoner so I am VIP?

Patreon will take your payment at the end of the month. We'll then get a list of successful donations around the 4th-6th of the month. If your email address is the same on patreon as it is on OTK you will be upgraded automatically. If it isn't you will be contacted by your patreon email to ask for your username.

Originally Posted by charles wilbourn

Please tell me how much money I will need to donate / pledge to become a VIP Donater. Is this a monthly donation, or is it a "Whenever I Can Afford It" matter. (...snip...).

Secondly, about three times paypal has rejected out of hand any attempt I have made to purchasee commissions or whatever everytime I have tried to use it. It has gotten to the point to where my computer can no longer access it, obviously because it has shut its doors to me or any modest attempt to use my credit card; now of course this arrangement is impossible.
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I have been able now and then to commission a fine artist for me by means of a check, and really this is the only way, right now, by which I can make any long distance financial obligations. My artist can verify that all of my checks re valid, and has never complained about the arrangement. I am very discrete in the arrangements of all of my arrangements wit the artist. . . . . So, in lieu of paypal or other use of my credit card, or the necessity of opening a new credit card acount which they accept with a minimum $35. base in the account--is there any way I can send a check to this site?

The minimum to gain VIP donator status is to makea one off donation of $10. VIP status does not expire. I'mafraid we don't havea public mailing address and international cheques from America are painful. By the time the banks have taken their fees and proceessed it, its 3 months later and anything under $200 had a huge percentage removed as commission. Patreon takes both paypal and credit card.

Originally Posted by D_T

How about removing the sister sites? Then the donate amount is not that big...I think the core is the main aotk page and this is what should be keep alive.

Originally Posted by rarcoryn

Question: How much is it to run AOTK on it's own?

Apart from reducing the domain fee this really wouldn't lower the cost much. The server is a server - replacing it with a weaker one would actually cost more than I'm paying right now since I got this one on a super special steal deal!

Originally Posted by cipherlover

Is there a bitcoin address I donate to?

I set one up once and never got a donation to it - I'll look out the info and see if I can recover it! If not, I'll create a new wallet.

Originally Posted by lonewolf86

To those wondering about just running AOTK and leaving the others to die, the price won't be that much less at all. Correct me if I'm wrong but they are all run from the same server. The additional fee is for keeping the domain names which isn't very much.

Exactly. We're not running at full server cpapacity (doing that is a baaaaaaaaad idea) but OTK takes at least half the server resources.

Originally Posted by Tienz

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Would you accept paypal donations to the same address you sent a long time ago?

Paypal TOS do not allow its use for "Adult materials".

Originally Posted by Darla

Hey there. I see that the goal has for now been reached, but I have a concern for future instances of this, in regards to:

“If sold, I cannot guarantee what the new owners will do with the content, data, adverts on site or anything else”

It is entirely possible I am misunderstanding the above, so if that is the case, I apologize in advance for what follows, because I really appreciate you guys and what you’ve done with this website over many years —but I just want to emphasize and make clear that at no point I am giving permission for my uploaded content/characters to be sold to someone else, I understand the website belongs to you, but the copyright on my artwork does still belong to me, and I am not giving permission for it to be sold. I am not aware that I did at any point when joining this site. I’m so sorry if this is coming across as rude in any way. I do not mean for it to be, I am only concerned about my intellectual property. I hope I'm just misunderstanding.
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Your intelectual property remains your intelectual property. A new owner buying the site would be buying the scripts and database content, not the artwork, stories etc or rights to them - this would be a very clear term in the sale. Prior to being sold (should it ever happen - this is a last resort to try and preserve the site instead of shutting it down) there will be plenty of warning and you will beable to remove your content then. I have no intentions at this moment in time of selling the site(s) but felt I needed to make it clear that should I need to sell them a newowner may not run things the same way I do. They may make it a pay to access site, they may cover it in intrusuve adverts, they may merge it with other sites, they may delete everything and just keep the domain. Right now though this is a very, very, very remote possibility. You'll be given at least 2-3 months warning of an impending sale so please do not panic! I'm pretty sure sites like DeviantArt have changed hands multiple times without anybody knowing about it Each owner will be trying to run it at a profit and selling it when they've made enough and its value has increased enough - that's business.

[Ruby_thunder]

Will the Current VIPs get the rewards bonus or only the new one?

[Ai]

Originally Posted by Ruby_thunder

Will the Current VIPs get the rewards bonus or only the new one?

The only additional reward bonus is for those who pledge more than $100 - they'll help us choose the new forum software, plugins and the like if we either hit the $500 in a month target twice or manage to hit $1000 in a month.

[Pastel]

Originally Posted by Darla

Hey Ai, I sincerely appreciate the explanation. I hoped it was that way, but all the same, due to other reasons (if you want I can discuss them privately) I still would prefer my gallery to be wiped. I want to emphasize how much I appreciate this site and everyone's hard work. I made good friends here and I am lucky enough to continue to interact with them in other places. I'll have pretty good memories of this place but I prefer to not have my content here any more. I wish you good luck with Patreon, as others said they are tricky with this sort of content but I believe you should be ok.

No worries! Your gallery has been removed. Easy peasy.

[littlebigchild]

I attempted to donate and got a "this site is under review" message and it wouldn't let me donate

[Hrtofdrkns]

Hopefully patreon unlocks it. If not maybe Ai can use an alternate source?

[Collegeboy]

Yeah, it's been a few days. I hope that means that Patreon isn't just reflexively going to pull the plug based on the site content and is giving it a fair look.