I too am in favor of community development and always have been and always will be…
I understand the complexity and responsibility of your work. Also for you there is some difficult moment, which in my mind and I have arisen more than once and not twice - it is that thanks to your efforts (in fact, a free platform for selling and advertising scripts) others get profit from their work but not you. And here is the answer:
The normal practice of sharing earnings for me (as an example with you and @Yoooi) is about 10% and when your patreon launched I immediately put in $10 which was about 10% of mine, restarting my Patreon I couldn’t subscribe either as the manual payment entry option was not available and it was only $5.
The answer is self evident - don’t look at the visitors, let’s make an advertising option for scripters for $20 a month? With all the goodies that came before:
single-axis free + multi-axis through Patreon;
part of the script free + paid full;
free script through registration on a third-party resource, etc.
It has been discussed many times that likes and comments do not reflect the whole picture of script usage and quality. I often experiment and make scripts not classic (1 guy + 1 girl = classic) and it would be useful and interesting for me to know how many people actually downloaded my scripts with trance/pegging/interracial etc. Also in multi-axis scripts I try to improve and add some other methods - rolling forward/backward or harder wanking or twisted blowjobs. I would find this information helpful for future scripts.
Let’s be honest, shall we?
Just say you want to make money too, but don’t want to sell out to advertisers or big studios and turn your face to the people who are the base of this forum and give them the option to pay and do what they want.
If you remove |attachment from the link to the uploaded funscript before posting you will get a download counter for your funscript links just as normal links.
I wouldnt lie, it would be nice to make money being a mod, I enjoy it and if I could do it full time I would.
The 2 new tiers were made a bit ago as a result of my post about the plans to upgrade/migrate the forum. Some users expressed they wish they could donate more.
I made the tiers but as of this moment cant think of a good reason to justify them. Theres no incentive right now, and I would like to avoid enshitification. I wouldlike to add features instead of removing them. I have one in mind but that needs to wait until after the migration.
There are no plans at the moment to put existing abilities behind a paywall.
Wait - you have a product that I’m willing to buy as a script writer. You have a platform for advertising, for example SLR scriptwriters use it very actively.
If you don’t want to monetize access to the site and it’s very right and I support you with all my hands - it won’t be a big problem to create an additional level for script writers for money, and I’ll go back to my old process - to publish all my scripts for free after a while, because why do I write them then, if not for people.
Level 1 for $10 publishing in the paid scripts category.
Level 2 for $20 publishing promotional posts (like my multi-axis or with part) in the free scripts category.
3rd level $100 to do some other crap
Of course when I start making enough through patreon to pay $30/$40/$50/$100 - I’ll do it. What’s better than buying a buddy a beer or dinner?
P.S. We are all members of a very interesting community who are pushing the process of cybersex to a new level. And I think it’s only fair that those who make money from it sponsor others - moderators/administrators/altruists.
The reason for why I don’t want this is that it messes up search/filters. If you search/filter the free section it’s for the very reason that you don’t want paid content.
For this to be acceptable it must be possible to see that a post is promotional without visiting the topic, like sponsored links in a Google search.
This is ignored at the moment. I expect/hope that it will be banned soon. If it would be allowed for making profit as you suggest, i will definetely, immediately leave the forum.
This is currently prohibited. You have not made any argument against it other than an objection. I’m probably a fool, but I want to hear you out - as I don’t understand the reasons why it’s bad and unambiguously falls under the ban cardinally.
So - let’s think about this, I have about 50 scripts, many of them multi-axis and I want to give them to the community for free and still pay for it because I want our community to grow.
Are you leaving because you don’t want me to donate to the forum?
I am probably a fool but i’ll answer:
Nobody is against you giving something for free or donating. We are all grateful for everything you’ve done. What i’m saying is. “free” should mean free. If you let someone buy their way to throw advertisement there, it’ not free for me anymore. It’s like google ads. Either pay with your money not to see it or pay with your time and watch the ads. It is savage capitalism to force your advertisement on people .
Strange - the letters at the beginning of the sentence are missing in the quote. English is not my native language, I’m a Russian speaker if anything.
I didn’t advertise anything ever, except myself
I am not against you. On the contrary i respect you very much. And yes, of course you did not advertise anything. But what you suggest with that level 2 for 20$… Nobody would pay for promoting only free content. It would be used to slap payed content on our faces.
Lately, there has been at least one user blatantly abusing the free scripts category using the strategy of releasing the first part of a JAV for free and the other part(s) as paid script(s). I’m calling this blatant abuse as this was one seemingly legit method they were using while also using non-legit methods such as using an alt account to leave positive reviews.
This has shaken my view of scripters releasing part A as free and part(s) B(+) as paid. Not because it’s an inherently bad practice, but because bad actors are abusing it.
Maybe we need to be more strict and less trusting than I previously held we should be.
