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In a lot of cases Patreon doesn't host the content. People post content on YouTube, DeviantArt, their own web sites, distributed by e-mail, etc. and just collect payments via Patreon. I have a joke page on Patreon and all they host for me is that page and monthly single-sentence announcements.

I've been for improved and free health care and social security

So go fix it all, or help me fix it all.

Classic Shell still working for me, Win10. Developer may not be able to keep up with MS constantly trying to defeat it. If not, now may be the time to give up on Windows completely and learn how to Linux. Damn. Damn it all to hell! I miss the old days of computing of freeware...

There's been enough shit going on with operating systems that I'm now thinking about signing up on Patreon for the first time to support Linux Mint. The only OS that still works the way I like.

I guess Microsoft's plan for an OS subscription is actually happening for me, the only difference being that their efforts are making me want to ensure that a viable alternative remains alive and well

There you go. (should be SFW)

They must be pretty desperate as Hardware Unboxed just found that the report includes results where the AMD chip had one of the CCX modules disabled making it essentially a quad-core (as opposed to 8) chip. That's on top of the other shenanigans mentioned in the summary or in other posts.

Thank you! Obviously Debian and friends were after Intel before I saw that other Linux distributions had accepted the license and decided that the people needed some education on the topic. I can't say for sure that Intel wasn't already working on the improved license before I got involved.

This is still a proprietary software license, and it's unfortunate that if you want the security fixes you have to load a binary blob on your nice otherwise-100%-Free-Software system every time you boot it up.

If you'd like to help me do stuff like this, there's my brand-new Patreon site, follow me on Twitter and re-tweet me when I'm working on things like this, keep watching Perens.com and my submissions to Slashdot (which are often rejected).

I've been using duckdns since September 2015. If it goes away, I'll find another one. It seems stable enough and they have added features and directions in that time, so it's does not appear to be abandoned.
It also looks like they have met their funding goals and get sufficient monthly income. Although, you should donate if it's important to you.

Where are you getting that creators only get 68%? How does 95 cents per dollar equal 68%?

You seem confused. The service fee is not taken out of the pledge, it’s added on top of the pledge amount.

I do a few $1 pledges as well. And I get a single web comic or a D&D map in exchange, depending on the creator. A whole dollar is a lot to pay for a web comic, but it does help keep it going and reduces the reliance on advertising on the creator's site. And the dungeon maps eventually go on sale at DriveThru RPG for around $1 each, but that site keeps 35%. And yes, that works out that Patreon's new prices is not a better deal than a store front.

I'll give you a concrete example. Having 444 people contributing a $1 or more per month for what started as a hobby is pretty significant. The real meat and potatoes is when he has enough material to release a new book (electronic and print-on-demand). Having people supporting him along the entire process is helpful and your retort of "big spender here" shows that you aren't really clued into what is going on.

... that breaks the rule?

Sailing SV Delos is an adventure/sailing/diving channel that follows the antics of two brothers (Brian and Brady Trautman), Brian's girlfriend Karin, plus an assortment of [very!] colourful characters as they make their way around the world aboard Delos, a 53' Amel Super Maramu.

Delos currently has Patreon sponsorship to the tune of $13,433 *per video*, and they have uploaded 5 videos in the last 3 weeks. So that's what, $67,000 in 3 weeks?

Does that count as not making money on Patreon?

Oh, and their videos are excellent fun - 4K, lots of good sailing, lots of diving, lots of fun...

https://www.patreon.com/svdelo...

https://www.youtube.com/user/b...

No, I have no affiliation, but I am interested in quitting my job and buying a boat and circumnavigating... So this is an informative and entertaining channel from my point of view...

They just slid the knofe in between the ribs of Jeph Jacques, the cartoonist who does "Questionable Content", http://questionablecontent.net...

See his article at https://www.patreon.com/posts/...
Assuming it stays up!

Where do you live? I pay close to $100/month for power in Australia when all I'm doing is running two Xeon servers (no lights, no heating, nothing else). My beer bill is a lot lower than my power bill. BTW you can buy me beer on Patreon if you have money you want to throw away ;)

She's sadly alive. Surviving off a patron scam, and writing 'think pieces' on the hipster, 10-megs-of-javascript-to-display-a-text-article group blog medium.com. She is also a prolific twitter user who begs for white-knights to buy her stuff off her amazon wishlist. https://www.patreon.com/freebs... https://medium.com/@randileeha...

Wow. I'm first to say that?
https://www.patreon.com/

I get to fund a comic whose work I enjoy. I get to fund at the amount I want. And a comic strip writer gets to earn a living.

I think that's pretty fabulous.

The goal should be a new business model. I would gladly contribute to a kickstarter for a new album from some of my favorite bands, (as long as they made it free to download for everyone). I'm sure a lot of bands have fans that are falling all over themselves desperate for new albums enough to make kickstarter style fund raising profitable.

Not exactly a new business model. Sites such as PledgeMusic or to a lesser extent Patreon already do.

I wonder how many people and companies are willing to pay for the privilege of virtue signaling?

Quite a lot, actually:

* $1398 from 374 patrons
* $2769 from 822 patrons
* $3225 from 481 patrons

Professional victimhood is a cottage industry.

I wonder how many people and companies are willing to pay for the privilege of virtue signaling?

Quite a lot, actually:

* $1398 from 374 patrons
* $2769 from 822 patrons
* $3225 from 481 patrons

Professional victimhood is a cottage industry.

I wonder how many people and companies are willing to pay for the privilege of virtue signaling?

Quite a lot, actually:

* $1398 from 374 patrons
* $2769 from 822 patrons
* $3225 from 481 patrons

Professional victimhood is a cottage industry.

I think a lot of what was independent radio moved online where it can reach a bigger base that isn't limited by physical geography. With the advent of the podcast anyone can have a show about anything and reach the entire planet (Local internet censorship rules apply. Check your country's rules.) which means its possible to support doing that as a full or part time job.

There are even sites like Patreon that have set themselves up to make it easier for people to do just this. I went to their website and found some group that's getting ~$46,000 per month for their podcast through donations. Fuck if I know what Chapo Trap House is or what their podcast is about, but the name alone sounds like the same kind of unique oddity that would have been on a small radio station at one point.

Previously, I probably would have never been able to discover almost any of that content. Maybe being a small local success that never quite took off and had a larger regional or national platform has adds a certain charm or mystique, but I can see why some of those content producers would want to move beyond that. Hell, if you're really niche, you may truly need a global reach just to get enough people to justify calling it an audience.

I'll grant you that it might be sad to see radio go. I've got some fond memories of listening to the local radio or even calling in a few times, but I honestly don't listen to much actual radio since I don't have a long commute to work and modern smartphones have made it easy to store hundreds of hours of music and podcasts. I can be my own curator of content.

Happy to see ESR using crowdfunding, and I seriously think that more developers should consider refocusing to work on open source full-time. Let's say that a company might build DRM-ridden software to make money only on the most popular OS/platform, but a crowdfunded developer might be able to work on a non-DRM alternative that works on all systems. By this I mean that while commercial companies use, as well as build and directly sponsor, open source software, what gets sponsored might not be the best "for the greater good". Staying independent might avoid some of the inherent conflicts of interests in sponsored development. Now, making a decent living only/mostly programming open source software "for the greater good" offers quite the hurdle -- 9-5 work is the easiest choice for most, hopefully at least with some degree of open source contributions.

Shameless plug: I figure that ESR has about 25 more years of open source contributions than I, but last night I joined Patreon to see if there's even the slightest chance to make the switch from primarily closed income to primarily open source income. Feedback appreciated! patreon.com/joelpurra

Forgot about Hak5's ThreatWire. https://www.patreon.com/Threat...

I've been using CeroWrt (https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt/wiki/ - the initial testbed for all of the bufferbloat work) for at least four years. For the majority of that time I had 1.5Mbps DSL service, but now I'm connected via a 12Mbps ADSL2+ link.

Prior to the installation of CeroWrt, it was painful for me to attempt to work remotely using an SSH tunnel if someone was watching a show via Netflix, but after setting up CeroWrt everyone was happy (me for not having to yell at my daughter and my daughter for being able to watch Netflix without me yelling).

With the 12Mbps link, it doesn't seem to be the ingress traffic that causes issues, but the egress traffic (at times, I upload large data sets). Without shaping the outbound traffic, I can see round-trip times in excess of 2 seconds which is just a bit excessive. ;-)

I recently installed LEDE (https://lede-project.org/) (an OpenWrt (https://openwrt.org/) fork) on a spare router (the same model as the CeroWrt router - WNDR3800) and it is obvious that the software continues to improve.

It appears that LEDE may be approaching its first stable release (https://forum.lede-project.org/t/criteria-for-first-lede-stable-release/552). If you have a spare router that is supported by LEDE, please consider installing a current build and report any issues found.

If you would like to learn more, here are a few random links to get you started:

• Explaining RRUL Charts (https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/RRUL_Chart_Explanation/)
• The Cerowrt-devel Mailing List Archives (https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/cerowrt-devel/)
• The Lede-dev Mailing List Archives (http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/)
• Does LEDE support my router? (https://lede-project.org/supported_devices)
• The Make Wi-Fi Fast Wiki (https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/make-wifi-fast/wiki/)
• The Make-wifi-fast Mailing List Archives (https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/make-wifi-fast/)
• Possible OpenWrt and LEDE merge (https://www.google.com/search?q=OpenWrt+LEDE+merge)
• All of Dave's Patreon posts (https://www.patreon.com/dtaht/posts)

I feel that the work that Dave (and everyone else that is involved) is so important that I send a few coins his way every month via Patreon. Here's his most recent update: "Where your donations go" (https://www.patreon.com/posts/where-your-go-7564906).

Dave, a belated Merry Christmas to you and I'm looking forward to a New Year where all of the efforts to tame bufferbloat and make WiFi fast benefit everyone.

I've been using CeroWrt (https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt/wiki/ - the initial testbed for all of the bufferbloat work) for at least four years. For the majority of that time I had 1.5Mbps DSL service, but now I'm connected via a 12Mbps ADSL2+ link.

Prior to the installation of CeroWrt, it was painful for me to attempt to work remotely using an SSH tunnel if someone was watching a show via Netflix, but after setting up CeroWrt everyone was happy (me for not having to yell at my daughter and my daughter for being able to watch Netflix without me yelling).

With the 12Mbps link, it doesn't seem to be the ingress traffic that causes issues, but the egress traffic (at times, I upload large data sets). Without shaping the outbound traffic, I can see round-trip times in excess of 2 seconds which is just a bit excessive. ;-)

I recently installed LEDE (https://lede-project.org/) (an OpenWrt (https://openwrt.org/) fork) on a spare router (the same model as the CeroWrt router - WNDR3800) and it is obvious that the software continues to improve.

It appears that LEDE may be approaching its first stable release (https://forum.lede-project.org/t/criteria-for-first-lede-stable-release/552). If you have a spare router that is supported by LEDE, please consider installing a current build and report any issues found.

If you would like to learn more, here are a few random links to get you started:

• Explaining RRUL Charts (https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/RRUL_Chart_Explanation/)
• The Cerowrt-devel Mailing List Archives (https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/cerowrt-devel/)
• The Lede-dev Mailing List Archives (http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/)
• Does LEDE support my router? (https://lede-project.org/supported_devices)
• The Make Wi-Fi Fast Wiki (https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/make-wifi-fast/wiki/)
• The Make-wifi-fast Mailing List Archives (https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/make-wifi-fast/)
• Possible OpenWrt and LEDE merge (https://www.google.com/search?q=OpenWrt+LEDE+merge)
• All of Dave's Patreon posts (https://www.patreon.com/dtaht/posts)

I feel that the work that Dave (and everyone else that is involved) is so important that I send a few coins his way every month via Patreon. Here's his most recent update: "Where your donations go" (https://www.patreon.com/posts/where-your-go-7564906).

Dave, a belated Merry Christmas to you and I'm looking forward to a New Year where all of the efforts to tame bufferbloat and make WiFi fast benefit everyone.

I guess her Patreon didn't get the message: https://www.patreon.com/freebs...

Sounds a lot like Patreon where people will pay you for "self-employment, artistic endeavors, or idleness."

But has just ended up turning into a grandstanding for a certain minority of people.

My prediction is the money will flow to the loudest and most offensive grandstanders and people that could have been helped by this will most likely be ignored.

Then again I don't earn $4.7k/month not doing anything for FreeBSD under a name very containing FreeBSD.

Well, supporting Sai's Patreon is a decent place to start. I've been tossing him $10/mo for a while now, it's a pittance but at least it's something. He's been shockingly effective for someone who's just One Random Guy with practically no support. https://www.patreon.com/saizai

You're welcome. How to help:
a) Supporting me financially would be very appreciated (I'm broke and can't legally get paid for the time I spend on this even if I win the lawsuit). Patreon, Bitcoin, PayPal, physical check.
b) I need pro bono legal counsel for this case and my BOS case. If you know lawyers who might be interested (or are one), email me.
c) Share. TSA HQ does pay attention to social and mainstream media, and the only two things that make them do things are bad PR and litigation.
d) Contact your senator/rep to ask them to pass laws to reign in the TSA.

I spend about %50 a month on Patreon, going mostly to various youtubers. Though I m not about to pay-per-click for most internet content, it is really worth next to nothing.

Wow just wow, I am a fluttershykin and I was really triggered by this comment. Donate to my patreon, shitlord.

Does the phone book include sexual preferences?

https://www.patreon.com/animop...

Dear Anonymous Coward,

We read your comment titled 'Millennials and codes of conduct'. However, this comment is in direct violation with rule 1 of the Github Code of Conduct:

1. You're not allowed to disagree with my opinion, shitlord.

You are banned from further commenting. Donate to our Patreon.

Sincerely,
Github

now you get to find out how much they REALLY make in a month.

Now ? This information was always public on Patreon :

https://www.patreon.com/user?u...

You can publicly see the number of patrons and the monthly revenue they generate. If they have their patreon set to per-creation instead of per-month, you still get the stats per-creation, as in, per-video for instance:

https://www.patreon.com/sargon...

So this hack doesn't even reveal that. At best, it can reveal who is a patron of who, which is not dessimated to the public.

now you get to find out how much they REALLY make in a month.

Now ? This information was always public on Patreon :

https://www.patreon.com/user?u...

You can publicly see the number of patrons and the monthly revenue they generate. If they have their patreon set to per-creation instead of per-month, you still get the stats per-creation, as in, per-video for instance:

https://www.patreon.com/sargon...

So this hack doesn't even reveal that. At best, it can reveal who is a patron of who, which is not dessimated to the public.

Eric S. Gaymond is now panhandling on Patreon. Get a job, you fat bum!

Remember when Brianna Wu did this:

http://i.imgur.com/zlEkMPQ.png

She's only known because of GamerGate, despite what she says.

She's still doing it:

https://archive.is/RHWfR

At least she knows what she's doing. She makes over $3000 a month trolling people on twitter then crying when people point out that she's an idiot.

Of course Wu can never give up the whole sexism racket because that is the key to her sympathy funding. She worked on the first game, which qualifies as one of the worst games ever made, then found out it's a lot more difficult and time consuming to make a game than she thought it would be so she decided to be a full time victim making $3000 per month for going around and stirring the pity pot.

Yeah, that's the bit that says "So, I can’t talk specifically about all of our funding."

Then there is also "A family relative offered us the chance to live in Frank’s grandmother’s house for free if we renovated it.", which translates to "We mooched off of relatives and they let us stay at the inlaw house if we agreed to clean it."

Seriously, everybody should read this and check all of the linked content too. These are moments when Wu exposes herself as a perpetual victim who needs constant funding, not to put toward a game, but to fight her internet trolls.

I have spoken about Wu and her views with both my girlfriend and my sister and they say Wu doesn't have a place to speak about women's rights. Being a trans-woman, especially being a recent convert at that, does not entitle Wu to speak for women. They also agree with my assessment that Wu is just playing a victim for attention and money.

Wu is a scammer.

> The reason it exploded wasn't because it was a superior discussion system- nerds made better ones at the dawn of the net, and they are still here.

They did make some incremental improvements. I love Markdown now. I stopped writing HTML ages ago for my own blog. Reddit is much easier to use in terms of adding formatting to text.

Coming back to Slashdot I realized how tedious doing full mark up was just to add some emphasis or a URL. I also like that with RES you can view images inline. I wish that there was a script to automatically show the first paragraph of a wiki article if you hovered over a complex term.

And where Reddit does work is in smaller groups. There's a threshold for a subreddit where everything just goes to shit. My wife loves hanging out on /r/babybumps, /r/parenting & /r/clothdiapering because it's a place where she can sit and chat with other women about parenting. There's no reason for full slashdot moderation there. Reddit's 'everyone votes' system works just fine. But that's because there isn't a "/r/disposablediapers" subreddit that comes in to brigade what they say, argue endlessly, etc.

I'll restate the same thing I've been stating for a few months: I want a new *protocol*, not a new site. A RFC that outlines comment moderation, story submission, etc. I want a C/C++ stack that I can deploy on my own server to roll my own Slashdot or Reddit. NNTP was good for its time but had its flaws (moderation). I want a stand alone app (then again I still use Thunderbird over a webmail) for discussion. I want it to be decentralized

Reddit's system is awful by design, because their goal isn't to make for conversation, it's to make for clicks and fights and play off that end of the emotional spectrum.

Reddit figured out fanning flame wars was more profitable. Twitter too.

When Brianna Wu tried to get her echo chamber to ask her the questions she wanted to answer in her Interview it didn't work.

Most people here have been isolated from "GamerGate" attributing it to "Reddit/Twitter Drama" but it's now been spilling over to Slashdot (because it's profitable for Dice) and even to the FreeBSD project (Because of Randi Harper). However people have found out that it's also profitable to be a professional victim which is why you're seeing it everywhere now, they need a bigger audience to fund their patreons

- https://www.patreon.com/freebs...
- https://www.patreon.com/user?u...

I wish Grace Hopper was still alive to tell this new group to STFU and GBTW.

> The reason it exploded wasn't because it was a superior discussion system- nerds made better ones at the dawn of the net, and they are still here.

They did make some incremental improvements. I love Markdown now. I stopped writing HTML ages ago for my own blog. Reddit is much easier to use in terms of adding formatting to text.

Coming back to Slashdot I realized how tedious doing full mark up was just to add some emphasis or a URL. I also like that with RES you can view images inline. I wish that there was a script to automatically show the first paragraph of a wiki article if you hovered over a complex term.

And where Reddit does work is in smaller groups. There's a threshold for a subreddit where everything just goes to shit. My wife loves hanging out on /r/babybumps, /r/parenting & /r/clothdiapering because it's a place where she can sit and chat with other women about parenting. There's no reason for full slashdot moderation there. Reddit's 'everyone votes' system works just fine. But that's because there isn't a "/r/disposablediapers" subreddit that comes in to brigade what they say, argue endlessly, etc.

I'll restate the same thing I've been stating for a few months: I want a new *protocol*, not a new site. A RFC that outlines comment moderation, story submission, etc. I want a C/C++ stack that I can deploy on my own server to roll my own Slashdot or Reddit. NNTP was good for its time but had its flaws (moderation). I want a stand alone app (then again I still use Thunderbird over a webmail) for discussion. I want it to be decentralized

Reddit's system is awful by design, because their goal isn't to make for conversation, it's to make for clicks and fights and play off that end of the emotional spectrum.

Reddit figured out fanning flame wars was more profitable. Twitter too.

When Brianna Wu tried to get her echo chamber to ask her the questions she wanted to answer in her Interview it didn't work.

Most people here have been isolated from "GamerGate" attributing it to "Reddit/Twitter Drama" but it's now been spilling over to Slashdot (because it's profitable for Dice) and even to the FreeBSD project (Because of Randi Harper). However people have found out that it's also profitable to be a professional victim which is why you're seeing it everywhere now, they need a bigger audience to fund their patreons

- https://www.patreon.com/freebs...
- https://www.patreon.com/user?u...

I wish Grace Hopper was still alive to tell this new group to STFU and GBTW.

Eh, forget the ./

Dice you've successfully figured out how to run one of the most best 'news' and opensource websites and run them into the ground for profit. /. and Fark were the only 2 places that could handle 9/11 traffic. I rode out that entire day on both sites when CNN was crumbling.

I'm glad I had Slashdot over Reddit when I was an angsty tenager. I took pride in trying to get +5 comments and put effort into doing so. Honestly slashdot made me a better writer. Reddit is nice for short terse communication but sometimes I want to "talk with adults".

Slashdot didn't need much. Unicode support. Newer HTML5 support. CSS3. Make a decent mobile app, move away from HTML for Markdown. Moderation made sense and was much better than a simple +- system. Voting was randomly enabled and you couldn't both vote and comment on the same article. -2 to 5 also limited band wagoning. It's easier to recover from a bunch of early 'down votes'. Instead you drove everyone away to other sites (which still don't quite scratch the /. itch). You shoe horn in what ever fucking agenda is "big in IT". Looking back at all the news I got from /. I can't ever remember thinking "I wonder if a woman did this" or "Too bad a woman didn't do this" because I didn't care. It was about the tech and news for nerds.

On 'Gamergate', 'sexual equality', 'gender issues', we don't care "Trans-gendered" is a big thing in the news these days (and especially around tech) but a long, long time ago I remember a Mac developer made the transition. (This was in the late '90s.) I read her bio. Shrugged my shoulders went "Neat" and moved on. Why? Because she made some awesome Mac games. Most other person I know in IT or engineering think the same way. None of us care what you do with your body or who you take to the bedroom. I do care if you can cut it and get your work done or contribute to society.

On the other side of that is Randi Harper (FreeBSD Girl) who actually write decent code. I've dug through some of her BSD commits, major props to her for doing that. But it can all be done without photoshopping traffic tickets to make it look like you got swatted, begging for money to move on twitter, (When you already earn $3k/month from Patreon), grandstanding on Twitter for no reason and bandwagoning users against anyone that disagrees isn't the way to do it.

You had the same opportunity to fix Sourceforge all of its' convoluted download mirrors (just use a proper CDN), update to Git, and everything else that Sourceforge isn't and GitHub is. Instead you rested on your laurels and are now trying to use this as one last cash grab before the Titanic goes down.

I don't know where I was going with this either. Just thought someone up top should know why your traffic is tanking and a lot of us are pissed off at you for what you've done.

I still won't forget the time you broke the capslock filter, I remember BitTorrent being announced and people thinking it was useless, the iPod's lack of wifi and space compared to a Nomad, et al.

Thanks for the fish?

I'm really tired of that line, "Doesn't mean she deserves harassment"

I've been in GamerGate now for almost six months. What I've seen is people like Zoe Quinn, Brianna Wu, Anita Sarkeesian and Randi Harper harassing people then claiming they're the ones being harassed. Other than Anita Sarkeesian, I'd never heard of any of these other people before GamerGate.

Wu for example, created a twitter account BROLOLZ and used it to mock and harass GamerGate back in the beginning. When no one responded she created the "Oppressed Gamer" meme. Someone took that meme and ran with it, then she claimed people using her meme was harassment. Then she got threats from a zero day twitter account called "DeathToBrianna", there was no mention of GamerGate, but she screen capped it and sent it flying around twitter as evidence GamerGate had a hate on for her, that's what got her on a media tour.

I don't believe anyone deserves harassment, but what I'm seeing is people purposely going in and kicking bee hives, then calling for the extermination of bees when they get stung by a wasp. It's ridiculous, the media is eating it up and plastering it all over as, "these poor, poor innocent souls."

So yeah, I'm about to victim blame. If you poke a bear, it's your fault if you get bitten. I've lost all sympathy for people living under the double standard that it's ok for them to lie, cheat, steal, defame, dox, harass and threaten people, but then turn around and play the victim and advertise their patreons. Check the patreon accounts for anyone of the three I named above:

Randi Harper (antagonist, creator of the GGAutoblocker blocks GamerGate, which is fine. Continues to tweet at GamerGate and bullied an anti-GamerGate person off twitter for not being anti enough):
$2,422.86 a MONTH https://www.patreon.com/freebs...

Zoe Quinn (abuser, antagonist, liar, trust fund baby. Frankly we'd all be happier NOT talking about her because she's not relevant beyond the people that were involved around her [journalist, indi devs, indi judges], but every time she's forgotten she pulls some crap like this article to reinsert herself. She got in a twitter slap fight with Brianna Wu over who was the most harassed):
$4,000 a MONTH https://www.patreon.com/zoe

Brianna Wu (antagonist, liar, trust fund baby. She answered someone questioning her saying GamerGate was only 350 people with, "Thanks for the sexists remark" and accused David Pakman of running a hit piece on her for asking her how she knew it was GamerGate harassing her:
$13,000 a MONTH https://www.patreon.com/user?u...

^ this ^ is what a professional victim looks like.

I got into GamerGate because I was tired of the media BS about gamers being cis-white-male shitlord misogynerds. I won't lie, in the beginning, I didn't think GamerGate was important, it's about frigg'n video games. I thought it'd be like a week long thing, we'd write some letters to advertisers and the journalist involved would just apologize for being idiots, but it's just been one thing after another after another. The opposition to GamerGate is full of ex-neo-naizs (Ian Miles Cheong), pedophiles (Shara Butts), animal abuses (Randi Harper, Shara Butts), rape apologists (Author Chu) and professional victims (Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, Zoe Quinn, Randi Harper, Grace Lynn) all sexists, racist, homophobic, hateful people who pretend to have the high moral ground because they alone are allowed to speak for women and minorities (Look up #NotYourShiled). All pointing fingers at a largely harmless group of people that are just tired of being demonized for a hobby that doesn't hurt anyone, and the media eats it up. You can look into the background of just about any of the major GamerGate "targets" and se

I'm really tired of that line, "Doesn't mean she deserves harassment"

I've been in GamerGate now for almost six months. What I've seen is people like Zoe Quinn, Brianna Wu, Anita Sarkeesian and Randi Harper harassing people then claiming they're the ones being harassed. Other than Anita Sarkeesian, I'd never heard of any of these other people before GamerGate.

Wu for example, created a twitter account BROLOLZ and used it to mock and harass GamerGate back in the beginning. When no one responded she created the "Oppressed Gamer" meme. Someone took that meme and ran with it, then she claimed people using her meme was harassment. Then she got threats from a zero day twitter account called "DeathToBrianna", there was no mention of GamerGate, but she screen capped it and sent it flying around twitter as evidence GamerGate had a hate on for her, that's what got her on a media tour.

I don't believe anyone deserves harassment, but what I'm seeing is people purposely going in and kicking bee hives, then calling for the extermination of bees when they get stung by a wasp. It's ridiculous, the media is eating it up and plastering it all over as, "these poor, poor innocent souls."

So yeah, I'm about to victim blame. If you poke a bear, it's your fault if you get bitten. I've lost all sympathy for people living under the double standard that it's ok for them to lie, cheat, steal, defame, dox, harass and threaten people, but then turn around and play the victim and advertise their patreons. Check the patreon accounts for anyone of the three I named above:

Randi Harper (antagonist, creator of the GGAutoblocker blocks GamerGate, which is fine. Continues to tweet at GamerGate and bullied an anti-GamerGate person off twitter for not being anti enough):
$2,422.86 a MONTH https://www.patreon.com/freebs...

Zoe Quinn (abuser, antagonist, liar, trust fund baby. Frankly we'd all be happier NOT talking about her because she's not relevant beyond the people that were involved around her [journalist, indi devs, indi judges], but every time she's forgotten she pulls some crap like this article to reinsert herself. She got in a twitter slap fight with Brianna Wu over who was the most harassed):
$4,000 a MONTH https://www.patreon.com/zoe

Brianna Wu (antagonist, liar, trust fund baby. She answered someone questioning her saying GamerGate was only 350 people with, "Thanks for the sexists remark" and accused David Pakman of running a hit piece on her for asking her how she knew it was GamerGate harassing her:
$13,000 a MONTH https://www.patreon.com/user?u...

^ this ^ is what a professional victim looks like.

I got into GamerGate because I was tired of the media BS about gamers being cis-white-male shitlord misogynerds. I won't lie, in the beginning, I didn't think GamerGate was important, it's about frigg'n video games. I thought it'd be like a week long thing, we'd write some letters to advertisers and the journalist involved would just apologize for being idiots, but it's just been one thing after another after another. The opposition to GamerGate is full of ex-neo-naizs (Ian Miles Cheong), pedophiles (Shara Butts), animal abuses (Randi Harper, Shara Butts), rape apologists (Author Chu) and professional victims (Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, Zoe Quinn, Randi Harper, Grace Lynn) all sexists, racist, homophobic, hateful people who pretend to have the high moral ground because they alone are allowed to speak for women and minorities (Look up #NotYourShiled). All pointing fingers at a largely harmless group of people that are just tired of being demonized for a hobby that doesn't hurt anyone, and the media eats it up. You can look into the background of just about any of the major GamerGate "targets" and se

I'm really tired of that line, "Doesn't mean she deserves harassment"

I've been in GamerGate now for almost six months. What I've seen is people like Zoe Quinn, Brianna Wu, Anita Sarkeesian and Randi Harper harassing people then claiming they're the ones being harassed. Other than Anita Sarkeesian, I'd never heard of any of these other people before GamerGate.

Wu for example, created a twitter account BROLOLZ and used it to mock and harass GamerGate back in the beginning. When no one responded she created the "Oppressed Gamer" meme. Someone took that meme and ran with it, then she claimed people using her meme was harassment. Then she got threats from a zero day twitter account called "DeathToBrianna", there was no mention of GamerGate, but she screen capped it and sent it flying around twitter as evidence GamerGate had a hate on for her, that's what got her on a media tour.

I don't believe anyone deserves harassment, but what I'm seeing is people purposely going in and kicking bee hives, then calling for the extermination of bees when they get stung by a wasp. It's ridiculous, the media is eating it up and plastering it all over as, "these poor, poor innocent souls."

So yeah, I'm about to victim blame. If you poke a bear, it's your fault if you get bitten. I've lost all sympathy for people living under the double standard that it's ok for them to lie, cheat, steal, defame, dox, harass and threaten people, but then turn around and play the victim and advertise their patreons. Check the patreon accounts for anyone of the three I named above:

Randi Harper (antagonist, creator of the GGAutoblocker blocks GamerGate, which is fine. Continues to tweet at GamerGate and bullied an anti-GamerGate person off twitter for not being anti enough):
$2,422.86 a MONTH https://www.patreon.com/freebs...

Zoe Quinn (abuser, antagonist, liar, trust fund baby. Frankly we'd all be happier NOT talking about her because she's not relevant beyond the people that were involved around her [journalist, indi devs, indi judges], but every time she's forgotten she pulls some crap like this article to reinsert herself. She got in a twitter slap fight with Brianna Wu over who was the most harassed):
$4,000 a MONTH https://www.patreon.com/zoe

Brianna Wu (antagonist, liar, trust fund baby. She answered someone questioning her saying GamerGate was only 350 people with, "Thanks for the sexists remark" and accused David Pakman of running a hit piece on her for asking her how she knew it was GamerGate harassing her:
$13,000 a MONTH https://www.patreon.com/user?u...

^ this ^ is what a professional victim looks like.

I got into GamerGate because I was tired of the media BS about gamers being cis-white-male shitlord misogynerds. I won't lie, in the beginning, I didn't think GamerGate was important, it's about frigg'n video games. I thought it'd be like a week long thing, we'd write some letters to advertisers and the journalist involved would just apologize for being idiots, but it's just been one thing after another after another. The opposition to GamerGate is full of ex-neo-naizs (Ian Miles Cheong), pedophiles (Shara Butts), animal abuses (Randi Harper, Shara Butts), rape apologists (Author Chu) and professional victims (Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, Zoe Quinn, Randi Harper, Grace Lynn) all sexists, racist, homophobic, hateful people who pretend to have the high moral ground because they alone are allowed to speak for women and minorities (Look up #NotYourShiled). All pointing fingers at a largely harmless group of people that are just tired of being demonized for a hobby that doesn't hurt anyone, and the media eats it up. You can look into the background of just about any of the major GamerGate "targets" and se

This whole ads business needs to go away. Seriosly, stop trying to convince people to buy your garbage.
Create a nice web site for all your site so that people can search and compare. And for all independent publishers there are other means to get a buck.

https://www.kickstarter.com/
http://www.patriondigital.com/
https://www.indiegogo.com/
http://www.patreon.com/
etc.

Patreon might fit the bill. In that crowdfunding site, people pledge to pay x amount of cash each time a product is released. I've seen this used for internet video producers, but there doesn't seem to be a reason this can't be used for regular documentation.

The nice thing about this project is that it's the second in a row - they already had one, and they delivered on it (I was one of the backers on that, and got my t-shirt and DVD). That one was much more complicated because the guy basically just had an idea, and had to jump through a lot of hoops to actually see it implemented... it was a fascinating read as he reported on his progress, though.

But this time around, he already has experience with this kind of thing, the kinks are ironed out, and most importantly, the popularity of his first release is sufficient to attract attention, making it much easier to find musicians to record. I really hope that this works out correspondingly well, and he can make it a regular yearly project as he had suggested.

With respect to supporting specific musicians, Kickstarter is just not the right format for this, but there are other options. Take a look at Patreon, where you can pick a specific one and pledge to pay a certain amount for every new work (music track, video etc) released. Quite a few people who got popularity from their amateur YouTube videos seem to be hanging out there these days - e.g. Taylor Davis (aka ViolinTay of Skyrim/Morrowind medley fame).