Kickstarter Lays Down New Rules For When a Project Fails

An anonymous reader writes "In a blog post, Kickstarter announced several updates to its terms of use for projects. From the article: "Kickstarter has iterated on its policies several times since it launched in 2009, with the most recent wave of revisions surrounding the site's transition from only posting projects cleared by the staff to clearing all projects that meet a basic set of criteria. Even still, some projects lack clear goals, encounter setbacks, or fail to deliver, like the myIDkey project that has burned through $3.5 million without yet to distributing a finished product. The most recent terms revision is timely: on Thursday, science fiction author Neal Stephenson announced that a game he Kickstarted in 2012 with $526,000 in funding was officially canceled."

Comments

think globally

[hjf]

Hey Kickstarter,
When are you going to make your service available worldwide? Why is your service only available for the US & allies?
You've been in the game for years and you haven't even tried to go outside.

I refuse to support projects based on this bullshit policy. When I see that someone in a developing country actually has a chance to raise funds for his invention I'll believe you. But when I see that someone can play with the system and raise funds for "potato salad" just for being a US citizen, well, FUCK YOU kickstarter.

Like all your web 2.0 friends: You suck.

Re:Good. IndieGoGo should do it too

[Khyber]

" call me when this "glass" can last 2 winters in northern Michigan, Wisconsin, or Minnesota."

It's existed for about 50 fucking years, made by Corning. It was made in YOUR TIME and you don't even know about it?

Jesus.

Re:Good. IndieGoGo should do it too

[Khyber]

I can tell you've never been to the Yellowstone Art Museum. One parking lot is ENTIRELY glass. Has been for as long as I can remember.