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Re:The Creative Fund Launches to Back Every Project on Kicks... by mbs348 on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @04:13PM (#17509951)
As we mention in the article, a lot of it IS about the token statement, and we have thousands of KS messages at least of grateful folks supporting. Do you value your $1 supporters on Patreon? Do they have a material benefit for you?

If we figured out how to make the fund work for Patreon, how would you feel?

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Re:The Creative Fund Launches to Back Every Project on Kicks... by Sir_Cmpwn on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @04:16PM (#17509967)
I do value my $1 supporters on Patreon - emotionally because they chose to support my work in particular rather than the mindless shotgun approach, and financially because there are 46 of them.

If this project raises enough to give $46 to every project, they'll need $92,000 by their own reckoning and will still be giving little more than a vapid pittance to each. Can you really not think of something better to do with 92 grand?

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Re:The Creative Fund Launches to Back Every Project on Kicks... by mbs348 on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @04:20PM (#17509994)
*47 now
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Re:The Creative Fund Launches to Back Every Project on Kicks... by mbs348 on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @04:29PM (#17510046)
(can't reply to your latest comment directly)

I legit shared your most recent blog post " Simple, correct, fast: in that order" to our dev #goodreads slack channel on Monday, so go figure.

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Re:The Creative Fund Launches to Back Every Project on Kicks... by Sir_Cmpwn on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @04:22PM (#17509999)
Haha, thanks, I guess. If you actually use and apprecitate my work, then of course I appreciate your support, but otherwise I'd rather you kept the money.
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