[Report This]Date: September 20 2021 8:16 PM Title: Chapter 3
Hmm. I thought this was marked "completed". That is why I tought it was a preview but I stand corrected. My bad then, especially if you're going to release more chapters.
Again, I have no problems with paid-only, only that people be honest about it. I completely misunderstood. I'm upping my score.
Author's Response:
no it was marked completed, i just had done that because, well, it was completed. so if someone really wanted to they could read the full thing ahead of time. i'd go back to my amazon analogy where they have prime movies and rent-only movies together. theyre both completed, but one is free and one u can only rent until it. i talked with some other writers and readers from the site and they didnt see the issue
but ultimately since it was ruffling a bunch of feathers i figured i'd just change it, i still have the same view on the matter i just dont want to keep replying to people lmao
Date: September 20 2021 7:54 PM Title: Chapter 3
Yeah, I did miss your other stories. I was just miffed that you stopped where you did when you should have marked this a preview of paid content. Like I said, I might have paid to continue but not when this is done so poorly.
I have no problems with patreon or youtube or even deviantart or any other paid content. I have patreon myself and subscribe to an artist or two. It just seems dishonest when you weren't up front about what you were doing here. It would have been so much better for you to put this in the description.
Cheers.
Author's Response:
maybe it was the way i worded it but every single story i post here will eventually be released, theyre weekly releases. there are a couple patreon exclusives but i've never published a "preview" of them here (like "here's chapter 1 and 2 but the rest will never be released!" and most of my exclusive stuff ive never even mentioned, people only know about them from visiting the page and finding out for themselves.
so yeah i didnt say in the description that this is a preview of paid content because i dont see the story as paid content since itll eventually be free. like the other person said, even if i didnt have a patreon, i wouldnt want to publish all the chapters at once, i'd stagger them. so i dont see the difference. its like if u paid an TV executive to watch an entire season of a show before it gets released weekly thru broadcast tv (free channels). its a free show, its broadcast... just that that one person could see it first. but its not a paid show like cable or streaming.
in fact its also bc i want to advertise as little as possible, have less "sub to me!" in story descriptions. every new chapter i release i delete the advertisement from the previous chapter, and theres no advertisement in the beginning. and i do those because its irrelevant, if they dont like the story enough to get to the most recent chapter anyways then mentioning my patreon would be pointless since they clearly wouldnt care to read it sooner.
but thanks for your response :) sorry i got a lil sassy with my last reply i'd just woken up
[Report This]Date: September 20 2021 5:25 PM Title: Chapter 3
Sorry, you can say what you want but using this venue for the sole purpose to lure people to your Patreon page qualifies as SPAM in my opinion. You should have said something to that effect in the description and then it wouldn't be SPAM, but the way you did this was in poor taste.
It's too bad, because I see merit in this and might have paid to see your work, but I won't be supporting these tactics.
Author's Response:
lmao did u miss the part where i've published 350,000 words worth of stories to this website (and counting)? i guess 700 pages worth of material is spam, huh?
youtubers have patreon accounts. they still publish lots of free videos, but the patreon allows them to make money.
musicians have patreon accounts. they still publish lots of free music, but the patreon allows them to make money.
artists have patreon accounts. they still publish lots of free drawings, but the patreon allows them to make money.
coders have patreon accounts. they still publish lots of free programs, but the patreon allows them to make money.
and some people dont have patreon accounts at all, the only way to experience their stuff is to buy it, there's never any free samples! 😱
what's so evil about me (and all the other writers here who have patreons (which is most of the most active authors here, hm wonder why)) wanting to make money from something i like to do? thats how the world works dude, and how the website works too. sorry that after all these years i had to be the one to break it to you