Re: Patrick Volkerding troubles; Slackware Store has been problematic

Quoting Rob Landley (rob-VoJi6FS/[email protected]):

> For a definition of "moved" that still has 72 patrons donating $378/month
> through patreon, as opposed to 44 donating $40/week (~180/month) through the
> other thing.
> 
> His blog post complaining about patreon was about
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/12/13/facing-a-rebellion-of-furious-creators-patreon-backs-away-from-a-new-fee/
> last year, which patreon backed down on after the torches and pitchforks came
> out on the part of its entire userbase. (The _current_ patreon kerfluffle is
> attacking sex workers, which they say is imposed on them by payment processors,
> ala
> https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbqwwj/patreon-suspension-of-adult-content-creators
> . Patreon seems to have an annual scandal since its inception. One of them
> "death of the internet" cron jobs.)

Hey, thanks, Rob.

I'm not very much 'up' on who hate what service today and why, so I
somewhat haplessly mentioned alleged controveries I observed and hoped
for further comments exactly like yours to further clarify.

(Back at $ONEJOB, I administered an online 'merchant bank', which is to
say a separate business entity that processed online credit
transactions.  Having to deal not only with PCI DSS (payment card industry
data security standard) certification but also with money people was...
interesting.)