Voat PayPal account has been permanently limited (announcements)

submitted ago by Atko

The reason given was "Under the Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for certain sexually oriented materials or services or for items that could be considered obscene". This is wrong/false on so many levels. We used PayPal only as a means to receive voluntary donations from people who wanted to support further development of Voat and to help pay for our hosting fees. This is beyond crazy.

According to PayPal User Agreement, our funds can be kept by PayPal for 180 days. I requested further clarification from PayPal, but I would like to advise everyone who planned to donate to Voat - to NOT do so via PayPal.

Honestly, I don't know what I expected when I trusted PayPal with our donation money. I apologize to everyone who donated to us through PayPal and I will badge everyone who did so even if the funds are never released by PayPal.

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Spank_My_Bottom ago

What donation platform do you prefer now? Bitcoin? Patreon? Wireless transfer?

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Edit: I had researched and set up Bitcoin Wallet and sent some funds to it, they will be all donated to Voat. I encourage the rest of the users to do the same.

Nevertheless, many people will not be willing to go through that hassle, voat should consider setting up their own credit card gate or allow people to send money via SOPA transaction.

HappyCoffee ago

I would think Bitcoin is probably the surest way to make sure it actually arrives...

SpaceMonkey ago

I don't think most people know or are willing to know how to use bitcoin. Maybe there should be a brief simple explanation on the site on how to donate via bitcoin.

sgtkeel ago

While I'm online for work most of the day, and I try to keep track of many things, but bitcoin has slipped through the cracks for me. If I had an ELI5 with some good visuals or references, I'd definitely give it a shot. Even if the only thing I use it for is to donate to voat.

Ascisco ago

This might help

https://www.bitconsultants.org/btcbasics

DungeonMaster ago

https://www.circle.com/en

easy as fuck

sgtkeel ago

Will check this out, too. Thank you.

DungeonMaster ago

Test it out by donating to voat ;)

sgtkeel ago

Trust me, I will. I'm more than happy to contribute to a good cause. PayPal can suck it, they won't get my business anymore.

DungeonMaster ago

Make SURE you go and CLOSE your paypal account. Just stopping using them doesnt give them the message. CLOSING your account is the only way the big wigs at the top will ever take notice.

sgtkeel ago

Nice visuals and reference material, thanks @Spank_My_Bottom!