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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friso ago
Could it be that reddit is attacking Voat? or am i being too paranoid?
AlderaanDuran ago
Reddit as a company or the admins? No, that would be paranoid. But a small group of Reddit trolls reporting Voat to PayPal? Entirely possible. Hell could be SA, or 4chan, or any number of groups that enjoy doing stuff like this for "the lulz". The FPH people did a similar thing to Reddit already. They had a email campaign in /r/kotakuinaction to email all of Reddit's advertisers and try to get them to stop advertising on Reddit. So it's entirely possible there's some other people doing the same/similar thing to Voat now. Going after their hosting, their PayPal, etc.
But the people who think Pao herself is sitting there at the keyboard doing this stuff and cackling like an evil villain are retarded and paranoid.
friso ago
I agree, i didn't mean Pao or her staff. Most likely this comes from the same subreddit who tried to get /r/fatpeoplenhate closed in the first place. SRS maybe?