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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lawofchaos ago
I wonder how long it will take before an SRS mod boats about reporting Voat to PayPal as a porn service or something.
damnbiker ago
How does one report something like that to Paypal? I mean, Reddit is already pretty much dead. Why don't we just report all the NSFW subreddits to Paypal and watch their user based funding slow down even more?
Think about it: There's a lot of user generated NSFW content and no verification of the age of the submitter or the viewer. r/gonewild r/NSFW are two that I can think of, off the top of my head. Anyone else have a list?
MrPim ago
The worst ones which came across r/all were /r/realgirls and /r/legalteens. Many questionable aged girls.
damnbiker ago
So, the gone wild and real girls ones, we have no way of knowing if they know of, and approve of, their pictures being posted. You might be able to make the argument for gonewild; but the realgirls subreddit, how do we know it's not all revenge porn?
MrPim ago
Other than the main Gonewild, I think most are not posted by the girls pictured. Gonewild seems to be mostly the women posting selfs (mostly anyway, I think). Then there's candidfashionpolice which is just creepshots re-branded. And this is just what I see come across /all, I don't actually visit those subs. But it's right on the front page. Hypocrites much?