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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itweeb ago
I would just like to say, I fucking called it. https://voat.co/v/announcements/comments/146757/356992
Of course, I think you'd have to be brain damaged not to see that coming.
prepare_your_anii ago
That makes two of us.
This happened to Notch with Minecraft and it only got resolved because his story got a shitton of media attention. I doubt it will happen with Voat which is on its way to be branded as an "illegal content heaven" by SJW brigaders.