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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elgindelta ago
there in bed with reddit bro, have to expect these kind of bumps in the road, y combiner is none to happy about what appears to be a 50 million dollar loss in investment, they are going to pull all sorts of leftist bs, they are libtards bro, shitty sneeky bastards. have you considered a po box for check donations? it might very well come to that, that y combiner money was supposed to help sway public opinion on all sorts of issues and now its lost a massive percentage of its landing base, even go fund me would most likely be a bad idea with the same holds in place. it might have to be direct donations Atko. keep up the great work,