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Judge Heath here,

Given how the 'Pledged at the End of the Month' value in our monthly statements is growing out of hand, I've decided to begin cleaning house by going through the list of patrons who have declined payments whose start of patronage is back in 2016 or early 2017. Patreon does not give us the ability to simply delete folks pledges, so if by some mistake I nail someone who just declined this month due to unexpected financial problems, do not worry, I am immediately unblocking every single person I am having to initially 'block'. The process is that I go to your page, manually block and unblock you, then go to the next person's page. I don't use the mass blocking tools on our patron page.

If anyone has any problems at all with this, for example, if I nail someone who -has- paid this month, then please email us at [email protected]. Please do not try to falsify this, I can very easily track who has actually paid for October and who is a current patron, as the two things are kept as separate lists.

EDIT: Half done, gonna get the rest at the end of the month. It's looking like we have something between 300 and 500 false patron entries contributing to our 'growth' metrics, and around 2000 dollars (This has absolutely no effect on what -you- guys see publically or how much money we are expecting to get each month from earnings/etc. It's just made it hard to track our -actual- growth metrics in a reliable fashion)

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Eksangha

I actually cancelled my patronage a couple of days ago because I didn't have any more money in my bank account. So would I be in the clear?

CloudMeadow

Yeah you'll be fine. As I said above, nobody is being permanently banned. I'm just having to ban and immediately unban folks to get people who have had declined payments months ago but never deleted their pledge for whatever reason. Nobody is getting a permanent ban, nor will this have any effect on anyone's payment history with us, it won't remove people from our records.

zosa

that should help with dead and absentee accounts ^^