I’m pretty sure I shouldn’t say anything more, since your explanation make perfect sense to me but that you feel the need to explain in the first place indicates I’m making no sense at all and I have no idea why. Maybe you’re misreading “patreons” as “patrons” instead of “creator’s Patreon-hosted donation-tier-controlled poor-excuse-for-a-blog”?
My only quibble is from what I’ve seen, after the first blog post update people quickly realized it wasn’t greed but stupidity. OK, I have a second quibble in the strength of your assertions, but I’m just naturally uncertain. I mean, you’re right that if there were no perks (and no way for creators to get at the list of their supporters and how much each support was donating to do it themselves), then this would not be an issue… But while I agree they’re not focused on financing public goods, this is still the worst solution to placating freemium creators for Patreon… so I think it likely there’s a completely different issue involved if not dominating their decision making. Or they’re just that stupid. Never bet against stupid.
