That’s the established way we are doing this. If you want to pay me directly you can PM me for payment details.
Money is not in any way the reason I write these posts and I’ve been fortunate in that I can afford to do them without being paid, but good incentives and extra cash are always welcome.
The incentives run against saying things like Jay Bhattacharya has (we are causing more prevention harms than benefits). Is there a way to change that?
Unless it’s a bigger hassle than I expect I should be able to do it myself, if I’m gonna do it makes sense I should learn how it works and keep control over it. It looks like they take 8% if you have tiers (which everyone has) and 5% if you don’t, and then payment charges, which are 5%+ for small payments and 3% for large ones, so we lose 11% doing this, which pains me. Is this the best we can do?
why not just use a ko-fi or paypal.me link? both claim that they take 0% in fees, and ko-fi even has a recurring payment option if that feature is important to you.
You (or someone) could use a payment processor with a subscription feature, e.g. Stripe, and lose only 2.9+%.
Maybe the easiest/cheapest option would be to just create a new email address and accept direct payments via Zelle/Venmo/PayPal/etc., but some of those don’t support recurring payments.
I agree! I would happily support these updates on Patreon, if that were an option. I understand that from Zvi’s perspective that could be problematic for any number of reasons, including possibly reducing motivation.
Zvi—since “money is not in any way the reason I write these posts”, how about favorite charities?
To be clear, I will happily accept any contributions people want to make, although I don’t currently have a Patreon, and I believe this would be motivating rather than demotivating.
But if you’d like to donate it to charity instead, that’s great too and I’d ask it be given to MIRI.
You deserve to be paid for these covid updates. Are you getting paid? How does one pay you for this? This must’ve taken at least 15 hours.
Aaron Gertler is helping administer crowdfunded award to Zvi for this series. You can PM him for details.
That’s the established way we are doing this. If you want to pay me directly you can PM me for payment details.
Money is not in any way the reason I write these posts and I’ve been fortunate in that I can afford to do them without being paid, but good incentives and extra cash are always welcome.
The incentives run against saying things like Jay Bhattacharya has (we are causing more prevention harms than benefits). Is there a way to change that?
Aaron gave me the details on how best to pay you but it’s not info I’d publicize without your explicit consent.
I’d like to pay you, others seem to want to do the same thing, but I don’t want to create extra work for you for this.
Would you mind someone setting up a Patreon on your behalf and then paying you any money collected via it (i.e. via the method Aaron shared)?
Unless it’s a bigger hassle than I expect I should be able to do it myself, if I’m gonna do it makes sense I should learn how it works and keep control over it. It looks like they take 8% if you have tiers (which everyone has) and 5% if you don’t, and then payment charges, which are 5%+ for small payments and 3% for large ones, so we lose 11% doing this, which pains me. Is this the best we can do?
why not just use a ko-fi or paypal.me link? both claim that they take 0% in fees, and ko-fi even has a recurring payment option if that feature is important to you.
You (or someone) could use a payment processor with a subscription feature, e.g. Stripe, and lose only 2.9+%.
Maybe the easiest/cheapest option would be to just create a new email address and accept direct payments via Zelle/Venmo/PayPal/etc., but some of those don’t support recurring payments.
Any reason(s) why the crowdfunding isn’t public? Patreon seems like it would be really easy.
I agree! I would happily support these updates on Patreon, if that were an option. I understand that from Zvi’s perspective that could be problematic for any number of reasons, including possibly reducing motivation.
Zvi—since “money is not in any way the reason I write these posts”, how about favorite charities?
To be clear, I will happily accept any contributions people want to make, although I don’t currently have a Patreon, and I believe this would be motivating rather than demotivating.
But if you’d like to donate it to charity instead, that’s great too and I’d ask it be given to MIRI.