I'm pretty sure my friends will all have heard about the recent project Kickstarter should not have funded. If not, this guy wanted to publish a "seduction guide" based on "research and development done on Reddit". His words on Reddit, carefully erased prior to sending in his Kickstarter proposal, essentially advocated sexual assault. Kickstarter
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In this case, they were contacted about the violation of their TOS _before_ they sent the money, and sent the money anyway. I think a lot of people saw this as evidence that Kickstarter was not (at least in this case) even trying to enforce their rules and principles.
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One of the things I liked about Amanda Palmer's kickstarter project was that with a large fan base, she offered a digital copy of the entire k-funded album for the lowest ($1) donor level.
Even when you're not an unknown or little-known indie artist who has no other options for getting your work into the world, there are ways to do a Kickstarter well, and to use it to accomplish things traditional publishing/marketing won't do.
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Is this thing on?
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Hi there!
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I should do something about that.
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