noamineo wrote on Jun 14
th, 2020 at 12:30am:
This was before my time on the vault, anyone care to fill in the details? PM is fine if its too painful to post openly.
Basically, stainer held a charity event. You post proof of a donation to a charity, you get rewards or chances at rewards. Silly things, like you get to change his title or username, or they get a title, you can ban him, or whatever. Well, he cracked out shortly after this and since I had sanctioned his thing, many felt it was incumbent on me to cover his debts. Some of which were impossible to deliver, like messing with stainer (because he was gone), others that were just a pain in the ass (changing people's titles every week). Some felt I should cover whatever matching he said he would do, others felt I should reimburse their donations or something.
And, to some degree, they weren't entirely wrong. But as a result, I learned to not allow any ties. I made a dupe store board and added a dupe store link at the bottom of the page because I think it's funny as hell, not because I'm receiving any kickbacks or are in any way associated with the dupe store.
That said, my integrity has a price. This website of 20 regular users only has so much value. I would not sell you guys out for $10. But, like, $10.25? $10.30? Fuck yeah.