Alright. Let's pick this apart then at the risk of ticking people off.
"1. I’ve decided to open financial contribution toward the site through a Community Supporter subscription at just $36 a year - the price of a coffee (~$3) each month. My pie-in-the-sky goal is to work for Myth-Weavers full time. While that may not be possible yet, every contribution helps, and every hour I don’t have to otherwise hustle making a living is an extra hour I can spend adding features, widening support for more game systems, fixing bugs, improving performance and stability, and working to grow the Myth-Weavers community."
1. Define: "Work for myth-weavers full time", this requires two things since you're treating it as a business, the ability to support the business and the ability to support yourself. But what does a. The site cost and b. Your 'drawings' cost. If the site costs 10k a year to run, but you expect people to support you with an upper class lifestyle of 75k a year profit before you pull the ads, I don't think that's going to happen.
Hence why I said "don't ask to look at the books" sarcastically. We have NEVER been given any hard numbers of the kind of money we need to raise to pull this off. We have no estimates. Which a Patreon account would give us. It would give us a target rather than people being skeptical that the site is already supported and the Admin is just pocketing the extra money from ads. We need a paper trail.
"2. By becoming a Community Supporter, you are directly funding further development of the site. For your support, you’ll get a few perks - ads will go away (except in the sheets alpha, for now, removing them is going to take a little more rooting around), and you and your players (if you’re a GM) will get early access to the features you are making possible. GMs who are Community Supporters will not have to wait for changes to their game’s name, system, or setting, they’ll happen immediately. Your sheets will only ever be soft deleted, and you’ll get an interface to retrieve them if there’s an accidental deletion. Even more perks are in the brainstorming stage, but coming up with them is proving a little hard... we already provide for free what other PbP sites charge for!"
2. 'Ads will go away': Ad Block. 'Early Access to features': Look I don't like paying to Beta test videogames, and I'm not going to pay to beta test this site. 'Not have to wait for changes to their game's name, system, or setting': It takes like 2 days tops for the request to go through. How impatient are these people. 'Sheets will only ever be soft deleted': This could be useful, but it's not insanely hard to rebuild a sheet, accidents are the only major thing. 'Even more perks are in the brainstorming stage': Interesting, and those would be what? It's been two years.
3. 'You can make your contribution using either Stripe or Paypal - cards are accepted. Please contact me immediately if there is any sort of problem with a payment.'
And Patreon is this boogyman that we can't use why? I don't even know what Stripe is, but I know that Patreon is a trusted site that pulls in tons of money, because it's a WELL KNOWN AND PUBLIC SITE.
Just saying, if Winged Cloud making literal softcore porn can pull in six figures, I seriously question why mythweavers is so against making a Patreon that would actually let us get some kind of figures and targets and such, along with the ability to see how much money is being put into it.
Hell you know what. Screw Winged Cloud. Cypress Zeta is pulling over $4500 a month, making RPG Maker games. Patreon is clearly really good at pulling in money from all kinds of sources. You make one, you make a high quality piece of work like this site, and because people trust Patreon, money rolls in!
$4500 * 12 = $54000 a year. Unless Mythweavers has the most expensive server ever, I would be amazed if it got trumped by a novice indie dev making that kind of material. (Hint it's the kind of material you don't allow due to Ads).
And you can't even say that it's because Mythweavers is free, no one will support it. NONE of Cypress Zeta's games have been sold. They're all free to download, and people still give money!