Personalized Stan Ideas

GWJ Donation Drive 2019 Update: Your Personalized Stan!

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Hello, Everyone! We have a little over a week and a half before the end of our annual donation drive.

If you've been meaning to chip in for any of the donor-level rewards, please be sure to hit up our Patreon or PayPal to get your $2 Golden Icon, $5 GWJCC Podcast Shout-out, or $20 Personalized Stan! (designed by me, Amoebic!)

I’ve created a survey for our $20 and up donors to fill out if they want a custom Stan user image!

Everyone, please feel free to take a look at the survey. As noted within, I won’t get started on any without an email that corresponds with your method of payment. Therefore, if you’d like to take the survey for fun, you’re more than welcome to. (I grew up on questionnaires from the back of teen magazines in the 80’s and 90’s, so I get it. I love quizzes!) Just please leave the email field blank for sorting purposes if you are not a$20 donor.

I know that in the past we’ve often had folks change their user images during the month of popular holidays. I’ve added another option in the questionnaire for folks to check off if they’d like holiday versions of their personalized Stans! Once I’ve completed the original round of Stans, I’ll do a second sweep and create 1-2 alternates for any interested folks in the holiday themes of their choice. No guarantee I’ll be able to complete any holiday Stans in time for any holidays remaining in 2019 or early 2020, though.

I’m really having a lot of fun with this, and super excited to get started on them.

We're so honored by the enthusiasm and support from each and every one of you fine folks so far. Thank you so much. The outpouring of love and support has been truly a gift. You make this the best place to be.

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This is pretty cool! Question: Is it an additional one time payment or accumulated/year? Ever since Patreon was introduced I have just been doing the $2 / month.

EvilDead wrote:

This is pretty cool! Question: Is it an additional one time payment or accumulated/year? Ever since Patreon was introduced I have just been doing the $2 / month.

Additional. Amanda would be crushed under the load if we did cumulative. My goodness.

Hah, gotcha! Just making sure.

What does a personal stan look like when it's at home?

I'm a little confused about eligibility for rewards. When Amoebic (no reflection of her state of health, I hope,) talks about $2 and $20, are these monthly amounts or flat 1-time amounts or what. What means?

Personally, I always wanted the job title under my photo to be "Paraclete of Kaborka". I haven't achieved that yet. If I did a Patreon of $2/month (which is what I'm inclined to do regardless of rewards) could I officially become that personage?

Hi Mastrude. One time donations during this donation drive month.

The Stan avatar will be a digital image, small size for forum avatars. Not a physical image sent to you.

So if during the drive you gave $2 then you’ll get the golden icon. If you gave $20 you’ll get the custom avatar, podcast shout out and golden icon.

The title under your forum name will keep changing until you hit 1000 posts, then you’ll have a chance to pick your own. It’s not a donation drive thing.

Hope that helps!

Amoebic, I hope you got my survey response.
I learned last night that my IG name and forum name are the same. So that's easy for GWJ stuff.

I found the survey doesn't want to take my submission. Not sure if that's my browser or the survey site.

I would echo Mastrude's question though, your answer to which, Certis, I'm not really clear on. If we donate a monthly amount via patreon, does the yearly amount count against the $20 Stan fee, or are you keeping monthly donations and Donation Drive donations separate in this equation?

I thought that the $20 for a personalized Stan was the $20 / month donation level. Not just a one time $20.

It's a one time donation for this one month period. So if you give $20 through Patreon this month or Paypal you get the custom Stan. You can change your Patreon to something more reasonable after.

We can't do cumulative, it's too hard to track and basically impossible to fulfill given how many do $2/month. That's why a majority of Donation Drive stuff (and tagging for golden icons) only happens in this one month period.

Hope that clears it up!

Jakobedlam wrote:

I found the survey doesn't want to take my submission. Not sure if that's my browser or the survey site.

I just ran through it (on Chrome) without any issues. If there's an issue it doesn't seem to be universal. Maybe try a different browser?

Certis wrote:

It's a one time donation for this one month period. So if you give $20 through Patreon this month or Paypal you get the custom Stan. You can change your Patreon to something more reasonable after.

We can't do cumulative, it's too hard to track and basically impossible to fulfill given how many do $2/month. That's why a majority of Donation Drive stuff (and tagging for golden icons) only happens in this one month period.

Hope that clears it up!

Definitely! And, given that, I'm sold. I just threw in $20 while watching the live stream on Twitch.

Sorry for another question here, I see patreon already charged me for "this" month even though the donation drive isn't over. If I still wanted to get a stan, would I change my donation level now, or do I have to go a different way (paypal?).

Forbes wrote:

Sorry for another question here, I see patreon already charged me for "this" month even though the donation drive isn't over. If I still wanted to get a stan, would I change my donation level now, or do I have to go a different way (paypal?).

Maybe PayPal would be best at this point if you weren’t locked in at the Stan level in Patreon. Otherwise we technically wait for next month to clear at the $20 level in Patreon. It’ll work out either way.

Certis wrote:

I just ran through it (on Chrome) without any issues. If there's an issue it doesn't seem to be universal. Maybe try a different browser?

Neither browser wanted to work, until 15 minutes later, when they both went through! Sorry for the double survey entry!

Though I'm not disclosing people's details, I thought some of you data folks might enjoy some infographics on design trends so far!

IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/e1DwgOU.png)

YAS!!! I love data!
I’m a bit late to the party because back to school was nuts and I got caught up in a bunch of stuff, but I bumped up my pledge and filled out the survey.

Spoiler:

Yes, I went with hoodie and if it could have a red and white stripe, that would be so freaking cool my head would explode.

How does the podcast shout-out work? If we give at that tier do we send an e-mail to the conference call account w/the text of our shout-out or will we be prompted when to provide it?
Thanks!

raevenote wrote:

How does the podcast shout-out work? If we give at that tier do we send an e-mail to the conference call account w/the text of our shout-out or will we be prompted when to provide it?
Thanks!

I'll be sending a more detailed email to all the donors, likely Sunday evening as our last counting day is Saturday. But essentially, you just email them in. I'll be putting some specific requests in that email, so look out for that

Amoebic wrote:
raevenote wrote:

How does the podcast shout-out work? If we give at that tier do we send an e-mail to the conference call account w/the text of our shout-out or will we be prompted when to provide it?
Thanks!

I'll be sending a more detailed email to all the donors, likely Sunday evening as our last counting day is Saturday. But essentially, you just email them in. I'll be putting some specific requests in that email, so look out for that :)

Will do, thank you!

Got my $20 donation in just under the wire. Now to work on my Stan form