My suggestion is to set up a separate website, basically clone CHYOA, run it under a different name and implement the rules (no incest, no non-consent and no mind control). CHYOA remains as it is now. Further developments benefit both sites.
This would be nice if you could cross-post or transfer stories, like Almax suggested. Otherwise, users might not see the point in publishing to the new site. However:
The second PDF contains terms that violate the rules.
This list is a bit ridiculous. I imagine most payment services would not be so inflexible as to ban use of the word "animal" anywhere on the entire website. As such, I think it would be better to look elsewhere.
I'm wondering if creating a front facing page that caters to purely Choose Your Own Adventure stories that are PG or just Mature would work with the CHYOA page pointing to that to give support. The PG page won't have to link back to CHYOA so there would be no connection except for the added benefits that are applied to the CHYOA site. The back end would be more administrative work but the payment provider wouldn't see any of that.
The benefit here would be that you wouldn't even need a service that allows porn. Considering established plans, I think this is the best path forward.
Have you looked at Onlyfans as an option? I don't think you even have to post anything there, just have the subscription page up.
https://onlyfans.com/terms
5. Do not upload, post, display, or publish Content on OnlyFans that:
b. shows, promotes, advertises or refers to:
followed by things like "intoxication" and "weapons" which are probably too restrictive. Whether OnlyFans is viable therefore depends on whether they care about content that
isn't posted on OnlyFans but
is part of the website, especially since that's the main thing being advertised. OnlyFans might also be less convenient because subscribers would probably need to create an OnlyFans account (a bigger ask than a Patreon account), and the fact that the website itself isn't publishing much content might make the platform unsuitable. It would be an awkward fix, basically, but perhaps not an infeasible one.
FWIW, Kink.com rather openly hosts simulated non-con and incest content. Who do they use?
Rocketgate and Segpay process all transactions for Kink.com.
I cannot for the life of me find anything resembling a ToS associate with
Rocketgate. The
Terms & Conditions for Segpay do not seem to care about content, and in fact they have a clause about their mailing list that gives them the right to send adult content to their subscribers.
Honestly, those rules pretty much unenforceable. Take the word "rape", for example:
rape
rаpe
rapе
rаpе
Can you spoit the difference between these four words?
The first one uses 4 latin letters
The second one uses a cyrillic а
The third one uses a cyrillic е
The last one uses a cyrillic а and a cyrillic е
Now add spaces and other symbols, for example:
r a p e
r@pe
etc.
The developers would have to be quite incompetent to not consider such workarounds. Regex is sufficient (albeit tedious) to deal with this strategy; I've written censorship software this way before. In practice, they would maintain lists of character substitutions.
That would be an alternative, yes. I actually left it out because I didn't want to go the "Patreon route" a second time and tie us to a platform that might block us.
Their
prohibited content is indeed quite restrictive if you read it as applying to fiction. However, the way it is written seems to imply it only refers to actual instances of the act (e.g. non-con) and does not extend to fictional stories about it. Simply mentioning "files sharing and storage" or "charities", for example, would surely not result in a ban. Also, the reference to "Filthy, or disgusting words or pictures" makes me wonder how thoroughly the policy is actually enforced.
QUESTION: What do you think about accepting cryptocurrencies directly on CHYOA? Is that something you would do? Is it too complicated? Have you ever bought cryptocurrencies and paid with them?
I don't see any risk associated with this method, as long as currency conversion is automated and only stablecoins are used. It's not much more complicated than something like PayPal.
Cryptocurrencies would be a no-go for me. Too many scams, too much hassle.
If you're just using crypto to send a payment, you can't really be scammed. It's the same as sending money over the Internet any other way, except that there's no central governing body, so it's easier for the recipient of your money to not hold up their end of the deal. However, the end of the deal in question is a little banner under your profile picture, so your concern is that Friedman won't do this for some reason.
That said, the intense negative media around crypto and the risk associated with investing in it may render it unsuitable for CHYOA purely due to user apprehension.
