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Using tips on Imzy - Art Collective
Something interesting happened last night, a new community was started that in part uses our tipping system. The community is /artcollective and it is to help people who need art made (for their Imzy communities). They are hoping to use the tipping system as a way for people to pay for the art that is made.
I'm making a post about this because we recognize that the tipping system is not the best way to facilitate the type of transactions they will be doing.
You should know that we have build our platform to be quite flexible around what it can do, and payments is one of those areas. If communities prove that they need a new type of functionality with payments, posts, comments, etc. we will build it.
So, think about what /artcollective is going with tips and perhaps it will inspire you to make a community/post/comment using our tipping system as well.




I'm really excited about all the possibilities! Also thanks for the plug!
Dan and his shameless plugs :)
I also see the potential for a Patreon-like setup for Content Creators.
Yes! We already even have the ability to set up subscription payments to communities and users, so this is absolutely possible. Would love to add a function where you can post content that is only for those subscribers.
Yes! As an aspiring content creator this sounds absolutely awesome.
Are you considering adding any new payment options in particular? Because I can definitely see the potential for tipping, but it'd be cool to be able to do things like subscribe (something like an auto-tip when someone produces new content), and art commissions (half up front, the second half on delivery?).
Yes! Also, we do support subscriptions already.
Oh cool! How do you do it?
Edit: Nevermind, I found the option.
Neat--it'll be super useful in the future.
Yay!
If they come, you will build it.
Wait... I messed that up.
When you first posted about the "art collective" idea, the kind of thing I was fearing was designers working for no or meager compensation. My faith is not inspired by what I'm seeing. I'll be pinning a post in /design with my thoughts
My suggestion is that standards be set correctly. I believe artists (or anyone really) should be compensated well. I really hope a discussion is had, in public, about what is fair.
Also of note, there are plenty of people who just love helping people for nothing or very little. I LOVE helping young entrepreneurs and will spend hours with then and ask for nothing in return when my time is probably valued pretty highly. There's nothing wrong with artists doing this same thing.
The trick is in finding the right balance. IMO it's not OK to set a free/cheap standard.
I'm very grateful you included a caveat in your post. Charity is all well and good so long as it doesn't misrepresent itself. So far the stakes are low, but I will definitely be talking to my community about the kinds of expectations designers should set
Probably worth noting that to me, as the CEO I tend to look at things like this in the abstract. It's really interesting and exciting to me to see these types of behaviors (using tipping to pay for services) on our site. That being said, also worth nothing that I generally don't have the time to go into each community and make sure they're setting proper standards 😄
But, I chime in when I can!
I'm a believer that you get what you pay for. There was a great article that someone took the time to research getting a logo made on Fiverr. Clicky
Essentially you get blantant stealing, stock templates with minor changes or a basic Logo that you have to add a bunch of add-ons to for it to actually be useful.
Also new/learning designers regularly do cheap work to get experience. If someone is OK with less than professional work then I take no issue in them getting a healthy price break.
I'm excited for this experiment!
If you build it, more will come ⚾