Goodie Mails, New ELK Tier Spots & Soft Blocking

Hello Everyone!

I wanted to let you all know that I sent out all the goodie mails for the Elk tier people in the last weeks that are rewards for your support in 2022. :-D

Everyone who will get a gift should have an E-mail about this matter from me!

I hope you'll like what I did this year when everything arrives!

As someone has already received theirs, I'll link their "product photo" here!

• Click on it only if you don't want to be surprised by what YOU will get. Or in case you consider joining the tier and wonder how a "typical" goodie mail looks

If you think you should have gotten one, but there is none, please E-mail me to nanayaa@gmx.de  I will try to sort this out ASAP, so you'll get your's not much later than the others. Please be aware that I downloaded the list in DECEMBER 2022 as a year's recap! If you joined the tier in 2023, sorry then you weren't on the list for this reason!

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But this is a big issue with Patreon's filtering system. Sometimes the list hides people who should appear because their card takes a bit longer, and I can't help it. I hope that I got everyone, but every year I miss some! Sorry for that in advance!

On the other hand, I had many people in the ELK tier (30+!) who had declined card payments for months or years. These were inflating the numbers of the limited tier, so no one else could join, even though it wasn't full of active patrons. I tried to deal with that in two ways:

• I increased the number of available Elk tiers from 180 to 195 (a bit under 200 so I don't have too much waste when I order 200 products but have 5 spare ones for lost shipping eventualities)
• I soft-blocked everyone still in the Elk tier with declined payment for over 3 months. Softblocking means, I blocked these people to "gently kick" them out of the tier but immediately unblocked them. Because I don't mean to hinder you from being my patron in the future or appear ungrateful for the time that you were one. Chances are high that 80% of these people weren't even aware that they still appeared as active in the tier (the others might be bots or scammers XD). So if you got an E-mail stating "YAA blocked you," please know that this was not malicious, and I'm sorry if it shocked you or something. It was just for practical reasons to have space cleared for the future, and is already undone. So if "not paying" was a simple mistake on your part, you can easily rejoin!

Anyway, as you can see in the attached screenshot, after this cleanup, there are only 166/195 Elk tier spots claimed. So you can join now if you like to. It's the right time to get on board and be eligible for the next round, which will be sent out at the beginning of 2024!

Thanks for considering and for your attention :-)

Love you!

Yours YAA