How We Share Proceeds with Our Creators
Indieverse Tip-Jar Sharing
We pay authors $10 per accepted submission per issue. At the end of an issue’s running period (currently 3 months), all donations made via the “Feed the moocat” tip jar are totaled and divided as follows:
Per-Issue Payment Breakdown
| Prty | Share | Goes to Whom | Why? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1ˢᵗ | $10 x no. of accepted submissions | moocat.net | Recoup author payouts |
| 2ⁿᵈ | 70% of what’s left, up to $100 per author per issue | Individual contributors* | Share income, encourage writing |
| 3ʳᵈ | Whatever’s left | moocat.net | Pay website hosting, advertising, soliciting content, et al. |
* Meaning authors, poets, artists, comedians — anyone submitting creative work for use in an issue
The Divvy Breakdown Detailed
All of the tip-jar divvying happens on a per-issue basis. If you submit to a later issue and your work is accepted, you would still be eligible for up to $100 for that issue. The $100 limit is per author *per issue.”
Priority 1
$10 x no. of accepted submissions. I may at times publish more than one work by the same author in one issue. That’s most likely to happen in Poetry, when people typically include more than one poem per submission. The token honorarium of $10 is per submission, not per individual piece, so if 3 poems are submitted from one author in one submission and I accept all three, the honorarium is $10 for that contributor per issue.
Priority 2
70% of what’s left, up to $100 per author. Per issue. This is the heart of the community sharing model. We want to encourage new writing and are grateful for your shared creative contributions.
Priority 3
Whatever’s left. The remainder of the tip jar proceeds collected during the running period of that issue (typically, 3 months) goes to expenses related to producing and maintaining the publication; things like web-hosting costs, tools used for developing the site and processing submissions, any print publications we may do, and any advertising that we do.
Why We Do It This Way
Moocat.net is part of the Indieverse. We will never advertise on evil tech monsters like META or Twitter/X. We will supply content-sharing links only for Indieverse venues, like Mastodon (not Facebook), Lemmy (not Reddit), Bluesky (not Twitter/X or Threads), and Pixelfed (not Instagram). We want to nurture new writers and share their work.