‘Gotmatter’ is a Nightmare for Tinycent Community

As some of you know there was a site called tinycent where many of us diligently posted.  It paid us initially but without warning stopped paying, giving an excuse that Indian Banks were on holiday.

Those holidays were in the month of October and that too for just a few days.  Each time we opened the site that message flashed on our screen.  We continued posting hoping that we will all be paid in due course.

Unfortunately not only did they not pay, they abruptly stopped communicating.  Earlier the owner would talk to us and had our phone numbers and that gave us confidence that they were trustworthy.  That appeared to be a false facade just to get us away from real facts.

No doubt the site did not plan well.  Their paying rate of much too high and some of us did warn them about this.  They later halved the rate and even that seemed high compared to other writing sites.

Added to this some users started  gaming the system which brought for them thousands of views. This was brought to the notice of Admin which was ignored. As is known more views meant more earnings for the site as well.  But the big brother Google was watching which resulted in the site getting their adsense account cancelled

Probably the site is in the red and is trying to get out of the situation and that explains why this ‘Gotmatter’ is created.

The strange thing about ‘Gotmatter’ is that those who were on ‘tinycent’ have been included there without permission. We can only read some of our  posts there.  We cannot delete our posts, nor can we add posts.

The posts that we see there are getting views which means the owner of that site is earning but the earnings are not passed on to the community which is made up of ‘tinycent’ members. We cannot use those posts elsewhere which is our legitimate right since we have not been paid.  However, since some of our posts have been  transferred to Gotmatter without our knowledge,  should any of us attempt to post them elsewhere that would be considered to be plagiarism – a very unfair situation.

We can save and delete posts that we have written for tinycent as we are not getting paid there. It is also possible that posts at tinycent are not viewed and that explains the reasons for Gotmatter. Every activity at Tinycent has an embedded link probably an Ad which helps Gotmatter to earn views.

It is difficult to access tinycent unless one is vigilant not to open those links which could even be loaded with viruses.

Tinycent is based in Bangaluru while Gotmatter is based in Singapore.

The owner of tinycent had cordial relations with many of us unlike other sites where we do not even know the name of the owner Such being the case he could have been open about the losses he had incurred if any and took help from the community. We would have perhaps  waived the payment or accepted even reduced rates  till such time that he made up the losses as frankly speaking most of us earned good there.

This devious method of earning therefore is not in keeping with honest network practice which in the long run will make networking for the owners of tinycent a difficult proposition..