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    kaylar wrote a new post, Job Selection Based on Skin Colour 7 years, 8 months ago

    This is an absolutely true event.   I heard it directly from persons who were present.

    It was time to pick a Chief Medical Officer.   The candidates were being reviewed by a Board.  The absolute unequivocal be […]

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    kaylar replied to the topic Writing Sites; Learning From Mistakes/Successes in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 8 months ago

    Bubblews, when you read the history behind its creation, it’s ‘rules’ and what it pays for, if you took a course in economics, or are familiar with business, or run a tuck shop, you had to come to the conclusion that this was an ‘unworkable business model’.

    Simply put, yes, you can pay a percentage for views.  If you are running a site, you can…[Read more]

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    kaylar replied to the topic Writing Sites; Learning From Mistakes/Successes in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 8 months ago

    People use adblockers for virtual survival.  This isn’t the ancient days where there were a banner and a closing and a couple on the side, this is where there is no article… just ‘wall paper’ for the ads.  You can’t see the site, you’ve got pop ups and intrusive ads which many times cover part of an article.

    Ad Blockers are a reaction to too m…[Read more]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, The Difference between Shards and Rewriting 7 years, 8 months ago

    Imagine that a few years ago you wrote a 2,400 word treatise on the Queen of France.    It is full of authorities, links, in fact, it could be a college paper.

    The item was published on a site which was very d […]

    • It’s obvious that it is just being rewritten. She just chopped it into sections.

      It can still be detected as plagiarized.

      • It was. I tried to warn the Mod, he ignored me. It brought the entire site down. There are many topics one will write and write about again because they get stuck in your mind. But one has to write from different angles.

        On Wikinut I had written about the Bubonic Plague… and another writer had written about the Plague at virtually the Same Time!

        I thought he Plagarised my work until I read his….

        The joke was… the BBC had mentioned the Plague, I ran to do my research, he ran to do his. We both published at virtually the same time… two totally different items from different points of view.

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    kaylar replied to the topic Writing Sites; Learning From Mistakes/Successes in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 8 months ago

    My view is that when an Owner starts to take in money, if s/he has a dishonest gene, it takes over and they deplete the ‘treasury’ and can’t pay their writers.

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Ad Block; A Sanity Protection App 7 years, 8 months ago

    There was a time that Ads were at the top, and scattered along a side, and at the bottom of an item.  They were unobtrusive.   The Ads didn’t disrupt the flow of the site, and were no more vulgar than those in a m […]

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    kaylar replied to the topic Writing Sites; Learning From Mistakes/Successes in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 8 months ago

    I disagree Mahesh.   If a site is NON paying, such as Wikinut or Blogjob, fine.  But a site like Hubpages is supposed to pay, but pays so little, if/when it’s a waste of key strokes.  Any site that promises to pay and doesn’t is a Scam.

    When it comes to Ad Block… that’s a whole different story

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    kaylar replied to the topic Writing Sites; Learning From Mistakes/Successes in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 8 months ago

    Wikinut doesn’t pay and probably never will again.   The Owner of the site hasn’t a clue how to manage a site, and left his mods to do what they pleased.  As soon as the site stopped paying the Mods left, except for the one guy, the one I’d warned about publishing Shards…

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    kaylar replied to the topic Writing Sites; Learning From Mistakes/Successes in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 8 months ago

    The Fact was; the Owner messed up, and ripped off the writers.  Then ran with coin.   If he hadn’t been such a dishonest thief that site would be the top of the Internet.

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    kaylar wrote a new post, The Oscars; awards that mean nothing 7 years, 8 months ago

    Years ago, the crowds and the hype made it clear that this picture or that one was a must see.    People felt that this one was sure to get the Academy Award, but that one got it.   It wasn’t that great a sh […]

    • It would be nice to see the day when ALL positions for employment are actually based on the job candidate’s qualifications and merits. But that ain’t never gonna happen and we know it! So if you got skills, try to find out how to make it on your own.

      As for the Oscars? Did something happen? I stopped watching that particular awards show years back. Long time ago, we might have argued about the “hint of racism” in these ceremonies. But that lady who played the maid in “Gone With the Wind” did got an Oscar, even though she couldn’t go to the celebration part afterwards because Negroes were not allowed. Sidney Potier got an Oscar for “Lilies of the Field”. Denzel Washington has more than one Oscar on his belt notch. Perhaps the person who started the Academy Awards actually did want to give recognition to outstanding actors, directors, etc. But these days, especially these days, we all know that the award shows are about money. And any little “controversy”? It’s probably about money too! That black and white stuff is just “window dressing”.

      • I feel you are seeing the same thing I am. It’s like having various flavours of ice cream and most people buying Rocky Road, (for example) and the store deciding this in unfair to strawberry so people have to buy strawberry.

        When Avatar roped in more money than any other picture and didn’t get the award one wondered where the head of the Academy was?

        I have no intention in seeing a movie about homosexuals. It doesn’t appeal to me. I will prob. watch la la land online because its a ‘feel good’ movie and sometimes… gee… people go to the movies to… um… be … I don’t know…? Entertained?

        To my mind La La Land won… but it was more ‘politically correct’ to give it to Moonlight, so the envelopes were fudged…

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    kaylar replied to the topic Writing Sites; Learning From Mistakes/Successes in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 8 months ago

    There was a site called Wikinut.  It was a pleasant site and it paid.  Every item was moderated but not severely.   The site demanded long items… over 1k with 5 images, 5 bold words and 5 links.  Then one could get a Star.

    One would be on the Star Page and likely to be read.

    It was a solid site.

    A lot of articles, comments, interactions, and…[Read more]

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    kaylar replied to the topic Writing Sites; Learning From Mistakes/Successes in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 8 months ago

    with the Bub I was paid $25 then $50 then stopped.  They didn’t pay people from the Caribbean or Africa.  As Dixit is Indian he paid a segement of Indian members, and American and British members.  He slipped up with an America who flagged him.

    I earned on the other sites when they were alive.  Now it is only this one, Niume and Mylot.

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    kaylar wrote a new post, The Newest Online Writing Scam 7 years, 8 months ago

    I had heard about it, but it didn’t hit as sharp as when I got the email inviting me to join a particular site.  I went over to it, but before I made a keystroke, my eye caught the ‘free’ membership and the […]

    • Neither would I. That’s why I sat dumbfounded, trying to assume I was making an error… but it was true

    • i dont like survey sites they are scam for sure, they take long time to make you money and surveys take such long time to do, so its really waste of time, writing here or on a blog with ads will make you earn more money than in the survey sites, i tried them and they are bad but sure i didnt try those who ask you to pay to join that is for sure horrible, i think its every body opinion that pay to join is not good nor real sites, thanks for tyour review for these site

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    kaylar replied to the topic Writing Sites; Learning From Mistakes/Successes in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 8 months ago

    Now I’m going to Talk about Triond.

    This was the Best Site.   Why?

    Firstly they paid you, and you would also be paid via Adsense.

    Secondly, they had a number of subsites; Webmd, if you were discussing medical/heath, Notecook, if you were doing recipes, Socyberty if you were dealing with cultural/social situations, on and on, so that each sub…[Read more]

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    kaylar replied to the topic Writing Sites; Learning From Mistakes/Successes in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 8 months ago

    Thank You, I will… moving on to Triond

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    kaylar wrote a new post, A Rather Sad Little Scam 7 years, 8 months ago

    A newbie joined a particular writing site.   It was the first site she ever joined.  As she admits; “I wasn’t even on Facebook!”

    She was so innocent that only the most evil mind could think of playing with her.   […]

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    kaylar replied to the topic Writing Sites; Learning From Mistakes/Successes in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 8 months ago

    I joined Hubpages about the same time as you did.  The earnings weren’t bad.  They collapsed in 2010.  After that 5c a month was pretty standard.

    Why write so many words, so many images, and get so little?

    And when you look at their ‘top’ stories, they are nothing I much care to read.

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    kaylar replied to the topic Writing Sites; Learning From Mistakes/Successes in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 8 months ago

    If you Join Hubpages, you aren’t going to make much money.  The kind of stuff they publish which gets views, is as you say, niche.   If you find the niche and you are interested in that stuff… fine.  If you want to write what you want to write about, don’t expect many views.

    They can’t rely on Google because they are the capital of Content Fa…[Read more]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Rosewood; Why you should watch this show 7 years, 8 months ago

    Rosewood is an American police procedural drama series which stars Morris Chestnut as Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr., a private pathologist working in Miami, Florida.

    He is brilliant, a true people person, who makes […]

    • The show sounds interesting from what you’ve shared about it. I generally enjoy watching these types of dramas but haven’t had the time to watch any lately. I never started watching Elementary but I will watch the first episode of both of these shows and see if I like them. I’ve heard good things about them.

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    kaylar replied to the topic Writing Sites; Learning From Mistakes/Successes in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 8 months ago

    Adblocker didn’t destroy Helium.   Helium did it all itself.  Who wants to waste time on such a site?  Imagine researching some topic, writing, posting….and your item is discarded. Nah.

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