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When you want to write something topical, something you want out there now, you can use that site. Your work is immediately published (just after you finish networking). As I often get inspired by a headline I need that outlet as the slow moderation here will only cut down on my views. For example, when Merkel banned the burqa I was able to get an article out within a short time after her speech. It was published and began getting hits. Had I put it here it might be published 24/48/72 hours after, meaning everyone else who wrote on that topic would get those views.
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The point is simple; if a person writes an item that people want to read, they’ll race to the site. For example, on Triond people wrote items that were getting 1 mill hits. That means 1 million people came to read it. That’s how a writing site makes money. It has to get out there and get the views. Here is the quandary. I am listening to the BBC and hear something. Instantly I jump on the ‘Net, get details. I compose an item that is going to get views. But! Where the Moderation is slow, well, by the time the item is published every one and their gerbel has already posted it. So, I rush to a site I might not like as much but know post, click, publish… then I network. That other site is getting hits on my item. It could be here if publication was quicker. That’s the point. It isn’t me vs site it is the fact that I can’t publish a topical piece here. |
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I am not anti-moderation. Unless one is a very good writer of professional standards, then the work should have some moderation. However, the delay on this site is problematic. I wrote a piece yesterday I published elsewhere. It is getting hits and being networked elsewhere. I did it because it is a topical item. I can not post topical items here because, well; it is Wednesday in Jamaica. The Three items I submitted on Sunday were just published. Most good writers are those who can read/hear something and be first off the mark. They get their work before the public in the top ten or twenty writers and get the hits. When a writer is not published in some timely fashion, the best stories go elsewhere and the recipes stay here.
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niume is just a writing site that publishes right away. So you can write there. The more views you have the more you can earn. It doesn’t pay right away, you need to earn $10. You can take look… niume.com |
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Put it like this; it is Tuesday in Jamaica. I will write NOTHING for this site today, I wrote NOTHING on this site yesterday because ITEMS I SUBMITTED ON SUNDAY ARE STILL PENDING. Hence, All of the viral stuff, the events that happened between Sunday and Tuesday are published on Niume and other sites. So… let’s see… if I want to discuss a topic, like the fake American Embassy in Ghana I’ll go to Niume… I’ll write and post. Here? if they ever moderate my 3 items from Sunday? A recipe I guess.
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I was on a site once, which had 3 categories; ‘staff writer’ which meant the person wrote well and their work was published immediately. ‘writer’ wrote less well but only needed a quick scan, and ‘member’ whose work had to be read before publishing. It is possible that outside of perhaps a plagiarism checker some folks can have their work published immediately, another group get a scan, and only one set would actually have to be moderated as is done now. However there’s another point. Mods need to network the best work under their names. Very often if you write and you network you are a ‘self-spammer’ and many sites will either insult you… Reddit for one or toss you one side, like Stumble.
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That is very good news. |
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I’ve been paid more than once |
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I wrote an article based on this forum because I so totally agree |
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There are people who ‘play’ a site. They find out what the requrements are and seek to quickly fulfill them. As happened here, they were caught. |
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If you write for a Newspaper your work goes instantly to the proofreaders who move with haste, because they have a deadline. Online, with the spell checkers, grammar checkers and the abilities to put certain words or terms in the ‘forbidden bucket’ so that the item would be flagged … there is no excuse for slow moderation in the academic sense. Slow moderation is done to prevent the writer from earning. |
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Everyone wants a post to go Viral. They want to be the first with the Info and get it up and Networked and out there. A site makes money when it gets hits. If it can get popular topics people want to read, lots of visitors arrive. They may come for the item, they may stay to read other items. When a site has slow moderation, a writer will know better than to publish any of their best pieces there. Submit to a quick site, get it up, get it networked and watch the visitors. After a few days an extract can be posted to a slow site, and networked over time. Clearly, the fast site is going to be getting more hits than the slow. |
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The point isn’t just money. The point is wanting to speak. The point is writing something you want others to read. I have found myself racing from the site to Niume as soon as I get an idea. Why? Because it is Type, submit, publish. |
