The Famous Adage; if you don’t learn from History you are doomed to repeat it.

With online writing, the same scam goes over and over again.  It is so obvious that it is trite.

A site pops up and on every single other writing site someone logs on;  “Hey!  Did you hear about (name of site) they PAY for… (list of things).”

All the writers on th…[Read more]

Cely, I really feel upset about this…lll

The point that I have ‘anger’ against Bubblews, is trying to make what was a legal issue personal.  Bubblews was a Scam.  In fact if you read an interview that Dixit gave, he does everything but admit it in simple language.

Hubpages used pay $50 or more.  Now, 5c.  That is not my criterion for a successful site.  It had 12 million hits, now, 600k…[Read more]

When Sites Are Too Picky

There are a number of writing sites which reject your work for the most trivial/stupid/dishonest reasons.   Why they do it to the Newbie is an exercise in Throat cutting.   It is ‘supposed’ to make the writer feel s/he is at some ‘elevated’ or ‘important’ site but wise users turn and run.

For Example…

Expertcolumn p…[Read more]

To go into depth about Factoidz;  It was not an accident.  The owner, Mike Quac, knew what he was doing.  He did rip off the public.

The Reason Bubblews got to trick so many thousands of people is based on the text book Ponzi.

If you study Business Administration in America you will have Ponzi Schemes covered in a Semester.  There is a virtual ‘Science’ to ripping off the public.  There are actual equations as to how to do it.

Dixit did not ‘accidentally’ wind up ripping o…[Read more]

Don’t blame the user because the site is dishonest.  This kind of… “Oh!  It is the Users Fault That the Site didn’t Pay!”  is the same; “You Broke The Rules!”  lie pushed by the Pimps and Shills of Bubblews before they were ripped off.

Let us begin on a platform of truth;  Have you ever looked at or purchased anything from any Ad on any site…[Read more]

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]

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]

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.

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

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…

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.