June 11, 2016 at 4:14 am

@grecy094 I’m happy the fever is subsiding, sis! And to see you back on the site, too 😀

Yes, I thought the name was familiar too. But the Ana Gretu on other sites is legit. Perhaps it was just a well-intentioned share. Perhaps somebody is using her name to commit mischief. In any case, I hope @support can figure out what’s going on.

June 11, 2016 at 3:13 am

I have experienced this here, though almost 100% of my comments publish immediately. A few are occasionally held for moderation. It may be that I’ve commented to soon after I left the previous comment, or I may have used a phrase that trips a possible spam alert.

I believe all the comments have eventually posted to the site.

June 11, 2016 at 3:10 am

For @support, this is where the original content was taken from:

The story was lifted by bloggers, with additional images from a second source. See it here:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.ca/2011/02/flashback-global-warming-in-andes.html

It was then spun and republished on some other Blogger sites like this one:

http://innovpg.blogspot.ca/2013/09/an-incredible-archaeological-discovery.html

The forum post here is just the text lifted from the illegal copy at Blogger. It took me less than one minute to track this down.

June 10, 2016 at 8:06 pm

@4cryingoutloud We have the same philosophy.

@lolaze I can understand you wanting to protect your dogs – and also the part about territory! We usually try to put them back outside if they are annoying us. But I don’t fuss over killing bugs if I need to. If something is getting into our food or pestering us, or if it’s an insect that bites, I will kill it without a thought. I guess I’d make a lousy Buddhist, LOL!

June 10, 2016 at 7:11 pm

Grecy says she already cleared her cookies and cache, so it’s not that. Support was able to help last time. Hopefully they can do it again 🙂

June 10, 2016 at 6:08 pm

Has anyone decided on a strategy for this month’s redemption, now that some are getting close to the magic number again and the site has proven it pays?

For myself, I should be at the halfway mark later today. I have two posts in the queue, and I expect that will bring me quite close to $5. If I can keep the same pace, I may be able to earn $15 here for June with very little effort. If I pick up the pace a bit (depending on available work elsewhere) I should even be able to reach $20. It would be great to earn double this month!

June 10, 2016 at 5:58 pm

@nakitakona13  I had written you a lengthy reply about ways to eat celery, but it seems to have gone missing from the thread. I will try to summarize for you:

For your children, try making a snack called “Ants on a Log.” Cut a cleaned rib of celery into two or three shorter pieces and spread the hollow of the rib with creamy peanut butter. Add a few raisins, which will stick to the peanut butter. Children love this treat! You can also try celery spread with cream cheese, or even cream cheese and a little strawberry jam.

For your wife, introduce her to the concept of the French mirepoix. When diced celery is cooked with onion and carrot, it takes away some of the harshness it owes to its saponin content. Similar mixes exist in Italian and Spanish cuisine, and in Cajun cooking it’s the “holy trinity” of celery with bell peppers and onions. We love to make a dish called Jambalaya, which like many Cajun dishes begins with the holy trinity 😀

• This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by  Kyla Matton Osborne (Ruby3881).

June 10, 2016 at 5:48 pm

@kaka135 My oldest turned down an offer to go to one of the army cadet training centres this summer. She had applied for a different facility, and the one she got doesn’t offer programs for which she feels she could be an instructor. So she decided to try her luck here in town, which will allow her to spend time working on her art and her crafting.She is hoping to attend some of the local pop up malls as a vendor, and to sell some of her crafts either at the First Nations trading post just outside of town, or at the music festival that happens in the region in August.

She is hoping to attend some of the local pop up malls as a vendor, and to sell some of her crafts either at the First Nations trading post just outside of town, or at the music festival that happens in the region in August.

This will be the first time she’s been home with the family all summer since she was 12 years old. She’s been spending the majority of the summer away for the past five years. I’m happy we’re going to have our “big girl” home this summer, though it disappoints me that she didn’t even get an interview for the job she wanted in town 🙁

June 10, 2016 at 5:27 pm

Well, the money is now in my PayPal account. From what I can tell it was deposited sometime around 3 am, UTC – 7 hours. We’ll have to watch over a period of several months to see if there is a pattern, but it looks as though it was deposited to be there not too long before the close of business in the LB operating time.

June 10, 2016 at 5:20 pm

My money is in now too. I am very pleased to see that LiteracyBase has followed through in a timely fashion. It will help a lot, I think. Some people had been waiting to post or were unsure if they should join the site at all. Now the word will go out that the site does pay.

I hope the site owners can keep it up, and that ads will start going up soon to provide a steady stream of revenue to ensure the monthly payouts. But it is a good day for all here at LiteracyBase 😀

June 10, 2016 at 12:44 pm

I’d have to say that I don’t really look so much at the length of the post. I look at how it is formatted, much more than at word count.

So if the post is 300-500 words but is written as a series of same-size paragraphs with no subheads, lists, embedded visuals, etc., I will probably skip over it completely. I will just plain move on to the next post – unless I have a really specific reason to read this one piece.

On the other hand, I will at the very least skim through a post that is 500-1000+ words if it uses visuals, formatting, varying paragraph length, good amounts of whitespace, etc. I may not read every single word but I will read each subheading – and probably a good bit of the body text under any subheads that are of particular interest.

Besides the quality of the information included in the text and the things I’ve just discussed, there is also the skill with which the writer spins his tale. Some web writers I know have incredible written talent. But most are just mediocre.

June 10, 2016 at 12:22 pm

@swalia The FAQ says, “You will get your payment on every 10th of the upcoming month once you redeem.” I take that to mean that on the 10th day, and no later, the payment will reach my PayPal account.

At this point, the day has only begun where I am; but according to the site clock, it is already half over. Still nothing at PayPal. And I’ve discovered the redeem page here is showing a message to the effect that it can only be seen when logged in. Clearly, if  I can post a comment in the forum and see mt balance at the top of the page, I am logged in.

I hope this is only an indication that payments are being processed as we speak. Seeing that everyone who redeemed is paid, is crucial right now to the reputation and integrity of the site.

June 10, 2016 at 10:58 am

@bestwriter It is harder to adapt as we get older. I hope you’ll give her a positive reference, so she can find something more suitable.

June 10, 2016 at 7:58 am

@bestwriter Let me give you an example of an article where I felt you packed a lot of info into under 400 words: your recent mango article. But because I am a curious person, I wanted to know more about other types of mangoes. So even though that was outside the scope of that article, I wanted to read more. This is an excellent thing – if you choose to follow up on it – because it means you have a ready-made audience for the next post!

But your post on skin whitening, I thought needed some more specific details. It felt like most of the info could have been had from the linked source, which also had specific case profiles that included personal details that make the article more warm and appealing.

Just my personal opinion….

About the “Advertisement” boxes: I hope it means the staff are preparing to implement some revenue-generating ads!

June 10, 2016 at 7:37 am

@bestwriter Having a new employee must be fatiguing, especially in one’s own household. I’m sure you’ll have no trouble finding creative ways to overcome the hearing deficit. In no time at all, you’ll probably feel your maid has been with you for an eternity!

@shavkat Breath certainly is a source of calm and healing. It does help to have words and friends who listen with empathy too, though, for times when deep breathing isn’t enough 🙂