July 13, 2016 at 11:06 am

@scheng1 Persona Paper did cease to be profitable without AdSense, and eventually stopped paying users because other advertisers weren’t working out. The site owners had planned to close, but there is a member who is considering reviving the site. She is not planning to have ads – at least not right away – but will be allowing users to have affiliate links in posts.

The reason for the AdSense ban? I suspect it was sour grapes from someone who didn’t like that a lot of people were going there after Bubblews started to fail. PP never did anything wrong, and in fact were taking great care to do everything right. But the AdSense ban was the beginning of a long, slow death for the site.

I’m hoping Meg will consider a new name and domain registration if she does take over. Perhaps she can break free from the old AdSense kerfuffle and have a chance at earning an account with them as the “new management.”

July 13, 2016 at 10:48 am

@bestwriter I’m not sure if I understood your question. My long posts always pay better than a 300-word post. I have earned as much as 40 or 50 cents for some. And it’s not always the really long ones that get better pay. One that was 884 words earned better than some that were over 1,000 words long.

@rebecca You can earn from sharing links, but you’d have to share often and have a good following on social media for it to add up. Posting is the best way to earn more quickly. As @scheng1 reports, most bloggers here can expect to earn 15 cents for a 300-word post. If you post every day, your balance will grow faster.

July 13, 2016 at 3:36 am

@rebecca I’d say you’re doing fairly well considering your low level of participation on the site. To increase your earnings, increase participation. Posts pay the most, but you can earn by writing long comments on posts and forum threads. You can also earn a small amount, but often, by sharing links with your referral code in them.

You can learn how to find your referral link in this post, or you can simply use the sharing buttons on the posts (check to see whether the referral code is included, as it depends on browser compatibility to some extent.)

http://172.104.9.193/7-great-things-need-know-literacybase/?mref=Ruby3881

July 13, 2016 at 1:40 am

@swalia I finally received my payment. As happened with others, there was a fee (about 79 cents) deducted from the amount I claimed, but the money is now finally in my PayPal and I am relieved.

I think LB staff really need to sit down and think some things through. They then need to let us know some things honestly – how many staff there really are and when they are available to work, where the money is coming from in the absence of ads and how long the site can be sustained before it starts earning, what the plan is for creating a revenue stream for the site, etc. There also has to be a good, hard look at how many of the tasks (e.g. approving posts and issuing payments) can be at least partially automated in order to cut down on the large number of long interruptions in workflow for the site.

At this point in time, I don’t have great hopes for the success of this site. It seems that the more effort writers put into helping the site succeed, the more we see that the site admin are simply not up to the task of running the site and keeping users informed of important news. We need to see a serious effort on the part of the staff and site owners to correct these issues. Apologies are wearing very thin. It’s time to prove they can run the site – not run it into the ground, as was done with Bubblews.

July 12, 2016 at 10:15 pm

Exactly @shavkat! I much prefer my kids knowing they can always come to me with any problem, than to have them fear telling the truth and taking more risks in the process.

July 12, 2016 at 8:36 pm

@nakitakona13 If you redeem after the month’s end, you must wait for the following month’s payment. So if you redeemed between the 1st-10th of July, your payment request will count against the payments to be made August 10th.

July 12, 2016 at 7:33 pm

Scientific research shows that of all the discipline options, punishment is the least effective in the long run. Punishment mainly teaches children to lie and hide their bad behaviours, which can be more dangerous for them. It also teaches them to follow rules only for the sake of avoiding punishment, and not because the rules make sense to them or because they want to be responsible citizens. Taken to the extreme as we have seen in many contexts, including some American schools, punishment can teach a child to resent the adult and it can result in bullying behaviour.

The preferred discipline method these days is to give small children natural consequences. This teaches them cause and effect, rather than to seek rewards or fear punishments. Children who learn natural consequences are less likely to lie when they’ve done something wrong because the consequences aren’t feared the way punishment is. Working with natural consequences also affords parents the opportunity to reason things out with the child, or to encourage the child to put himself in another person’s shoes. This fosters empathy, which goes a lot further than the threat of punishment when it comes to encouraging responsible and thoughtful behaviour.

July 12, 2016 at 7:12 pm

@lovern The admin at BlogJob were accusing some LB writers of plagiarism? I find that hard to believe – both the accusation and that any of the regulars here are plagiarists. I don’t blame you for being angry. I would be too!

July 12, 2016 at 7:09 pm

@kaka135 I know I was put off by some of the things Rex was saying, which is too bad as he can be a very friendly and helpful guy under different circumstances. I’m not even sure of the veracity of some claims he was making about Google, which also left a bad taste in my mouth.

Did he have a run-in with some of the members, though? Or was it just the general insistence that anyone who didn’t keep writing during the suspension was just being selfish, that turned you off?

July 12, 2016 at 2:08 pm

From what I understand, the white light experience can be explained medically. But I think the out of body experiences many people report cannot. My father has also had the OBE, when he had surgery and was technically dead on the operating table for a short time before being resuscitated.

Western mystery tradition says that the soul is attached to the body by a sort of umbilical cord. Under extreme circumstances, the soul can leave the body and move about a bit. If the cord is cut, it is death. But until the body dies, as long as the cord remains intact, the soul can wander.

July 12, 2016 at 1:59 pm

Congratulations sis @grecy095! I’m very glad your payment went through, especially when others are late. It does give us reason to hope 🙂

July 12, 2016 at 1:40 pm

@swalia I agree with you that a Sunday should not be an excuse for late payments. And if the admin know there will be a problem making payments over a weekend, they have only to adjust the payment schedule. This way members can be notified well in advance, and there will be no unpleasant surprises.

With all of the little issues lately, I am reminded of how things started small at Bubblews and then the problems grew and grew. At first, it was just trouble accessing the site or getting a response from support. Then the 3-day wait for redemptions went to 7 days. And then it was 2 weeks. Then a month, then 60 or even 90 days. And of course in the end, the site cancelled payments or reduced them because they simply couldn’t afford to pay. Eventually the site just ceased to exist.

We’ve all been cheated and are sensitive of anything not going as it’s supposed to. I wonder, how many times can LB staff afford to be late approving posts or paying redemptions before users just decide they’ve had enough?

July 12, 2016 at 7:41 am

@admin Thank you for the update. In future, if there is a delay could you possibly let us know as soon as you do? It’s much better for morale and for the reputation of the site. Thanks!

July 12, 2016 at 4:24 am

@bestwriter I just checked PayPal again, and still nothing. I hope that @support will let us know what is happening with payments and when we can expect them to be made. It’s not a lot of money (I think I redeemed for $12 this time) but it’s the principle that counts. We were promised money on the 10th each month, and on the 10th we should have been paid.

July 12, 2016 at 2:53 am

First of all, my thanks to your husband for his service and to your whole family for all the sacrifices you make while he is deployed.

My father served in the RCAF when I was very little, but luckily he was always right at home with us from the time he married my mother. Actually, my daughters have been away from us much more as young cadets than Dad was when he was in the Air Force. They have travelled from one end of the country to another and are often gone for 6-7 weeks at a time. I know it’s very different when a spouse has been deployed for many months

I know it’s very different when a spouse has been deployed for many months, but the girls’ travelling with cadets gives us all the opportunity to learn flexibility in our family. Should any of them ever join the military or become a military spouse, they at least have a general idea what kind of commitment they’ll be getting into.

I wish you and your husband all the best when he returns home. May it be a smooth transition and a loving reunion <3