@peachpurple I wish your son all the best with his exam! I hope he will achieve very good grades.

I just got my oldest daughter’s transcript of marks for the past 3 years in the mail today. I am very proud of her! She got very high grades.

In my time, they would have called her marks “high honours.” I think today, they only put “Achievement…[Read more]

Harsh words, Grace? Surely you overestimate how mean you are! I know when you grumble that you’re just feeling left out. Your bark has always been much bigger than your bite.

I tend to just pass over those words that are written when friends are being unkind, anyway. Most times, the deeper meaning is that someone’s feelings have been hurt and…[Read more]

Hmmm, I’m not sure that I care to be a mascot….. Maybe you’d care to wear the funny costume, Grace?

This is why I like to tag the author when I comment. They’ll usually get a notification for the mention (although today I’m getting notifications but then the mention won’t show…)

@bestwriter Thanks for your understanding and your friendship. Sometimes it helps to hear kind words 🙂

@bestwriter I am trying to catch up today, Grace. But it’s very difficult with the ads and the video on every page. I’m also having that same issue we had before, of the orange bars that have no notification in them and won’t go away. I’m trying to track what activity they might be related to, so they’ll go away…

@swalia Those spammers hit a lot of sites. it’s nobody’s fault. It was just another brick in the wall that day, so to speak.

@bestwriter Yes, we all had issues because there was a huge influx of traffic that was more than the server was intended to handle in the early days. I’m happy the owner chose to migrate to a dedicated server. Any future…[Read more]

@bestwriter I find it interesting to hear various people’s guesses at what was going on when a certain comment was written. Sometimes they can be pretty close but often when we make assumptions, we can be way off!

In this instance, for example, I think the comment was written right after I started writing on TextBroker. The other places I was…[Read more]

@peachpurple I am the author of the comment that you and Grace find so deplorable. It is honest feedback that was solicited by a question about our experiences on LiteracyBase. It was not meant to hurt feelings, but to give the admin here fair warning that there are some issues that need attention.

I know that when I am in a position where I am…[Read more]

I don’t know about others, but I find it really difficult to participate here lately. For about a month or so, I’ve had repeated issues with pages not loading properly, with server errors and downtime, etc. It makes it really unpleasant to even visit the site. And now there’s the video that is set to autoplay….

Anyway, I’m trying to catch up…[Read more]

I actually think the video has a very limited interest to most people. It would be good to have on a FAQ page where there are explanations about earning on LB. For recruitment purposes or to stimulate activity, they really ought to work on a shorter video with a human voice. It should be catchier, with a lighter tone, and not be so concerned with…[Read more]

@sunil You are not the first to mention that on MyLot there are certain people who seem to have appointed themselves moderators. I know there are a couple of veterans who are well respected, and who have occasionally gotten into heated discussions with other users. I haven’t seen much beyond that but I found that after my first month there, most…[Read more]

I think they may have started with shorter blogs in mind, @swalia. I guess they discovered that shorter doesn’t pay….

@sunil Hasten the process of what, Suny? If you mean of moving to microblogging, I think some people might be happy for that. The MyLot format seems to be quite popular. It could work on other sites, if they can get the…[Read more]

I think they may have started with shorter blogs in mind, @swalia. I guess they discovered that shorter doesn’t pay….

Oh, how terrible. I really enjoyed the place and got paid every time. I only submitted posts, articles and took part in questions and answers as surveys and other opportunities were ‘not available in my region’ but it was lot of fun.

I think I earned about 35 dollars. What a blow. Another avenue for earning money online bites the dust.

And I…[Read more]