My home for on-line writing is Wizzley. Simple as that. But common sense directs us to diversify in order to survive the slings and arrows of outrageous Google updates.
It was in the spirit of that wherein I ventured into Bubblews. Forty-eight hours later, I'm still not sure what hit me. It appears to be in a state of very lucrative pandemonium. Everything that I thought I knew about internet writing is challenged there. Yet it seems to be working.
Every time I refresh the page, I appear to have made another cent. Is it too good to be true? I suspect so, but I'm yet to find the actual catch.
The name Bubblews is a portmanteau of bubble and news. Therefore it's pronounced Bubble-ews. While the news bit is self-explanatory, it's qualified by the first part of the word.
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Awwww! I hope that the Overwhelming Life Stuff sorts itself out soon.
Yes, I will learn to take this stuff on the chin better. And to just forge ahead. What other options are there?
Overwhelming Life Stuff means I have to take loss of bubbling income on the chin, as you said about dislikes. Not all good but who am I to complain? And what was that comment 'you can please some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time'? Bubblews is subjective - we are, after all dealing with a site where some people think it's fine to post scammy words about marraige spells and love potions and others put far more effort into their posts - and the advertising revenue will tell who wins. I'm just wandering back over there in a minute as I am so tired tonight I can't think straight. I'm capable of reading, clicking and commenting though.
Awww! That is very lovely of you. I feel strangely reassured by the fact that you'd protect me like that, even when I'm being an over-sensitive wuss.
However, we'll never know who it was. It could have been a misclick on a mobile display - the buttons are close together - or it could genuinely have been someone who disliked my post. What should really happen is me taking it on the chin like an adult and stop mithering over unknowables. <3
I hope that the Overwhelming Life Stuff was good.
I must find this odd person who disliked you, Jo. This Is Not On. I will have them removed at once from the site... I tend to read the notifications and dip in and out of posts as I fancy when I'm enduring the cattle class bus services of late. I can't tweet or text but with an arm hooked around the pillar holding the phone and the other ready to catch myself when I sway too far, I can at least read Bubblews and the news sites. I have my regular bubblers but also many more whose posts I enjoy when I have a chance. Have been off the site a few days for overwhelming Life Stuff and came back to find I'd made several new connections and a number of $s to boot. Happy Wordynerdyscribblertype here.
The notification page has become so overwhelming for me that I tend to discount it. It's good for very recent heads up, but that's all, in my experience. I did use it to good effect when I was camping on the site last Friday though.
I do wish that there was a very simple list of rules. The staff go on about the simplicity and point to the rules on the bank page. Then you dig deeper and realize that there are all these shadow rules, which you only learn about through word of mouth.
Thanks for finding them out.
Sue - I'm hazy on the minus points for deleting too, unless it's all about punishment for having deleted it.
Paula - It's my understanding that we own the copyright there. Though I too will stand corrected if we don't.
I've just had my first dislike on the site. :(
I think copyright technically remains with the writer, as the creator of the content. That should hold whether it's a bubble or a comment. And the site does seem to come down quickly on plagiarists so that idea of ownership would seem right. I'll stand corrected if needs be by those who know more than me - or have maybe read the small print more recently.
@2uesday
That is correct, when you delete a post the earnings that posts has accumulated will be deducted from your "bank balance" including a negative balance. If they would ever try to get the money back from you if you leave for got? Who knows?
What really puzzles me is that they didn't pay the mentioned author everything they owe her. In the end $1000 are the same like 40 normal redemptions of $25 and I am sure they have more than 40 redeeming regularly.
I hadn't encountered that one!
I think any writer who went through the silence that we did, on a past site, gets a bit twitchy about lack of communication. I'd rather a site owner said that it's all going belly up and they're sorry, than say nothing at all.