1. I don't care what Wired says.
2. I don't 'scramble' for anyone.
3. No one has the right to tell me or anyone else what to accept.
Now, this post isn't aimed at anyone personally- this is a general 'get over it'.
I have held my tongue and posted mostly polite rebuttals to all of the people who have a problem with DS. I did make a not-so-nice post towards a fellow freelancer in the comments on Lori Widmer's blog-I apologized for it. Reason for nastiness? I was too hasty and assumed someone was the troll we had here and you all know how nasty that got. The troll also used my words from here, but I don't really care now.
Why? Because even he/she has a right to make a buck. I'm not going to tell him/her to not put up Adsense or sell advertising space on his or her blog- because if they need that dollar, so be it. There are other ways to go about it- such as scrambling at DS to fill a queue ;-) - but who am I to tell that blogger that they have no write to post their opinion?
What I wrote here was in a public forum. The forum posts from DS- that's another matter.
Still- I don't care who does what to make their living. I wish everyone else would stay out of my pocket. Go harp on some place like About.com: they make writers go through 2 weeks or so in a competition for a job with other people, all without pay. Sure, maybe those articles can be sold afterwards, but that's 2 weeks without pay for a lot of work. It's a set rate, plus rev share. It's a content mill. Older than DS- so why aren't those writers getting the sharp end of the stick?
What about BellaOnline? That's no pay at all.
What about AC? Very low pay, no pay, and all sorts of junk can be placed. The only reason I leave my old crap there is to see if a penny or two ends up in my PayPal every few months.
Why not look into the newer FireHow? Supposedly the same as eHow, but gods, the tools? UGH. And there's no checking up on the content, either.
Xoomba?
HubPages?
And on and on and on....
I haven't even posted about this on my own blog because, as much revenue as could be made from the traffic, it isn't even a debate anymore. It is people being busy-bodies. It is people trying to lynch Deb Ng because she has DS as a sponsor. Heck, Lori Widmer accidentally left Deb's contact info on her post and Deb began getting nasty Skype messages. {lori took it off as soon as she was notified and told the idiots doing it off]
What gave them the right to do that? I don't give a damn who you are, unless YOU are the one paying me, get off my back. Demand is not a way of life for me and hopefully 90% of the others there- it's just a way to fill in gaps. Sorry if we don't feel like going on welfare while we wait for 60-90 days after publication payments. Or while we're re-sending invoices to clients that accidentally 'forgot' to take care of them. Or when we get a postcard that a magazine is no longer running- sorry {this happened to me a while back, nice-huh?}
Let the forum drama guy/girl make their revenue. Let me make my money. And if you don't like where it comes from- ignore it and get back to work on your own projects.
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