2.06.2007
PayPerPost Rant
As I've mentioned before, I've been picking up the occasional PayPerPost (PPP) opportunity and blogging about it. It seemed like a symbiotic relationship. I could choose to blog only about things I would want to blog about anyway, I got to discover new websites that I might not have discovered on my own, plus I made a little spending money while helping to advertise things that I thought were worth advertising.
No more. They've just done this whopping "upgrade" that is so glitchy that it's not even funny. I mean, there's Beta and then there's just not-even-remotely-ready-for-use. I spent the time to write an interesting and funny (I thought) post for something that intrigued me only to lose out on the opp because of a glitch that kept repeating until the opp was no longer available. And could I get any response about why this was happening? Of course not!
At the very, very least, PPP should have written a detailed post about the changes, the new features and how to use them, along with spelling out new requirements either as required by PPP or ones that can be requested by advertisers. And this should have happened BEFORE they launched this new glitchy version. (Can we say "common sense" boys and girls?!)
And as if the glitches weren't bad enough, advertisers can now insist that bloggers include a new "disclosure" badge (which is bullshit, not that I have ANY problem with disclosure but I already have a perfectly clear disclosure policy, thank you very much) and this new badge would create a pop up when your mouse rolls over it (I HATE pop ups) and include content that the blogger (i.e. me) has no control over. No fracking thanks!
Unless somebody sorts this crap out soon and dumps some of these obnoxious new ideas, any respect I might have had for PPP will have evaporated. They'll just be blatant, obnoxious advertisement brokers who don't give a shit about quality or integrity. Just proving that all the naysayers out there were right all along. So c'mon... get your act together guys!
Addendum: I wanted to give PPP the benefit of the doubt and went back to their site today and saw that there was something interesting that I wanted to post about, but now I'm getting a new glitch... some bullshit about my host url hostname not matching the selected blog. And I'm not the only one with this problem. WTF?!?! Now that's two fracking posts that I wasted my time writing.
No more. They've just done this whopping "upgrade" that is so glitchy that it's not even funny. I mean, there's Beta and then there's just not-even-remotely-ready-for-use. I spent the time to write an interesting and funny (I thought) post for something that intrigued me only to lose out on the opp because of a glitch that kept repeating until the opp was no longer available. And could I get any response about why this was happening? Of course not!
At the very, very least, PPP should have written a detailed post about the changes, the new features and how to use them, along with spelling out new requirements either as required by PPP or ones that can be requested by advertisers. And this should have happened BEFORE they launched this new glitchy version. (Can we say "common sense" boys and girls?!)
And as if the glitches weren't bad enough, advertisers can now insist that bloggers include a new "disclosure" badge (which is bullshit, not that I have ANY problem with disclosure but I already have a perfectly clear disclosure policy, thank you very much) and this new badge would create a pop up when your mouse rolls over it (I HATE pop ups) and include content that the blogger (i.e. me) has no control over. No fracking thanks!
Unless somebody sorts this crap out soon and dumps some of these obnoxious new ideas, any respect I might have had for PPP will have evaporated. They'll just be blatant, obnoxious advertisement brokers who don't give a shit about quality or integrity. Just proving that all the naysayers out there were right all along. So c'mon... get your act together guys!
Addendum: I wanted to give PPP the benefit of the doubt and went back to their site today and saw that there was something interesting that I wanted to post about, but now I'm getting a new glitch... some bullshit about my host url hostname not matching the selected blog. And I'm not the only one with this problem. WTF?!?! Now that's two fracking posts that I wasted my time writing.
Labels: blogging, payperpost, rant
Comments:
Yes, they have fixed the glitch that I mentioned in the addendum. But I stand by my opinion about the poor way they handled this launch.
As for my last scathing paragraph, I'm not ready to take back anything I said until I see how many advertisers start requesting those pop up disclosure badges.
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As for my last scathing paragraph, I'm not ready to take back anything I said until I see how many advertisers start requesting those pop up disclosure badges.
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