7 Things That Mean You Are A Scumbag
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As more and more money enter the paid post marketplace, unethical practices have cropped up. Some of it is simply due to ignorance; others are more sinister. People knowingly engaged in these practices are scumbags.
There, I said it.
The current version of the PayPerPost marketplace lends itself to many of these practices. This is the downside of a model that allows bloggers to grab opportunities, as opposed to advertisers placing opportunities. Whenever there is money at stake, there will be thieves and scumbags in play. To be fair, however, PPP has been making changes to aggressively counter these practices, and I believe is committed to an open and fair marketplace.
Now, here’s my definition of a paid-post scumbag:
- While grabbing opps at PayPerPost, if you use a bot, you’re a scumbag.
- If you’re taking advantage of PPP’s 6-hr rule to hold posts and wait to see if more lucrative posts come along, you’re a scumbag. Post it an move on, or release it immediately so someone that WANTS to do it can reserve it.
- If you’re posting links and submitting your post, then going back and writing it later, you’re a scumbag. Also, you’re stupid and should learn how to reserve a post properly.
- If you work for a paid post company and you approve a blog "like this it is rittn skumbag you are". If they post crap posts later, you have only yourself to blame.
- If you’re lying about where you live to get around geographic segmentation, you’re a scumbag.
- If you’re constantly underbidding at SponsoredReviews.com, offering $5 reviews on your PR 5 blog, you’re a scumbag. Or, an idiot. Either way, you should just go away.
- If you’re changing dates on old posts to game the interim-post requirements, you’re a scumbag.
Ooooh, did I really throw darts at fellow paid-post bloggers?
Yep, and I’ll keep doing it, too. If this business model is to be successful, PROFESSIONALISM and ETHICS will be what separates us from the sploggers. I can appreciate and enjoy aggressive competition, but I believe there’s an inverse relationship between the quality of the blog and the number of scumbag practices listed above the blogger employs.
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I only took 7 opps in the month of July so obviously I not one of the scumbags listed in item number 2, but I have a question.
How do you release an opp immediately? I don’t know how to do that.
When I say ‘release immediately’ I mean, just get out of the opp page right away. Don’t sit there and go back in another window and keep checking to see if a 15$ opp pops up when you have a perfectly good $12 opp to do right now.
I have no idea if there is a delay between the time you move off the opp page and it being officially released back to the wild. I think there is no delay, as I’ve lost opps when i accidentally moved off the screen or closed the window despite having it reserved.
Or maybe I just wasn’t reserving it properly. 
Posties have been asking for a way to “release opps” since the reserve time went to six hours. At the time of this comment the only way to “release immediately” is to take another opp. Otherwise, your opp is reserved for 6 hours, even if you close the page or turn off your computer.
If you have lost an opp by moving off the page that’s a bug - it shouldn’t happen and this bug is “being looked into”. :p
Yeah, hehe, you must have experienced a bug that isn’t supposed to happen…
We received clarification from P in this post (emphasis mine):
http://boards.payperpost.com/viewtopic.php?p=75155&highlight=#75155
“if you take a reservation by accident and then close out of the opp it will not free up the reservation you have. you have to click take on another opp in order to free up that first reservation, or let it expire. you can only have one reservation at any given time, so you can keep clicking reserve on different opps and you will only keep the last one you clicked leaving all the previous ones open for the taking.
if you have a reservation on an opp and you log out, loose power, etc, you can always log back into the system and that reservation will be waiting for you - unless of course you get logged out right before it expires. the only way you can loose a reservation that you are holding is for it to expire or if you grab another reservation on another opp. ”
The only official way to “release” an opp at this time is to take another opp.
I stand corrected. I received the same answer from PPP:
“When a blogger is reading the details of an Opp, they have not ‘reserved’ the Opp yet. Reservation takes place when a blogger clicks the ‘Reserve this Opportunity’ button, on the Opp Details page. After inputting the captcha check and hitting the ’submit’ button, then the Opp is officially attached to your account. There are two ways that the blogger can drop/lose the Opp: 1) if the blogger clicks the ‘Reserve this Opp’ button on another Opp, then the lose the first one since Opps can only be in reserve one at a time and 2) if the blogger does not submit a link to the Opp. If you have clicked the ‘Reserve this Opp’ button and you close the browser or leave the Opp- it’s still yours. Actually, if you closed the browser, left your home, and went to the local library and pulled up your PayPerPost account, that Opp would still be in reservation for you, until you click the ‘Reserve’ button on another Opp or miss the 6-hour submission deadline.”
While the letter of my statement was incorrect, I still stand by the spirit of it - the practice of reserving a post to see if a better one comes along is douchebaggery of the first order. It is this type of behavior that drives the cycle of angle-shooting and shortcuts ever-higher until the inevitable reaction from PPP snaps back at everyone, as we saw yesterday.
I predict the 6-hr reserve times will go away and be replaced by 2-hr reserve times by the end of the year. I also predict that 5 minutes after the announcement there will be a bunch of over-reactions, whining, and shrill comments from posties, because after all, we ARE bloggers.
I agree with 6 of the 7 points… I just don’t see the second one as being any kind of a big deal…
I think it all comes out the same in the end regardless of the reserve time limit… (I do like the 6 hours and will be one of the major whiners if it changes… watch for me! )
I think you have set the record for most times using the word “scumbag” in one post.
Well done!