DocAndersen
I was having a great conversation with Lado and Vidocka (well, two talks on two different posts). But I wanted to bring the conversation back up and share some of the thinking that they brought that was excellent. I will start with the conversation Vidoka and I was having around the bad stuff we’ve all been talking about lately. She reminded me that sometimes we need to remember the good. So, honestly, the one huge good is that Virily has continued for more than four years pay authors. Niume made is 22 months. Mylot has paid and not paid many times in its history. It pays now, but it has also stopped payments in the past. Virily pays and continues to do so.
The other conversation was with Lado, and it was interesting. He reminded me that sometimes the tech I talk about doesn’t apply to what he needs. Not, in a mean way, just not something he needs. It is all about complexity. You see, I know Lado could take a motorcycle apart and put it back together again. I could probably make a motorcycle alone, but after that, that motorcycle would only part. I wouldn’t be able to get it together back. I would suddenly own a lot of motorcycle parts, but no longer would I own a motorcycle. Another positive thing to note, there are many here, including Lado, who can and do grow beautiful flowers, I struggle with that as well.
In the end, it is about what we as people connect to and with. Some grow amazing flowers. Some train their pets to do amazing things. But no matter what, when we have conversations that are open and honest here on the site, we have to chance to do something else. We have a chance to connect with another person.
That is per the original question I was discussing another of the great value propositions of our site. We have a beautiful community of people. There are people from all over the world who have done many beautiful and exciting things. There are stories and pictures to share and revel in. Beyond merely paying us to write, virily supports our community!
His work is Copyright DocAndersen. Any resemblance to people real or fictional in this piece is accidental (unless explicitly mentioned by name.)
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Have you have a great conversation here on the site with another author?
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DO you find inspiration in the works of other authors?
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Do you find the conversations are sometimes as important as anything?
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Everyone contributes something to this site.
yes as my dad always said make sure you give more than you take!
Majority of the time it is the continued conversations that give me anticipation on logging in, even if its bashing my favorite sporting teams, lol.
Ditto pal, it is the conversations that keep me rolling along. Even with a misguided Illini fan 🙂
One of the things I wanted to mention is that where other writers have the number of views they get, I don’t. I can see how many comments but views are not listed. This means I am not allowed to know how many views an article got so can’t predict my earnings, or lack thereor.
when you go to profile more posts you don’t see views? ever?
views here are odd. The views you get paid for *members* versus total views. Total views help the site.
The amount of earnings earnt, or possible to earn, here has declined over the years, though.
you can still earn nearly as much, it is now more about conversations with other authors!
Yes, Virily is still alive. They are back from Holidays as they have published 3 articles of mine at the same time. It has taken them 20 days!!!
i didn’t see the third will have to go search for it!
Ok. Thanks. It is about The Rolling Stones. You saw the Spanish version of it On Facebook.
i loved that post! I found it! awesome. I am glad that we are moving forward again as a community.
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You help Virily a lot. Virily owes you a lot because you are always helping to improve things
i try, i made friends with the creator (technical) of Niume and well we all know how that ended. But I learned to try and save things that have value!
Niume was grat. And it was very sad when it ended. But at least we have Virily now.
it was founded by three friends (one marking, one English major and a techie, when the technie got sick, the site died).
Keeping an open mind is important. I think every site needs some kind of adjustment now and then and the important thing is that they keep paying. I am also glad to know posts are being approved.
The community here for me is the value. I love the conversations!
The wheels must be turning again now.
I had a post from 14 days ago, finally approved today.
I have three others pending but written after that first one was written.
It looks like that they are moderating the oldest ones first.
The amount of earnings earnt, or possible to earn, here has declined over the years, though.
With Helium, their earnings actually increased over time. They were actually paying authors $1 for each published article on their site at one stage, as a bonus.
They lasted for around ten years, but when they overspent on redeveloping an already good site, they actually ruined it, and closed around 6 months later.
Instead of just refining a few tweaks, they set up a whole new platform, that had no legs to it to hold it up for long, unfortunately.
i look forward to reading your article! I saw that the floodgates had opened.
There are so many writing sites that pay and then don’t pay. Niume barely made 2 years before it died.
Wikinut was great at its beginnings too, but died a long slow death, even though, we can still log in, we can no longer post there.
The site owners must still be making money from the ads and the views, otherwise, they would close it down completely.
They had hundreds of great writers there, and even my articles there (in total, for my 500 or so articles there ) still get 300 to 400 views per day.
They were smart in their choice of name for the site, so they must still be raking in some dough, and baking their own cakes, but without the writers sharing in the crumbs anymore.
i used to write for a site called Cloudtweaks. I didn’t get paid, but i had three articles with more than 2 million views.
They really are, they do a really good job of allowing you the freedom to create a community of your own.
I enjoy the site.
actually each of the articles had more than 2 million views, one is now over 8 million.
It was called “The pizza delivery drone,:
The site won’t take it down (I asked) so I cannot republish it here or anywhere else.
mylot does that, they have stopped paying for a time twice I’ve been told.
The mylot managers are canny.
They realise when they are going downhill, and withdraw the payments to keep afloat.
The site has been around for a long time I think, more than ten, fifteen years.
One admin manager died a couple of years ago, but luckily for the site, somebody else stepped up to the plate.
It seems to be honestly run.
2 million views for 3 articles, maybe you should repost those articles here, but seriously, what were they about?
Honest conversations makes a community to connect each other in a respectable manner, and learn many things in the process.
It’s amazing Virily has been actively paying for three years. That is one of the good things of the site.
it really is – we are also lucky to have such a wonderful community!
Yes. And nice that it isn’t racially based.
it is a community and i do agree with you no cultural, racial or other bias
Thanks for the mention in your post. I met some very good friends here with whom I am happy to chat.
you inspired me to aim for the positive!
I always try to stay positive. Negative thoughts are not good.
that is very true, something we have to work hard to avoid.
You are right. I have been very “negative” in the past. It took me quite a while to change.
it is a cycle, we plunge into negative and forget why, but well we are in the negative so we keep swimming.
Sometimes we have to grab a towel and sit on the shore!
I very much agree with your words. Sometimes negative thoughts go around me even though I know that such thoughts are not necessary.
I have to agree with you. In life it is so very important to keep an open mind. Listening is something some people cannot do without judging. And that is a mistake. Conversing here with friends all over the world has taught me a lot.
i love the conversations here!!! it makes me feel happy to have them!
Yes and I see more posts have been approved.
lots have it is so exciting!
I can only thank you for your good opinion of me, dear friend …. here are really some wonderful people who unfortunately are slowly disappearing like me …. I will not completely withdraw but I will post less …. something does not work well …. how long have they not approved any post …. i think it’s been 10 days … really a shame for such a nice site
i have great confidence in you pal!
i truly hope they listen and start fixing some of these issues.
I also hope that they will start fixing certain mistakes and that people will start coming back
we have been asking them for months. I do truly agree with you my friend!
Hopefully the best …. it would really be a shame on this site
we will keep trying i don’t give up!
My respects for your will and effort, dear friend
i will tell you pal that it is things like what you just said that keeps me going!