grace
In the context of my thoughts on spotlighting, a user here, and someone who I look up to had some unusual justification (lol)
” Well! OK. I’m used to sites like these disappearing anyway. xxxxx came and went. yyyyyyyy came and went. I’m going to make the “gravy” for my potatoes while I can. “
Users do play a huge role in the disappearance of Sites and here is one example (lol) I remember Bubblews and how some users spammed it wholesale. At the same time if Sites are not vigilant doomsday approaches without notice.
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Do you think users play a role in the disappearance of Sites?
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Yes
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No
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I agree that user plays a role, but maybe not a huge role to some sites’ disappearance. I understand some sites might not be able to run anymore because of some spammers, but it seems like there are some owners who are not trusted as well. The owners need to learn how to tackle the spammers and cheaters, and I think that always happen in real life businesses as well.
I just think that’s part of life. I just do what I can to support the sites I like, and I’ve learned to just accept it if anything bad happens.
I am with you when you say Sites should be vigilant when spamming and other violations take place. I also know of Sites themselves that have cheated on users.
In every case it has been something the Owners did or was done to them.
In 2010, due to Google’s Panda many good sites went down. Labelled “Content Farms’ they did not appear in a Google search; hence thousands of viewers were lost. This was Google’s plan. Triond, Wikinut Bukisa and others which had thousands of views each day were no longer on a search.
This means, for example; suppose you wrote an article; How to Wash Silk. Everyone who enters that in a search should see your article. As you wrote it on Triond and Triond was penalised by Google, it would not appear.
Hence thousands of hits were lost and Owners who were accustomed to 12M hits a month, (like Hubpages) could not function with 49k so closed down.
You are right there are other causes too. Google plays its role in Sites going down.
It was a massacre. So many went down. Imagine having five or more PAYING sites you regularly post to and earning, easily, $50 a month, sometimes more. And this is maybe posting when you feel like it.
IT’s usually 50-50 or even 40-60. I mean we don’t run the site, the admins do.
Admins set the limitations, we can only customise within a controlled environment.
Many things are top-down.
Admin should do their bit and users theirs to see that Sites survive.
Users can be responsible for Sites’ Adsense account to be deleted with plagiarism, copyright images, etc.
I think there is a reason why Virily needs to approve posts – to eliminate as much of plagiarism and such. But sometimes I wonder how strict are they on the job.
It’s definitely a shared responsibility. Even though it’s not nice to say this but I think the admin aren’t really doing their part well enough.
Sometimes I can’t help but feel we’re on a deck, screaming to save a drowning passenger but the crew refuse to lower the lifeboat or throw the float down.
But it’s nice to see members are still trying.
Well said, alibb. Sites should pay attention when users tell them all is not well.
Virily is in great shape and it is going to last
Have you noticed? There are no Ads around
I have not noticed until you have told it. So Is Virily going to disappear????
Not at all but more vigil from them is called for
Users have influence over the site. I don’t think users have made the site go down. Maybe weren’t good rules there.
When users game the system that is when a Site can go down. But the Site should be vigilant and not let that happen.
True. The final decisions have the site. Maybe they can make some better rules to protect the site.
When reporting is done that should be taken seriously.
maybe users did not make the site go down, but the owners are. why is mylot still existing
There you are not paid for views and only paid when others contribute. There is hardly any place there for users to earn by cheating. Having said that other Site owners should be vigilant and take care of such abusers.
ahhh then we must be vigilant of those who are abusing the system.
Yes. Expose them to the community.
I don’t think users play any part in sites going down. In fact, I remember a site that both the admin and users were determined to hold on to. So to keep it going the admin kept changing the name of the site and using different links. However, everything they did finally failed but some of the true blue users like me stayed to the bitter end. I do not remember what the site was called from the very beginning but I know it changed at one time to World Famous Writers and then to Elite Writers and that was where it all finally ended.
There was this user in Bubblews who would buy views in thousands. This was reported but the Site did not take notice. Such users kill Sites.
I was not aware of that. It is not good.
Abusing is the prerogative of users with no conscience.
The line what you said
. I’m going to make the “gravy” for my potatoes while I can. “
I Read that stuff in forumcoin lol
But I have really NO idea what its Means???
That means I will use any means to earn (lol)
That is exactly what happened with Bubblews They ignored reports on spamming and other stuff.
When Bubblews moved to Sanfrancisco I knew it was the end, their running costs quadrupled, from where they started up. Any American will tell you, that city ain’t cheap, especially in the bay area.
I was watching it going down.