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Posties not welcomed by PayPerPost

by macewan on February 28, 2008

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Well, I’ve signed up posties.us with PayPerPost to test them as an advertising platform and after a couple of posties took our money we were censored once again. So… let’s get this straight.

  1. They censor their “community forum”
  2. They censor the forum for posties by posties by not allowing they to advertise on the network.

They do not want critics in any form. Hrm, so how do they hope to improve? A single survey will be used to help move this organization forward? Overwhelmingly they miss all chances to embrace the posties of the world. How is a company that “generates buzz” going to appear to new posties or advertisers if they try to silence buzz about them? Curiously pathetic. I expected more.

My guess? They’ll delete the old forums in favor of a brand new one! Look at the pretty colors. Izea, you can’t succeed as a company if you fear feedback. Ignoring calls for help, valid complaints of zero opportunities by all the posties who you helped lose their blog’s page rank and then either locking threads or flat out altering the text of posts sure shows your ability to generate buzz. At every point along the way you slap posties around telling them things will be better soon enough.

Then when the posties leave your forum to create a forum for posties by posties you freak on us. The forum for posties by posties isn’t even used to slam PayPerPost or Izea. That forum simply allows people to talk freely without fear of having the conversation censored. Guess what happened as a result? You joined and thanked us for good suggestions only then telling us that we, the posties, are not welcomed on your advertising network. What sort of Interetarded thinking is that?

Posties gave posties something they wanted desperately from the PayPerPost network - opportunity. Shame on you for taking money out of their pockets. Izea took the Google Page Rank of blogs and then turns around to take money out of their pockets again by not allowing posties.us to advertise. Does anyone else feel like you’re taking part of a filmed episode of Fucked Company?

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PayPerPost forum dives as posties.us jumps

by macewan on February 22, 2008

Many of the folks signing on with the posties.us forum say their afraid to use their real names. They worry about retaliation from the Izea mods on the other boards. I can tell you that the day the site went live traffic to the Izea boards sank as the posties.us traffic jumped. Following the board with twitter.

macewan posties.us is an alternative forum for PayPerPost Posties to address issues with opportunities available at Izea. www.posties.us
macewan posties.us alexa at 540,248
macewan posties.us alexa at 434,220


Alexa Rank graph for posties.us and boards.payperpost.com

Censorship
Cass locks another thread discussing posties.usTheir mods have now begun removing links from within postings to scrub the mention of posties.us. They directly insult me saying the board is mine. A tool meant to bash PayPerPost or Izea. Yet at any given time I see more folks on the posties board talking openly than on the “official” PayPerPost system. There is no Izea bashing. There are no thread locks by mods to silence people. What you will find is a board for posties by posties. A break in the closed community discussions controlled by the whims of rouge mods.

PayPerPost Mod in action

People join for that very reason. Let your voice be heard - join posties.us

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