Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Skill Pages Spamming my Inbox

Hi all,
I had not been doing very good, since long time now. I could not, login every day, as I used to. I check mails regularly and, reply to comments, lest carry on. I observed my inbox was full of, mails from Skill Pages, and all of them were about new opportunities, which they thought matched my criteria. But, the problem with the links continued,(they never opened up. Did any one have issues with Chrome or is it Skill Pages??) I never even bothered to try and click link, hence forth.
Opportunities are often the same old ones, and mailed at such a frequency, my inbox simply gets spammed, I have marked them spam and created a filter, to be safe, and Thank God! the frequency of mails, dropped.(May be the mail delivery system, notifies, skillpages, where the mails have landed, there is such a software these days, but, i never thought SkillPages was technically so advanced.)
I never got a chance to, use skill Pages again, cause of my fragile state. I am writing this post, with difficulty, and to know, if there were people, who had similar experience, like mine. I would welcome people, to post their experience, when posting, or applying for an opportunity at this website, also some information on, web browser would be great help, I think, I am having issues with my browser(I cant even reply comments in my blog again, fishy aint it??).

Monday, October 15, 2012

About iWriter Writers Getting good Ratings and Comments

Hello, I had an anonymous reader, to my blog, who commented about, approval rates, and gave a short guidance advice, about how to choose a requester. I thank the anonymous reader, but at the same time, I would like to mention, that I do have continuous writing projects on daily basis, where, my articles are not rejected, at this rate, I am not telling there are no rejections at all, or suggestions for corrections at all, it is that, I just got bored of writing their at iWriter. I never liked, the interface, in the first place.
And it is for the anonymous reader, who left an advice for me, I have indeed, written a post, where, one needs to watch out for bad requesters, on iWriter. In case, you haven't had the time to read it, click the link given above.
I do take all precautions before choosing a requester, it is that, when there is no regular writing work, and I am bored, I take up, writing at these websites, but I found, that iWriter is not good for those, writers, who take up writing projects, occasionally, on their website.
If you can pose as a requester and write an article at the same time, you can get to know many things, about the website's performance. In fact I see many of them try to test the website this way. They mention in the subject, not to write, that they will reject, have you ever seen such an assignment, it is that these are being tested for website's performance and glitches in it.
I have moved on, from using iWriter, but I am getting many comments and responses from writers, (one from India, who commented, he is enjoying good, requesters there, and a good promotion to premium writer too), having had, good experience there.
I did not write any post, on iWriter, since very long, because i had stopped using it. Now that, I had two of my readers, comment that they had, good experience, there, I would like to inform the same to others, wary of joining iWriter.
It is a good place to practice writing, as there is no fee to join or get paid. But be prepared to pay, a minimal fee, when transferring the money during cashing out, and they charge it very cleverly. It is not known until, one is following their earnings very closely. But, They do deserve such nominal fee for maintaining such huge real time database of articles online.
Just curious, Can you imagine, how many articles iWriter might be having, if they, give it to spun machines? This idea, gave me creeps, I simply stopped writing articles for iWriter, after that.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Gifties on Toluna Seem Suspicious

I was all enthusiasm, after I had found, my vouchers were safe, and sound, even though, I hadn't redeemed them at Toluna, since very long time. Now there is a catch with points earned at Toluna and my vouchers are not visible :(
Points earned expire after 16 months, finally found this in, FAQ section, not good old tutorial. It is very bad indeed. This will completely snatch away chance of earning slowly, via, daily polls, than qualified surveys. Not everybody is qualified for a survey, and they may have to earn points, by choosing sponsored surveys, which are short and give good points. I do not qualify for half the surveys, and if I am screened out, I get a prize ticket entry, which is useless, for these are a way to lure people to lose their points.
Now Gifties are just that, a lure, but need few hundreds of points. It is no surprise people are giving away Gifties to each other. With, points expiring so soon, one may think they may get lucky to get a gift, if they send the same to others. This sounds ridiculous idea, and is a way to take away points earned in daily sponsored polls.
Now, I must say, I completely lost interest in Toluna again. I could not even find my vouchers, (due to glitch with data loading or may be they expired. They did not even inform me, if they were being deleted because they expired. As far as, I remember, the voucher expired by April 2013). Did you have similar experience at Toluna. Share Yours with me.