Scarform’s Blog

Oct 29, 20070

Want to get out of debt? It’s called a J-O…

I’m not going to fly off the handle on some impossibly long rant, but I will say this: attempting to monetize your blog will not (I repeat) will not get you out of debt faster than just getting out of your house, walking down the street, entering the first fast-food restaurant you find, and filling out:

an application.

A job with a steady paycheck every 2 weeks (or every week, depending) will trump a job that you have to wait up to a month for payout on a single post.

There’s nothing wrong with monetizing your site through programs like PayPerPost, ReviewMe, Blogsvertise, or the like. But joining these programs without a plan for your blog, a solid readership, good Alexa/Google/etc. scoring, and the like with the idea that it is going to amazingly solve all of your debt problems will only leave you with 2 things: more debt, and disappointment.

Oct 19, 20072

PPP: For Shame.

Let me start this post off by stating I will never damage the integrity of this blog. Let me also state that this is the first time that a post that I have submitted has ever been rejected due to this sort of “violation”:

Interim Posts. Your last non Opportunity-related post must have been within the 7 days immediately preceding your Opportunity-related post. After any break in blog activity of 7+ days, interim posts, that is, posts between Opportunity-related posts, submitted on the same day as your paid Opportunity-related posts will not count towards this requirement.

Private Posts. Interim posts must not be labeled “Private” or locked out. Interim posts must also be of a reasonable length, at least one paragraph, 3-5 sentences. If your Blog’s interim posts lack quality PayPerPost may terminate your account.

The post in question has bee removed, the post in question for the violation being The Linking Game (October 8th 2007).

“What is the linking game anyway?’ you may ask. More or less, it’s just a post containing links to various points of interest on the internet - stories that may have grabbed my attention, videos that may have made me laugh. Pretty random things with no apparent reason or rhyme (other than that they exist and they were of some sort of interest at the time of publication of the post itself).”

That’s what the Linking Game is, I’m afraid. A post containing… links.

I’m sorry to inform anybody that this is not a page rank builder for products that nobody will ever buy in their lifetime. This is a blog, and we write about interesting things around here.

The Sponsored Post that “violated” their TOS has been deleted and removed from the Opp list.

Let me also point out that it took them a full half month to even get to that post and tell me that it was rejected. I don’t know anybody that is making any real money with Payperpost as every blog that seems to be “the blog of the day” is just another splog, each post containing comments, spelling and grammatical errors out the ares, and poorly written interem posts, not to mention a 50/50 concoction of poorly written regular posts and poorly written sponsored posts.

Not to mention that most of them don’t even follow TOS, writing 2 sometimes 3 Paid poss before they even write a regular post.

I’m losing my faith in you, Payperpost. Are those that said you would fail going to be proven right?

Sep 24, 20070

I totally agree…

I totally agree to “get the violence off the ice” and stop the Canadian Seal hunt but I think the message would get across in a more timely fashion if there more of this:

and less of this:

I know where fur comes from - it comes from the bloody carcasses of animals that are bludgeoned to death. However, if you want to get the message across, more of this:

and less of this:

(Check out PETAs new campaign: Animals Used for Clothing. Much more effective, and yet…)

Not really.

Aug 23, 20070

Pop your fucking collar!

because there’s nothing more gangster than looking like an MTV Bitch. So instead of putting your collar up (and looking like a fucking moron) put your damn collar down and stop doing everything a sell-out with a microphone tells you.

Jul 20, 20070

Jury convicts suspect in highway patrolman’s death

The story is as follows: man commits crime and while driving to arrest man, patrolman dies. Man, who had nothing to do with patrolman’s death, gets convicted in patrolman’s death.

Equally asinine yet necessary example: I break into someone’s house. The police officer who is on his way to arrest me has a sudden un-explained heart attack. I am convicted of murder.

Or how about: Somebody commits a crime and while in the middle of doing their job, a police officer gets killed in a completely unrelated incident.

Either way, none of this makes sense. It’s all bullshit.

No matter what happens, the police officers involved are doing their job. They know the risks of doing their job. It’s not a tickling contest - it’s a job that involves the use of firearms, and the use of deadly force if necessary.

Should this man be convicted because one police officer couldn’t do his job? If my cab driver doesn’t know the directions to where he is supposed to take me, does he get a tip for driving me around for thirty unnecessary minutes while he gets lost? If a cook can’t cook, do we blame the person for whom they’re preparing the meal? If a fire burns down a house and the fire department on hand doesn’t know a thing about putting out flames, do we blame the home-owner for the fact that the FD didn’t know what the fuck they were doing?

So why should we blame someone for a completely unrelated incident other than the fact that the officer was doing nothing more than his job?

Is Missouri just filled with complete morons?

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