This section will provide my “hub links” from a community site @ HubPages.com. It is a site that allows people to publish articles about nearly any subject, as long as it is not promoting pornography, gambling, being defamatory and other similar fun stuff (ha-ha!). Other than those obvious exceptions, you can pretty much write about anything.
The drawback from sites like this, is the sad reality that many people are just typing about random stuff (whether knowledgeable or not) in hopes they’ll get their ads clicked – to make a little spare change. We all want to make money, but it shouldn’t degrade quality……hell, it should enhance quality, at least you’d think so. But, that is not always the case.
Anyway, it is overall an excellent community site and one could always use it as a springboard to dive into some freelance writing work in the future or maybe even come up with some other ideas for a possible steady stream of income. If all else, you can hone up your writing skills and just have some fun. At the time I’m writing this, the Ad Revenue split was 60/40 in your favor. Not bad, but since you do all the writing, 70/30 would have been an optimal balance since being on their site helps bring exposure/traffic. All in all, this site gets 2 thumbs up.
Update:
Originally on this page, I had several links to my “hubs” that I wrote @ HubPages. Well, it seems that my account, actually both of my accounts, have been nullified on their site – due to forum issues, getting banned too many times (5 times between both accounts), circumventing a banning with an additional profile, and so on. Basically, they have banned me from the forums and the site (except for my admin panel – so I can move my work to my sites) and have unpublished all of my articles. This sucks, since I thought it was a good site, well, except for the cry babies and sissy pansies that are often found within their forums. So, I changed the name to this blog page to “HubPages – The Good, Bad, & Ugly…” LOL!
So, since I now have about 38 new “hubs” and/or articles/pages to spread out over some of my other websites & blogs, I thought I would go ahead and add a couple hub-related entries on this page. Hell, they actually contrast each other, since one is me ranting about the forums (that place can get ugly) and the other is where I’m trying to build up the site, in a good way… Ha-ha! Anyway, I’ll drop them down below:
HubPages’ forums, tantrums, and the big banned theory…
I decided to change it up a bit, the other day. I felt a need to be unproductive, so I decided to have a little fun in the HubPages’ forums……
I was nice to some people, insulting to others, mocked & jeered a many humanoid, and overall, was just having fun while trying to spark comments and put certain people into deeper thoughts on certain matters. With that being said, I could have possibly provoked others into tantrums and disgruntled the sensitive. But to me, it was all jovial play, though, and nothing more. LOL!
I’m not a troll, by the way. I get so tired of hearing about internet trolls. It is not my fault that some of these people suffer from minuscule genitalia and have nothing else better to do with their life. Anyway, I was just breaking the monotony, finally had some free time at hand, a few extra beers, and I dived into this land of opinionated warfare.
The results: I made a couple fans, pissed some people off, I had a humorous time with others, and I got banned for 3 days! Ha-ha!
Was it productive after all? Sure it was. I learned a few things, while being disappointed at the end result. One of the main things I discovered, besides how sensitive some people are (already knew that one), is that you can find loads of new topics to write about, if desired, from forum debates.
I remember when I first read my e-mail from the staff, the other day, that mentioned how I was banned for 3 days for “personal attacks.” I couldn’t stop laughing for the first couple of minutes, then, it started to make me mad. “Personal attacks”…really? Man, some people take forums way too seriously. I figure some candy-coated, precious individual(s) flagged me, or perhaps I insulted the wrong pseudo-intellectual…it is hard to say. I don’t know these people, and I was using the forum for entertainment purposes only.
Side note: The forum is best to be used for informational purposes, and especially site-related topics…but I wasn’t recently looking for info on there, now was I?
Okay, here is what I don’t understand and this is why I think it sucks: How in the HELL, for example, can you have forum topics within ‘Religion’ and ‘Politics’ and expect it to be an organized discussion all the time? Get real! How can either one of those two categories be educational or informative? Give me a break! If you think Political Correctness (I detest those terms) exists in the “real” world, then your civil rights will always be getting stepped on. If it wasn’t for politics and the Judicial branch, there wouldn’t be a such thing as “politically correct.” What is that, anyway? Ain’t that were it means to lie to your face so I won’t violate some ‘code of conduct’ policy. Doesn’t P.C. mean to pretend to like someone although you’re thinking opposite of what you’re telling them? I don’t know much about politics, for that matter, other than it causes crazed lunatics to come out of the woodwork with all-knowing BS and baloney. It puts many a person into temper-tantrums, and religion debates aren’t much different, either. In fact, religious debates are probably even more inclined at becoming overly emotional and ridiculous.
I’m writing this poppycock today, not to really complain about the “big banned theory” of forum evolution, but to say “thank you” to who ever flagged me the other day. I was wasting too much time making a mockery out of some of these innocent, civil-right crying creatures with struggling cognitive functions. If you want to call that “personal attacks”…fine. I thought ‘attack’ meant something else besides cyber-geek insults from my mentally challenged self. Ha-ha!
That reminds me: I don’t mind a bit if someone insults me, as you don’t have to ever worry about getting “flagged” from my ‘comment field’ or whatever. Since we have AdSense ads on our hubs, we need to chill on the profanity (just use asterisks while you insult me) and I’ll return the favor. But, other than that, I’m game for disagreements because I believe in that wonderful thing called “freedom of speech!”
This is another thing I don’t understand about the forum complaints & freakish forum flagging flanks: Why is it, that some outsider can go into a forum thread that is started by someone else, and flag/report one or more of the debaters? I think the one who posts the thread should be the only one besides HubPages’ staff, that can flag a commenting cog.
I did, however, start to do a farcical hub on this subject, and was going to title it “How to properly get banned on HubPages’ Forums”…but after thinking about it, I changed my mind. Why should I acknowledge a joke with a joke. If you’re sensitive to people disagreeing with your righteous self, you might find forums offensive – since some people seem to claim that they are always free from ever being wrong. Even those religious folks get a little livid at times, ha-ha! Then again, maybe it is not fair for me to say these things, as I must obviously be mentally disturbed and probably come from a dysfunctional family of some sorts, LOL!
All jokes momentarily set aside: Thanks for banning me for 3 days, as I’ll have to think twice about re-entering the debatable forums. I’d hate to step on any toes, ya know. Besides, regardless of the entertainment and site info that is often found on forum threads, it is not usually a very productive place to hang out, lurk, dwell, or whatever. I also think, they need a new forum category called “devil’s playground.” That way, the only way you get banned is if you actually flag someone. Ha-ha! Just kidding! I guess you can scratch that last statement, since it wasn’t very politically or hubitically correct.
Yeah, it is all fun and games, right? Now, quit reading this crap and go out there and make us some damned money!
LOL! Ha-ha! LOL!
The contrast:
How to help keep ‘HubPages’ an ‘Authority Site’
As many newcomers are on the rise, mostly interested in this “freelance writing” stuff, with their main motive being directed towards earning money with words, much verbiage is often left as residual, empty enunciations.
Hey, we all have to start out somewhere, and HubPages is an excellent platform to use as a springboard for future endeavors to betterment, or maybe to be used as a rhetorician’s haven with pay, et cetera.
But, to help make or keep HubPages an “authority site” on the web, especially in Google’s algorithm, we (as a whole) need to keep striving for excellence.
We have a lot of great writers here; some have come and gone and some have even come back from being gone, while the dedicated ones seem to always stay with the team, which is good…all while many upcoming, prolific newbies are providing newfangled works to the site; this is also great.
But there is one concern that creeps into my mind, when I see people that solely write for money and money alone; this can have the same ramifications that we often see taint the web. You know what I’m saying: typing senseless babble in hopes to getting an Ad clicked or typing about things they have no experience or knowledge about…yeah, it is mere poppycock, nonsense, and/or empty writing.
Don’t get me wrong, for it’s totally fine and actually normal to try to make money, anywhere – via online or offline. But, when your quality of work diminishes in the process, you have a problem; and we got a vexation.
I know from past experiences, as quaint as it may sound to some, when you ‘quit thinking’ about making money and just let your writing skills, talents (or whatever) flow freely without the inhibitions of analyzing your potential entrepreneurial succession, acceptance, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) worries, keywords, backlinks, Search Rank, and whatnot, you’ll experience the most wonderful thing that you can contribute to the world wide web…and that being ‘originality’…
Yes, those nice, lengthy, utter, original words you type through experience or personal knowledge and know-how…is what I mean by “originality.” THAT, is what helps maintain HubPages’ status as an authority on the web, not the mechanical SEO jargon that you often hear about.
Don’t worry, if you put the effort in and you’re good at what you do, the money will be there. But, if you’re new to this with no prior experience, the first thing you need to do is quit thinking about immediate success because it will only belittle your works and you may potentially end up looking like a spamming, ad-pushing, low-grade imbecilic being or perhaps, you may quit prematurely without truly giving yourself a shot at success; you’re better than that!
If you’re interested but not familiar with grammatical fluency, articulation or basic rhetoric, and you still want to make that money, it may be better or wiser to simply practice and hone up your skills first – before diving in. There are many free blogging services, blogger.com, wordpress.com, etc., that would be a great tool for exercising your grammatical expressions.
Always pay attention to your dictions, try to learn new words, and so on. I’m not saying you have to rhyme & chime every syllable out like some ancient philosopher (hmm, I’ve tried that before), but with practice…everybody gets better. And hopefully, in no time at all, you’ll be on your way to the freelancing window of opportunity, as many people here will agree with me, HubPages is an excellent community to gyrate around – in hopes to getting paid for what you do, for what you donate, and for what you give back.
A few more things, that will also help this site: If you’re doing an article over something that involves resources from other sources, please make sure they are reliable and correct. I’ve seen many errors thus far, mainly because the writers had no experience in what they were saying; not good. Anyway, try to use multiple sources and compare notes; if it is suspect for error, stumble along into something else. To rid yourself from this, follow my philosophy of “the best facts are from experience.” Roughly translated, there is no better truth than what you have learned from experience – with or without 3rd party data or scientific info or trivial hogwash.
The best advice for new, upcoming writers @ HubPages: Be original; take part in the community; make comments and ask questions – if needed, do your homework, research thoroughly when in doubt, and be generous; don’t forget to have a fun time; good luck with the revenue, and lets all try to keep this site high-quality and spam free. Thanks……
Just another scribe, expressing with grammatical impressions.
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