The Town Square

Hi, I recently read the news that you could sell your stories. Does this mean that once sold, your stories could be used by others to publish, or is it a faster way of making ones earnings here?

 

 

I am allowed 50 photographs, but I like to add a specific photo for each blog, and often I want

to add more. I thought at one time I read there is a way to cut or paste but this hasn't been

successful for me. Does anybody know how to get around this system? Thanks. Winged.

Learning something new can be a bit frustrating at first. But once you learn your way around, you wonder what the big deal ever was.

I finally fill in all the fields for the first page in the process and try to continue and I get an error saying:

 

I have done so repeatedly with the same result.

Some folks scatter emoticons and nonsequiteurs in the comments sections of many blogs, apparently trying to attract more attention to their own material, but not paying attention the blogs they drop these little tidbits upon.

This really nettles some people, and I sympathize, but personally I just don't react to these offerings most of the time and it stays within reasonable bounds.

And if I don't like a comment or think it needs personal attention, I'd remove it and use my Blogit-linked email account to answer them personally. No huhu.

         Life Without You

I begged you on hands and knees to
try to live with me in peace, seem war
stayed on your mind, so here's the reasons
why I'm leaving you behind

I need space to think, to express myself
without your doubt

Without - your eyes upon my thoughts
Without - your dagger looks and pouts
Without - the love/hate you feel for me

Without - having to ask what do you want
to eat
Without - being the rug under your feet
Without - taking your punches mentally

 

Without - wishing for the love I've never had
Without - hearing you're sorry, over and over
again
Without - You pretending to be my friend
Without - the jealousy I feel you have
although every day I give my best

Without - the evil you expose
Without - the weakness you show
Without - the non - support you show
for my talents each day

Without responding to your negative ways
Without - the fear of being alone, I'm at peace
when your gone

Without - feeling I've wasted so many years
Without - wishing I had a penny for each tear

For me there's something you can do, give me
back my " Life Without You "

Poet: Tina Marie Clark
@2007

Whether we agree or not Blogit is not a democracy,it is a privately owned business.As such they get to make up the rules,and rules are rules.All this negativity is bringing everyone else down.If you don't like the way they run things,start your own business.

By being secretive about its banning of bloggers, Blogit has subjected itself to the charge of being arbitrary and capricious.  This can be fatal for a business with its model.

It should be clear that Blogit does not simply provide a service or product that a customer simply buys without any involvement in the manufacturing process.  Rather, it is a literary magazine without the attractive hard copy for authors to pass around, but with more involvement of authors in determining their compensation.  Editorial direction is replaced, in theory, by subscription along the lines suggested in the late 19th century by Edward Bellamy in "Looking Backward".  This would work fine except that Blogit has set itself up as prosecutor, judge and jury to deal with what it equates with criminal offenses.  In so doing, it has lost all credibility.  In our society, whether someone has committed such offenses is determined by an open trial with a jury of one's peers.  That has credibility and Blogit suffers from the comparison.  As such, their bannings are and have been viewed as "witch hunts". 

 

From the standpoint of an author whose compensation is based upon readership, this is very troublesome.  Irrespective of whether they feel themselves likely proclaimed a witch or warlock, they have readers that do or have, readers who also read authors that do or have and so on.  We are already starting to see that with the .Dave. banning.  Some authors and readers say they are leaving and others will leave without saying so.  Those of us who remain have to try to scrounge around for new readers but, with a bad taste in our mouths about arbitrary bannings, are not inclined to go outside Blogit to bring new readers in.  Many of us, myself included, will eventually find that our compensation no longer supports our contributions to this magazine.  As we leave, the product will suffer and the rest of the customers will also leave.

And that is pretty much the definition of "bad business".

Hello everyone, my visits to Blogit have been a bit patchy recently; in the meantime someone I had come to appreciate, Dave, was banned, and from browsing around I see that I am not the only one sorry to see him go. My question is, does Dave now have a blog elsewhere? If any of you reading this, know where, please feel free to email me the details, it would be nice to read him again. And, this has also made me anxious about loosing my posts!  What does actually happen to one's postings when the account is deleted? Do they remain in place, in an inacrtive page, or are they deleted too?

"As in real life, activities such as verbal assault, name-calling, and harassment -- including racial, religious and sexual harassment -- carry penalties. For example, it is not acceptable to use profanity, vulgarity or hate speech against another member. Penalties may include account suspension or termination, and a report to the proper authorities if warranted. To learn more about verbal abuse and its impact on others, please see the Verbal/Emotional Abuse page on Suite 101 and the psychological abuse directory on Google."