OK. Make them interesting this time...the xomba employees are counting on you.

I figured it out. It's funny because I don't think you're a very good writer from what I've seen here. It's ironic because you're getting way more attention on this xombyte than you deserve. The only reason you got all of this attention is because nick responded to your article.

Let me jump in here, because I think you have gotten the wrong impression, dreah. I find these articles to be a crashing bore and I don't plan on clicking any ads. So, if you're making more money at AC, why don't you just write there and not bother with xomba? I'm not sure how many people are really interested in your earning updates, and I'm not sure how much money you'll be making off of ads for those updates. Wouldn't your time be better spent writing good articles that will make you money at AC?

I guess my reply was a bit longer than Karbon's above, but then I wasn't aware there was a limit on length. Of course, if I'd thought ahead, I could have made my comment into a Xombyte too, and perhaps made a little bit of money off of it...except that people might not see what I had to say to you. So good luck with that tactic..hope you make a killing on it. :) I prefer to address your comments directly. In that other Xombyte you said that writing on Xomba would probably end up making you more, IF your work gets exposure, but 50% of nothing is still nothing. "Xomba will win", but...still got that little dig in there...nice move. Likewise, having your own blog and getting 100% of the Adsense, is the same - 100% of nothing is still nothing. "Exposure" is everything. But what good is "exposure" going to do you now that you've sold your words to this other site? You aren't going to make anything off of it anyway! $1.50 for 1000 reads? What is that? Xomba does not ask or suggest anywhere that we go write articles for other sites in an attempt to steer their writers to Xomba. Yes, they suggest that we add a link back to our Xombytes, and yes they suggest other ways that we might be able to draw readers to our work. But they do not suggest that we do what you are doing by "glorifying" AC. I don't care how you look at it, selling your words for a flat fee, is not a smart business move for any writer, and for someone so bright as you, I don't understand how you can justify it in your mind. I don't mean any disrespect to you. I know that you are a talented writer, and that you are trying to make a living doing so. I don't begrudge you the right to write on as many sites as you care to, or to accept a paltry payment for your work while you try to put food on the table. I have bills to pay too, you know? But I do have the foresight to know that I would like to continue making money off of my work. "Positive reinforcement" to me is not "bonuses" that will never be realized, a bonus that they are free to stop paying to me at any time, and all the while they are making money off of your work? I'm not suggesting that Xomba asks you to leave or runs you off either. In fact I think I said that they can always use more talented writers. But I, for one, don't care to read your "daily updates" on this so-called experiment because you aren't telling us how much time, how many articles, how many words, or what other sites you write for. You aren't giving us any real comparisons. You are jumping in long enough to tell us that you made $134 last week. Even a year would not be long enough to do a "real comparison", and you know that. Unless you were willing to divulge all of the figures and facts to us as proof, I'd still have a hard time believing it. I think you would be very suprised by the amount of "exposure" our work is getting here on Xomba. As I understand it, they are growing in leaps and bounds. I know it's showing in my own page rankings and my own adsense earnings. So when you're 65, and AC is still making money off the work you did today, and you are making nothing, I'm thinking that I'll be kicked back, still collecting earnings from my Xombytes. Like I said, I think you're a talented writer, and I have no hard feelings towards you at all. I'd love it if you stayed and wrote for Xomba more. But if all you write here is about AC and this "non-experiment", I won't be reading any of them. Good luck to you. Lady:P