A Tribute to the Hubbers who have gone.
Many formerly active hubbers have stopped or greatly reduced their posting in these forums for a variety of reasons.
Please say a few words of appreciation to the departed or departing who have made you smile, or helped you out with their advice and experience here at Hub Pages.
I'll start off by thanking Mark Knowles and Misha.
These guys were two of the first people I encountered at Hub Pages, and I have enjoyed a lot of discussions, repartee, and sometimes arguments with them.
All the best Mark and Misha.
Fair Winds.
Your right Eric it will not be the same now some of the big names have gone. Mark and Misha were great hubbers, and added great presence to the forums, now Mark has gone who is going to bash the religious forums on a daily basis.(lol) Who knew more than Misha about SEO???
I also miss Blondespoet she made me laugh on a daily basis, we all have our own favorites, its sad they they have left, I know Mark and he told me he didn't want to leave but was forced into a situation needing to alter all his accounts which was basically just too much work. Let's hope the work HP's is doing really does have a positive effect on Google and they may come back.
Who would bet against them coming back and saying they made a $1 million while they were away, and it was all part of their master plan.R.I.P. Lxxy.
waynet, I hope you come back to share your ebooks when you get them all completed. I have enjoyed your work abundantly. Thanks for your help with the little motivational things here and there. I will miss you.
HP is just another writing site, a drop in the bucket in the sea we call the net. You could spend your whole life crying about every site that changes rules or how they do things.
The smart ones just get going and get doing something else. Why does anyone take anything here personally? HP is a money making business, that's it, just like all the other thousands out there.
If you join a site and it goes downhill or changes to a point you don't like, you leave and go on to the next. It's their site, they can do whatever they want.
Same as you can. Don't waste your time arguing with them or crying to them. If you don't think it's worth your while to be here, get going and do something more productive, like the ones who have left.
If you think it's worth staying here, do that and keep doing what you want. This is one site in a big world out there, don't take any site or forum on the net too close to heart. It's all about money, simple as that.That's on a need to know basis and you have no need to know.
Oh Dear.
I've just realised that something I said could possibly interpreted as a personal attack.
Don't worry contacting HP.
I'll save you the trouble, and go and report myself!
Thought you' like to know Eric, I got done for the word drongo when one of the religiously insane reported it.
Evidently it is abuse in "American"
There Is No Oblivion.
Just like any popular forum there are the experts and those seeking the experts. If you spend enough time on any forum you will be able to pick out the helpful against then not so helpful. It's true even here at HP. We spend a lot of time here building on our reputation, offering advice, sharing tips and tricks (at least we use to) and our activity built trust. The same thing happens on WF and DP but if you pop in once in a great moon then how do you know who to trust?
I stay active on all of those forums, not so much on r10.net, because I want to stay on top of the latest trends and keep my online "empire" growing and not become stagent.
As for the "old guard" leaving HP or becoming less active to recoup some losses, how can anyone blame them? We do this mostly for 2 reasons, first to make money, second to have fun. Panda screwed us on the first, and you already know who is screwing us on the second.
- Home Girlposted 12 years ago
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Agree with you totally, and yes, people are 'taking the money making hubs away', not to 'cut off their noses to spite their faces', but because they can make more from these articles on other sites. We are getting the 'community atmosphere' elsewhere, and we are seeing our income coming back from Adsense on these sites. I miss the 'old days' too, when Hubpages was so much fun and a great community. I just can't see this coming back
The only reason most of the Hubbers who were formerly active here still visit, is either because they want to offer support and other options to those who start to realise how frustrated they are becoming here, they want to check in on their friends to support them if they too become annoyed with their treatment, or they visit in order to remove their own Hubs elsewhere.
I very much doubt these often 'former' Hubbers, are watching to see if Hubpages suddenly regains a high placing in Google so they can return and try to make money here. They have already found sites where they can do this now without the wait!It may not appear to be a good reason on the surface, but if HP can treat their writers the way they have been and still make money from their work, they have no reason to change their view. Removing high performing hubs, especially if they can do as well or better elsewhere, sends a clear message that is likely to be heard.
I've been watching the forum here for the last few weeks, and I've seen quite a few people raise concerns that were either rudely shot down or completely disregarded. It's a noble goal to try to affect positive change, but lately, attempting it in these forums is akin to:
Well said, Sunforged.
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