Changes in Boddunan

True, this makes website less competitive with others. Some websites are sharing revenue gained by your article or blog. So paying only 5 - 10 for a 700 or above article is not a wise step. This site should encourage writers to post more and more articles. 

I agree with both you and MG Singh.  lot has to be done to make this site Competitive. We had been discussing about a change that's needed for this site for quite some time. Maveric is regularly visiting this site. Moderators too supported the members proposals for a Change.Now, its time to take a decision by the Administrator. Positive changes are the need of the hour.

Yeah i too agree with you all. 

And please moderator and admin please unblock my id please, i am really sorry for my deed please unblock my id please, i got my lesson please now you pardon me please 

Maybe editors are busy and admin is not regular on the site.

aman wrote:

Yeah i too agree with you all. 

And please moderator and admin please unblock my id please, i am really sorry for my deed please unblock my id please, i got my lesson please now you pardon me please 

 

This is members like you who have finished this site. I wish your account is blocked forever. This is not for the first time your account is blocked and you are begging around but as soon as you account is unblocked you forget everything. I wonder how a member like you still exist on this site. 

I agree with @MGSingh. Payments paid are not even peanuts. It seems there is a desire to make the site unattractive. Payments should be as was earlier. These days ads are much more and payment are going down. Very surprising. Spmething is wrong some where.

Yes very true high payment makes a great encouragement to the members who like to write articles on this site. I think minimum payment for a single article should be rs20.

Babu saroj wrote:

Yes very true high payment makes a great encouragement to the members who like to write articles on this site. I think minimum payment for a single article should be rs20.

It's a sad state of affairs. I still feel paying R's 5 or 10 is not acceptable . Why not give zero?  I hope site can rise above all this.

Of course any change depends on the admin, however, the pay scale for articles has definitely come down . There may be valid reasons for that to happen. I saw one article earning Rs 2, doesnt make sense really..

It's highly unfair. I don't understand how a site can run successfully when the members become unhappy. It's certainly a matter of concern.

Shampa Sadhya wrote:

It's highly unfair. I don't understand how a site can run successfully when the members become unhappy. It's certainly a matter of concern.

Well written Shampa. A site should not have de-motivated writers

To make a site competitive, the users should be engaged in contests such as best article of the month, best discussion of the week and many more. This attract users to post some nice topics and site will attract more traffic. 

First of all most of the members except a few regulars  are not as active as is expected of them which is bound to affect the site. Some believe in starting discussions only without bothering to even leave a feedback when others respond and disappearing while the regular members are supposed to carry it forward . Admin on his part has been very generous in the past - giving out bonus in addition to cash credits for selected articles during monthly article writing competitions and also revenue share an many other benefits ! This very fact makes me think that there has to be a reason why the rates have come down..

Usha@ the reason is simple. The site really doesn't want any more articles hence this ploy. I have for example cut down on writing articles here.

Well, seeing this thread after a few days has disappointed me even more. I tried to ban a particularly annoying and spamming member but was unable too because it seems now that such action has to be approved by admin who is missing now more so than ever. I am also surprised to read that articles are now getting Rs. 2!!!

Soon one will have to pay for getting articles published and for participation also.

Means of earning of this site is shrinking day after day. Earlier it closed monthly bonus.

Basically, a site starts behaving like this when it wants only to earn money and stop paying writers. Boddunan is a reasonable site and some money is coming to the promoters. He need not cultivate more writers and pay money when he is getting some revenue as it is. This is not farfetched as I will give the example of 2 sites who have acted similarly namely Bukisa.com and Knoji.com. Both sites are doing well but do not accept new articles and just earn on their data bank already published. Boddunan is in a similar boat. 

MG Singh wrote:

Basically, a site starts behaving like this when it wants only to earn money and stop paying writers. Boddunan is a reasonable site and some money is coming to the promoters. He need not cultivate more writers and pay money when he is getting some revenue as it is. This is not farfetched as I will give the example of 2 sites who have acted similarly namely Bukisa.com and Knoji.com. Both sites are doing well but do not accept new articles and just earn on their data bank already published. Boddunan is in a similar boat. 

 

So its not totally surprising that is happening, but the question is, can a site survive for long on existing database without any new inputs????

Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:

MG Singh wrote:

Basically, a site starts behaving like this when it wants only to earn money and stop paying writers. Boddunan is a reasonable site and some money is coming to the promoters. He need not cultivate more writers and pay money when he is getting some revenue as it is. This is not farfetched as I will give the example of 2 sites who have acted similarly namely Bukisa.com and Knoji.com. Both sites are doing well but do not accept new articles and just earn on their data bank already published. Boddunan is in a similar boat. 

 

So its not totally surprising that is happening, but the question is, can a site survive for long on existing database without any new inputs????

 

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