Postloop...seriously! Is it a friendly site?
By Shavkat
@Shavkat (140051)
Philippines
December 13, 2012 8:55pm CST
I have the feeling of weirdness in this site. It was like communicating with the unknown. The program seems so stagnant to use. Seriously, the manner of grammar level? I don't think there is a perfect grammar. The English language is a complicated in terms of usage? Taking into account the technicality of the rules of usage. What do you think?
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14 responses
@inertia4 (27960)
• United States
22 Dec 12
I have tried PostLoop before. You're right bout the strictness of that site. After I signed up I had to post like 10 posts and they would review them. After like the second one they told me I cannot join. So I gave up on them. I prefer being here in MyLot above all other sites like that.
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
7 Jan 13
Wow inertia that is so unfair I could understand it if I was to try and join but I would not because of the way they want to do things.
Cannot understand why they are that way. Don´t bother about them they will miss someone like you.xxx
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@bhanusb (5709)
• India
14 Dec 12
Hi Shavak,
mylot is a interesting site. I get pleasure to interact with unknown persons. My lot created that scope. As for English it is a foreign language to me. I know I do mistakes in writing English. Thanks to myLot it gives me scope to communicate witht my friends ignoring my mistakes.
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
14 Dec 12
Hiya shavkat,
I am not in Postloop at all but I was in another program or two that felt just like that as you say. Where I come from you would get the feeling and the saying that I would use is is that you feel like you are talking to a brick wall or something like being on a Ghost Ship.
I deleted the two programs and then one of them actually answered me and wanted almost demanded to know why I was deleting my account there.
Was the only answer I had out of them in all that time.
The other program will not even mention wasted way too much time there shavkat was worse than a Ghost Ship.
However if you make money with them then I would stay with them for as long as I could. My English can be below par if I speak Spanish all day long too like spelling and stuff like that.xxx
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
15 Dec 12
Hiya shavkat,
Can you speak Russian? I find that so difficult to learn. I did try to learn a little and I actually learned more from someone is from Moldavia she taught me a few words and I have always remembered those better than a tape.
Spanish is a great language to learn its phonetic so it can ruin your own language in a way so I write in English quite a lot so it is predominant in me.
I am rather loathe to join programs again and find that I am wasting my time it is not so on here and for anyone learning English for as many mistakes that anyone can make we can all understand them.
Generally I review a program if I can and try to find out all about it before joining but even then you can find you have joined another "Ghost Ship" lol.
Have a go at Spanish in a thousand words its great fun does not matter how badly you speak it like me learning Welsh but it was fun while I was learning it to say the least.xxx
@Shavkat (140051)
• Philippines
15 Dec 12
You got the point my friend, the feeling of being a ghost writer. It would also be nice to have the site where we can showcase our different languages or dialects. English language is most commonly used medium, so we need to learn. I just feel being deprive if I was controlled by such limit. I like Spanish language, too bad I didn't learn that in college, it was not included in the syllabus. But I do like learning different languages, I can speak Russian language.
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@sjlskl (3382)
• Singapore
14 Dec 12
I have not tried postloop before but I am guessing it is similar to either irc or social media sites like facebook. If that is the case, then it would be unreasonable to ask for perfect english to be use. This is a communicating tools, not an language learning site afterall.
@aireanna18 (1914)
• United States
14 Dec 12
From what I understand, postloops is a writing site rather than a social media site. They do require you to have good writing skills, which I have seen in previous discussion on PostLoops. If I recall, they make you do so many posts for free before they will start paying you kind of like a test to ensure that you have good writing skills.
Regardless of the site, I do think that we should strive to use good grammar. I think it just comes down to us posting quality writing on any site that we participate. I am not saying that the writing has to be perfect, but it should reflect your best writing efforts. I do like the fact that for the most part we can focus on the content rather than fretting over every little grammar rule here on myLot.
@Pegasus72 (1898)
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14 Dec 12
I think this site could do with an update, but so far I do ok, not like I am here to make a million dollars or anything, but wouldn't that be nice. Ok well gotta go me and my husband are going to see the mid night show of the Hobbit, which was one of my favorite books when I was little.
@ivan88 (193)
• Canada
14 Dec 12
The most difficult part is that it has limits for the messages you can post daily. That sucks. I like mylot much better for the simple reason of unlimited messages. In any topic, you can post as much as you want. At postloop, 5-10 messages at each blog and/or forum. Which IS incredibly stagnating because you have to log out and log in at each different blog/forum. Here, at mylot, it's just posting all the way - no limits, no log in/log out sessions...
@aireanna18 (1914)
• United States
14 Dec 12
Well, I have been curious about how postloops works. I have heard that you really need to be good at English to write on that site. Can you tell me a little about how the site works? Can you make decent earnings and receive a monthly cash out with postloops like you can here on myLot?
@autumndreamer (3185)
• Philippines
19 Dec 12
I got rejected at Postloop twice already. They said I have a decent grammar but I need to say something more, like to engage in conversations smoothly. I hate Postloop.
@celticeagle (167430)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Dec 12
Communicating with the unknown? I guess when you first start on here you do feel a bit strange. The program strange to use? Hmmm. Yes, the English language can become very complex and technical if you let it. Being a writer I guess I just take it for granted and it seems easy for me.
@bestboy19 (5478)
• United States
15 Dec 12
Personally, I enjoy hearing good grammar being spoken. There are too many using bad grammar these days, for example, using the nominative pronoun after a preposition. Prepositions take the objective pronoun.
I want to thank you for introducing me to this site. I signed up yesterday but have not yet heard if I'm accepted.
As far as the English language goes, it may be complicated, but for someone whose first language isn't English, you seem to do a pretty good job with it.
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
5 Jan 13
Hiya Jessi,
Yep they must be counting their pennies by the look of it and I do not feel like joining a place like that if I can help it.
I did join one place and the article I wrote is still earning me something very little but at least I know that someone reads it but not as much as on here. I am English and I do not use perfect English either because I use my dialect where I am from so that does not have perfect grammar far from it.
xxx
@aireanna18 (1914)
• United States
14 Dec 12
Well, I have been curious about postloops, but I have not gotten to checking out this writing site. I have heard that they do require you to be good at English. Although I am good at writing, I do like the fact that here on myLot the writing style is not so technical or rigid. I feel like I can express my thoughts, opinions, and ideas without having to fret over whether or not I have perfectly written my thoughts. I do strive to use good writting skills and proper English, but I do not feel like I have to worry whether or not I have a split infinitive in a sentence or some other type of minor grammatical mistake. Rather, I can focus on the content and being myself. I think that is what I really like about myLot is that it all about having a conversation, sharing with others, and being yourself.
@dbersales (37)
• Philippines
10 Mar 13
I agree with you about the English language, even more so that I am not a native English speaker. And if I have made it to postloop, I see no reason why anybody else can't. I must say that I have taken quite a liking to that site as it is one of my major money-earners. I do not know if the program is stagnant, but from experience it appears to be anything but stagnant. They pay extremely fast. Usually, my request for payment will be approved in a matter of a few hours and you will find your hard-earned cash already transferred to your paypal account. And you can request payment as soon as you earn 100 postloop points (or the equivalent of $5)anytime, every time. Now, how's that for a money-earner?
