Why I'm glad that most of the stuff I posted on Bubblews was (pretty) rubbish

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It's gone at last. Like a sad old pet that's got smelly and incontinent and really is on its last legs, Bubblews has been 'put to sleep'. That's that, gone, done and dusted. I'm not surprised. In fact the only surprise is that it limped on for the last year. We were all played for fools and should probably have known better. Their refusal to bring down the $50 redemption limit told us there was no money in the bank. And yet so many kept going to push that button - myself included. When they refused to pay the money we'd already redeemed last year, I deleted all my posts from pre 11/11/14. I kept copies of the ones I didn't want to lose and euthanised the rest. Once it became clear that my $50 redemption from this summer had gone into Arvind Dixit's pocket, I started deleting the rest. What I found was that almost everything I wrote in the last year was disposable and unimportant to me. I kept maybe one post in a hundred and just zapped the rest. I know I was writing for that 50 dollar target and not because my heart was in it. I wrote because I wasn't willing to let Arvind take the $32 I had at the end of last year. Foolishly I let him take $50 instead and waste a big chunk of my time. On Bubblews we could write insightful and well considered posts or we could tell the readership what we had for breakfast - it made no difference to the money you earned. So most of us wrote stuff we weren't especially proud of. My user name there was not the one I use elsewhere because I never expected to be proud of my Bubblews posts. I wasn't willing to risk my 'good name' on a site that I didn't trust and I'm glad I wasn't. Oddly though, myLot is very different. I don't want to post hit and run rubbish over here. I care about how much response I get, I think carefully about my titles and my opening lines. I try to ensure that I write something that people COULD respond to. I'm not willing to just post disposable 'fast opinion' and then let it sink into oblivion. So apologies to all who are sick of posts about that other site but I for one am glad to see it gone. No more waiting to see if maybe, just maybe they'll one day have the decency to pay. I wrote a reply to one of the many "We're paying as fast as we can" mails and told them that Karma will bite them on the bum. So no 'rest in peace' from me to Arvind and his gang. Instead I'd say 'Grow up, behave this adults and stop messing in other people's lives'. They should be ashamed of themselves.