If you see a post like you may have yesterday, please navigate to somewhere or do whatever is easiest to let me know.
What am I referring to? WordPress added an option, I guess, to allow the Schwarzs, Numbs and the Wrights and whoever else to just wring a little bit more out of everyone. If you know me, you know I *hate* that mentality.
It created another radio button to click at the end of creating the post, and will with this one, to get people like me to perhaps think about limiting posts to paying subscribers only, and of course, that would lead to setting up some kind of payment system. Who knows, maybe WordPress would get a cut of that.
I’m fairly sure more than one person got notification of a post and then got to the front page to see a bogus message that “this post is for subscribers only”, even if you were a subscriber. I got the same message and then someone sent me an email to let me know it was there. I fixed it. Now there are three options – and I think this tailored nonsense to divide the haves and the have nots is a real pain in the cheeks. It reminds me of a Ron White joke “Let me tell you what I’m looking for in a tree”.
Whatever the case, if I ever do sell something, it will be tools, but at this point, i don’t do that. Ron White’s looking for a tree that shows that it’s alive by having leaves. I’m just looking to pay the annual cost to have a site and then post messages that are readable by everyone. Period.
This could lead to some kind of longer discussion, because I can never leave anything alone, but it does remind me of the VHS era to DVD era and such where folks who didn’t have a full book of work would supplement income. I think they probably haven’t adapted that well to the youtube and other era where the Wrights and the Numbs pretend to be accomplished (that’s funny) and the wringing is done by sponsorships, patreon or revenue reference links and pretending that somehow the topic is of interest for some reason other than to create this multi-faceted “up yours” hands out mentality that we used to call e-begging. That leaves behind those who wrote magazine articles, issued DVDs and had site instruction that people would’ve traveled to, resorting to posting youtube videos and linking their own plans or something that you can find for free these days, but trying to sell such a link as if it were the days when we’d pay $15 for a VHS or DVD.
I haven’t got a suggestion for folks like that – you won’t see me attempting to become a Schwarz or the other guys (who are worse yet), but if you talk to me outside of this blog, you’ll definitely get a head shake if you tell me a lot of people are willing to read Chris Schwarz’s blog and pay a monthly fee.
What little I do know well, I want to be dispensed like water or solvents that flow even easier than water. Maybe I need to get over myself for thinking there are bits in there that people would want to read about, but at least I don’t need to get over myself thinking I have something so great that I will be a turdy little gatekeeper saying “no…you can’t read that unless you’re in my club”.
So, anyway – if you ever see something like this, assume that it results from WordPress adding options I really don’t want to have to work through in the first place – it’ll be fixed. Personally, if I ever get video recommendations or links to a blog to hit a paywall, I pretty much ignore them forever. That part is important to me – you could be misled when you see a screen like that “oh, DW is taking his 75 views and day and jumping the gun to see what he can get out of it”. …………………No way.
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