Getting angrier by the minute

Posted by stuart as

I’ve been doing a bit of thinking this morning about my last post, about payperpost and disclosure, and have been getting angrier and angrier.

Those who have been reading this blog for a while will know that I fought pretty hard over my right to use paid posts anywhere I like. I battled over the disclosure issue, and lost readers over the issue.

Now payperpost has shat on those who battled for them from a great height. I wrote in my previous post about payperpost re-writing history, suggesting that they had always encouraged disclosure, now I’ve managed to find my post on the issue when payperpost first started up. In part, it said this:

” Posts must not include any statements or titles indicating that the Posts are being made by a PayPerPost Blogger”

Now there was a lot of discussion about disclosure, and the credibility of bloggers writing for the money when payperpost was launched, and it seems that these fears have been borne out.

If I accept the payperpost terms of use, I can write a post about a product, be paid for it, but not disclose the fact that I am being paid.

I’m not sure this is a good thing. Do you?

Now we get payperpost telling us that they’ve always encouraged disclosure? Gimme a furking break!