Issues on Website: UPDATE
Update on issues affecting the website.
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Are You Having Trouble Logging In?
This morning, I had to jump through several hoops in order to log into the website. I had to answer three different verifications which was annoying and time-consuming. This morning, I had to jump through several hoops in order to log into the website. I had to answer three different verifications which was annoying and time-consuming. If you have had problems logging in recently, please comment here or send me an email.
BindleSnitch Update
Minor update that will not affect site operations.
Warning About Checklist Function
A few words of warning about the Uncategorized Category and a question about going into competition with YouTube.
Housekeeping Notes for Members
About error message, articles without authors, unfinished articles, sports category.
Automated Registration Reinstated
I have reinstated the automatic registration feature, using the two-step process. If the spammers start flooding back again, I will break the link between the two parts of the registration process, after which the actual automatic registration will be sent out manually after I have reviewed the request to block spammers from the site.Â
SpamWar Update 2: I Think We Beat The Scammers
Well, that was easier than I was afraid it would be, even though it took me all day. At least I cooked a decent dinner in the process. Recipe upon request.
Spam War Update: Manual Registration ONLY
The spam battle rages on, The next step in the counterattack and how you can help defeat the forces of evil advertising.
Category Changes & Back End Views
New Categories Included on home page, how to deal with spam, and how to customize your post listings.
Membership Agreement (Terms of Use)
This is the new and revised membership agreement to which you concur when you join BindleSnitch. Note that the first paragraph of each section is a summary of the contents of that section.
Ground Floor Opportunity to Own a Piece of BindleSnitch
This is a ground floor opportunity to own a piece of the revamped and updated version of BindleSnitch.com. We are giving away 98 one-half percent ownership shares of BindleSnitch to the first 98 BindleSnitch members who reach the following milestones:
WRITERS WANTED – INQUIRE WITHIN
BindleSnitch is a collectively-owned, cooperatively managed media platform designed to publish and promote original, member-created content. Think Facebook without Zuckerberg, Twitter without Trump, Medium without the clickbait
Text Formatting Tools
Unlike other platforms, BindleSnitch gives you the same extensive formatting tools available from word processors and publishing software packages. This gives you the ability to format your articles to provide greater readability
HOW TO CREATE AN EXCERPT
Instructions on how to create an excerpt for your BindleSnitch articles. These are the summaries that will be seen whenever you post a link to the article the excerpt is linked to.
About Hyperlinks
This post explains why you should use hyperlinks, and how to install hyperlinks in an article/
Editing and Making Comments on Posts
Editing and Making Comments on Posts
How to Create a Featured Image Without a Graphics Program
A quick and dirty technique for creating featured images that will work on BindleSnitch.
Questions and Answers About BindleSnitch
This is a work in progress. Check back from time to time to see if we have answered your questions.
Writers Wanted: Inquire Within
BindleSnitch is a collectively-owned, cooperatively managed media platform designed to publish and promote only original, member-created content.
BindleSnitch Community Guidelines
BindleSnitch is an open forum, a place to share ideas and to disagree about them. That means there are going to be conflicts....but that doesn't mean it's open season on BindleSnitch contributors. You can agree to disagree but you may not threaten other BindleSnitch contributors
How to Set Up Your Member Profile
This article explains why you should customize your profile, how to create your profile cover image, how to install your profile cover image, and ho0w to add additional biographical information.
Step by Step Instructions
The instructions aren't difficult to follow, but they are very detailed. The goal for this article was to answer every question we could think of before we started recruiting new contributors, but we're positive that we didn't cover everything so please feel free to let us know what we missed.
BindleSnitch Headline Writing Tips and Tricks
Writing headlines is becoming a lost art. On the internet, where some websites give you an unlimited amounts of space available, writers and editors have become very lazy with their headlines, sometimes with some very unfortunate results.Here are some tips about how to write a really good headline
BindleSnitch Instructions: The Publisher’s Checklist
This article explains how the check list works and why it works the way it does.
Working With Images on BindleSnitch
We all know that every picture tells a story, but finding good, clean, legal images isn't easy. If you are a photographer or an artist in your own right, it is relatively easy to compose images for your stories. If you're not an artist or photographer, you may have to improvise. Here are the guidelines for working with images on BindleSnitch.
BindleSnitch Style Guide
The BindleSnitch Style Guide is just that, a guide. It's not The Ten Commandments. While we recommend that you review it, our style guide is just one more opinion among the many opinions that exist on just about every subject in the world of grammar and punctuation. (Thankfully, we have nearly universal agreement about spelling.) Just ask people how they feel about the Oxford Comma if you want to see what we mean.
How You Get Paid for Your Work By BindleSnitch
contributors will receive compensation based on the number of views their articles earn each month, regardless of how old the articles are. The total number of unique views will be multiplied by the "per view" rate that will be determined by dividing the total net profit for each month by the total number of views earned by the website.
The BindleSnitch Marketing Plan
When you join BindleSnitch, we will ask you to share your contact lists with us. This is a double opt-in system. The people whose email addresses you share with us will know that you are asking them to opt-in to the BindleSnitch Notice System.
Our Advertising Philosophy
Our position on advertising is simple: we accept paid advertising but we keep a tight rein on what gets advertised on our site and how the advertisements are displayed. We don't accept advertising from dating sites and we screen our advertisers for scams and con games. We don't allow popups or self-initiating videos.
The BindleSnitch Direct Advertising Pilot Program
At BindleSnitch, we're out to prove that advertising is compatible with high quality content...and we're offering you an opportunity to advertise on BindleSnitch completely free of charge (but only for a limited time, of course) so that we can prove how our Adrenovator System can beat any adblocker in the business.
BindleSnitch Privacy Policies
Privacy - and the invasion of privacy - is big business. There are companies that collect and disseminate information about you to advertisers, and there are companies that distribute software and utilities designed to prevent other companies from collecting information about you. BindleSnitch is an advertising supported website
BindleSnitch Membership Agreement
This article is the "must-read" legal notices that all members of BindleSnitch should read and understand. Basically, it's the same thing that everyone else uses, so you should be familiar with the content, but we suggest that you read it anyway to make sure you are up to date with the rules.
Zero Tolerance Copyright Protection Policy
This is our simplified, non-legalize version of the procedures we follow when copyright violations are reported to us. Please be aware that any penalties for copyright infringement will fall upon the author of the article. BindleSnitch.com accepts no responsibility or financial liability for libelous statements or copyright infringements committed by members.,
Contact Us
Use this page to contact us directly offline.
Membership Application
This article is the "must-read" legal notices that all members of BindleSnitch should read and understand. Basically, it's the same thing that everyone else uses, so you should be familiar with the content, but we suggest that you read it anyway to make sure you are up to date with the rules.
Writers Wanted: Inquire Within
BindleSnitch is a brand new, collectively owned publishing platform operating on a cooperative, profit-sharing business model where 100 percent of the net profits (after overhead and operating costs are deducted) will be distributed to the members of the BindleSnitch community. Why you should be interested in BindleSnitch. If you are posting stuff on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Medium or any other publishing platform, you are doing this for just one reason: you want attention. That's not a bad thing. It's a good thing.