No, you can’t monetize your WordPress.com blog!
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@rain – what the heck it GMTA?
@arifsali – you said
the volunteers are here to teach people how to fish
Which, I think, is exactly what we are trying to do.
As to how the .ORG people are getting here – there are a number of ways. First, a lot of folks automatically assume that WordPress is WordPress – so it’s only natural to type into their browsers wordpress.com. Second, I know a number of the .ORG users have said that they found this forum through a Google search. My guess (although I haven’t looked) is that the .COM forums rank higher than the .ORG forums.
What I’m suggesting is that company should look into devising a strategy where no one could accidentally reach this support and ask a very basic and general question.
I agree. But just how would you do that? In your dashboard, the Help link (which goes to the FAQ) is listed before the forum link. The top of the forums directs people to look at the FAQ, search and THEN post a question.
What more can Autommattic do to have users actually DO things in that order?
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@arifsali-They confuse probably because the ORG blogger has a COM account after signing up for an API key for Akismet, since the only place they can get the key is by signing up for a COM account. Built-in confusion.
And, a lot of people don’t know that the support forum is USER-TO-USER, which means you’re not calling phone support; those people get paid. Here you’re asking someone else who uses the same program as you do and has decided to take some time out of his or her day to do so. The ORG forums are the same set-up.
@vivian – GMTA? – Great Minds Think Alike. But whose online? If I’ve answered a question, that means I’m online. :)
@mark – Ignore? When necessary, most certainly. It’s also nice to see new faces volunteering too.
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GMTA stands for Great Minds Think Alike
and I know how to fish but I don’t know how to cook, any analogy for that?
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“one of the things I hope the new forums will show is who is online.”
I am not aware of any plans there.“Why is no-one answering me? I CAN SEE U ARE ALL HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
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“Why is no-one answering me? I CAN SEE U ARE ALL HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
VERY good point!
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<i>If answering someone will drive you nuts, leave it. Someone else will be along soon.</i>
I try and do this. I should do it more often, I think.
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Well I did hear something somewhere from somebody ;) Maybe I misunderstood?
One more thing I want to add: when I first started here at wordpress.COM, I came to the forums and found so many people who were willing to help. In particular, I found tremendous help with CSS, so much that I offered to pay. What I was told – and what prompted me to come over here and help out – was to pay it forward. And that’s how I ended up being here helping when I can.
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@mark – can you look at this thread when you get a chance? https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/posts-switch-order-after-a-few-days?replies=15 Good suggestion in there.
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Is it true that i’m monetizing my blog if i put an advertiser on my dashboard? am i breaking a rule? BTW, i like the way vivian hammered her last reply.
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pochp – we need a link to your wordpress.COM blog in order to help. The blog in your user name isn’t hosted here.
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That link is not correct: you need to take the WWW out of your URL.
Blogger-initiated paid advertising or affiliate advertising is not allowed. And WordPress.com bloggers do not have access to the coding of their dashboards anyway, so you can’t put anything there.
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I have to say that reading the answers and the questions sometimes makes for a chuckle or two.
@raincoaster – by monetizing, I meant exactly the things you listed as what they can’t do here. I think most understand monetizing to mean those things and not the acceptable ones you listed. People wanting to ‘monetize’ are (as I’ve always understood it) seeking to sell ads of some kind, do paid posts, etc.
@mark – you suggested that folks who are worried about their blogs don’t always read first. I must be the odd duck here then, because that’s always the first thing I do… try help myself. I guess it’s like how if I buy a bookcase that needs assembling, and don’t bother with the instructions and then I can’t make it work/it doesn’t assemble correctly, I don’t call the 1-800 line and expect help. I know the first thing they’re going to ask me is if I followed the instructions for assembly… so the logical thing to do is to go read the instructions, find my mistake and slap my forehead for not reading them in the first place. The 1-800 line is there for when the instructions are wrong, or a part is missing or something like that… not to take the place of people reading the instructions.
But that’s just me. ;-)
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fracas, you’re CANADIAN! That makes you different. We’re all different, us Canucks, just in different ways. It’s a very atomized culture, which explains our federal politics.
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fracas – if I need to read the instructions for something I have bought then it is too complicated. I will if I hit a block but I’ll do it while fuming noisily :) But software I always go read faq’s and forums. I can’t really do otherwise.
What annoys me beyond measure is the helplines that when you call they always start at the beginning of their little workflow chart. (Belkin, Microsoft Xbox..) You try and explain that you have a clue, you have tried a-z, 1-99 and everything again twice but they insist on starting at the beginning with things like “Is it plugged in?”. And then they pass you on to the “Supervisor” who is equally light on clues. They seriously drive me nuts.
Never ever buy Belkin.
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