To Be or Not To Be Deleted

@Rollo1 (16679)
Boston, Massachusetts
September 21, 2015 11:50am CST
I decided that I would look through my archive at that other site and see if I wanted to delete some old posts. I specifically wanted to delete any creative writing like flash fiction. What a task. There are pages and pages of posts, and I don't want to delete anything after the date that I last requested payment. I figured I wouldn't give them any reason to say it reduced my requested payment. My goodness, 1863 posts is a lot to look through. And as I see them, and sometimes remember them, I wish to take them back but I don't know why. I can't re-use them. They were the thoughts of that day, not today's thoughts. I can't borrow my feelings of the past and paste them up as if they were new. They belong to the day they were written. I don't know what I am going to do about the other site yet. I want my payment. I don't want to u se these posts elsewhere and yet, I want my words. I just have no use for them. What are you doing? Delete or not delete? Wait and see? Stalk off in rightfully-felt anger? Stick around until the very end? To be or not to be? Is that even the question?
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32 responses
MARILYN
@Marilynda1225 (80172)
• United States
21 Sep 15
I'm not deleting anything from the other place and I visit there once a day. Being the eternal optimist I'm always hoping for a resurgence there
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
22 Sep 15
If they made payments and worked on the speed of loading of pages, they could see a lot of people continue on there. But will they?
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Marlina
@marlina (154165)
• Canada
22 Sep 15
@Rollo1 Will they? Will they do anything "intelligent" to keep the site going? That's the question of the day.
Jabo
@jaboUK (64361)
• United Kingdom
21 Sep 15
I agree with you Marilyn - while the site is there, so will I be.
Judy Story
@jstory07 (135135)
• Roseburg, Oregon
21 Sep 15
I am sticking around waiting for my $50 and than I will decide on what I should do.
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
21 Sep 15
I hope you get it. I don't really know what they are thinking over there.
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hereandthere
@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
22 Sep 15
@jstory07 i hope you and @hatley both get paid.
Jabo
@jaboUK (64361)
• United Kingdom
21 Sep 15
I certainly won't delete - I have no need to as I've got all mine saved elsewhere. Mind you I've only got just over 300. I'm still hopeful for the site anyway.
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
22 Sep 15
I gave up writing them in a word document or whatever and for the last year or so, I have been typing directly into the screen. I don't do edits anymore, don't care that much since they didn't pay me.
Morgan
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
22 Sep 15
I'm getting ready to reach final payout. I have 19.09 to go. So I'm going to see if I can kick it in overdrive and see what happens. Now that I have my writing abilities flowing back (because of the time of year). I will hang out there until the end probably.
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
22 Sep 15
I redeemed in June and no payment yet. I really was determined to get there again, but then, it started to dawn on me that there's no point in making another 50 if they don't pay the first 50.
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
22 Sep 15
@OneOfMany Well, that's something anyway. Mine is over 90 days now.
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Morgan
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
22 Sep 15
@Rollo1 Yes, I understand that. I think Horse said that he got his payment from 40 days ago. Although I'm not sure on the time frame.
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Shyamala annavarapu
@Shyamalaa (525)
• Udaipur, India
22 Sep 15
You seem to be a prolific writer! Some writings lose their relevance with time, but still you cant abandon them!
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
22 Sep 15
I do like to read them again, even if only to revisit days and times in my life.
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AtypicalRussian
@TypicalRussian (747)
• Budennovsk, Russian Federation
21 Sep 15
Hey! Happy to see you here:) I feel myself here like on a new planet, so I need time to examine this place in order to find an appropriate territory for landing:)
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
21 Sep 15
Hey Artem, so glad to see you here. The pay is better and it's a great site. Not too hard to get used to.
AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
21 Sep 15
@TypicalRussian Read the rules first, don't make any mistakes because you didn't read them. It's a great place.
Val
@valmnz (17099)
• New Zealand
21 Sep 15
For now my words can remain hidden in obscurity where they are. Like you I have no use for them, unlike the words I've written on other sites.
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
22 Sep 15
Personal thoughts on any given day belong to the day, and not necessarily to posterity. It's sad to lose the memories, though.
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Val
@valmnz (17099)
• New Zealand
22 Sep 15
@Rollo1 you almost tempt me to go back and wander through what I've written over the years.
Gina
@Gina145 (3949)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
22 Sep 15
I made copies of all my posts a long time ago, so my big issue with deleting posts has been the fact that I wanted to save some of the better comments, though I believe many are missing now. I already deleted some of my most personal posts months ago, but couldn't be bothered to finish the job. I'd like to do it though, even if there are a lot of posts I can't use. I just can't see myself ever getting money from them again, and it's starting to sound like nobody will.
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
22 Sep 15
I stopped bothering to make copies, I decided to take my chances. I do regret the great comments missing from the older posts. That's just annoying to me.
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Gina
@Gina145 (3949)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
23 Sep 15
@Rollo1 I'm annoyed about the comments too, but the copies are important to me. A lot of my old posts are useless, but I'm sure that I can find ideas in some that can be reused.
Marlina
@marlina (154165)
• Canada
21 Sep 15
I have deleted quite a few already. It takes for ever. Personally, I think I will never get the money. I still go there once in a while.
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
22 Sep 15
I hope they pay you. Maybe they will pay everyone in November like they did last year.
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Marlina
@marlina (154165)
• Canada
22 Sep 15
@Rollo1 Not counting on it too much. But I miss the atmosphere there, I went again this morning to check on my friends.
AbbyGreenhill
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
22 Sep 15
If you mean Bubbles - I had over 3,000 and del. over 1,000 - it just takes so long.
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
22 Sep 15
I don't know how you could even get that many, it's so sloww
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AbbyGreenhill
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
22 Sep 15
@Rollo1 I was there for over a year and a half.
Sharon
@simone10 (54189)
• Louisville, Kentucky
22 Sep 15
I'm not sure what I am going to do yet. I haven't tried to redeem recently so I don't have to worry about that. I guess when I have the time, I will delete them.
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
22 Sep 15
I redeemed in June, so I don't want to delete something that they think alters my earnings. It's a hard decision.
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Sharon
@simone10 (54189)
• Louisville, Kentucky
26 Sep 15
@Rollo1 I can understand. It really is a hard decision, especially since it started taking so long to redeem. It's hard to know how far back to go.
Jekca
@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
21 Sep 15
I am deleting some, if I can ever get to them, because I want to rewrite and reuse, and I don't want to lose them if the site goes titanic.
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
22 Sep 15
@Jessicalynnt If I didn't have an outstanding redemption, that is what I would do. Just start at the most recent and keep going. I suppose I could do that back to June, but then I need to leave the ones from January to June. It's complicated.
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Jekca
@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
22 Sep 15
@Rollo1 I figured I'd start with the most recent and start deleting. Yeah I have nine dollars sitting there, but really, am I ever going to make it to 50? I really doubt it.
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Jekca
@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
22 Sep 15
@Rollo1 yeah I dont blame you there for sure.
crazyhorseladycx
@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
22 Sep 15
i wonder such myself - leave 'em, delete 'em, remove 'm 's much 's possible from the web. what's one to do? what's the protocol fer such? i've thought'f takin' down the personal 'uns 'n leavin' the rest. i've many regrets'n gettin' involved in the first place. but, then i'd not met folks such's yerself. a trade-off 'f sorts?
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
22 Sep 15
I enjoyed it for a long time, but in the last few months, it has not felt good to be there.
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crazyhorseladycx
@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
22 Sep 15
@Rollo1 kinda feels a bit toxic, don't it?
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Canadian Archer
@HebrewGreekStudies (1646)
• Canada
11 Nov 15
Oh the other place...well, I actually just requested that they delete my account there. And they didn't. Go figure:/
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
11 Nov 15
I don't think anyone is minding the store. I wouldn't count on it being deleted unless you do something to get yourself reported. Then they will ban you. Executions are allowed, defections are not.
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Canadian Archer
@HebrewGreekStudies (1646)
• Canada
11 Nov 15
@Rollo1 kinda like in hotel California...you can check out anytime you like, but can never leave;(
Glen
@glenniah (1197)
• Mandurah, Australia
22 Sep 15
I did enjoy the other site but never did enough to earn any money. It was good getting to know a lot of people and I think I might visit one a week or so, just to see how it goes
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
22 Sep 15
I need to make myself go there, but it's so slow and hard to get around that I give up easily.
rebel_woman06
@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
22 Sep 15
Don't delete them yet until you got your redeemed payment .
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
22 Sep 15
That's what I think, too.
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sofs
@sofssu (23662)
•
22 Sep 15
I just leave my posts as they are everywhere.. I did remove stuff like poetry and creative writing on B and another site.. But I have not done that with Hubpages or any of the other sites I used to write in.
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
22 Sep 15
I removed some creative writing a while back, but I know there's more there. I just can't seem to find it easily.
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Gudheart
@gudheart (12659)
•
22 Sep 15
I can not even log onto B's anymore as I forgot my password and they won't email me the reset password request. So I can not deleted them even if I wanted.
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
22 Sep 15
Wow, they don't even have an auto response for that? Sheesh.
M.-L.
@MALUSE (69390)
• Germany
22 Sep 15
Off topic: I mentioned two members in my last post. Will they be informed about this? I put a ' & 'in front of their names but the names aren't highlighted like on bubblews.
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
22 Sep 15
No, it only works in the comments. They don't get tagged in the body of the post
M.-L.
@MALUSE (69390)
• Germany
22 Sep 15
I don't care as much as you do. When my first account was deleted for whatever reason (nobody has ever told me), all the posts I had hitherto written disappeared, too. I could have wept but I decided to forget them. I'm only afraid of posting them another time without realising it. I'm a recycler of old posts from other sites. I didn't make a list of the texts I had posted so this could happen.
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
22 Sep 15
In a way, you're lucky yours were deleted, but you weren't lucky to lose out on your earnings. I still don't know why they deleted you the first time. So weird.