I WENT DOWN WITH THE SHIP.

Bluedoll

@Bluedoll (16770)

• Canada

24 Dec 16

I recall seeing that one in the news I think but forget its name. It was a Italian cruise ship perhaps? I think it might have been salvaged but not sure. Oh quick back on topic. Oh yes, the site could have been salvaged. But they didn't want that. I could have done a better job of it and I am not that talented.

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@Kandae11 (57230)

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24 Dec 16

Seems it is on its way down, but it could have been salvaged and given a new name -- not quite sure.

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@Kandae11 (57230)

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24 Dec 16

@Bluedoll It was a matter of simple economics. Was that the cruise ship which went down and the captain deserted?

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Jo Ann

@akalinus (44366)

• United States

24 Dec 16

Most of the people here have survived the Bubblews shipwreck. I bailed out before the end because I had trouble posting and never got paid.

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@Kandae11 (57230)

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24 Dec 16

I hung on to the end and neglected to save my articles.

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Jo Ann

@akalinus (44366)

• United States

24 Dec 16

@Kandae11 I did not save mine either. I did rewrite some of them for here, but with a different slant or point of view. Most of them were much improved over the old Bubble stuff I wrote.

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@Kandae11 (57230)

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24 Dec 16

@akalinus Yes, I had a few of mine in notebooks but they were mostly scribbles which I tried to decipher and rewrite. It is always best to be prepared for eventualities.

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LK2018

@Letranknight2015 (52665)

• Philippines

24 Dec 16

I lost a lot of post too over there. But I didn't feel bad otherwise I won't be having my laptop and rubber shoes today.

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LK2018

@Letranknight2015 (52665)

• Philippines

24 Dec 16

@Kandae11 Thats because I've saved most of them.

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@Kandae11 (57230)

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24 Dec 16

So you got paid for your work.

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DW Davis

@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

24 Dec 16

I wrote on Bubblews after seeing a story on it on our in class news program. My students challenged me to write enough to buy them a pizza. I joined right before the ship hit the first iceberg.

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DW Davis

@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

24 Dec 16

@Kandae11 The first month was nice. Then it began to drop. By the third month it was hardly worth staying on the site for. I do believe the admins took what money there was and ran with it, based on the way they just suddenly shut down the site.

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@Kandae11 (57230)

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24 Dec 16

Then like me, you couldn't have benefited much financially.

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@Kandae11 (57230)

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24 Dec 16

@DWDavis We will never really know what actually went down. I wish if they had given us a clear warning.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (382455)

• Rockingham, Australia

24 Dec 16

I keep copies of all my articles so I'm now using the old Bubblews articles either as they are or as prompts for new ones.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (382455)

• Rockingham, Australia

25 Dec 16

@Kandae11 I always write everything in Word then copy and paste to other sites.

@Kandae11 (57230)

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24 Dec 16

When it sank, there I was scrambling to find the notebooks I had scribbled some of my articles in.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (382455)

• Rockingham, Australia

30 Dec 16

@Marty1 I've found it really useful to have records of them all.

Gitara

@Gita17112016 (3611)

• Trinidad And Tobago

24 Dec 16

Wow! This is a real site yes? I heard some other myLotters taking. I don't know this site. Sorry to hear you lost your articles.What was the earnings like there per day or month?

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@Kandae11 (57230)

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24 Dec 16

Not too sure but it was enough to be unsustainable. You couldn't cash out before reaching $50 - and some achieved that goal in two weeks. I joined the site late - three months before it made drastic changes, so my first month payment was the best - $120.When the site closed, some were owed amounts in the range of $200, $500 and $800.

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Gitara

@Gita17112016 (3611)

• Trinidad And Tobago

24 Dec 16

@Kandae11 Those were good paying rates for blog writing. $120.00 for a month is not bad at all! I am almost a month in myLot and has yet to reach my $5.00 dollar mark!

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Juliaacv

@Juliaacv (56374)

• Canada

24 Dec 16

I quit quite a few months before the fat lady sang and the site closed down. But I do not miss it, I deleted most of my posts because I didn't want my words to be associated with that horrible site.

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Juliaacv

@Juliaacv (56374)

• Canada

24 Dec 16

@Kandae11 That's true, and I did make some friendships which extend to this site, but the admin there was awful-full of lies.

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@Kandae11 (57230)

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24 Dec 16

The good thing abut Bubblews is that it was always busy - well it was before the ship started to roll - and a lot of friendships were formed, but of course one can make friends here as well.

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Gina

@Gina145 (3949)

• Johannesburg, South Africa

24 Dec 16

Thankfully I got out months before Bubblews closed, although I never got around to deleting most of my articles. I do have copies of all of them though - something I realised was important the first time a payment went missing. One of these days I really should start reworking some of them.

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@Kandae11 (57230)

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24 Dec 16

I wish I had saved mine.

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Marlina

@marlina (154103)

• Canada

24 Dec 16

It was good cruise ship for a while, but then, all hells broke loose.

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@Kandae11 (57230)

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24 Dec 16

It certainly did. Luckily quite a few escaped the tempest - pity I wasn't one of those.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (323168)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

24 Dec 16

I started here about three weeks before it's demise. I think I was there until almost the end. I didn't lose anything important as everything important is on my hard drive.

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@Kandae11 (57230)

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24 Dec 16

Good thinking.

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Siduri

@msiduri (5687)

• United States

24 Dec 16

I was never a high earner at Bubblews. I'm grateful for the money I did earn, however, but I left in Feb. 2015 after making sure I'd saved all the articles I wanted. I had less than $1 in the bank and could want away from that without too many regrets. While I received all my payments, I knew too many people who didn't. Some were overseas and some in the States. I knew it was just a matter of time and wanted to leave on my terms.

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Siduri

@msiduri (5687)

• United States

24 Dec 16

@Kandae11 You were not alone.

Before I was at Bubblews, I was at another site called Epinions for about thirteen (?) years. They were not flawless, and they paid nothing like what Bubblews paid, but they were honest. They closed, but they let us download our material. Since then, I've made it a habit to make copies of everything I write that's important to me.

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@Kandae11 (57230)

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24 Dec 16

I have to admit I had too much fate in them , believed their promises and hung on.

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paigea

@paigea (36143)

• Canada

24 Dec 16

I was submitting something on Bubblews at the moment it went down. I love your poem.

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paigea

@paigea (36143)

• Canada

26 Jan 17

@Kandae11 No, I wasn't really concerned with that. Sort of like here, just socializing.

@Kandae11 (57230)

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24 Dec 16

Thanks. Well then, you were caught offguard like myself-- did you manage to save your articles?.

Xavier Bage

@franxav (14597)

• India

24 Dec 16

Yeah, I too was in the ship.I was there even when others were jumping off. I lost some articles and some money.

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@Kandae11 (57230)

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24 Dec 16

Unfortunately, I embarked when there was only three months of the good times left. In fact I received only one real payment and I wrote over 500 articles.

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Manisha

@ms1864 (6882)

• Bangalore, India

24 Dec 16

wow...an Ode to Bubblews.... I missed getting on the ship entirely.

500 article? that is a lot... hope you keep them saved in another folder now..

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@Kandae11 (57230)

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24 Dec 16

You sometimes learn from your mistakes.

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Pat Z Anthony

@PatZAnthony (14749)

• Charlotte, North Carolina

30 Dec 16

Many of us here shared you experience there. A lovely site it was, until it wasn't so lovely anymore.

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@Kandae11 (57230)

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30 Dec 16

It was lovely indeed.

Marie

@Tampa_girl7 (54730)

• United States

27 Dec 16

Unfortunately I also went down on the Bubblews Ship

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@Kandae11 (57230)

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27 Dec 16

Did you manage to save or salvage your articles?

The Horse

@TheHorse (238356)

• Walnut Creek, California

30 Dec 16

They're still out there in archive land.

The Horse

@TheHorse (238356)

• Walnut Creek, California

30 Dec 16

@Kandae11 I got that too. Many were archived. Some were not.

@Kandae11 (57230)

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30 Dec 16

I managed to locate fifty of them from my profile page but unfortunately only twenty of them were actually there. When I tried opening the others, a notice said they were not archived.

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