Those are all good points, but I have to say I lked it much better the way it was when it first opened. In my opinion, that was how it was meant to be. The idea was to be rewarded for sharing great content. It was supposed to be the exact opposite of sites like Facebook. This was not supposed to be a "content dump," but a place where you came and shared your best content, and that content was rewarded based on merit.

Unfortunately, it is turning into exactly what it's not supposed to be. A personal battlefield where there are no rules and not even a quality bar for content. You can come in here and post two sentences of crap and make $1000. Then, I can come here and post a piece about a really significant historical event that I worked on for 3 hours and make $0.50.

I'm sorry bro, but if that's what it's going to be, I'm taking my money and running. And lots of others feel the same way. There has to be some incentive for people to post here and not on their own sites. And there is absolutely no regulation when it comes to gaming the system. People are buying votes and getting their content into the "trending" position and all other shady tactics.

It's too bad. This could have been something really amazing.