Who is writing at Million Mile Secrets? [merged MMS discussions]
May 27, 2013, 12:54 pm
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May 27, 2013, 2:12 pm
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Whether I commission something or write it myself I'd like to think that the value comes from the fact that it was produced, not who produced it.
Now, that's not to say that I'd feel comfortable personally claiming that I did the work if, in reality, I had contracted it out. But I think that is partly a different issue.
May 27, 2013, 4:54 pm
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Me, I don't like a program I cahnge the chanel or turn it off !
The post above needs to bee read twice.
May 27, 2013, 7:58 pm
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Because there are instances in the post and in his comment responses where it is written as if it is coming from Darius.
There are dozens of commenters who mistakenly think that Darius wrote that post. Are you trying to suggest they're not misled?
There are dozens of commenters who mistakenly think that Darius wrote that post. Are you trying to suggest they're not misled?
May 27, 2013, 8:01 pm
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And when you try to constantly brag about how great you are on the disclosure front (heck, "he" even cited "his" mother-in-law in the post), it looks pretty terrible when you make TPG look like the Babe Ruth of disclosures by comparison. TPG might not disclose when he did and didn't write a post, but at least he doesn't actively mislead within it (to the best of my knowledge)
May 27, 2013, 9:41 pm
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Plagiarism results in expulsion, in most academic institutions.
Here it carries monetary loses since the original author wont get the clicks and commissions. But if the real author says nothing, I guess he is Ok with the whole situation. I simply wont feel bad for reading the series and clicking on the better link, wherever it is.
Here it carries monetary loses since the original author wont get the clicks and commissions. But if the real author says nothing, I guess he is Ok with the whole situation. I simply wont feel bad for reading the series and clicking on the better link, wherever it is.
May 28, 2013, 12:59 am
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Yes, if you have a ghostwriter writing your thesis, or if you copy & paste without highlighting the source in a footnote.
Donald Rumsfeld writing his memoirs with the help of writers or someone writing content for the latest Danielle Steele novel is usually mentioned in the fine print some place on page three and the audience doesn't give a hoot.
I think blogs belong in the latter category and while you may have a point about the lead author avoiding the issue of who wrote what, in the grand picture of things this is not something to get worked up about
Donald Rumsfeld writing his memoirs with the help of writers or someone writing content for the latest Danielle Steele novel is usually mentioned in the fine print some place on page three and the audience doesn't give a hoot.
I think blogs belong in the latter category and while you may have a point about the lead author avoiding the issue of who wrote what, in the grand picture of things this is not something to get worked up about
May 28, 2013, 7:22 am
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He probably got more money from MMS than would've expected to get in affiliate clicks for that series were it written on travelisfree.com
And MMS probably paid him less money than MMS expects to get in affiliate clicks on mms.com
So they both "win" in the monetary sense. MMS took a big hit in the credibility sense
But hey, judging from the comments (the ones he didn't censor), looks like he successfully duped enough people into thinking he personally put in 80+ hours out of the goodness of his heart
Jun 3, 2013, 11:39 am
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After FTU DC I gave a ride to Baltimore from another guy. It turned out he was a blogger (very minor, no one I've heard of and certainly not anyone on the panels).
He said that he did some ghost writing and I was surprised that would occur. It seems that some bloggers have associates and they're listed on the blog and that's really ok in my book. I didn't ask him who he wrote for, figuring he probably couldn't tell anyway.
He said that he did some ghost writing and I was surprised that would occur. It seems that some bloggers have associates and they're listed on the blog and that's really ok in my book. I didn't ask him who he wrote for, figuring he probably couldn't tell anyway.
Jun 3, 2013, 3:02 pm
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There's been a noticeable plummet in comments since MMS was going to "look into his comment policy" or whatever the phrase he used was. And almost all the comments universally positive
In fact, I think the only people who commented on his Friday interview was the usual conga of bloggers posting generic comments so they can get their website link in