A few days ago, we posted two controversial posts about Chime card, one was a tip for unloading Buxx cards. At the time there was no fee to load Chime with a Buxx card, since then Chime has added a 3% fee. I’m more than happy to accept that our post was partly responsible for this fee coming into effect. I make mistakes all of the time and I think recognizing when you make a mistake and owning up to it is one of if not the most important things in life.
Which leads me to this post. How do you think we should handle posting about manufactured spending topics? I really see three main choices:
- Continue as is. At the moment we post some MS content to the blog and some to our newsletter depending on how sensitive we think the information is.
- Move all manufactured spending content to the newsletter. The downside to this is a lot of people on the newsletter have no interest in manufactured spending topics and it’s difficult to reference past newsletters.
- Create a new blog/subsection that requires a password to view all of the content and prevent it from being accessed by Google.
Obviously there is also a fourth option of not posting anything at all to do with manufactured spending. Despite what people might say, I have an invested interest in keeping deals alive. Last month I made close to 10x more from manufactured spending than this blog made.
My personal opinion is that continuing on the same path is a mistake for this blog. I want to build a positive community around this site and at the moment manufactured spending topics are extremely divisive. I’d like to hear what your thoughts are. How would you like us to handle talking about manufactured spending in the future? In the mean time I’ve asked all writers to keep their MS posts in draft mode until we work out what we can do.
Also a friendly reminder that comments are all uncensored, if you haven’t written a comment here before then I’ll need to approve your comment manually but just give it a bit of time and it will show up. I will remove anything that is homophobic, racist or sexist (although if it has content beside that I’ll just removing the offending portions).
Update1: I’ve also stickied this post to the front page so it won’t go missing if we make other posts in the mean time.
