Technical Support Forum

I was really glad to read this. I've been following along with the discussion, mainly because I was a little baffled to discover this whole other side of WdC, pertaining to the interactive item culture. I mean, I interact with, I think, quite a few WdC members, and the only ones I know of who host interactives don't host interactives of the kinds behind all this discussion.

It blew my mind that there were people here, who've been here for years, who had no idea that Gift Points could be used to purchase memberships as well as other stuff from the WdC shop. It blew my mind that there are years-long members who didn't know, additionally, that you could go to "Community >> Auto-Rewarding Items," and find...right now, eleven items that give you 7,500 GPs each just to review them. That's 82,500 GPs if you review them all. Not halfway toward a year-long Basic Membership, but that's not counting the GPs to be made for reviewing the items offering 6k for a review and below. And we're talking about checking back over the course of the year and doing more reviews.

It's also not counting doing good public reviews, and possibly earning some of the 850,000 GPs in "Good Deeds Get CASH!" , which is right there on the WdC Hub Page.

I'm not even going into review rewards GPs beyond that, or joining groups that reward reviews, or the official site writing contests--or the member-run contests for that matter. There are tons of ways to earn GPs to pay for membership, so long as one branches out onto the site, into the areas where the rest of us are.

We are here. We are writing our own, independent stories and reviewing each other. We are learning and growing with our peers and we are very happy to be here. We are paying for our paid memberships with GP prizes from reviewing, winning contests, and interacting with other writers of independent projects. And some of us are paying for our basic, upgraded, premium, and even premium plus memberships out of our own anemic pockets and are happy to do it---because of the interaction and peer-reviewing. Because of what we get out of it.

The site's not in trouble, as long as we're here. We are the "whales," and we pay very little attention to the interactives.