BlogCharm Update

I received another email (two actually) from the folks over at BlogCharm. The first was really a newsletter, and the second was actually a comment to the other BlogCharm post I made a few days ago. It seems that BlogCharm is a Canadian company (who knew?) and some changes to the US tax law has caused the temporary halt on payments until the bloggers provide some tax information to good ol' Uncle Sam can get his fair cut of our earnings. Here is the newsletter in full:

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BlogCharm Newsletter
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In this newsletter:

1. Update on Earnings
2. Service Upgrades
3. Cheaters Beware


1. Update on Earnings
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Recently, some BlogCharm members made us aware that the system was calculating earnings incorrectly. We have corrected this problem and recalculated everyone's earnings.As a result, some of you may see a increase or decrease in your total earnings.

If you have requested a pay-out, and your total earnings does decrease, your pay-out amount will stay the same.

As mentioned in the last newsletter, we are revising the pay-out process to comply with United States law. One thing is clear so far: in order to make payments we will first need to either a) collect data for tax purposes or b) require members to fill out a tax form. I know this sounds like a nightmare for your perspective - but it looks like we'll be able to create online versions of the forms to make your lives as easy as possible. I hope to have this situation completely resolved before March 15th, 2007. If there are new development, I will send another newsletter.


2. Service Upgrades
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You may have noticed that your blogs are loading MUCH faster than before. Well, I was poking around and noticed that there were over 500,000 trackbacks in the system (that's the total of trackbacks from all blogs) and that most of them were SPAM (a.k.a. spings). So, after running some numbers and pulling some strings, I deleted over 95% of them. This action alone has resulted in a 2000% server speed increase!

And, while I was poking around, I checked out the disk space on the server and saw that we had plenty of it...so I decided to increase each user's disk-space from 10MB ro 25MB.

Enjoy!!!


3. Cheaters Beware
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I've noticed an increase lately in the number of members who try and cheat the BlogCharm system. I just want to take this opportunity to make this very clear:

1. We have countless methods for detecting cheaters. It's REALLY easy to catch them.
2. Cheaters are a threat to legitimate members. They want to steal your money!
3. Members who cheat are deleted without warning. Period. No exceptions. No take-backs.

I've got several accounts scheduled for deletion, a few under review, and a few more under a watchful eye.

If you're thinking about cheating...you might as well stop now.

I know there is more in the newsletter than just about the pay outs, but I didn't want anyone accusing me of editing anything. And for the record, I can't believe anyone would try to cheat the system. Seriously, it isn't like one is going to get rich doing this stuff. Sheesh.

Hey, thanks for stopping by, and don't be afraid to drop a comment every once in a while just to say 'hey'.