The Good, The Bad and the Ugly on Hubpages!

 Obviously Hubpages is a great place to write and it offers so much to individuals who want to express themselves, just look at how many people have joined Hubpages, the numbers are staggering. And the numbers get higher everyday. There is so much that Hubpages offers such as ways to make money and also a venue to be able to express your deepest darkest thoughts and to get great feedback from the wonderful people on here. This hub is mainly written for the new people at Hubpages, to kind of give them a heads up about the good and bad that they may encounter here.

First of all there is so much good on Hubpages that it is staggering. The good definitely out way the bad or I wouldn’t be involved with Hubpages. To look at my profile and the number of Hubs that I have written is really not to get my whole picture. I am involved with many different sites, under many different names and I research many different types of money making ideas, so when I came across Hubpages it was a breath of fresh air because there are many sites that are not that great as far as their reputation is concerned.

Alas, Hubpages has so much help for people who are new, from forums to the staff who are ever ready to help you out if you have a question. Even if you come across an Elite hubber, all it takes is to ask a question and they will do all they can to get you the answer. Believe me, I have done that and I was very pleased with the help I received and the extent that they went to help me out. The staff are great people and all it takes is to go to the help section and contact them. You definitely wont be sorry.

And of course the backbone of Hubpages is definitely the members. There are so many members that are more than happy to give you great feedback just by asking, just write a hub and more often than not, there is someone there giving you some feedback and 9 times out of 10, they have something nice to say. I have seen people’s comments on hubs that are mediocre; actually I have seen some pretty bad written hubs, and still the feedback from other hubbers is good, why is that? It’s because most people on Hubpages have good hearts and they want to encourage people to keep writing, because if they keep writing and feel good about what they write, their writing will only get better.

It is worth your while to get to know as many people as possible so that you can experience all they have to offer, because you can get so much great information on Hubpages, from recipes, to DIY articles, there is nothing like it. Period.

Of course wherever there is good there has to be bad, good and evil go hand in hand, so I have been told many, many times, and its true. Whenever there is a site that people are not only writing for pleasure but also writing to make money, then there are going to be some scammers and people who like to cheat; and I mean cheating in such a way that they take advantage of the goodness that are in others. They lie, they cheat, they will say whatever it takes to get you to like them, as they are very likable people and charismatic, oh boy they are full of charisma. They have to be or they are not going to accomplish what they want and that is to Make the money! And I don’t have anything against making money, but I am talking about doing it the wrong way which makes it wrong, by taking advantage of people’s emotions or weaknesses….maybe its just me, but I think that’s wrong and bad.

Who are these people that I refer to? Well they are just about everywhere on Hubpages and if you look really close, they are not hard to find. One of my hubber friends actually brought a lot of this to my attention in a correspondence one day and I thought that it would be helpful to others to be aware of wolves that dress themselves in sheep’s clothing or in Versace, whichever you prefer.

Okay the worst kind of wolves are the ones that start out very nice on Hubpages and who write some very articulate hubs and get quite a following and then they unknowingly reveal themselves to those who can see right through them. If you are an intuitive person then you will be able to read between the lines and if you are anything like me, you get this weird funny feeling when you read their hubs. Like they are not being honest about themselves or they sound “too good to be true”. Most of them will site bible versus and talk about what great things God has done for them, and they do this because they know that is a huge weakness in people. People have had horrible experiences in life and they turn to God for help, the wolf knows this and therefore brings God into the picture so that they are made to look like they understand, they can empathize with others.

Case in point there is a hubber that writes so many great hubs but then he writes one about how he is going to be bankrupt soon. He writes about having to sell everything he has, he puts pictures of his house for sale on his hub. He actually posts pictures of his jaguar for sale. To make matters even more slimy, he writes about his wife who has some incurable illness…he even has the audacity to ask people to pray for him, not just pray for him but to pray for him to get VIEWS ON HIS HUBS so that he can make money for his ah “situation”! I looked through his comments on that hub and it was amazing how many people bought this and responded in a positive way, why not, they have been suckered in by this guy good and deep that they think that he is godlike, geeze definitely the Jim Jones syndrome this guy has. There is actually over 400 comments on this hub alone!

Next thing you know people are posting that they will send thousands of people his way in order to get views, some people even advice him to set up a paypal account so people can donate money. I don’t know if that ever actually happened with the paypal account but I was astonished when I read it. I was fascinated at the plethora of suggestions on the comment section of that hub from caring, Christian people who actually care about this man. There were suggestions on how to make money, suggestions on how to get public assistance and on and on…..all for a man who has done nothing but brag about his wealth, his art, his cars and now he needs all this money by Monday or all of that will go away. He even writes about what happens to people when they run out of money, rats apparently come out of the woodwork and you run out of food, no duh!!!!

I do not feel sorry for this guy because I know what he was trying to do, a sincere person who is worried about his next meal and his ill wife would have no problem selling that Jaguar and Cadillac to make money without having to go onto Hubpages and beg for people to save his house and cars. God helps those who help themselves and if you live beyond your means then this may happen to you. If he was sincere in what was happening to him then I would be the first person to offer assistance but he said it himself on his hub, he is a marketing genius and he made his point with this one. He was only trying to get as much money out of his innocent followers, YUK!! Next thing you know nothing is ever said about his so called “bankruptcy” situation, and he is writing hubs about how many views his hubs generate. Wow, no kidding. My point here is be wary of people like this and definitely do not send them any money. I mean you can do whatever you want with your money and if you want to make people like this richer than that’s your business, but for those who cannot see the forest for the trees, please be aware of people like this and don’t let yourself get taken advantage of.

Another example of a wolf who pretends to be your friend are those that contact you through your email on Hubpages and ask you to “critique” a hub that they have written because they are not sure if it is up to par….I say baloney to this because these guys are so full of themselves and are constantly being told how good a writer they are that they have no inhibitions when it comes to their writing, but they are just trying to generate hub views, which is just another slimy marketing ploy. This has happened to me numerous times by a certain hubber and frankly it is just annoying and I can see right through it.

So that is my two cents about the good and bad on hub pages and like I said, I’m just trying to make new hubbers aware of some ploys that some people use to take advantage of others. Most hubbers are not like this, they know that working hard and writing good articles are going to generate them the money they deserve without having to resort to shady activity. To all those honest hubbers out there, I salute you, to all those shady hubbers out there, there is probably nothing that I or anyone can say to change your ways. But if you can do what you do and sleep like a baby at night, and then get up in the morning, and look at yourself in the mirror, and like what you see, then that’s the ugly part. Peace.