Okay. I’m sitting here, looking at the [tag]PayPerPost[/tag] dashboard, and thumbing through opps. The few that are even remotely interesting me at the moment basically do not want people who disclose that the entry is part of a paid opportunity, which I, of course, pass up on.
The question is, and I do ask in a serious tone:
Do you really care if a paid entry has some form of [tag]disclosure[/tag], and how much disclosure must be there as a minimum if you care for it?
Up until this point, just about every paid opp I’ve taken, I’ve added some sort of disclosure notice, usually posted at the end, though I’ve lately found it harder to make a disclosure statement that actually, well, flows with my post.
I don’t want to end up saying, “This post has been monetized by PayPerPost” on each post, because, well, the first six words drive me nuts. I see that on Google’s banners for their junk. 
Feel free to comment with your thoughts on this, readers.
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14 October, 2006 at 02:48
techie
I started by disclosing on all my posts, but after a few posts I was tired of putting this disclosure. It didn’t bother me at all to disclose that I was paid for the post, but I also didn’t see any reason why I should have to put that on my blog post. It’s one thing if I blogged about something that I didn’t agree with. However, everything I write about is my opinion and so why should I waste my time disclosing anything?
Plus, I think it’s really naive and innapropriate for me to think that my blog readers can’t make a judgement for themselves about products I blog about.
14 October, 2006 at 17:38
Julie
Hey! I just noticed that you don’t have me linked under the “Posties.”
14 October, 2006 at 21:32
Xial Lunashine
Julie, that’s been fixed.
I’m adding people manually, and I’m way the heck behind. ;<
15 October, 2006 at 22:03
Julie
Cool, thanks…but to comment…anyone that reads my blogs knows which ones are PPP entries or not. I’ve never had any complaints, and a few of them actually like seeing the new web site or products I found. I really can’t see the anti-PPP side.
17 October, 2006 at 11:47
Carrie S.
I do paid postings through another service–I haven’t managed to get signed up for PPP yet–and every posting I do for them is labelled as such in the title and in a standardized first line. I don’t want anyone who’s reading my blog to be able to miss the fact that a given posting is being paid for; it would threaten my credibility in other postings.
I hasten to add that I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being paid to post; it’s a fee for a service and perfectly legitimate. But there needs to be a distinction between paid postings and those I’d make even if I weren’t being paid.
17 October, 2006 at 16:34
ChrisRobot
I think that it’s important that advertisers allow PPP’ers the choice of what to write because it preserves the freedom of the PPP system. The freedom to choose the content of paid posts means that bloggers can disclose payment in any way they see fit, if at all. Lately I’ve just been categorizing a lot of the PPP posts in their own category.