brightidea.com > Reviews (10)

When I first approached brightideas.com, I was very excited. I thought, how nice. A place to get some great information on all types of avenues in life and make a few cents for your time. For a few months, things panned out. I had acquired quite a file there, and received payment. The information I received on many things was a great benefit. But, something happened, the site went caos, people lost earnings, and the management at brightideas.com will not contact or respond to email. There are many {understated} members who have not been able to cash out their money. Midway through my joining, the site without warrant, was redesigned and a new members status was incorporated. Instead of the usualy trust or distrust avenue on a lot of writing sites, members were forced against each other and levels of this particular society of the site were elevated. Selected members were kept lower on the status pole even though they indeed wrote wonderful ideas. Brightideas.com lost integrity and writers. Problems pending and members left hanging. Not a way to organize or manage a website.

Website details:
brightideas.com is a site which is asking for ideas on how to make avenues of life better. There is a menu to choose from to which you feel you could offer a better idea on that particular subject. You can select from home products to schools, from ideas on how to date to even offering better suggestions on the site. It is fairly easy to surf, almost self explanatory. A bar on the top offers areas of help and information on site situations. Their logo is a lightbulb. And you are rated and acquire so many lightbulbs for how BRIGHT your idea is. You are offered an easy access to the newest ideas just going in and also watch a board of the highest rated ideas. On each member's profile page you can read about them and click their link to their submitted ideas. They are in bins, offering you a ben of highest rated or recent ideas they have written. The personal account page of each profile is not very detailed. You can not keep track of anyone who you brought into the site and only go on trust {which they will not even discuss with you} of your referals and how they are doing. The members are listed at levels. There are 4 or 5 levels which you can climb depending on your idea. With this site, they are marketing your ideas but not actively paying for them. The site looks good, but the inner workings are deceptive. You also have an area to store ideas in a draft. People complain of ideas suddenly gone. If you check out the site, please select the Community area and read many of the past and recent complaints. That tells the story.

Dot.coms are a risk anytime they state up. They must try their wings and keep flying. All the writing sites I belong to with exception to brightideas.com have always been in contact in some way with their members. After all, members are the website, the force behind the site and the ability to keep a site running. Always, these types of websites need to have a way to weed out an abusive user.

That is just. When a site is in trouble, they usually make amends, alert their members and things are worked out, or members are notified the site is closing. But, brightideas totally ignored their problems and left members hanging. With detail brightideas spun a detail of web and abuse on their members. Pending.

Integrity:
With a simple dictionay, the word is easy to find. There must be communication between a website and their members. When that stops, the site goes down. Word of mouth spreads and things happen. Advertisment is in danger, and the website's ability to make money goes in the .com dumpster. Honesty is how a company keeps people coming in, and keeps people {and members} buying. That is the bloodline of the site. If someone cuts the imbiblical cord, the baby sinks or swims. If the site {parent} walks away, the member dies and so does the site. Bingo.

I am on three other writing sites. The main avenue that keeps me there is their avenue of communication. Oh, sometimes glitches happen, there is a short time or span between an email and an answer, but mainly that avenue stays open. This present site is a new one for me. I will be anxiously awaiting to see if communication stays alert. Just tell me before a change, or if you are in trouble. I can deal. It is the lost of integrity that I don't deal with. We shall see. I always have a benefit of doubt until the actual event. I feel ok so far. Enjoy life. Better things ahead.