PayPerPostI have mentioned several times that I have stopped writing sponsored posts because I realize a lot of bloggers are trying to bullsh*t me with posts on how they “would” enjoy a trip to a place they’ve never been to, and how “lucky” we are these days because we could apply for loans and mortgages so easily.

When I started writing sponsored posts, I made it very clear to myself that I would only write about things that really matter to me, about things that I would really recommend to my readers, NOT about things that “I thought I would enjoy” and definitely not about “loans that I thought you should take”.

But of course you could tell me about bloggers who, until now, have never written about products that they had never personally tried, and I would believe you. After all, it would be very unfair to trash a basket of fruits because of a few rotten apples.

But the last straw that broke the camel’s back, or so it goes, was this:

PPP opp

The above image is a screenshot that I captured while browsing the list of opportunities the other day. One of the posties, who is also fairly active in the forums, created this $5-something opp. OK, I do understand that “Please do not write that I am personally a PPP member” doesn’t mean “Lie about it”. It could just mean “Don’t mention it” and I am OK with that.

But to ask a blogger to “approach the topic as if you just stumbled upon my website” is akin to asking bloggers to lie because if a blogger takes the opp, he/she definitely learned about the opp from the marketplace, and did not just stumble upon it, no?