The Flash Trash Advertisements That Support Absolute Write and Its Owner Melodi Sherman

What Keeps Absolute Write Potent and Moneymaking

THIS IS AN UPDATE TO THE POST BELOW. BECAUSE OF OUR EFFORTS AND THOSE OF OTHER WRITERS AND WEBSITES CRITICAL OF THE TRASH ADVERTISING POLICIES OF ABSOLUTE WRITE, THE OWNERS, LISA SPANGENBERG AND MELODI "MACALLISTER" SHERMAN, APPEAR TO HAVE AT LEAST TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED SUCH ADVERTISEMENT AND REPLACED IT WITH MORE BANNER ADS. PLEASE BEWARE OF THESE ADVERTISERS AND TAKE TIME TO INVESTIGATE ANYONE ASSOCIATED WITH ABSOLUTE WRITE VERY THOROUGHLY. FEEL FREE TO WRITE US IF YOU SUSPECT A SCAM OF ANY KIND, AND BTW, A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL OUR SUPPORTERS AND ALLIES WHO ARE HELPING US STRUGGLE TO KEEP THE WRITER INTERNET FREE OF CYBERBULLYING, BAD ADVICE, AND FRAUDULENT ACTIVITY. THE ARTICLE BELOW WILL REMAIN IN PLACE TO CHRONICLE THE RECENT PAST AT ABSOLUTE WRITE. 



[TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT ABSOLUTE WRITE: in this post and others, we are not talking about the beneficial aspects of a writer board like AW, we are discussing an end to the non-beneficial aspects. It is like we're talking about Philly or Oakland in the context of ending rampant corruption and crime. We know there are good places to eat and Barbara Streisand will concert tour, but we want the mayor to surrender to the FBI. And because there are those who have expressed puzzlement, here is a page that lists all the reasons why we maintain this blog. Thank you.]

Yuck! The 15 funniest photos of Walmart Shoppers? Give us a break. The above is just one day's screenshot of the constantly revolving tabloid and pseudo news "flash trash" that accompanies each and every Absolute Write forum page. Just scroll and you'll see them (if you can stomach it). We advise against dipping into their foul tasting soup, but we just had to ask, might not the low class nature of this flash trash be reflective in some way of the personalities of the two people who own and operate Absolute Write, namely Melodi "Mac" Sherman and Lisa "Medievalist" Spangenberg? Is that fair to conjecture? In other words, who would conceive and then consent to placing such ubiquitous garbage on their website for thousands of people to see every week if they did not, at least on some level, tolerate or even embrace it? Would not a normally intelligent and cultured person balk at such a thing? The answer is yes, they would. Of course they would.

Now that W.A.R. and other sites have exposed the utterly incompetent writer advice rampant on Absolute Write, as well as the omnipresent cabal of cyberbullies that routinely attack writers and presses and God knows who else, we will explore the foul soup of Absolute Write flash trash tossed at writers on a daily basis when they visit AW. We wish to investigate just what kind of scams and nonsense Absolute Write is promoting to writers via these advertisements. Obviously this condition is paying the rent and supporting Melodi and Lisa (as well as the "author careers" of certain AW members), but what is this AW sponsored rubbish communicating to the naive, hopeful writers they attract to their website?

We will explore these issues in the weeks to come. 

Thanks to everyone for their incredible support.

3 comments:

  1. The ads at the bottom of AbsoluteWrite are auto-generated by Google and are based on things you've searched for on your own computer. In other words they're generated by you, not by AbsoluteWrite. So if those are the ads you're seeing, it's because you've been searching for related stories. It has nothing to do with what's on offer at AbsoluteWrite, and everything to do with your likes and preferences.

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  2. If Google can cookie you from other searches and serve more targeted trash ads on your Absolute Write website, they will. However, a point or three:

    1. The Google ad bar you've chosen, Lisa, will deliver these trash ads regardless. We cleared our cache, refreshed, used different computers and browser, and still saw the same trash adverts. Adverts for Scientific American or Architectural Digest or Acorn British TV did not appear.

    2. You know full well what kind of trash and scams these ads deliver.

    3. Blaming the user for being exposed to this tabloid poop is a dishonest dodge. You set it up. You're responsible.

    4. No one can generate anything until you place the code on your website that enable you to benefit monetarily from the ads.

    5. If Absolute Write willingly and knowingly places Google code on all its webpages that generate this flash trash, then in effect, Absolute Write is "offering" because it makes itself an accessory.

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  3. I suggest renaming Absolute Write to a more suitable name: Absolute Trash.

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