What pitfalls are there when participating in the Habré Authors Reward Program?

Question

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I decided to start writing articles on Habré (the first article got more than 100 votes, and there are ideas for several more articles), so that later I can participate in the author encouragement program and monetize my knowledge and ideas.
It is interesting to read the opinions of those who participate / participated in such programs. What are the pitfalls? How often are the expectations from your articles NOT met? How difficult / long is it to get money from articles for Sberbank?

Answer 1

The game will not cost the candle, by God.
Habr is not an "expert IT community" as some might think. This is a group of people who have approximately the same opinions on some issues, which within its "hangout" maintains a very clear, very tough and very strict system - there are certain criteria that you should write about in this way and not otherwise. If you write otherwise, you will immediately be destroyed in every possible way within the limits of all these "karmas", "reputations" and other garbage. There is a certain set of provisions, such as "A is good, B is bad, do C is good, do D is bad." You cannot retreat from them.
How to find out what is A, B, C ...? Read the hubs you are interested in, especially the top articles, where there are a lot of comments - and the trend that there is A, B, C - will become clear by itself. If it coincides with your beliefs - everything is fine, if not - then either rape yourself or score.
I didn’t see through this trend right away, but rather quickly and sawed it out myself from the habr, asking only not to touch the toaster. And from the habr, everything that related to me was cut out.

Answer 2

There is a slightly different goal here.
Why I write articles on Habr:
- I need to promote some kind of development
- I need to "discuss with people" my thoughts, my ideas
- I received an order for some article at a good price
If this is not your case, then write an article it makes no sense.
- participation in the bounty program - starts after 10 articles with a good rating!
- to write mass articles that will go to people, and you will get money - is difficult. There, in reality, out of 4 articles, approximately only one reaches the desired rating. Those. great work
- the administration can always reset your account (actually, I touched on a "forbidden" topic a little, wrote a little more self-promotion than necessary - get a read-only account, if the administrator has a period, then catch the reset).
Those. you are guaranteed to hack and waste your time, while you are generally powerless only with the illusion of getting some money. By the way, this was the reason that many adequate guys stopped writing something here.
Write better in conditional 3-4 it-projects and find out their rates for articles. I want to tell you right away that it’s better to get conditional 3-4k on some project than to write to become a Habr and hope that she will gain some kind of rating there and so on.

Answer 3

What are the pitfalls?

In order to participate in the PPA, you need to have one of the following badges - "Author", "Star", "Legend", "Old-timer".Rules and Badges (badges) .
1. To get the desired badge, you need to post a lot and for free.
2. And, moreover, all this is absolutely without guarantees and two-way checks of accruals / write-offs of points / votes.
IMHO: Your blog is more reliable.

Answer 4

As xmoonlight rightly says, it's better to have your own blog.
BUT, the concept of "better" should be defined. That is, you need to understand the goal pursued. If you want to make money on texts, then it is best to have your own blog, and develop it - in the long run, this MAY give the best result. To do this, you need shared hosting and WordPress (install, configure, design, plugins).
If there is no knowledge and the possibility of technical implementation, the best option would be a paid LiveJournal or blogger.com - because they can be monetized.
If the desire is only to share knowledge, then you can find highly specialized forums and write there.
If you want to make money on texts (deep immersion is not important), and you don’t mind that someone will earn more on your texts, then it would be better ... to work as a journalist or copywriter. For example, on sites like lifehacker.ru or even advego and copylancer.
Read here , for example.
The ideal option would be a platform as a cross between LiveJournal and a blogger, tj and medium. A convenient multi-user blog, where for each post you also receive accruals in proportion to its monetization.
But such a platform does not exist, unfortunately.
Or you can designate such a platform ... facebook!
update: here is an example of such a blog, on a narrow topic
https://rusimm.com/pages/myblog.html

Answer 5

In the beginning, you need to understand why you write these articles on such a site:
If you want to write something for personal expression, then this will not work there -> as soon as one of the users does not like something, or you violate one of countless rules of this resource, you immediately get anal punishment, bans and removal of material.
In fact, you get a job as a "freelance" employee who, according to the company's policy and their censorship, writes only what suits the site's audience, for which he receives attention, likes and sometimes even some pennies that can hardly be correlated with income, for example, from programming with comparable " labor costs".
This is important to understand and not be confused. For personal expression only your blog on your server

Answer 6

I will answer as a TM employee. PPA - Incentive ProgramAuthors, that is, we put in this abbreviation exactly the meaning of encouragement, and not "payment for work." Therefore, arguments in the spirit of "I write articles for 8 hours, many places where they pay more" are not very appropriate here. Every day people write publications on Habr without even knowing about any payments - they have their own motives for this (some of them mentioned above). And one day we thought it would be great to encourage those who have been writing for a long time and constantly - this is how the PAP appeared. We conducted certain studies, studied the activity of authors, calculated the approximate number of posts and their ratings - in order to formulate certain conditions for participation, in order to understand how much it would cost us, so that all this would be predictable for us. Accordingly, there are no pitfalls here - users, as before, continue to publish materials,