Jenn, if you feel like it, let it rip. 🙂 And thanks for sending the link to this one. It's the same lousy offer, but with softer language.

This hit a raw nerve for me. A couple years ago I turned down two offers to write for entertainment websites for free, or were paid based on the number of views. Month later, after I was rejected by a writer's association supposedly for full-time professional writers in my field despite meeting every single membership requirement, I discovered they'd accepted several un- or under-paid bloggers from the places I turned down!

It really stings when even professional organizations find more value in a few unpaid blog posts than 18-years worth of articles in top industry trades.

Hmm….I might need to write a second Writers Worth Month post on that if Lori has space.

Suffice it to say, their traffic is ridiculously low, and that's assuming they mean pageviews rather than hits. If they're too dense to know the difference, while at the same time trying to use those stats to suck in unpaid labor, they won't last long.