Did You Make it into the Associated Content Top 1000?

Have you heard? Associated Content has developed a new way of separating the chumps from the champs on its website for writers. It's not simply good enough that the best writers get a $1,000 prize for the most content produced during the year or for the best article written. Now Associated Content is giving out stickers posted on people's profile pages indicating if you are one of the Top 1000 writers on Associated Content. When will this madness finally end? Ahhhh!

So how has Associated Content decided who the top 1000 content producers are? Well the first thing they probably looked at was the highest ranked content producers with the highest clout levels. Therefore, everyone who is a Ten or Nine for clout probably got a Top 1000 sticker. If you had over 100,000 page views you probably got a Top 1000 sticker. If you wrote highly controversial articles and therefore got a plethora of page views, you probably made the Top 1000. If you did anything above average to made Associated Content more money by bringing traffic in page views to their website, then you probably got your new badge of honor, a Top 1000 sticker.

Now I do have several problems with this method. The first of which is that some of the people who got Top 1000 buttons no longer write for Associated Content. In my opinion, if you are no longer an active Content producer, you don't deserve to get a shiny new sticker.

Secondly, if you don't post on the message boards and don't help out your fellow content producers by sharing your knowledge of the website so that others can partake in the money making, then you my friend, do no deserve to be a Top 1000 content producer. In this AC community which writers hold so dear, I use the word "community" strongly because that is what many people deem it to be. It has transcended the boundaries of not only making money, but making friends and connections as well. That is something that you can take to the bank! If a content producer wasn't known through his or her postings but was simply just another content producer, then they don't deserve a Top 1000 sticker.

Also, if you spammed like crazy on message boards, then you don't deserve to be a Top 1000 content producer. The creme of the crop rises to the top and those people are special because other content producers promote their work for them because their articles and stories are so good. Great content producers let their work promote itself.

So I hope that you were a Top 1000 content producer. I'm a newbie relatively to you old veterans but I am confident that by next year I will definitely be in the Top 1000 and will be returning with a Clout of Ten!