Pros
Consistent work, helpful staff, decent money if you know how to work the system. If you can write on any topic, you can make a decent amount of money here without dedicating your whole day to it. The pay per article is not the best, but it's also not the worst when compared to sites that pay under 2CPW. If you read the forums, you'll see how most of the biggest earners are making most of their money. There are lots of helpful people on the forums.
Cons
The company has evidently been taken over by an equity firm, because there was talk about "investors" and "partners" after the last pay cut. It seems that at the last of the month, articles are rated lower, which pays less. This may be because of a certain limit they are given to pay out for articles each month by the "partners," who expect a certain return on their money. I've seen this same scenario on other sites that have tied up with equity partners. Most of the topics are hard to write on, and if you are someone who can't knock out a listicle on any subject, you may not do well here. Plus, the drop times are insane; 5 a.m. ET (6 a.m. DST) and then at 7-8 p.m. at night. The way the new system is set up makes it hard to get the topics you can easily write without sitting and refreshing for a long time, which is not worth it to me, so I only submit during the larger drops at certain times of the month. There are too many writers for the volume of work. The forum has a lot of whiners and sycophants who never contribute anything helpful, and there is a lot of infighting going on. You have to learn to ignore them and look for the members who are helpful, and not get dragged into the drama.
