The new PayPerPost Boards (or now known as all-encompassing “Izea Boards”) is live and raring to be “chatted” at with some obvious changes most likely brought on by the recent Izea customer survey. The slated changes that were to be made to the board were announced in the Izea blog back on the 29th of February. Some changes included adding in more Izea features including SocialSpark, Bloggers Choice Awards, RockStartUp and of course, PayPerPost. The other glaring change was that of the current moderator status - a good majority of the current mods were supposed to be removed (and set to “moderator alumni”) and those left would be “trained” on how to moderate the boards.

There were a lot of issues with the moderator “staff” that caused another board, Posties.us, to be opened by Robert MacEwan (of macewan.org) in hopes that the “posties” (the term that affectionately represents the bloggers at PayPerPost) could speak more freely with less fear of their threads being locked down by overzealous (and rumored non-welcoming) moderators.

There may be some tweaks left for the board to go through, but I was able to log right in with my old login/password. I noticed right away how much more “organized” the boards were, although they will most likely take a little getting used to. One thing that was obvious, as mentioned before, was that of the greatly reduced moderators - including the rumored “unwelcoming” mod. (Who, for the record - I never thought was “unwelcoming” just had a dry sense of humor which I could appreciate.) Gone now is the “Circle of Trust” status - replaced with a nicer and less daunting “Rockstar” status. Also, the Izea Team Members and Mods are obviously noted.

I only wonder now if they have enough Mods. Will there be more added? Will they be “trained” as mentioned by Ted Murphy (the CEO of the Izea company for those who live under a proverbial rock)? Only time will tell I guess!

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