We made a minor adjustment to how Moolah is earned last week and this has shown us a bug in the system we did not expect.  Until the research is done as to how hundreds of thousands of Moolah rewards were dished out over the past few days we have put on hold the option of cashing out moolah.  

Rest assured we will return the cash-out ability when we have sorted out the error and most likely corrected a few of the moolah balances held by members out there.  

Apologies for the problem and please bear with us!

 We have decided after a lot of feedback from long time members, and some confusion amongst newer members, to remove the "Know a lot...write an article" option from the Q&A section.

All answers to Q&A will now appear as comments under the question.

However, I would really appreciate it if experienced members could keep an eye out for excellent answers to Q&A topics and suggest to the author of the comment that they move it over to become an Advice Article !

Hope this makes most people happy most of the time  

see you round Minti

Matt

 Hi folks

Just a bit of news from the Matt household, we are due to have our second baby in December  

We find out next week whether it's to be a boy or a girl and everything else from the testing/checking process is looking positive.

Hamish is a bit surprised by the size of mum's belly but otherwise has no idea what is going on.

Here is a photo from the first ultrasound visit.

all the best

Matt

The fine folks from the US at Disney.com have got in touch with us here at Minti for the launch of U Rock 2, a unique promotion that gives fans the opportunity to create their own music videos set to songs from popular Disney artists and post their original videos on the U Rock site (www.Disney.com/URock).

The most popular U Rock video finalists, voted on by fans, will win the ultimate rock star experience including a trip to Los Angeles, an in-studio “take over” at Radio Disney, a visit to the set of a Disney Channel show, and more...

This is the second annual U Rock event on Disney.com and this year fans will be able to watch and vote for their favorite videos via mobile phone by texting UROCK to DISNEY (347639)

Song selections can be downloaded from the U Rock 2 site. 

Check out this Video about the promo:  CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO

Fans can upload videos on Disney.com now through July 12, 2009. Finalists in each of the U Rock 2 categories will be announced on July 17, 2009 and fans can then vote for their top video picks through July 31, 2009.

Hope you go take a look at this cool new promotion from Disney that really lets the fans become a part of the entertainment on Disney !  We are big supporters of fan-participation here at Minti J

By the way this is a paid placement ?""]

 Hi everyone,

We have listened to your feedback about our recently introduced advertising banners that include a "scroll-down with sound option".

Unfortunately the "option" does not always work the way it should and for regular users of the site the sounds and interruptions were becoming a bit much.

Advertising is important to ensure we can keep this wonderful website free for all members.

Having said this, we also value our very regular members and would not want any of you annoyed by any of our advertising

..... so we have taken the unusual step of removing the display  of the "interactive" banner advertising for all members who are logged in to the site.

This should dramatically reduce the issues with sound/scroll down on adverts if you keep your "remember me" box checked for returning visits.

Thanks for the feedback and apologies for those who suffered during the time the ads were live, its going to cost us some money but it is well worth it in my humble opinion.

all the best

Matt

PS  we have recently agreed a co-operative deal with DVD Rental delivery business Quickflix which includes a 1 month free trial, do consider it as I have found the service to be excellent in my household   

 Hamish enjoyed his 1st Birthday party, particularly the cake !

 Well I know I am a bit early but here is the chosen photo for our annual Christmas card message to friends and family.

On the left is Hamish (at about 7 months) and on the right is Buster our little maltese-poodle cross.

Have a wonderful Christmas Minti folks !

Matt

Normally I would not comment on speculation about how Minti's founders and member-support staff go about our business but I really feel I must respond to a malicious set of messages which are currently being sent around Minti.  A member has sent me a copy of one of these messages which is why I am writing this.

Firstly we do NOT read your private minti-mails.

A member who was recently removed from our site claims that we did this when in actual fact the message she had sent was forwarded on to us.

For those who have had communications with Clay, Rachel, Izzy or myself over the past 3 years that we have been running this website, I ask you to really carefully consider how we conducted ourselves in each instance and ask yourself whether you think we really are the type of people who would go through other persons private messages - I assure you that we are NOT the type of people who would do this.

It is quite normal for someone who has been removed from this site to be upset and angry at us, but in truth this person had a very great many warnings about her behaviour, and particularly about her actions to undermine the level of respect the team here at Minti work so hard to earn from each of you.

Please do NOT believe these claims if you see them; and please do not perpetuate them.

If you want to move on from Minti we are sorry to lose you, but please do not stay and make false claims about the behaviour of the team who are working very hard to keep this site available and fun for all.

all the best

Matt

PS I hate having to write this kind of stuff   

 We will make a formal announcement next week but for now we are hoping some of you wonderful regulars on Minti might notice there is a new Survey available to earn a bit of extra moolah and help Minti grow as well     Take a look and I hope you decide to fill it out.

All the best

Matt

Hi Folks

There seems to be a bit of a run going on reporting short-articles.

Please be aware that there is no rule regarding the length of an article and being "less than 50 words" is not in breach of any of our Terms of Service or Code of Honor.

If an article is poor quality because of it's length then please vote accordingly rather than going straight for the "report" flag.

Also many pieces of advice will "look" like a blog post BUT so long as there is a hint of advice in the article it should NOT be reported but again voted on accordingly, or it might be good to encourage the author by posting a comment "this is great but could probably serve you better as a post to your personal blog as article pages are generally used for article style writing"

I would really appreciate people taking the time to consider carefully whether reporting an article (which is often a very negative experience for the author) is really required and perhaps taking some alternative approaches.

thanks  

Matt