Dearest Happiness Engineers,

After nearly two months of playing email tag with many of y’all, it has come to this.

“It appears the daily prompts have a limited number of entries…”

That number is exactly 185.

Now…

Even my ADHD math avoidant ass understands that 185 does not equal 365.

Infact, by limited the number of daily responses to 185. Let’s take 365 and divide it by 185- answer 1.97.

As a collective group of writers each one of us has the unannounced limitation of only answering 2% of the daily prompts presented to us.

To put that in perspective… Mickey Mouse gets 2% of the American Presidential Electoral Votes during election cycles because all the other options suck. Let’s be honest.

What if shops only sold 2% of a loaf of bread? Or the mechanic only did 2% of the work needed to repair your auto?

So shall we just call it what it is? Complete and utter bullshit.

This author fails to understand how this platform is creating mental wellness by presenting the daily prompt as a creative outlet, encouraging end users to sign up to answer, then restrict the habit authors have formed.

In social services employs, we define this type of behavior as progammatic abuse.

Programmatic abuse is a type of abusive treatment that uses aversive stimulus techniques that are not approved as part of a person’s Individual Service Plan (ISP) or rules and regulations. This can include isolation or restraint of a person.

Programmatic abuse can also refer to consumer data misuse in ad fraud schemes. Some examples of this include: 

• Dangerous permissions: 70% of Google Play Store apps have at least one “dangerous permission”. 
• COPPA compliance: 80% of Apple App Store apps and 66% of Google Play Store apps that serve programmatic ads count children under 12 as part of their audience.

Brand safety is subjective and based on each brand’s vision, mission, and goals. To ensure that consumers are engaging with effective content, this authors advice to Jetpack is this:

follow the numbers, stay educated on your limitations and clearly communicate them to your users.

Creating and then breaking habits in human beings is a dangerous game. Especially when your users may be operating their blogs as a safe space or primary emotional outlet.

Needless to say, this author is extremely disappointed and although this blog has remained for a little over 2 years… this author will not pay for her domain until her First Amendment rights are reinstated and this absolutely asinine restriction is removed.

I’d honestly encourage anyone currently subscribed to do the same.