The answer to that question is no.

Always no. When it’s asked to me anyway.

Today I received an IM from an estate owner asking me if I would accept L$ 7500 to write a post saying how wonderful his real estate company is. I have never lived on his estate, but apparently that does not matter. He did not want me to mention that I was being paid for such a post and simply wanted me to write it like I would any of my other posts – essentially to pretend I had lived there and loved it.

I have a policy when blogging about people in world. If I am blogging about something public they have done, for example a stupid classified that someone posts or traffic gaming on their location (ie things that people could easily go see for themselves) then I will name people happily. If it is something that comes to me in IM then I generally do not name. My reason for not naming this guy here, however, is more because I don’t want to give him any publicity on the blog!

Anyway, I’m going off on a tangent here. I do agree that if people wish to charge for advertising on their blogs, that’s fine (though don’t get me started on asking for ‘donations’). If people wish to have banners and so on, or GoogleAds, that’s all good and well. Personally, this, for me, is a Second Life blog purely for recreation and I won’t attempt to cash in. But even if I were to cash in on advertising on this blog, I would never do it through sponsored posts. Pretending you have used a product or service and singing its praises in exchange for money is just bullshitting. There is no other way around it. It’s pure lies.

Needless to say, I won’t be posting about his real estate services….