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What is a Wetpaint site?Wetpaint sites are "click-and-type" websites that are easy to start and even easier to expand, because you can invite anyone you like to add text, photos, links, and other content to your Wetpaint site. To add or edit content, all you need to do is click the EasyEdit button to activate an editing toolbar similar to what you'd see in programs like Microsoft Word. Then just start typing!
What do people use Wetpaint sites for?Wetpaint sites can be used for all kinds of things. Here are just a few:

  • Personal Uses - You might want to start a Wetpaint site where you post photos for your family and friends to see and share. This is an easy way to keep people connected to what's happening in your life and helps you avoid sending out tons of email.
  • Reference - Are you an expert on fly fishing or do you have the inside scoop on all the best Hollywood gossip? You could start a Wetpaint site as an online reference for like-minded people. Imagine passionate online discussions about the latest Brangelina gossip or trends in fly-fishing lures with people from around the world.
  • Clubs and Organizations - Are you the one tasked with getting the local PTA group online and up to speed? It's easy to start a site for your group using Wetpaint. And even better -- you can delegate. The Wetpaint platform makes sharing the workload much easier.
Why choose Wetpaint over other Wiki services?Wetpaint has created several videos listed below that demonstrate the advantages of Wetpaint over competitors such as freewebs or wikia.

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Anonymous What a disappointing adds 3 Apr 27 2011, 6:12 AM EDT by Naru2008
 
Thread started: Jan 14 2010, 1:07 PM EST  Watch
Wow... this service might be okey, but their marketing department must really be trying to scare me away with all these videos.

Take the first video: "Why use webpaint?"
The gist: Sarah is a scooter lover, but she has no scooter lover friends. The solution: she creates a scooter website and invites all her scooter lover friends, who in turn invite their scooter lover friends, creating a huge community.

Sorry? Let's get this straight, she has no scooter lover friends, makes a website and then she suddenly has those friends as she can now invite them?

And the wiki vs. Wetpaint videos...
Much of what they say is simply untrue, exaggerated (by a factor 20) and even where they may have a point, they are not having a fair comparison. You can't compare apples and pears, nor can you compare a piece of software (let's assume they mean MediaWiki, if they don't they are even comparing a service with a type of program, which makes even less sense) with a service. If there was someone tro provide a service based on MediaWiki, then you would have something to compare to... And probably then installing won't be more than a few clicks either. On top of that, you can host your own MediaWiki if you want to spend half an hour installing (36 hours? That guy must have been typing with his tongue or something) which you cannot do with wetpaint.

Really, this "marketing" makes me want to puke and never look at this website again. However, I will be fair and evaluate the usefulness of wetpaint for the thing I meant it for. But you won't hear me complaining over the fact that wetpaint is not even trying to be what I am looking for...
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Brownies+pickles chat 1 Dec 12 2010, 7:41 PM EST by justinwacnj
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well, i saw this free wetpaint site with chat. how do I get that? all i have is comments.
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Anonymous Im trying to get into invitation only site, 1 Feb 18 2010, 5:59 PM EST by Naru2008
 
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I received and invite from my cousin, clicked the Accept Invitation Link and come to Wetpaint login. I logged in using my Facebook email address and password, then created a Wetpaint profile, now I can't get to my family website which is why I was accepting the Invitation Link which was sent the email address I use, in the first place. What am I doing wrong? I need help!
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