Writers who annoy
By mrtimharry
@mrtimharry (1180)
August 15, 2009 3:01am CST
In eighteen months on Helium only one writer has ever annoyed me. I have come across people who copy from wikipedia, which in itself doesn't annoy me as I know they will be kicked off.
This person though only writes in one area, which of course is not annoying. Her articles can get ranked higher than me, which is slightly annoying. The fact that she writes a sub-heading to justify what she writes below, having changed the wording of the main heading, is more annoying, but what is really annoying is that she either copies either the whole article to post in different headings, which she has done twice. Or else just copies huge chunks to paste into multiple titles, which is really annoying.
Sorry for the rant but just wanted to get that off of my chest before I write and flag.
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@scheng1 (24650)
• Singapore
15 Aug 09
Hi mrtimharry, there is even a possiblity that she uses PLR articles.
Since Helium allows non-exclusive rights to the articles, there is no way to stop people from using PLR articles. However, that really kills the whole purpose of writing.
If this writer uses the same idea, and rewrites sufficiently to make it different, that'll be better.
I hope Helium will take action to stop this kind of disgraceful writers from making money.
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@mrtimharry (1180)
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15 Aug 09
sorry for ignorance what are PLR articles - public copyright free?
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@scheng1 (24650)
• Singapore
15 Aug 09
PLR is private label rights. Some PLR articles are distibuted free, but those are usually very bad quality.
Some are sold in set of ten. The average selling price is a dollar per article. Private Label Rights mean that those buyers can amend the articles and claim writership.
Unless the writing sites specifically mention no PLR articles, there is no way to stop writers from using PLR and claim authorship. It's not even plagiarism.
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@mommaj (23112)
• United States
15 Aug 09
I thought you weren't allowed to put your article in more than one title on helium. I would say he has a perfectly justified reason to rant. Not only is it annoying to read the same article over and over in different titles, I am pretty sure it is against Helium rules. With any luck she will at least get a warning. That's just poor quality. How many times can you possibly use the same article for different titles? Don't answer that. LOL I'm not sure I want to know.
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@Canellita (12029)
• United States
23 Aug 09
How can someone get away with that? Doesn't helium have any kind of quality control system?
@scheng1 (24650)
• Singapore
23 Aug 09
Hi Canellita, an article spinner is a software to help you change the words in an article.
Some article spinners suggests certain words to replace the original word in the sentence. You can choose the best word for replacement.
Those who steal articles dont care how the articles turn out, so they automated the whole process, and the articles turn out to be nonsense.
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@Canellita (12029)
• United States
23 Aug 09
That is absolutely amazing to me! It makes me think of a software a friend told me about for script writing. I never looked into but now I wonder if the software fills in details for you.
