Say hello to a Born Again Leapfrogger!  

Make an first post thats it.

@sandra---sorry,i do not have any idea about it

Hello, Lamb. Always glad to see you. Basically, 'leapfrogging' is the term Helium uses for editing. The articles are rated by other members, and if an article is sliding down the list, you can leapfrog it to bring your writing score back up again.

BTW, did you get laid yet, or is it still a work in progress?

Decided against it...

You should get laid lamb... in fact we both should! lol

Should we all look away now while you two carry on? Give me a tip when it's safe to come back.

LOL I didn't mean with each other Sandra!

WTF?? Am I not good enough??

You do a good job curling up on my feet Lamby. Have you not been out and picked up a woman yet then? You could see at home instead and read my thousands of scintillating articles on Helium.

Hello, Judith - I'm working on it. I was really surprised how much difference the leapfrogging has made already, as I always thought it was a waste of time. It's certainly made me reasses my Helium strategy, and it's nice to have friends over there as well as here.

Hi you two.

Oh, I see you already have.

Hello, Barbara. Nice to see you.

Hello, Alice. If you weren't so busy trying to get laid in Lamb's box, you'd have seen I explained it there. Basically, it's re-editing the articles in an effort to boost them up the rankings. I find Helium very confusing on some things, but Thea has sussed out the rating system, and she's helping me to move up the lists and build up my writing score.

Sandro. firstly. tsk tsk.. Lamb doesn't have a box, dear!

BUT, more importantly..( I think) is--- what the heck is a SUSS and how does one apply it when you are 'leapfrogging'

I did read it Sandra but wasn't taking it all in.. too busy having fun! lol

Leif: 'suss' as in to suss something out... is slang for solving something or figuring it out and lamb does have a box (#1) but not in the sense that we ladies have boxes hahahaa

Hello, MommaJ. You're much more experienced on Helium than I am, so thanks for your advice. I always thought leapfrogging was a waste of time, but the last few days have proved me wrong. As you say, it's good to bring older titles back into the ratings, and at least when I have some writing stars I can go for empty titles and up front payments. I've found my enthusiasm for Helium again.

Good for you. I know you are a great writer and I am sure that once you get your articles looked at again that you will get those stars in no time. Then you can start making upfront payments which will be nice. Better than not getting anything for them. Try to leapfrog the ones that are lower than 50% first. When you leapfrog if the leapfrog is accepted your article starts at the 50% range and moves from there.

Oh my goodness - you are going to write in those empty titles!! I can't wait to see what interesting ones you find!!

MommaJ: I hate to bring up AC when we are talking about Helium, but did you see that they are looking for a featured writer on parenting over there? You probably have more articles on parenting than any other AC writer!

Momma J, thanks for the tip and the compliment. I'll keep you posted.

Trensue, I can't wait to see what turns up, either. Hopefully not long now.

Art, I don't mind you popping in to help a fellow writer - that's what it's all about.

Thanks Anythng, I actually got an email on that. I am sure they will refuse me on that topic like all the other topics I applied for. LOL I'm still working on my writing. I noticed sometimes you get an article that just kind of stands out. The rest of them suck. LOL

Trensue, I have looked through some of those empty titles. BOY does Sandra have a selection on Helium. I am actually starting to write to some of them, after I get them approved on AC. LOL

Looking for all your great stuff - been out of commission for a week - that is another dramatic story - should I talk about it on mylot or keep it quiet. Lets take a vote! Everyone - let me know.

Put it on AC and Helium and at least get some money out of the ordeal. Now you did get my curiosity up, so please do share. I hope all is well now.

Gee Dawn, I'm surprised you don't know--as you have children. Leapfrog is a game where one child squats down like a frog and another child leaps over the first child's back, and then the first child leaps over the second child's back, while that one is squatting like a frog and on it goes, etc....

But, the way Sandra means is that "leapfrogging" is a form of editing over on Helium. When you write an article or whatever, it joins a line-up for ranking. If you edit to improve the article--it has a better chance to move up in the rankings line. Hence "leapfrogging".

Hello, Dawn. Leapfrogging is Helium's term for editing. If an article is slipping in the rankings, you can make changes, resubmit it, and hopefully 'leapfrog' the earlier version. I did explain it to Lamb in Box 1, but I think Alice distracted him.

It was the Helium thing I didn't understand. My children never played leapfrog, but I used to when I was a kid.

Hello, Gerty. I've discovered that, the more time you can spend on Helium, the more you get out of the site, both earnings wise and creatively. I've earned more in the last 3 months than in the previous two years, and I find I'm enjoying improving on my older articles. It's definitely worth devoting some time to it.

Thank you for the encouragement.

Hi Trensue: When do you think the best time to leapfrog is? Just wondering...not that I am planning to do any anytime soon.

Hello, Trensue. Thanks for the tips. I'll avoid leapfrogging at the weekend if that's the case. I've leapfrogged about 20 titles so far, and two have been rejected. I honestly don't know why, because one was the first article I wrote for Helium, and I just cringed when I read it through again. The leapfrog was tons better.

I've made sure I've altered the opening paragraph in each one, so that raters realise there are changes. Some of the leapfrogs I've been asked to rate looked exactly the same, and I didn't want that happening to mine. I've written one new article this week as well. I think it's important to keep fresh stuff coming, as well as improving the existing articles.

Great information Trensue! I hardly do anything on the computer on the weekends, so that is good to know just in case. Sandra, that's great you are writing and leaping at the same time. I think that will also help your writing stars.

Early morning and I am mst usa

You know me. I don't understand what you meant. LOL Please tell me it is typo and not texting shortcuts. I am so far behind on learning those. LOL

Hello, Art. Yes, I've always seen leapfrogging as a waste of time, but as the results get better and my writing score rises, I'm becoming quite evangelical about it. As you say, with Helium, it's all about ratings.

It's actually been quite an eye opener in regard to my writing as well, because I started at the bottom of the pile, with the first articles I did back in September 2007. At the time, I thought they were good, or I'd never have posted them, but I can see a definite improvement in my writing over time, which is why I thought I really ought to try and get myself some writing stars.

Hi anythng, You know it's rare I try to leapfrog. LOL Most of my articles that are at the bottom have stayed there. LOL You are right about leapfrogging and making a difference. I think they really need to improve the whole rating system. I guess it is good they use real people instead of machines, but sometimes the people don't read the title that is being written to, or they just don't read the articles. I am going to try to take more time to rate. I want to get to the extra rating money. LOL

hiya leif
Do you want a game of leapfrog? then you bend over first LOL

er.. hmm. I can trust you right??

RIGHT??

yoohoo, Alice.. If I present myself in such a vulnerable position, I need to know I can trust the next frog!! Do you intend to jump over me??

Hello, Leif. I should think your dog is quite traumatised enough, without you leapfrogging over him. Blue ribbon? What have I got to do to get that? No - don't tell me - let me keep my innocence. Actually, it's Thea who's got me organised on Helium. I was quite happy with my vodka and oranges, but she's got me working.

Alice, behave yourself!

So Leif, I might be useless as a techno toilet fixer but I'm terribly good at organising people.

Sandra.. I am so happy for yo that you are enjoying the new flashy 'you' on Helium. I miss you but I also am very very pleased that you have this opportunity and fun again!!

So Thea.. we cannot all fix toilets! There HAS to be many a person who cannot or will not fix their own toilets or many a fine well-trained toilet fixer will be out of work .. and think the deprivation of food and clothing and cell phones to the thousands of children!!. We cannot have lost revenue to licenced professionals as , with this reduction comes a reduction of taxes paid to keep the upper echelon happy; and. of course, the rest of us with flushable toilets.
On the other hand, organizational and management skills are EVER so valuable as they all apply to ALL aspects of life and tend to allow more fixing ability in a broad spectrum of needs! As in managing to keep toilet fixers in a higher income bracket for the country's well-being.

Well done, thea! Was there really ever any doubt?? ( not from me, ever)

Hello Leif, lovely to hear from you. It's not just Helium that's keeping me busy - I am also doing some editing work for another website, but I get over here as often as I can. And I always take a look at your profile to see what you've been up to while my back was turned.

As you're missing me so much, this one's for you, Leif:

: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb6iX4FwQUY : Chris de Burgh

Well sweetie the toilet fixing just wouldn't work a second time. Same old running problem but worse. Now the Greek was here and looked at it but declared it definitely needed a new part which he got for me, but its still sat in my car, as he had a bit of an accident after acquiring said part which prevented him putting his hand in the toilet tank. I'm sure he'll sort it soon.
Probably quicker for you to swim over from Sweden to do it for me though, if you put on waterproofs so you don't get the DAIM bars wet.
Have to say it was quite easy getting Sandra organised and she never once told me off for being bossy.

ahaaaa! That was YOU, Sandra, thanks! I noticed the old profile was all ‘looked at’

Should I leave a snack or something??

Thanks for the link! Nice one! I love music and the fact that YOU can also enjoy it too!
Have fun and I love your enthusiasm now that you are back on helium, et al! Interests with perks!!

Thea!! HAHAHAHAHA! sure! Your wit hasn't suffered a bit!

I am glad you will eventually, one day, sooner or later, if all goes well, and in this lifetime, have a properly working toilet and a duvet!
I have had a little surgery so I am here in spurts , poor me, so I must say an open wound would NOT be anything but an attraction to sea life of a threatening kind to my wellbeing. Thus a delivery at this time is not feasable... The DAIM bars I have slipped under the plastic covering of a duvet that you will eventually when the time is right and at a non predetermined time will receive to warm you against the cold in winters to come.
This I declare has all been a fabrication of my imagination of wishes to come true.. alas!

Well I trust it wasn't life threatening and serious surgery or you wouldn't be messing round on here. What happened, did you have a fingernail clipped? It's probably way too cold to swim over anyway and certainly the sea is too rough at this end. There were two fishermen nearly drowned here last week but the sea police got due praise for saving them, from their office. Must say though this month has a very unpleasant nip in the air.

aaah thea, nothing life threatening thus far. I am keeping an eye out for signs of infection since the procedure was a bone invasive,, daim it!

However on to less unsightly things.. I am really amazed and curious as to how these two fisherman were saved by the sea police from their office.. hmm.. did they use a bull horn or microphone to tell the fisherman to swim? or?

And you have to know I am toying and teasing. I saw the comma! Just I saw you too and I miss you so thought to draaaag this out a wee but more.

So nice to see you!

Hello, you two. Fancy having a party and not inviting me! Thea, don't let Leif play down his injuries - he hasn't squeezed my oranges for days, so it must be serious. If you're desperate for the toilet, we have two, so you're welcome to pop over and use one. Bring your own paper, though, as we're on an economy drive.

Leif, stop toying with Thea. The Greek will be after you - and he won't be looking for you to squeeze your oranges, either. Oh, I don't know, though ...

Not inviting you?You started it and then walked out for an orange squeezing, I am guessing, and didn't return till just now.. Any explanation for this? (that you wish to share, I mean)

I am looking forward to meeting the Greek, as I want to make sure my 'lilla Sys' is looked after properly for those very very few, but, nonetheless, important things for which she would need 'looking after'
hmm, you mean he might also be an orange squeezer?