Anyone ever do any writing on Helium?
96- Randy Godwin
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I was told by a former steward that Rex obtained his ordination by mail-order and paid $25.00 for his collar. His bragging about his many articles and self published books made me dislike him from the start.
The peer rating system is terrible as the stewards can rate in any channel and many rate each others articles up and others down. This explains how the stews win a large number of the contests. They simply rate down the competition. Just check who answers any complaint there. Almost all are brown nosing stews.Randy Godwin wrote:
I was told by a former steward that Rex obtained his ordination by mail-order and paid $25.00 for his collar. His bragging about his many articles and self published books made me dislike him from the start.
The peer rating system is terrible as the stewards can rate in any channel and many rate each others articles up and others down. This explains how the stews win a large number of the contests. They simply rate down the competition. Just check who answers any complaint there. Almost all are brown nosing stews.Hey Randy.. I've always wanted the title Rev. before my name.. I wonder where I get that for just 25 bucks? No, that's an enterprising idea..((ponders))
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- Randy Godwin
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debugs wrote:
Randy Godwin wrote:
I was told by a former steward that Rex obtained his ordination by mail-order and paid $25.00 for his collar. His bragging about his many articles and self published books made me dislike him from the start.
The peer rating system is terrible as the stewards can rate in any channel and many rate each others articles up and others down. This explains how the stews win a large number of the contests. They simply rate down the competition. Just check who answers any complaint there. Almost all are brown nosing stews.Hey Randy.. I've always wanted the title Rev. before my name.. I wonder where I get that for just 25 bucks? No, that's an enterprising idea..((ponders))
Anyone can become a reverend if they pay the money. There are many such sites who would be glad to oblige you. Then you can act arrogant, self righteous, and eat a lot of fried chicken for free. LOL
100- Uninvited Writer
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I remember signing up on a website once and becoming a minister. I don't even remember the site
It cost me nothing. So, technically, I could marry people...
About Helium, I have been stuck at $22 for almost a year now. I can't earn until I get my rating points up again. I do not like that, they earn on my views but I don't...
96- Luciendasky
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Pr0metheus wrote:
I tried it once... my high pitched voice wasn't apparent in the text.
lol
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- Randy Godwin
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Uninvited Writer wrote:
I remember signing up on a website once and becoming a minister. I don't even remember the site
It cost me nothing. So, technically, I could marry people...
About Helium, I have been stuck at $22 for almost a year now. I can't earn until I get my rating points up again. I do not like that, they earn on my views but I don't...I did make a few hundred dollars there from selling a couple of mystery stories and several travel articles but unless you rated according to the other members you didn't make a cent off of page views. If you desire rating stars just rate at random as the majority does. Do not pay attention to grammar, spelling or good content, in other words just choose one of the two articles.
I know several people who have done this and attained 5 rating stars. I did this for a few months and got my 5 rating stars but then confessed to show helium how faulty their system was. They scolded me for telling something everyone already knew. 
96- Marisa Wright
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Randy Godwin wrote:
Uninvited Writer wrote:
I remember signing up on a website once and becoming a minister. I don't even remember the site
It cost me nothing. So, technically, I could marry people...
About Helium, I have been stuck at $22 for almost a year now. I can't earn until I get my rating points up again. I do not like that, they earn on my views but I don't...If you desire rating stars just rate at random as the majority does. Do not pay attention to grammar, spelling or good content, in other words just choose one of the two articles.
It's even easier than that. The secret is to open the rating screen while you're doing something else. Rate a pair of articles, then go and do something else for 5 minutes. Then rate the next one, and so on. Time appears to be part of the algorithm - if you rate too fast, you don't get credit. You only need to do about a dozen rates a month this way to keep a guaranteed rating star.
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- Randy Godwin
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Nothing pisses the Helium brown nosers off more than to suggest their rating system is flawed. Rex gets red around his $25.00 priests collar.
The rating system is a joke as terrible articles are ranked #1 above those which are obviously better. - 100
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Randy Godwin wrote:
Nothing pisses the Helium brown nosers off more than to suggest their rating system is flawed. Rex gets red around his $25.00 priests collar.
The rating system is a joke as terrible articles are ranked #1 above those which are obviously better.Glad to hear someone else say that. I have seen such crap win contests...and it's not just sour grapes because I haven't won one
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- Randy Godwin
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Uninvited Writer wrote:
Randy Godwin wrote:
Nothing pisses the Helium brown nosers off more than to suggest their rating system is flawed. Rex gets red around his $25.00 priests collar.
The rating system is a joke as terrible articles are ranked #1 above those which are obviously better.Glad to hear someone else say that. I have seen such crap win contests...and it's not just sour grapes because I haven't won one
The contests are gamed by those in the know UW. One has to leapfrog the articles which are ranked low at the very last minute so they will rise to the 50% level or higher. The winners have nothing to do with being the best written article. Stewards have the ability to rate in any channel, unlike ordinary members. A steward can rate articles competing with theirs and rate them down. They can do this over and over therefore making the results unfair.
The steward's ability to rate in any channel also allows them to reject the leaps of the common members attempting to better their ranking. It only takes three rejection votes to kill the leap. Is it any surprise the same people win often?
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