Helium suck. That's true. Want to know why? Because Helium pay peanut. And yet Helium demand so much effort from you. Helium suck the best of me. After 73 articles, collecting two payments, my account is closed by Helium administrator.
Helium reject me without any explanation or memo after I have written for them for so many months. I just cannot log in to my account. So I ask them why. Only after that that they tell me that my account was suspended. Wow, talking about a good etiquette. What if I am not asking? I will try repeatedly again and again like a foolish person to log in to my account without much success. I thought there is a hacker out there who hack my account. Ha ha ha what a stupid notion. I am now thinking to be a hacker myself so that I can hack Helium. I even plead to Janice Brand (Helium vice President) for reinstatement of my account but all she could say is we need to do this for the best of all party.
So be warned to potential writers. Helium suck. I tried to appeal to them though to reinstate my account. But they all have the heart of stone. So what I can do? Helium is just so arrogant. Best of luck to them. Yes my English suck but at least I can write and tell something to people that Helium is suck.
Helium reject me without any explanation or memo after I have written for them for so many months. I just cannot log in to my account. So I ask them why. Only after that that they tell me that my account was suspended. Wow, talking about a good etiquette. What if I am not asking? I will try repeatedly again and again like a foolish person to log in to my account without much success. I thought there is a hacker out there who hack my account. Ha ha ha what a stupid notion. I am now thinking to be a hacker myself so that I can hack Helium. I even plead to Janice Brand (Helium vice President) for reinstatement of my account but all she could say is we need to do this for the best of all party.
So be warned to potential writers. Helium suck. I tried to appeal to them though to reinstate my account. But they all have the heart of stone. So what I can do? Helium is just so arrogant. Best of luck to them. Yes my English suck but at least I can write and tell something to people that Helium is suck.
2 comments:
I couldn't agree more. I objected to an article that seemed to have factual error pretty much in every sentence. It was an article written by a completely irresponsible person making zero effort in researching the facts before posting. I tried to post an article of opposite view stating references from reliable professional sources to back my point.
Few days later, my article is deleted claiming their policy does not allow direct reference to another author in Helium and that I can remove all of the direct references then resubmit it. So I did. Further directed me to a carefully hidden user tools option that allows direct objections to articles to the editors.
So I did both. A week or so later, the objectionable article still remains but my new article with no factual errors is removed. This time, they claimed some grammatical errors and they offered assistance from their editors. Their goal is to have professional publication quality writing at Helium.
Excuse me? They let an article will less than 5% of the content being accurate and claiming they are striving for professional publication quality writing. This grammatical incorrectness I'm sure is merely nit-picking. My English my not be perfect, but I suppose I did get my point across rather clearly and precisely.
As a reader, which is important to you?
Moderators are more concerned there about political correctness than accuracy of facts. If your article is even remotely politically incorrect, it is deleted immediately. If you're a politician and say everything is wonderful about a book or a product, your article is much more likely to stay than saying the opposite even if that observation happens to be based on a lot of credible research.
I tried a few times to write in Helium and each time, the article will get deleted in a few days.
Ultimately, as a writer, you want your work to be worth something to the reader. It is worthless to have an article with 5% content accuracy and 100% grammatical precision.
So I left a comment back to the editors about how Helium is currently being less than worthless with their current policies. A non-moderated system like Wikipedia has far more accurate content than pretty much anything in Helium. The accuracy level is so poor than you might as well ask your neighbor about technical facts. Sometimes, you'll get the facts correct, at others, you'll get a lot of garbage. In either case, you would probably want to cross check the facts anyway. If that's the case, why bother even looking at Helium?
I absolutely agree that Helium sucks. As a matter of fact, right before I closed my account from them, I changed my pen name to HELIUMSUX so it's at the top of all of my articles. They advertise themselves as a web site for writers, you do nothing but read and rate and the content that is contained on their website is for the most part, overworded rubbish that some 13 year old kid eating cold pizza and drinking flat code red mountain dew randomly flips through and haphazardly assigns a rating just so that he can get the million or so ratings in to earn the fraction of a percentage of $0.01 for the millions of hits. It's absolutely rediculous and I simply want my material back so that I can post it to a better web site and get paid for it appropriately. In addition, I do not want any of my material, my pen name, or my pay-pal account associated with Helium. So what did they do? They kept the articles, kept their money, and removed my access to make any further changes to my account. Crooks, criminals, and no-goodniks hiding behind their terms of use which is the only thing that is actually well written on their web site. Raping honest writers out of earned money.
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