Comments on: Cleaning Up on eHow

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:59:52 +0000

I can’t submit an article. Whenever I hit the submit button the page returns to the home page. Has this happened to anyone else? The problem has persisted for a week.

By: jswana

jswana — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:52:12 +0000

I am relatively new and followed the advice of one of the younger but much more savvy members. She says write, write and write and learn key words. Inside those two months, I must have written close to 150 articles, give or take. I was away for about 8 or 9 days and found less articles and less points when I returned. I knew very well that ehow had the right to take away articles for their own reasons, which I agree. Not many of mine were removed considering how many that were done but this constructive criticism honestly helps me more. I am stepping up my game and still refuse to send out bulk emails for others to read my work. This is something I was also advised not to do and I agree. But I am learning to search for more innovative ways to get my articles more noticed. I honestly like this site.

By: Mike Bauman

Mike Bauman — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:06:48 +0000

I agree with the poster who said we should be given warning and an explantion for deletion. I have had a couple of articles deleted for unknown reasons that people were reading and finding helpful.

Deleting an author’s published material without cause, recourse, or explanation is UNPROFESSIONAL. I don’t have this problem on other sights I write for (associated content) and shouldn’t have them here. I work hard on my material and to have an unknown person, of unknown background or qualification, arbitrarily delete my work is unacceptable.

By: maryladd

maryladd — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:53:25 +0000

Thank you for having a place that I can write and see my thoughts in print. I am new so any reworking of Ehow is important to me and I have seen several improvements the short time I have been here. Keep up the much apprecitated work. maryladd

By: Jenecequa

Jenecequa — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:20:01 +0000

I applaud the necessity for quality material and workmanship, but I do feel that a notification process should be in place. Anything less creates the appearance of possible collusion with popular writers, smacks of favoritism, and hints at a possible breach of ethics. How do we know that you do not have personal relationships with some of the writers, who submit for personal gain? As long as money is involved, it needs to be squeaky clean, and clearly defined. The people who submit articles should be dealt with as professionally as possible. You need to notify people that articles (for which they have collected payment in the past) are due to be removed, and you should provide the reason. What guarantees are in place that articles, that are removed, are not reformatted rewritten, and then republished by someone else for personal gain? Especially if they are permitted to remain published… Please be respectful of your writers.

By: Glenn Mosser

Glenn Mosser — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:49:38 +0000

I agree whole heartly. I know they have checked me for articles, and since these articles were from me in ezine.com I and to let them know. this is definitely preventing plagiarized articles. I love the fact that they are watching out for us.

By: Patty Bryfogle

Patty Bryfogle — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:07:31 +0000

I have just started on ehow and think it is only fair to the members to not allow this fraud and appreciate all that is being done to protect the honest members, way to go!

By: F

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:37:03 +0000

I got a private message saying that I was cloning articles. I wrote articles on similar topics from eHow’s list of requested articles. They were all the same topics so I posted my content accordingly. (How to write baby shower invites, how to write baby shower invitations, etc).

I also lost one of my articles that was completely original. How do I appeal for that? Thanks!!

By: jpwriter

jpwriter — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:43:21 +0000

As a proponent of good content, I think that this recent “clean up” is somewhat flawed. In your blog post you inform us that we’ll receive a notice stating the problem that may push it to draft or give an appeal process. However, last week’s generous deletion did not seem to follow that whatsoever. I found a plagiarized article on my own after you deleted an article, but was given no recourse to try to appeal. As well, there was no reason at all given for why articles were deleted. I track my articles, so I know what was missing. But, reading this all you did was delete. No one is answering messages. No one has clearly defined what a spam article actually is, only what is could potentially be and the conversation went to free articles.

I know that community morale is down, people are afraid to publish because of the lack of WHY for each deletion and the outright threat of account closure if anyone even attempts to publish something similar to anything deleted. Rich said these were scrupulously reviewed, yet you can’t provide more than a generic post deletion email? It just seems unprofessional on many levels.

I would prefer that other site problems were fixed before another undertaking. This seems like one more hit to the write and has driven people away. It’s confusing and disappointing.

By: Alrady

Alrady — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:18:04 +0000

I remembered this blog article as well and came back to post again. While the cleanup is GREAT and helpful even, it is clear from forums that people need to know which articles are cut and WHY.

There are so many aspects of the cleanup that people are getting confused and worried. CAN ehow somehow let them know the which and the why of article’s being cut?