How much would you PAY for this article?

Could you (please) elaborate why?

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Which explains why you posted it here as an image rather than a copy/paste.

right buddy no body will publish even in free

So 15 minutes of your time is worth 10 cents? So you would be okay with working for 40 cents an hour?

I would say this article and those of similar substance would go for $5.

Not in the slightest.

As kay pointed out this is not even your work... Why are you wasting everyone's time asking for opinions?

I'm trying! I'm trying!

You're confused on the definition of worth...

Anything in this world is only worth, what another person is willing to pay. If you've found an idiot willing to pay $28.00 for keyword stuffing, well, you're a genius.

If you can't see it, I can't show it.

Unfortunately, that sample is a 2015 sample.

I was wondering where you were!

Care to explain that? My reputation has nothing to do with the topic.

How do you know that? Are you the article's original author?

You managed to scroll "down here" to comment. Any reason why you didn't bother to read the sh** in the middle???

If you know the quote "there's one born every minute", the phenomena makes sense. Always another batch of newbies either looking for the easy way or who know no better.

It really hurts me that Americans think about us like this. There are good and bad in every country. You want proof? Go read YouTube comments.

Base your opinions on the content, not on the country.

Chaitanya

Yes, it's always a good idea to ask questions and clarify things before acting on assumptions.

This is a very large forum. And this is a very small thread. I think you're exaggerating its effect.

As such, your own rant could have been summed up with two words: "I'm mad!"

1. I haven't laughed at anything. WTF are you talking about?!?
2. Nor have I asked for help!!! Ever!!!

::looking at you suspiciously::

Are you for real?? You actually think people will stop "helping" others because of little ol' me? Well I must be more powerful than... than...

I disagree. I think you learned something else FAR MORE important. Don't wanna share? That's cool.

Didn't ask for help.

Details.

Remember?

Many of the people in this group don't lack attention to detail. They simply don't care. At least these people are responding to the first post. It's not hard to find people responding to the subject line without actually reading the original post. What they care about is getting that "make a trillion dollars in 30 seconds with no work" sig line seen. Or they're still under the illusion that sig links from here still have value as backlinks.

You're using a pretty broad brush there, my friend. In communicating with many EFL types from many parts of the globe, I find the biggest obstacle many of these folks have when it comes to writing American English is that most Americans speak it so poorly. Add in the immense and ever-changing pool of slang, and the task is nigh to impossible when you learned the language with proper spelling and grammar.

Those challenges aren't limited to Americans, either. Once, on a cruise ship, I overheard (read 'eavesdropped') on a conversation between a fellow from a certain London neighborhood and a fellow from Manchester in England. I'm not sure what language they speaking, but it wasn't the English I grew up with. It was almost as funny as listening to a Texan arguing with someone from New England. Talk about "people separated by a common language..."

Yeah it is - helluvan eye opener for a newb like me. Myself, I though nmwf was running a tease: being playful. Not my own style, but I can appreciate it.

Well, you certainly called it!

Thank you, particularly for using the term, "dig."

That's a very smart thing to do, especially after considering there's a super-simple way to learn more about each person that posts here.

Well, it's unfortunate that someone put a direct link and name to the article-image because both will show up in search engines -- right along with suggestions of plagiarism and the accompanying insults. I tried to avoid that, of course, by posting just the image of the article and a bitly link in the first place, but it apparently didn't help.

I'll scream it until I'm blue in the face (and that will take a lot of screaming since I'm African-American)! I would pay or sell at the prices set here: Writers and Authors : Occupational Outlook Handbook: : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

But then there's the question of what constitutes a 5-star article in the first place. And that part, I think, is (unfairly) subjective. My 5-star significantly differs from that site's 5-star (and the other sites just like it). Still, I tend to favor content that resembles the material in published books and magazines.

Interesting analysis. A disconnect.

I like that!

Compared to a blank page???

Seems to me that there are many markets in the world of writing.

Each with its own value, established by buyers and sellers.

The OP played in the cheap market, tried to teach people about value... But value is based on the whole of the sellers and buyers in the market, in general, then, in particular, even within the same market, some buyer will suddenly feel like something has a lot more value than other people think.

I'll make it easier for you, I'll talk about real estate.

All of you know neighborhoods where a 2k square foot house sells for little and a neighborhood or two only some 10 miles away, where the same house, in the same condition will sell for 5 or 6 times more.

Specifically, in my area, there are houses you buy for $75k in on place and for $575k in another... The places are about 12 miles apart.

Whether you're talking the cheap or the rich neighborhood, sometimes, you have a mother that's buying a home next to her son, and willing to pay extra... no matter what the appraiser asks...

In real estate, there are appraisers and, assuming an honest and good appraiser, you can get a good idea of the value of any given house.

In writing there isn't.

Back to writing, people who bought into "Google wants fresh content" and think they need 20 articles a week, just to not piss Google off, will buy articles just good enough to not piss Google off. They, and the writers who sell to them, are one market.

Then, there's the market of those who want lots of content, for the same reasons, but think they are superior in some way, and they show superiority by paying more (not by getting better quality).

(Happens in all areas of life... Case in point, when I was in college, my brother, who was also in college and broke like me, bought the expensive version of the cereal I bought...

I asked him why. He said if he paid more he knew he was getting better quality....

I showed him the ingredients, they were identical. The only difference was the packaging... cheap-looking (2 colors, no graphics) for the cheap one, many colorful graphics on the expensive one).

The OP played in that market and didn't like it. Wanted / wants to reconfigure the market.

To make it more like the market of the New Yorker, where people get paid hundreds, if not thousands, for a article of similar length (depending on departments... submarkets?)

The OP is missing the part that, for some business owners, spending $28 for an article worth $4 would require them to spend extra time on getting the quality they are paying for and, at their hourly rate, it costs more to investigate than just accept that they might not get their $28-worth of writing.

Overall, though in the beginning I had doubts about the OP, I don't mind the approach, and enjoyed the results ensuing from the original post and strategy.

And I am endlessly amazed by the high number of people who would buy what the OP posted thinking it's good quality.

Though I decry poor writing just as much as the OP, I think the proper response is what the OP ended up doing: taking the