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Copywriting clean up

by DWolfe
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Since the suggestion forum is ignored. Would it pay for the Qualified writers to flag down the content writer threads starting today.? Marcia, Gordon and a few others have been critical of these posts. Maybe it is time to start each day and everybody flag down 1 post at a time as they appear.

The moderators would get tired of having to review them and would just move them instead. Hopefully those long content posts could be moved or sent hear to the off topic section where they can be ignored. In the long run we would no longer have to view that crap.
  • Profile picture of the author laurencewins
    Can you please clarify what you mean?
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    • Profile picture of the author DWolfe
      Originally Posted by laurencewins View Post

      Can you please clarify what you mean?
      Look at some of the copy and paste posts or the content writing posts and move them out of that section. If I posted this in the suggestion forum to create just a content forum or re-open the articles section, it would just get ignored.

      Hope that clear it up for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
    I would wanna see sum articles in the ARTICLES section.

    For a forum awash with more articles than it knows what to do with, it is weird how the 10th article in the dedicated ARTICLE section last got a sniffa comment back in Jan 2015.

    Seems an easy swichta make.

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    • Profile picture of the author DWolfe
      Originally Posted by Princess Balestra View Post

      I would wanna see sum articles in the ARTICLES section.

      For a forum awash with more articles than it knows what to do with, it is weird how the 10th article in the dedicated ARTICLE section last got a sniffa comment back in Jan 2015.

      Seems an easy swichta make.

      Pour progenerative excess into a vacuum an' kill two birds with one stone.
      Absolutely they need to allow members to post in the Article section again.
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  • Profile picture of the author David Beroff
    Originally Posted by DWolfe View Post

    Since the suggestion forum is ignored. Would it pay for the Qualified writers to flag down the content writer threads starting today.? Marcia, Gordon and a few others have been critical of these posts. Maybe it is time to start each day and everybody flag down 1 post at a time as they appear.

    The moderators would get tired of having to review them and would just move them instead. Hopefully those long content posts could be moved or sent hear to the off topic section where they can be ignored. In the long run we would no longer have to view that crap.
    The basic underlying problem is that, as annoying as they are, they still meet the (current) rules. (I still have some lingering suspicion that many of them are paid for by Freelancer.com.)

    I agree with Princess, that the Articles subforum is, in fact, the correct location for these articles.
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    • Profile picture of the author DWolfe
      [QUOTE=David Beroff;10898137]The basic underlying problem is that, as annoying as they are, they still meet the (current) rules. (I still have some lingering suspicion that many of them are paid for by Freelancer.com.)/QUOTE]

      I have the same suspicion about those posts, but that is one of the very few sections that have(or had) any value here recently. Hate to see it go down hill any more then it has.
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  • Profile picture of the author laurencewins
    Thanks for the clarification. I agree that they should go in the articles section and I have no idea why that isn't happening...except that it makes as much sense as many other things.
    This forum used to be fantastic in many ways. Now it feels like it's a MacGyver job...being held together by duct tape and safety pins, and that saddens me.
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    • Profile picture of the author David Beroff
      Originally Posted by Princess Balestra View Post

      I would wanna see sum articles in the ARTICLES section.
      Originally Posted by DWolfe View Post

      Absolutely they need to allow members to post in the Article section again.
      Originally Posted by David Beroff View Post

      I agree with Princess, that the Articles subforum is, in fact, the correct location for these articles.
      Originally Posted by laurencewins View Post

      I agree that they should go in the articles section and I have no idea why that isn't happening...except that it makes as much sense as many other things.
      Interesting. It looks like they (quietly) opened it back up.
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        Originally Posted by David Beroff View Post

        Interesting. It looks like they (quietly) opened it back up.
        Let the reporting of posts begin

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        • Profile picture of the author David Beroff
          Originally Posted by agmccall View Post

          Let the reporting of posts begin
          Just for grins, I went back to the very first page, from 2010. Many of the articles ended with a clear, specific call-to-action, complete with URL. Presumably against policy now.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    Articles forum has been closed for 2 years or more - it was a paid section and was so badly used it was closed. Copy/paste, poor quality, blatant plagiarism - it didn't work very well.

    Must admit to some curiosity about who the "60+" people "viewing the article section" are....
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    • Profile picture of the author David Beroff
      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

      Articles forum has been closed for 2 years or more - it was a paid section and was so badly used it was closed. Copy/paste, poor quality, blatant plagiarism - it didn't work very well.
      So, sounds like a perfect fit to me.
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      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post


      Must admit to some curiosity about who the "60+" people "viewing the article section" are....
      Probably the ones copying them and pasting them to the main forum.
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    • Profile picture of the author Princess Balestra
      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

      Must admit to some curiosity about who the "60+" people "viewing the article section" are....
      If we are lucky, prolly a buncha multitaskin' Lernaean Hydra an' a blind Cyclops.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    That is FUNNY!

    A sticky still says "article section is closed" - but you can post in it now - did they charge you for it? It used to be pay to post....
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    • Profile picture of the author David Beroff
      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

      That is FUNNY!

      A sticky still says "article section is closed" - but you can post in it now - did they charge you for it? It used to be pay to post....
      They did not charge me. I'm debating whether to write up a WSO detailing my exact approach. For now, I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader.
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