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This option perhaps may be given to writers having 2 stars and above only.

(2) Address Grammar and spelling issues by reintroducing flagging:

Helium may introduce two more flagging options (a) "Minor grammar / spelling / sentence structure / formatting problems - needs correction".

(b) "Serious grammar/ spelling / sentence structure / formatting problems "Needs serious review". The former flagging can go to the author directly. The later should go to Helium too for intervention and for possible de-rating till the author leapfrogs.

(1) EDITORIAL INTERVENTION: some way of editorial intervention is needed in ensuring quality. Everything can't be done with voluntary service of member's rating. Of course, it is rather too difficult, considering the enormous volume of articles in Helium; but some monitoring of at least the top 3 articles in each title to ensure that no sub-standard article gets into this slot by any flaw in the rating process should be ensured. Helium should find some workable way for it.

(2) FLAGGING OUTSIDE RATING: Helium should find a way of encouraging members to pinpoint (outside Rating) poorly articles as and when they come across them (not necessarily while rating alone) to pave way for downgrading them or deleting them fast. Helium should compensate that effort by giving something equivalent to 1 rating star in some way. This recognition should be treated in par with rating star for any revenue sharing conditions.

(3) ENCOURAGE FLAGGING: Raters should in some way get recognition for better quality of rating based on the flagging they do. That is, instead of doing a casual reading and selecting one article better than the other in a fly, raters should be encouraged to flag poor quality articles having mistakes. Further, any writer getting flagged beyond some numbers should get a word of warning from Helium.

(4) RESTRICT NUMBER OF ARTICLES PER TITLE: This is one of my strongest recommendations. In my personal experience, I find only my top 5 ranked articles mostly earn my pennies. It means, other than having a huge stock to boast about, articles above 5th rank do not matter much to Helium and its writers. So, I certainly feel a reduction in (unwanted and unwieldy) quantity of articles will reflect in better quality of rating/ better working of rating engine.

My suggestion to Helium is to restrict number of articles to 20 per title. I don't think any new and unexplored point can be added substantially by a writer over and above these articles. With

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