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Is it time for all websites to pay writers for their articles?

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No
20% 209 votes Total: 1042 votes
Yes
80% 833 votes

by Henri Zimand

Created on: January 20, 2009   Last Updated: May 01, 2010

Payment to every writer will bring in chaos and that is certainly not what is in mind and desired here.

I can understand that writers who write exceptional articles should be paid , that writers whose articles are used , quoted or used that they should get a certain amount of money of course.

Can you imagine that anyone writing an article and publishing on any website including here Helium should get money for it, do you know what will happen ? Every person in the world will be writing any kind of articles which might have nothing to do with the subject and you would have to pay them and so what will happen and be ? You will have a big chaos and you will not be able anymore to sort out the good articles from the bad ones or lesser good ones. Also from where should the websites take money to pay the writers if it does not give them some kind of revenue from the other side. Websites can only pay as much as they can use the write ups and sell them on.

The way things happen today might still not be the ideal solution because good articles are not always promoted the right way and allow most readers to find these articles. I have written similar articles in different websites and when i put all the words of the title i could find very few , when i added my name they appeared and i can tell you that of all sites Helium came in fact as a first position. So we need improvement of course how these articles are in fact promoted and that is more important then all people being paid.

In order for a writer to be paid i believe that they need to write exceptional articles. Articles that cannot be found anywhere else, articles that masses of people can read and understand. I have read many articles and i was amazed to see that people sometimes do not understand the titles . The example was about milking down companies and to my amazement people wrote about milking cows. Are these the type of articles that should be paid?

If a writer writes an amazing article that gives interesting tips, interesting information , that thousands of people can use and learn from , yes they ought to be given an amount of pay for their good work. We should promote these people because the easier our life becomes thanks to these people the more they deserve.

So to conclude i believe that writers should be paid according to their quality and the way they bring out and write articles and the quality they give and the importance of the contents.

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