Top 10 ways to lose my vote in the Helium rating system 40 Articles

by Mjrinella

Everyone wants their helium article rated to the top, but how people rate seems to be a mystery. Obviously, every member of helium has different tastes, likes, and so forth. So how do you accommodate all of the different m...read more

by David Furritus

Rating articles can be fun - sometimes. Unfortunately, when you find yourself facing articles about topics that you just don't care about you have to set up some criteria on how you're going to vote for them. Here's the on...read more

by Amanda Fox

Just as there are sure fire ways to get my vote for an article there are a host of ways to lose my vote as well. Let's face it, everyone would ideally care about their work being received well, but at times there are submi...read more

by Lesley Rigg

One man's prose is another man's poison! My top ten of ratings losers is of course, highly personal to me, and not always going to be the same for all raters. However, I think enough of them are standard quirks for them ...read more

by Carol Gioia

Rating the articles of other Helium writers is a productive pastime because I am an avid reader and keenly interested in the views and opinions of others. During my rating sessions I am frequently in awe of the talent and...read more

by Ray Cook

When I rate on Helium I am very much aware that others are doing the same to my articles. Being fair and totally unbiased and objective is the only valid way of rating. Let me say that if I disagree with the content of an ...read more

by Marina Shemesh

The more one write and rate on Helium the more you learn. The better articles teach you HOW to write and the terrible ones teach you how NOT to write. During rating you come across a lot of mistakes. You become more rut...read more

by Rena Sherwood

Most Helium raters will not bother to compare every single word and little punctuation mark. We do not keep scorecards on how many spelling or grammatical errors we find. In fact, most don't rating pairs don't need to be...read more

by Susan Hibberd

I do a lot of rating ( see my stars!) and I hate it when I come across a bad article. Here are some of the things that drive me crazy. 1.BAD SPELLING. With the great Helium spell checker, there is no reason for bad spel...read more

by Raven Lebeau

I am all about respecting diversity. I realize that there will always be a plethora of articles with whose contentions I disagree. I understand that a style I find obnoxious may move or amuse another reader. So I do not...read more

by Shawna Blake

In light of the recent reward-a-thon contest, I think that the members of Helium should be far more conscience of what exactly, they are posting on this fast growing site. However, it is painstakingly clear that few others...read more

by Guinevere Shepherd

I joined Helium in May of 2007. Since then I've found that rating articles can be a painful and aggravating experience. At times I think that Helium writers are trying to annoy me, since so many of them are using the sam...read more

by V R Rutledge

I suppose one could consider me to be a newcomer to Helium. I am not, however, a newcomer to writing. I was first published 38 years ago, as a poet, while still in high school and have continued writing ever since. I'm ...read more

by Ian Loft

There are some truly outstanding blunders that will motivate my rating the alternative or even flag an article for action. Rating is entertaining, informative and sometimes quite frustrating particularly when the writer h...read more

by Alan Fernald

Rating articles at Helium is how we help advance those writers who take the time and effort to write their best articles. Additionally, we help to remove the drudge articles that seem to litter a great part of the interne...read more

by Berlin Asong

Bad articles score poor ratings. It doesn't matter if it is the first article you ever written; or another language is your first language other than English. As long as it is poorly written, Helium's super best writers sp...read more

by Rachelle de Bretagne

Losing a vote in the rating system is not as negative as people think it is. What is teaches a writer is to advance and learn. On many writing sites, articles are rated highly due to popularity of the writer, rather than t...read more

by Laura Leigh Fields

The Helium rating process can often be a nerve wracking one. It seems like no matter how much we preach about the right way to write Helium articles, people still publish useless nonsense. I am sure the same could be said ...read more

by Kelly A. Mello

I graduated from college as an English major and currently work at the Community Newspaper Company as an editorial assistant and reporter. For these reasons, I justify my being a writing snob. Give me any article, novel, o...read more

by Melissa J. Clark

Rating on Helium is a task that takes time and concentration. It is also one that I enjoy for the most part. There is, however, the occasional article that fails to enhance my experience as a rater. The following are th...read more