Earning rating stars on Helium 13 Articles

by Dan Cartwright

To earn rating stars, one should look at the quality of a piece and whether or not it is an enjoyable article. However, quality is in some cases more important than how an article makes a reader feel. Also, people should n...read more

by Sheree Zielke

The term "struggling writer" once referred to an author trying to get published. But that's not true on Helium; it's easy to get published on Helium. Instead, a writer's struggle on Helium might be in the earning and mai...read more

by Carol Gioia

Ever since Helium instituted the star system of rewarding members for their writing and rating efforts, there has been a frequent buzz on the community forums in regard to stars. Member's questions run the gamut from,...read more

by Andrew Spriggs

Helium sets itself apart from other user-generated content sites on the web by engineering a user-based rating system to reinforce the best writers on site. Helium's rating system tries to be simple and equitable, and of c...read more

by John Campbell

In spite of what holders of five rating stars will tell you, obtaining and retaining rating stars is not as easy as Helium portrayed it to be when they introduced their Rewardathon for January thru April. What Helium faile...read more

by Fiona Mather

To earn and keep hold of rating stars try to rate at least five to ten pairs of articles a day and you may find as I did that you get better at it the more you do it, rating can also become addictive. When I first joi...read more

by Rocket

I have rated over 3000 articles in the last 90-day period. I was in the 73 percentile. I think once you reach a certain percentile, you should be allowed to stay there, and not fall below. I don't think it should matter wh...read more

by Sammy Stein

I have decided to re-name the site helium.con. Rating stars is a good idea and the incentive of an added reward in the rewardathon was brilliant. Most of us are not motivated solely by financial rewards but if you write 2...read more

by Grace Alexander

Rating stars: the great divisive argument continues! How do we earn them? Why should we earn them? What criteria is used to determine if we qualify for them? As someone who arrived late in the game, I have been watching...read more

by Gary Maclean

I am so excited to be a part of the Helium revolution. I joined Helium back in June of 2007 but, for some reason, never participated until just recently, toward the end of February 2008. I don't know why, I must have been ...read more

by A. Major

The rating system on Helium is based on common currency. On any given day, as the Stock Market goes up and down and the American dollar loses some leverage, so will a certain ratio of Helium members lose their very precio...read more

by David Furritus

"Twinkle twinkle, little star how I wonder where you are" Last October Helium introduced a nifty concept to help writers see how they "rate" versus other writers: The Star. The first kind of star was rather easy to ...read more

by Aysha Schurman

Earning rating stars on Helium is one of the single easiest tasks to accomplish here. I never noticed I had a four or five (depending on the week) stars for ratings until someone else pointed it out. When questioned how I ...read more