by Karon Brandt
Helium is a virtual Community of about 100,000 active, writing members. Whether you are a complete novice to writing or you write professionally for a living, Helium welcomes you to share your personal knowledge and ex...read more
So you've heard the line, "Helium is a site of user-created content," and it has probably been etched into your brain now...you might be wondering how you personally can affect the quality of Helium? After all, you are jus...read more
by Jim Smoot
There's an old saying that "a rising tide lifts all ships." I think this is especially true of a site like Helium. As we do our work to improve the quality of the site, including good writing and conscientious rating, th...read more
Helium has a ways to go in the quality department. There is a lot of good information here and quite a few interesting articles, but there is also a lot of nonsense and badly-written articles that have nothing to do with ...read more
I'm seeing a lot of three word and badly spelled answers here. I'm also seeing answers that have nothing to do with the question, and some that are trying to answer the question, but speculating wildly. My favourite so ...read more
We Are a Feast The level of quality that Helium brings to the Internet reader depends on its writers. If those writers do their very best work while creating, editing, posting, and rating articles, Helium's quality wil...read more
by Merri Sharp
Quality is created and maintained by making sure that we all: 1. Read answers as well as write them - so that we are all helping each other earn money and contribute to building the numbers being calculated by Helium's...read more
by Leigh Goessl
In October 2007 Helium celebrated its first birthday and since that time has continued to grow by leaps and bounds, rising bigger and better every day. The community spirit and support system comprised of staff and members...read more
by Candy Jules
I am going to leapfrog this article because I have been writing on this Helium sight for a year and one day now. And we need to talk. I love this sight and the fact that it's such a release for nervous tension, such an opp...read more
There are three things you should do to help keep this site going and improve the overall quality it strives to impart: 1) Only answer questions about which you have accurate knowledge or which you have properly researc...read more
We should all try to improve the standard of this site and make it #1 site providing high class information. More people are going to visit this site if it has good quality answers. More people visiting this site implies m...read more
Every user needs to take responsibility for maintaining and improving the quality of Helium. Many people appear only interested in answering as many high EPA questions as possible; whatever the subject is and whether they...read more
by The Dormouse
I have a colleague who is fond of telling me that "everything finds its own level". I believe that statement applies perfectly to the quality of Helium Knowledge. The major thing we can all do is only answe...read more
1. only answer questions that you're actually sure you can contribute something to - no need to repeatedly look up the same sites on google and copy the shortcuts (fine as a backup / and or first answer, but not if 40 peop...read more
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