To flag or not to flag at Helium: Guidelines on using the flagging tool 14 Articles

by Karon Brandt

Helium's rating system has become better, more flexible, more user friendly. As of January, 2008, we can give feedback to writers and still rate another article better so it continues to move up in the ratings. So ...read more

by Pat Lunsford

Guidelines on using the flagging tool are really quite simple. The user agreement states the violations and articles that violate the user agreement should be flagged. Flagging articles for bad writing skills is not what t...read more

by Bob Younce

The flagging tool is an important part of the rating process at Helium. The flagging tool allows you to do a number of things, from reporting plagiarism to letting the author know about a formatting or grammatical issue. ...read more

by Randa Morris

Having been an active member of Helium for the past 2 years, I would like to share some insight and experience, with both appropriate and inappropriate uses of the flagging tool. While there may be some authors on Heliu...read more

by Shawna Blake

It appears that flagging is quite a controversial issue among the Heliumites. While reading an article, we all tend to look for some of the same things that we consider to be 'correct'. By this I mean correct punctuation, ...read more

by Kelly A. Mello

On Helium.com, members of the community are given the power to make the site a better place by helping to weed out unacceptable articles. Not many other user-generated Web sites can say the same. So as Helium members, we s...read more

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by Savannah S.

It has come to my attention that many users on Helium do not even know what types of materials to flag. Many fellow writers in the recent past have flagged article due to spelling and grammatical errors thinking that poor ...read more

by Jen Thorpe

Not sure if you should flag the article you have been asked to rate? Here are some flagging tips: DO flag if... *... the article contains "adult content". Realize, however, that there are some titles that are g...read more

by Dan Weaver

I received an e-mail the other day from another Helium member who wondered why I had five rating stars and she had none after she had rated hundreds of articles. I e-mailed her several tips. One of them was "don't be afrai...read more

by Barbara Whitlock

At Helium, the community rules! As writers, members share their best articles on the site. As raters, members sort for quality. Members also provide constant watch, catching plagiarists and those who submit inappropriate c...read more

by Branwen Smith

If we writers are to have our work taken seriously, and regularly used by readers, this website must appear professional and of a high quality. Flagging is the tool we have to help achieve this. What must be remembered ...read more

by Mel Bergen

Flagging articles at Helium is an effective way to help staff remove the dregs of what has been posted to this site. How do you decide if you should flag an article or rate it down? The first thing to consider is wheth...read more

by Clayton Morgan

Flagging and rating, they seem to never be far from the surface, and perhaps that is good. I share in the concern that errant flagging can and does cause problems both with flagging's original intent and the rating system...read more

by Chaz Z.

Helium is great, but this only stirs some more questions as to the equitability or perhaps the desires of those who receive the "flagged" articles. All of the articles I was "once" flagging, to have removed looked much lik...read more