Is It The Right Thing to Leave Triond Now?

stine1 on Aug 2, 2011

Tags: 2011, august special, battle, do not give in, earn more, Fight, flag, flagging, get more views, improve quality, quality, successful, triond, writer, Writing

Many successful and brilliant writers intend to leave Triond and stop writing for this website. The reasons are the latest lack of quality content and the August special where you are rewarded for flagging content.

Let’s at first talk about the two reasons why so many successful writers want to stop writing for Triond:

With the recent Google Panda update, Google has changed the way they rank quality websites on their search results and therefore, many really great articles are rated down because the website they were published on is known for producing spam and duplicate content. The reason for this is not the fault of writers who produce quality. Oh no, the culprits are some users who prefer to endlessly spin articles (change some words so that a “new” article is produced) or to produce worthless spam without any real content. The problem here is that traffic from search results decreases for the whole page, e.g. Socyberty.com and that is why even good writers get less traffic and less income.
The latest August 2011 special that Triond just announced, does give you a badge if you publish at least 5 articles during August (not hard to achieve) AND you have to flag at least 15 articles written by other authors.
The relatively new flag option intends to increase quality as we readers can report guideline violations more easily. The bad part about it is, that some people tend to abuse such systems (although Triond said that every flag will be reviewed by staff) and good content gets deleted without any real reason.
On the other side, many writers complain that they do not intend to flag as they are only here for having fun, presenting their writing and helping other people. They do not want to participate in such a “witch hunt” as they call it.

Well, I must say that I try to understand both sides, but I must also admit that I am here to earn some money. Apart from all the fun I have, I would not be here for zero earnings. That is a fact and I am honest in telling you this.

I myself do not have a problem with flagging. I even consider flagging to be one of the things we can do to improve the site, improve Triond and get it back on track. I do not want people posting rubbish to earn from it! Yes, this is what I think!

And I am not going on a witch hunt, meaning that I am not searching for violations. But if I encounter one, I flag it. If I manage to spot 15 violations during August, I was lucky. If not, then not.

I am really sorry that some people seem to give in before they have even participated in trying to improve the site. I really wished they would keep the battle going a bit longer. They will be missed!

What are your views on this?

For your reference:
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Comments (13)

MissLindsie on Aug 2, 2011
It’s pathetic of what they are doing. They are using it in a way and spot those who does it without a good reason why, they will shut them down. It’s real bad.
Thorn Birds on Aug 2, 2011
I do not like the idea of “hunting” spammers or low quality articles. I think this should be the main job of Triond’s Admin. They have to filter more seriously the articles, to read them before publishing rubbish. Quality requires more time and harder work.
Jackie118 on Aug 2, 2011
It’s a tricky issue! I like to think I’m a fairly good writer and I’ve always been good at spelling and grammar, and I find so many writers out there who can’t spell, can’t punctuate and seem to have difficulty in forming a comprehensible sentence, but as an amateur writer myself do I have the right to comment and flag up others? So often it’s tempting to flag up badly written articles but which could be interesting if only the writer had a better understanding of the English language!

These days it seems that people like you and I who can speak relatively good English are becoming the minority and something definitely needs to be done to bring Triond back on track but, at the end of the day, I think it needs someone who has the qualifications to judge the work rather than people like me who think they’re pretty good (but not perfect by any means!).
Farzeela Fee Faisal on Aug 2, 2011
I agree with Thorn Birds… this must be the job of Triond editors, not the writers!!!
stine1 on Aug 2, 2011
Thank you ALL for your great comments. It is so good to see that I am not the only one who is unsure about this *lol*
afriendlyfellow on Aug 2, 2011
I too was worried about the flagging of articles, and that people may end up flagging articles that don’t really deserve it just so they can get to the 15 flags mark.

After spending about 30 minutes on Socyberty I no longer have that fear. Seriously even if you just look at the home page it won’t take long to find a spam article, or one written in shockingly poor english (usually both)

Nice article btw.
papaleng on Aug 2, 2011
I will not participate in this challenge. It is better if there is a separate reward for putting quality articles and another one for flagging.
BeatsMe on Aug 2, 2011
Is it right to leave Triond now? I really don’t know. If you’re earning well, you don’t have to. As for the other problems of Triond, I don’t think those problems will go away.
Socorro Lawas on Aug 2, 2011
Flagging is good but it can be abused by people with evil intention. To be a critic one must be an expert on the field he/she is criticizing.
Avrila Klaus on Aug 2, 2011
I disagree with Socorro Lawas…it is not necessary to be an expert on an article’s topic to recognize ungrammatical or awkward prose. It helps to be familiar with the field in order to recognize writing styles that are typical for the topic in question, or in order to fact-check, but there’s more to writing than characteristics that are bound to the topic.
RoxanaP on Aug 3, 2011
Why do we have to spot the spam or low-quality articles? I thought triond did that. do they not check or read the article before they post it? ’cause if they don’t, then why does it take so damn long for them to post an article in the first place?
1hopefulman on Aug 10, 2011
Maybe they should hire a couple of people to read the articles and any junk articles should be sent junk article should be sent to a separate site called junkarticlesgalore and after a couple of junk articles these ones should lose their Triond membership.
1hopefulman on Aug 10, 2011
My post was messed up. Weird!

Maybe they should hire a couple of people to read the articles and any junk articles should be sent to a junk article site called junkarticlesgalore and after a couple of junk articles these ones should lose their Triond membership.

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