Wrote an Article for Helium now all I seem to do is Rate Articles

I don't think there is any set number that you have to rate. Usually when I post a new article, I rate about 5 times and then bump out, which you can do at any time, of course. I do think that rating other people's articles on Helium will get attention for yours, but I think you need a balance of reading and writing. Good luck with your writing.

I really should do some more writing, but I could not do any yesterday. I was on myLot and even that I could not do as good as I wanted to because my husband was listening to Harry Potter and I do not have a laptop that I can take to another room. I have to have almost complete silence when I write.

So there is no set number. I thought if you rated 0, then no article of yours published, etc.

I am waiting for my new article to be approved.

When you publish an article on Helium, it shows up straight away and people can view it no matter if you rate articles or not. The exception is if you start a new topic. It then has to be approved by an administator. I still have one that they are checking as they aren't sure where to put it! lol.

I get the same feeling, I rate those on how well they write, and whether it is easy to make out.

I do not like rating if that determines if I get paid by Helium, it sounds more like a traffic exchange where I have to wait until my articles show up to be rated.

I hit "skip" on those. I don't know anything about horses. I've never been a CEO, etc. We get 10 skips and I've used them all before. But only one day did I get all topics I knew nothing about. Take care

I do not like doing too much ranking even though it might improve my editing skills, but I intend to write, not be an editor. Ten is enough.

I am looking for a good place that would look good on my clips, and somehow I doubt Helium is, there are so many articles and it kind of overwhelms me. I did a few ranking, but I went down rather than up.

I think the Helium rules state that we are expected to either write one article OR rate one article every 6 months in order to stay active. Unlike some who have commented here, I am quite happy with what Helium pays. I did notice that when I didn't rate ANY articles in a few months, my own ratings went down, and when I went back and rated just a few, they went up again, and that articles rated higher seem to earn better than ones not well received. But the article that is earning the most for me is rated 41 out of 176. That is not even in the top 25%, but it is something I wrote 10 years ago and it wasn't earning any pennies lying around in a desk drawer unread. I don't think, though, that Helium is a good place for people who lack skill in writing or who write so well they expect huge payoffs. But it is a wonderful place for people who like a sense of community when they write, need to brush up on their skills, or just want to stay in touch with what is going on in the world.

So just because I rate about twenty, the computer gives me twenty more? That is not fair. I am doing the non-rater's job for them.

I just got one article for a penny, and I find it hard to look over stuff all the time. Five is good for me, but I do not feel I have to rate 100 or so. I would not get anything done, and unlike some people it is hard for me to write non-fiction.

I noticed one of my articles went down, but what happened was that I did not make one of a paragraphs clear, but I had already Leapfrogged it, so next time I will not leapfrog until I get someone to rate it.

I really should write another article, but you know that some people are wonderful at writing non-fiction, but it takes me some time.

Don't worry too much about the leapfrog you have done because you can leapfrog the same article again in 1 weeks time. You can make all the necessary changes you need then. About getting rated down, don't brood about it too much because life is not always about getting first and people have different subjective opinions, so don't be too harsh on yourself thinking that a low rating means a lousy-quality piece of work. I have learned to accept low ratings too, and what I do is I write more to counter my lower ratings. Good luck!

I have one article, and one pending. I did not get much and I had the feeling, the more I rate, the more pay I get. They say you have to use your real name, but at 1 cent an article how much importance is attributed by publishers if you say that you write for Helium?

I decided to try one article and then I found that what was interested in was not even mentioned so I had to put it in, but it is still pending.

It takes time for them to get to all the topics that are submitted. Patience. :)

It finally got through, now I have to see if it makes anything.

The rating went on and on. I have not asked Helium if they have a certain needed to rate before the article needs improving, but it must be the case.

I started there in May of 2006 and wrote about 18 articles, which I then forgot about when they closed down the site. When I went back to look in August of this year, my articles had earned about $24. So I made it to $25 by September 1, and they paid me on the 6th or the 7th, I think. They've since changed the rules so that you have to contribute an article or do some rating every 3 months (I think) in order to remain active. Otherwise you don't earn on your articles until you become active again.

I have not had time to write many articles. It is not something that well I can just suddenly write something. I have to have time to do it. That is what makes me upset, I have no idea how many to rate or whether it does any good.

I just made 1 cent since I just wrote one article, and the other one is still pending. They do pay on time, but I do not know what the cash out is.

I got one cent for one article and the other has not paid yet because it is about creative writing. So it depends on what you want, and they have oodles of stuff about finances, business, and credit stuff. I am a fiction writer and I am interested in stuff like getting an agent, the right words to use, how to write a sypnosis, not about how to balance my budget. Besides being a Canadian, they only pay for page views and I am not that popular.

That makes yours easy to find. What is it about? I do not know whether rating helps, but it certainly would help the one being rating and mine is under suspensewriter. There is a link to it on my web page on my profile. You probably had way more views than I did. I usually tell people to go to my profile and see for themselves. I do not know if there is any guarantee, but by the way Helium insinuated, it might.

Not good about reviews or life, but I am good at giving advice.

Mine are a variety of things about life and reviews. Check it out on the site under MH4444. Thanks for requesting to add me as a friend. I look forward to chatting with you on here. =^-^=

I also heard that if you rate too many, it is a good chance of your rating going down as they are more people checking you out.

That is nice to know, however I do not know what your opinion is like. I do not take everyone's word for it. Since this is about Helium, are you a very good writer and do you get a rating of 100%? Also do you get upset when you want to write for Helium but feel you have to rate and not just a few but a lot?

I can try that.

I don't blame you a bit.

We need quality not quantity.

I am way to busy and one cent per article when I can get more here at myLot, does not seem fair. And then I have to rate all those articles.

I have not had any time to submit just two and I had to spend my spare time that I have little of writing them and getting them right and then they were not good enough. They did not get a good rating.

So it is not because I have not rated enough, it is because they want me to rate some articles.

I only have a limited amount of time and some of the articles it is hard to decide what one is better.

As far as I know, yes.

I cannot just keep rating articles just to get paid. I thought that it was the quality of my work, not that I give others a five or a two, that determines my pay.

I only got one cent from Helium. I guess you have to live in the States to make money there. Here in Canada, we are not allowed as much opportunities as they are, but well my husband has not felt the desperation that I do to move. The trouble is I do not want to write fluff which is a popular way of getting paid.