I bet I lose both of my stars on Helium tomorrow.

Relax woman, one article isn't enough to drag you down. You can still post and pull up your score or try leapfrogging though my opinion is to keep posting empty title articles even though you won't get paid for them until the next time around.

Stars only count on the last day of the month, so there is still a few days to gain or lose stars. Rankings will changes for articles despite no new articles if others make use of leapfrogs and so so start new rounds of article rating. Haven't lost stars but my writing percentage has been fluctuating by as much as 1% per day which I can kind of understand as I have done three contests in the last month.

Sorry to hear that. I have had my time with Helium as well, although not lately. I did notice, however, that yesterday I had 5 rating stars and today I have 4 suddenly. It is getting to be the end of the month. Keep your chin up.

This is why I joined, but never bothered. My work's worth more than what Helium is prepared to offer - even if I was at the top of the rankings 24/7. As a professional writer, I don't get all this with stars. gimme the gig, pay me for the job - that's all I ask. Luckily, thanks to a nice lady here giving me a link to her blog, I found a super London agency that's giving me more work than I can cope with. This month it's paying for a new kitchen. Okay, it was hard work and my eyeballs feel fried keeping up with the deadlines, but hey it's enjoyable and I've got a JOB with a regular income. The stars come with the praise I get. The dingbats come with emails like"Er - you're slipping into 3rd person again!" - but I don't lose any stars over it. Dooyoo were similar. They give out "crowns" - but only to people they like. Some writers had enough crowns to do the states of Europe 10 times over. 3 of my articles were repeatedly nominated for crowns - but were "overlooked." Go figure.

I can't believe how blur you are! All the while Canellita and I had been telling you to leapfrog your articles towards the end of the month, aren't you listening? I wonder what's wrong with your eyes or your head! The fact that you can improve your writing score by leapfrogging the articles, mean that you will pull down the ranking of other writers. If you leapfrog and your bottom article reaches the top, that means the top article will go down the rank! It's so simple a logic! What kind of worm stays inside your head and eats up all the brain cells?

Helium's rating is all based on peer review, so there are bound to be unexpected ups and downs. My highest earning article remains stubbornly at 3 of 3, while earning more each month than everything else added together. Helium works in a mysterious way, its wonders to perform! At least you're earning, so don't worry too much. It's too easy to stress over it, and then your writing will suffer.

The arrogance of the Helium elite knows no bounds. It's never the raters who are wrong, always the writers. A major amount of the raters wouldn't know good writing if it bit them on the a@@. I'm not going to leap an article 50 million times because some idiot doesn't know good writing when they see it. I rate only because of their grossly unfair rule and I'm not about to see them end up with money that belongs to me.