Ignore Helium and my rating is sinking. Has this happened to you?

Hi Art, you are so funny! Since you are so near to getting the fourth writing star, why dont concentrate on Helium until you secure the fourth writing star? Now that I have four writing stars, I dont worry about writing score anymore. It's unlikely to fall below 65%. I think you can rewrite the articles you submit to AC for Helium. You can use a different angle and give a new title to the article. I'm sure you can suggest new titles and get the empty title bonus as well. Meanwhile leapfrog your article, otherwise you have to start from 1 writing star.

I have not had stars in ages. I would like to get there more often, but I do contract freelance in addition to my recreational places like MyLot and Gather, and then I work way too many hours. If you lose it, you will gain it back I am sure.

I pretty much ignore Helium except to speed rate and check my balance. Yes, I said speed rate. I fly through those puppies. They might be able to force me to rate but they can't force me to like it. LOL I have no writing stars and at this point don't care. Their novelty wore off long ago.

My star rating did flutuate by quite a bit when there was a period of time I didn't write anything for Helium. They went up as well as down though, so there was also a time when I was looking at a bonus star from having a 85% writng score, as well as one or two days I dropped by a star when I went below 75%. So from personal experience, I would say that no, you don't have to worry about not writing for Helium affecting your writing stars, it's just normal flutuations. (Well, at least, as normal as you can get on Helium)

I just had this same problem because of all those weeks my computer was out of commission. I lost one rating star and one writing star. I was lucky enough to make payout but it would have been at least $10 more if I had retained my third star. I finally started posting again and after just two articles and a dozen or so rates my score is on it's way back up and my third writing star has been restored. It doesn't take much. You have to remember that sometimes your 1 of 1 articles will become competitive and that will bring your score down quickly. I had like 3 or 4 of my titles get additional articles added and my score went way down so fast I started going through the articles one by one to see what the problem was. I usually submit articles to titles no one else seems interested in.

Are you kidding me? I prefer Helium than AC. A financial-based article on Helium can earn you $0.01 per view. Can AC beat that? Trust me, I've been earning a lot of money with Helium. I'm sure you can to, just concentrate on creating and promoting finance-related articles. Anyway, regarding rating, yes I do agree that when you don't rate frequently, your rating will go down. But it's quite easy to regain ratings. A couple of minutes of rating articles will do the trick.

I don't know anything about Helium or Associated Content. When the urge hits and I decide to write, which site do you think is better and which one pays better? I'd really appreciate your advise. Thanks a bunch.

I've never been that active with Helium as I prefer writing for Associated Content, and don't worry about a star rating....I've never even had a star To my mind AC pays so much better than Helium..I've never even made payout over there yet--I guess if I WERE more active there not only would I get a writer's star rating but a payout

I thought about writing for AC but on balance thought I would earn more from Helium so have dedicated myself to that site. I do though have to keep an eye on my articles as you never know when a new article will be written with the possibility of pushing my article down the rankings.

I got in active on Helium too and my writing star went away, and my rating percentage goes down a little each week. I did go on and rate a few articles the other day. But I just don't feel it is worht my time to write there, it takes so long to get to the mininum payment. I know I will get paid no matter what at Associated content, and the rating system is not so annoying.

I am a member of Helium and I haven’t contributed anything there for ages because I too have been doing other things. I’ve noticed my stars dropping as well; I think it may be because ratings fluctuate and if you don’t contribute something new you stand the chance of losing a star or two. Helium informed me the other day that a publisher bought one of my articles which was great but I can’t cash the money because I am below minimum payout and I don’t earn anything unless I rate and I don’t have time to do that so it’s a bit of a vicious circle!

Yes, it happened with me too. I just rated 440 articles and I got 5 rating stars. So I thought I can take a break now. Before too long I found one of my rating stars lost. I did not know why. Then I checked the help item. Then I found if my rating articles less than 500 and my rating score less than 85% I can not keep the five stars. So the safest way is to rate over 500 articles and keep your rating score above 75%. If you stop writing for them you will not lose your writing star. However if your competitive score is down a lot, you may lose your star. Now I found Helium is like a job and it catches writers by the rating system. I feel a little upset when I found it.

iam inactive member in helium. could you explain whats the best writing site, heliumor AC in you opinion? thanks

Hey AnythingArt, I hear what you are saying. I belong to Helium and for the first while it has got to be one of the most difficult sites to figure out. Once you do get it though, it takes very little time and attention to make payout every month. First, you need to build up your article count, a couple of hundred will do it. That seems like a lot at first, but the residual pennies go on forever. They give you the clue to success on the community boards there over and over again - just write, write, write. Sounds like trash talk at first, but then the reality kicks in. I love associated content, but I can't get the upfront payments for them as I am not US citizen. I spend less than five or six hours per month on Helium now to keep my status, and my payments. It can work, once you figure it out.

You should continue writing. Disappointments tend to happen. Try to overcome all those and think about the achievements made. Not writing will not affect the writing score. I did not write for about two weeks and went on a holiday. It did not make a difference!

I have been away from Helium for at least 1.5 years and I still have 1 writing stars. But my rating stars are gone completely and I just went there, looked like I needed to put in some effort and get the stars back. I think for Helium, you really need to go there from time to time at least to rate articles so that you won't lose your earnings.

I took time away because I couldn't come up with ideas before and my stars did fall a little bit but not to the point of getting them back up. There are days it does drop in percentage and it can happen. It's really not that easy and you just have to hope to put out quality material. I don't know if you'll lose a writing star if you don't submit but it will come down to articles being rated. That's all I can say on that.

It seems that Helium has tightened up on its algorithms for giving stars so that if you are not active on the site the rating goes down. And it probably has nothing to do with your ratings from colleagues. That happened to me as a 4 star writer and I actually lost a star which then returned when I was active again. However, lots of people must have complained because it seems that 4 and 5 star writers won't lose stars so quickly anymore unless they go way down, but everyone else is subject to losing it! I guess that is the way then ensure that you keep writing and rating. :o) By the way, whatever you write elsewhere, which is not exclusive to them, you can always post on Helium too, unless it is a Marketplace article. Good luck!

Yes, but I lose rating stars, not writing ones. However I write a lot to empty titles. someone else mentioned that their 1 0f 1"s changed as other articles were written, and I think this is what brought down my writing stars from three to two. I have been back writing at least three articles a week and rating, and the stars are returning.