How To Regain Your Sanity
Hey DSSers,
Sorry for not being around as much. Taking a little time to stop and smell the roses after last weeks debacle.
Let me briefly summarize what happened while I was away from home.
1) A machine ate my ATM card. Called the bank. Absolutely nothing wrong with my account.
2) I had another card for a linked account. But, guess what? I didn’t know the PIN for that because I had never used it to take out money. They have to send me a new one.
3) My online banking company – after I’ve had the account for 10 years – wanted me to reverify everything. So I had to send them documents proving I was myself.
4) One of my other content mill accounts started sending my paychecks to the wrong account.
Now – any one of these things by itself wouldn’t have been a problem. But they all happened within DAYS of each other. Frustrating to say the least.
Everything seems to be ok now, though.
So, on the topic of DS. Here’s something I’ve just noticed. I’ve been with Demand a few years now. One of my first tips (yeah, I’ll get back to doing tips) was telling you to go back to eHow and start using that as a guide for writing more eHow articles.
Let’s say you’re writing about “How to Get Screwed Out of an IPO“. The first thing to do is go to ehow.com and type that title into the search box. Boom. More likely than not, you’ll see a hundred variations on the same article. That’ll give you your reference links and some idea of what will get by the CEs.
Well, I’ve been eHow-ing for so long, that when I do this now, my own articles are usually the first thing at the top of the list.
It has come full circle.
Thanks Julianne!
I only do copy editing for DS, not writing, so I wasn’t familiar with the pflag thing. I’m aware that we should be on the lookout for plagiarists, but obviously no CE has the time to double-check every sentence every writer writers. LOL! I’m sorry, tho, that the DS system has such a hair trigger in terms of what it “pflags”. 
That sounds extremely aggravating for writers, not to mention a waste of time!
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pflag (in DS terms) refers to the plagiarism system DS has set up. It’s incredibly sensitive and it’s easy to set it off. When a writer sets the system off, the article is listed as “flagged for plagiarism” and it sits there for a few days until someone manually checks that it is not plagiarized.
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Don’t laugh (well, ok, you can if you want b/c I won’t know it anyway) but I wondered what “pflagging” means? I read this blog entry, and I googled the term, but I still can’t figure it out. The only thing remotely close is PFLAG, the organization for parents and friends of lesbians and gays, but clearly that acronym has nothing to do with the lower-case verb “pflagging”. I’m probably going to feel REALLY stupid for not knowing what it means, but at least I’ll be stupid while also LEARNING something! *chuckle* So, if anyone can fill me in — once you stop laughing, I’m sure — that would be cool :”> Thanks!
“Flora”
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Tick Tock … reminds me of that Pink Floyd song with all the clocks going off. Wretched, I’m going to call you Pink from now on.
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I’m pretty crazy, but I like playing with the little trollies. Maybe I’m crazy *because* I play with the trollies. Or maybe I like to play with the trollies because I am crazy. Hmmmm.
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Yes, … and I wouldn’t have it any other way. The voices tell me that life is good. But I wonder if a person with Multiple Personality Disorder says he is going to kill himself, is it a hostage situation?
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Tick Tock
BTW has anybody ever told either of you that you’re plain nuts? Just a thought, see a doctor
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So where are my little sisters, Skipper, Stacie and Kelly? Can they join the party, too?
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don’t forget the little girlies…
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Even Barbie is another character created by Ken, as he sits in his deluxe penthouse, listening to the elevator go up and down, typing away, creating this novel that he calls “Demandstudiossucks.com.”
We’re all just characters in his book, and any beliefs that we have an independent existence are mere delusions.
Even the ticking clock was created by Ken, based on a authentic antique in an old hardboiled mystery novel.
Tick tock tick tock tick tock. It’s from the 1930s, but it still ticks as loudly as ever.
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ima go out onna limb and say wrteched=maggie? fits with the lack of impulse control and vapidity. yawnster.
OT, did anyone notice that stinker is an anagram of inkster?
tick tock, who has a audibly ticking clock these days? that would annoy the living shit out of me. how about blink blink, my clock is digital.
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If you’re Ken, then I’m Barbie. Which way to the deluxe townhouse with the elevator?
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I’m Alice. AND I’m Ken. We’re all Ken. This is Ken’s site, and he plays all the roles.
One person with a very busy keyboard created all this! All these different “names” and “personalities” — all created by the same person.
I’m Ken. You’re Ken. You’re Wretched Ken, and I’m Alice Ken. I’m sorry that Elliot Ken has moved offstage, but there are plenty more “characters” left.
– Ken
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Alice..Alice…Alice…Confused a bit are you? Are you Alice? Are you Ken? Are you somebody else? “Elliot” has left, probably due to the fact that their name was plastered all over here, just as yours is “Alice”….Bet you’re wondering how we all found out huh??
Tick Tock
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I think my last comment got stuck in the spam filter, but I just wanted to say that EVERYONE here is really Ken. He’s been posting under all the names that you see here. It’s really an amazing accomplishment, if I do say so myself.
– Ken
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Actually everyone here is Ken. All the pseudonyms belong to him. It’s just one very busy person who is writing all the posts and comments.
Signed,
Ken
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Uh Oh…LilithPhoenix, Lisa. CCapozzi. My oh my and Jana and Stevie too??? Oh my..Tick Tock
I find it amazing though just how hypocritical you are. No wonder you went with the fake names. You smile in a persons face while stabbing them in the back. Typical behavior though.
Tick Tock
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